OSF-Armenia’s Youth Action Fund is a new initiative aimed at supporting youth designed and youth led initiatives. The purpose of the Youth Action Fund is to identify, inspire, and support individuals and/or small groups of dedicated young people who can mobilize and influence large numbers of their peers to promote open society ideals. The proposals should be innovative, should bring new approaches to the following issues including but not limited to: education, youth employment, community needs and management, environment, corruption, promotion of active citizenship & etc. This small grant fund is aime d at utilizing the knowledge, skills and motivation of young people in addressing community level problems or bringing attention to global issues through support to innovative and challenging ideas. This project is a partnership between the OSI Youth Initiative and the Open Society Foundations-Armenia. Open to: the citizens of the Republic of Armenia currently residing in Armenia or legal residents of the Republic of Armenia young people between 18-25 years old Youth may partner with an NGO but OSF-Armenia will not accept proposals from NGOs on behalf of youth. The requested budget for an initiative should not exceed 300,000 AMD. No honoraria shall be included in the budget. The provided budget shall be spent on the activities of the initiative only. Fill out the online application via th is link https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/youthactionfundeng . Incomplete applications will not be accepted. Application deadlinen is 9 December 2011. For any questions, please, contact Laura Gevorgyan, Civil Society/ East-East/Arts and Culture programs Coordinator at laura@osi.am with subject “youth action fund”. Please, note that only successful candidates will be contacted. http://cdpf.am/en/news294/

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