What we will fund

We are happy to cover staff time, materials, and specific events and small research projects as long as these are directly supportive of the overall advocacy objective. We will not fund anything that is more general research or a scoping exercise, or anything that is politically partisan.

We will accept applications on a rolling basis via email, and evaluate in-bound proposals as well as proactively recommend applying to partners where we sense a need. Proposals will be evaluated and given feedback, and promising applicants will be invited for an exploratory conversation with the head of advocacy, before advancing to a final interview with two to three members of the OCP team. We would seek to evaluate applications and provide feedback within 3-4 weeks and all applications will receive feedback. Applications should be short and may be submitted as word documents or slide decks and address the following questions: