Calls for projects / Local Hub
Supporting local and regional citizen initiatives, with a focus on rural areas, and facilitating local philanthropy.
From a region to a town or city, to a village or a neighbourhood, many are the citizens who work to improve our lives together. And numerous are the philanthropists who devote time and/or money to the places in which they grew up or live. The King Baudouin Foundation encourages this citizen engagement and facilitates both individual and collective philanthropic initiatives that support a region or a particular geographic area.
Our activities
- we support local and regional citizen initiatives that build social cohesion, paying particular attention to rural areas
- we manage and develop funds that mobilise the socio-economic stakeholders of their region with a view to developing the region
- and we make the skills and networks of the KBF available to local philanthropic initiatives.
Local and regional citizen envolvement is part of the programme Social engagement
Calls for projects
Brussels Airport Fund
Support for sustainability projects from local communities that aim to strengthen the connection between the residents and their surroundings.
Ongoing
2022B - Schools Solidarity Accounts
Fundraising to enable schools to financially intervene on behalf of children from underprivileged families and improve their chances of successfully completing their school year.
Selection announced
2022C - Schools Solidarity Accounts
Fundraising to enable schools to financially intervene on behalf of children from underprivileged families and improve their chances of successfully completing their school year.
Selection announcedGrantees
Partnerships, missions, specific initiatives
Funds and philanthropic tools
Jeannine et Louise Jacquemotte (Fund)
Worldwide, support to poor people and children in the field of health and protection of biodiversity. In Belgium, support to cancer patients and for the heritage of Huy.
Germaine Thibaut (Fund)
Support for the welfare of vulnerable residents in Halle. Prevention and control of life-threatening diseases, especially cancer. Humanitarian, medical emergencies around the wor…
Press Releases
Stories
Gasol Foundation tackles child obesity in disadvantaged neighbourhood of Barcelona
Children and young people Healthy living Calls for projects / Local Hub
“We consider a child’s family and broader relational context, rather than focusing narrowly on nutrition only.”
Community garden as a meeting place
Calls for projects / Local Hub
“I believe we have already made great strides in this direction and have turned an underused, 400-m² site into a green jewel.”
Raised beds in a cemetery
Calls for projects / Local Hub
"The children and even young people are incredibly proud of themselves when they see how their plants have grown.”