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Minister Joe O’Brien has announced 28 projects to receive €1.1 million under the ‘Ireland Against Racism’ fund 2024, with a number of organisations receiving approximately €100,000 each for projects that “aim to combat racism and foster racial equality and community cohesion”.
Projects funded by the Department of Integration this year include Gorm Media‘s ‘Wideshot Programme’ and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions’ (ICTU) project, Stronger Together: Organising for Active and Inclusive Anti-Racist Workplaces and Trade Unions.
Welcoming the announcement, Minister O’Brien said that “we must all be acutely aware of the danger posed to society if racism and racist actions go unchallenged”.
“The organisations and projects awarded funding today are among those doing vital work to challenge racism in various settings. Racism and racist behaviour causes grave damage to those whom it is directed at but also damages wider society as it seeks to chip away at social cohesion and our willingness to treat each other with dignity and respect,” he said.
€1,105,341 has been made available as part of the ‘Ireland Against Racism’ fund this year to support “anti-racism projects” through grant funding of €50,000 – €100,000 per successful Scheme A project and €5,000 – €10,000 per successful Scheme B project.
Recipients of Scheme A (nationwide or broad-scope) project funding include:
A number of smaller projects received amounts of up to €10,000 for regional or country-specific works, such as the Greystones Peoples Project: ‘Building Bridges’ (€9,282) and Maynooth University’s Minority Ethnic Student Support Pilot (€10,000).
A number of organisations are repeat recipients, with the same or similar projects receiving comparable amounts of funding to the amounts received as part of the 2023 fund.
Organisations that are again receiving significant Scheme A funding include Sport Against Racism Ireland CLG, AkiDwA, Doras Luimni CLG, Gorm Media, the Immigrant Council of Ireland, ICTU and the Migrant Information Centre.
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