Approved projects will receive up to $5,000 from Malaria Partners International which will be matched from a fund established by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and administered by the Seattle Rotary Service Foundation.  Applications are subjected to a competitive grantmaking evaluation process.

1. The applicant is a Rotary Club in good standing with Rotary International.
2. The grant proceeds are intended to offset costs directly related to malaria control.
3. The application presents baseline data specific to the existing conditions in the project’s immediate domain.
4. The application quantitatively lays out a proposed project’s anticipated positive community impact, such as in reducing prevalence, morbidity, and/or mortality.
5. The grant request includes a detailed budget showing the sources and the uses of all funding.
6. The Host Club has a meaningful financial investment in the project.

Small Grant applications operate on a quarterly submission schedule:

Q1: 01/31

Q2: 04/30

Q3: 07/31

Q4: 10/31

Applicants are better served when their applications are advanced to MPI at least two weeks before the above deadlines.  Each application that meets the minimum criteria and considers the additional criteria listed on the MPI website, will be assigned an MPI representative who will fully intake the application and present it to MPI’s Small Grant Committee for funding.  If approved, it will be recommended to the MPI Board of Directors for final approval at a meeting that occurs on the second Wednesday of each month.

Every applicant receives an email confirmation that the application has been received and is under review.

Malaria Partners will primarily utilize email to communicate with all small grant applicants. Be sure to check email regularly, including spam folders. Grant awards will be notified by email and should respond promptly.

Applicants will be notified via email if their applications will not be funded or if we need more information to decide.

Should the grant not be approved by the Small Grant Committee, the applicant can address its shortfalls and resubmit before the first of the following month for deferred approval.

We recommend that initial applications be submitted as early as possible in each review quarter to allow time for modifications, if needed.

Yes, applicants can adjust applications accepted into the process if received sufficiently before the quarterly deadline.  One the deadline elapses, they cannot be changed.

Upon review additional information may be requested.

Applicants should respond promptly when asked to furnish any additionally requested information.

A once denied application will receive a second chance, presuming that it is modified to address the shortfalls of the initial submission.

We are monitoring inquiries sent to info@malariapartnersinternational.org with the subject line denoting “Small Grant Inquiry.”