Hi Robbie, thank you for posting!
One small, but important correction to the letter:
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we cannot use letters of support as an alternative way of adding people to our network; institutions such as NGOs, International Organisations, Companies and Public Authorities can either join our network of proposers (which would strenghten our proposal), or we can mention that we are “in close contact” with them (better than nothing…but probably not a strong selling point).
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Rather than asking for letters of support, we should thus ask the organisations whether they would be happy to “join our grant application as co-proposers”. The process for this is fairly simple: I would send them an invitation via email, and they fill-in the registration form on e-cost.
In case of international NGOs / movements, we may be able to name them explicitly (which would be ideal). National NGOs could also join, but we are not allowed to name them in the proposal.
While I am not aware, of any legal obligations arising from the role as proposer, I would only encourage those NGOs to apply, who are actually interested to interact with the openmod community, e.g. by attending (some of ) our workshops, seminars, grant management meetings (1-2 per year) etc. Of course, the level of interest / engagement may change later on. But there is no point to apply, if they do not at least intend to join some of our activities.
Hope that helps - if there are further questions let me know!
Many greetings, christian