By submitting an application, you are deemed to have read and accepted the fund guidelines and these terms and conditions. ChangeX.org reserves the right to disqualify any entries which do not comply with the Fund Guidelines and Terms and Conditions.
In the event that circumstances beyond the reasonable control of ChangeX affect, or could affect, the proper operation of this fund, ChangeX reserves the right to cancel or amend the fund or these terms and conditions at any time but will make every effort to avoid causing undue disappointment to applicants where such action is deemed necessary.
If you are a successful fund awardee, you agree that ChangeX, the funding partner, and the social innovator behind the Idea you replicate, may use your name, image and location for any reasonable and related promotional purposes. You further agree to participate in any reasonable publicity required by ChangeX, the funding partner, and the social innovator behind the Idea you replicate. Any motivation statements, descriptions of your project and updates you post to your ChangeX project page can be used for reasonable and related promotional purposes by both ChangeX, the funding partner, and the social innovator behind the Idea you replicate. This includes newsletters, social media, blog posts, and other promotional materials.
If you are a successful fund awardee, you agree to abide by the following Microsoft policies:
Anti-Discrimination: Microsoft does not consider a nonprofit organization eligible to receive corporate charitable donations if it has a policy or mission of discrimination in hiring, compensation, promotion, termination, retirement, training, programs, and/or services based on race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, political affiliation, union membership, or veteran status. The only exception to this policy is for religious organizations that are exempt from laws that prohibit such discrimination. The religious organization needs to provide an attestation that “My organization is a religious organization that is exempt from laws that otherwise prohibit such discrimination.”
Your fund application and any accompanying material submitted to ChangeX (such as motivation statements, group or impact photos, action plans) will become the property of ChangeX on receipt, and may be used for any reasonable and related promotional purposes.
Funding provided for your project through ChangeX can be used to cover direct costs for the set-up or maintenance of the project. Funding can not be used to cover any of the following:
Cost of work that has already been carried out or anything that is not related to the setup and maintenance of the community project.
If applying to start a proven idea, payments to group members for their work on the project.
Promotion of religious causes, non-charitable activities, sponsorship or fundraising events.
Promotion of or engagement in criminal acts of violence, terrorism, hate crimes, discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, religion, military and veteran status, disability, sex, age, gender identity or sexual orientation, destruction of any state, or support of any entity that engages in these activities.
Any images or videos shared on ChangeX must meet our criteria:
Parental/guardian consent must be secured for any images or videos featuring children, and any images uploaded to ChangeX will be presumed by ChangeX to have parental/guardian consent. Individual children should not be identified by name on the ChangeX site.
You have permission from all people featured in an image or video to share their image or feature them in the video.
You own the image/video OR you have secured the photographer’s permission/videographer's permission to share it with ChangeX and our partners.
You have the rights/appropriate permissions for any music used in your video.
In the event that we need to check any of the above, you will be able to provide evidence that the necessary permissions are in place.
ChangeX shall not be held liable to reimburse any costs that are incurred by applicants, prior to the release of funds by ChangeX. In exceptional circumstances, applicants may seek written approval from ChangeX to incur costs ahead of the release of funds. Written approval will be granted at the sole discretion of ChangeX. Payments will only be made if ChangeX finds that all relevant requirements are met.
If you are successful in receiving funding, you are required to comply with all applicable laws including those governing the use, accounting, management and maintaining records of the grants received from ChangeX. Any potential tax consequences, reporting requirements, and consents from third parties are solely the responsibility and liability of the recipient of the funding.
ChangeX, at its sole discretion, decides which applicants will be accepted, what the funds can be used for, documentation requirements, and whether the relevant criteria for payment have been met, prior to the approval of a project. ChangeX may request further information and documentation as it reasonably deems necessary, and can set further reasonable requirements or criteria during the application process or throughout the project.
Family and close relatives of ChangeX employees or the funding partner are not eligible to apply for funding.
ChangeX is solely responsible for the management of the fund, including the selection of applicants, starter support, fund distribution and impact tracking.
It is very important that you keep all receipts and records of how any funding you might receive is spent as ChangeX will collect and review these receipts before releasing the second instalment of funding. If receipts cannot be shown, if the funds are found to have been spent on costs other than those relating to the set-up or maintenance of the new community project, or if the project has not met the requirements of the initial project plan, no further funds will be allocated to this project and ChangeX reserves the right to retrieve the funds that have already been distributed. The applicant will be indefinitely ineligible to apply for any subsequent grants through ChangeX.
By applying to this fund, you:
Agree that any personal information provided by you with the fund application may be held and used only by ChangeX and to administer the fund and for any other purposes to which you have expressly consented;
Understand that you may withdraw such consent at any time by contacting ChangeX at [email protected]
Insofar as is permitted by law, ChangeX will not in any circumstances be responsible or liable to compensate applicants or accept any liability for any loss, damage, personal injury or death occurring as a result of taking part in the fund except where it is caused by the negligence of ChangeX or its employees.
Nothing in these terms and conditions shall operate to limit or exclude its liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence or for fraud (including, but not limited to, fraudulent misrepresentation) or for that which cannot lawfully be excluded.
Nothing in these terms and conditions shall impact the awardee’s statutory rights.
If any provision of these terms and conditions is held by a competent authority to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of these terms and conditions will not be affected and will remain valid.
Nothing in these terms and conditions shall confer any rights on any third person owing to the rule of privity of contract.
These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Ireland. Any dispute arising under these terms and conditions (whether such disputes or issues are contractual or non-contractual in nature, such as claims in tort, for breach of statute or regulation or otherwise) shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Republic of Ireland.
