[November 2025]
Discover a curated list of grants, fellowships, and programs closing this December, designed for NGOs, researchers, and innovators ready to take action. Explore what’s still open and apply before the deadlines pass to secure your chance.
Applications open for FIFA Global Citizen’s Education Fund
Deadline: 31-Dec-2025
The Global Citizen Education Fund, in partnership with FIFA, is now inviting applications from grassroots and community-based organisations worldwide that aim to expand access to quality education and sports for children in underserved communities…[more]
RFPs: Accelerating Development of Innovative, Exceptionally Low-Cost Maternal and Child Nutrient Ingredients and Products
Deadline: 16-Dec-2025
The Grand Challenges initiative invites transformative innovations to ensure every mother and child can access essential nutrients to survive and thrive…[more]
Request for Applications: CatchLight Global Fellowship Program
Deadline: 15-Dec-2025
The CatchLight Global Fellowship supports visual storytellers who use imagery to drive social impact through innovative distribution, community activation, and field sustainability projects. Fellows receive $30,000, professional development, mentorship, and support to execute high-impact visual storytelling initiatives. The program seeks creators, leaders, and educators committed to pushing the boundaries of visual media and strengthening the storytelling ecosystem…[more]
Startupbootcamp Founder-Market Fit Programme
Deadline Date: December 14, 2025
The Founder-Market Fit Program offers structured support for founders to validate ideas, develop solutions, and accelerate early-stage startup growth through practical learning and targeted funding opportunities…[more]
Apply Now: Conservation Finance Alliance Incubator Program (Round 4)
Deadline Date: December 20, 2025
The CFA Incubator invites applications for its fourth round to support innovators developing practical and scalable conservation finance mechanisms that create lasting benefits for nature and people…[more]
Call for Applications: Satellites for Biodiversity Award (Round 4)
Deadline: 19-Dec-2025
The Connected Conservation Foundation, in partnership with the Airbus Foundation, offers the Satellites for Biodiversity Award, providing high-resolution satellite imagery, technical support, and funding to conservationists. The program enables community-led initiatives to monitor ecosystems, track wildlife, detect illegal activities, and enhance biodiversity protection using advanced geospatial tools…[more]
Nomination open for Simon Wiesenthal Prize 2025
Deadline: 19 December 2025
The National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism invites individuals and groups from civil society to submit an entry for the Simon Wiesenthal Prize 2025…[more]
Nominations open for MIT Climate and Energy Prize
Deadline: December 14, 2025
The MIT Climate & Energy Prize competition seeks to move the world closer to net zero carbon emissions by empowering ambitious entrepreneurs to solve the world’s most difficult climate-related challenges…[more]
Call for Nominations: Zairi International Award
Deadline: 27-Dec-2025
Applications are now open for the Zairi International Award to honor higher education institutions creating sustainable impact and addressing global educational challenges through excellence and innovation in areas such as digital transformation, research impact, community service, internationalization, equity, and inclusion…[more]
Applications open for CMT Research Foundation Grant Program
Deadline: 17-Dec-2025
Applicants are now invited to submit applications for the CMT Research Foundation Grant Program to fund the most promising research for CMT that leads to the development of therapeutics for all types of CMT…[more]
Call for Entries: International Sculpture Award
Deadline: 19-Dec-2025
Applications are now open for the International Sculpture Award to offer a prestigious art awards competition for creators, providing a platform for recognition and permanent collection of outstanding works…[more]
Submit Applications for Ibsen Scope Grants
Deadline: 17-Dec-2025
The Ibsen Scope Grants award innovative projects in drama and performing arts that engage with existential, social, and society-related themes…[more]
Call for Applications: Conservation Grant Program
Deadline: 15-Dec-2025
The Carl and Marilynn Thoma Foundation is excited to announce a new grant aimed at promoting and supporting conservation projects and research initiatives focused on South American viceregal art…[more]
Apply Now: Small Research Grants on Education Program
Deadline: 15-Dec-2025
The Spencer Foundation has launched its Small Research Grants on Education Program to support education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived for projects ranging from one to five years…[more]
Call for Proposals: Academic Development Grant Program
Deadline: 15-Dec-2025
The Academic Development Grants strive to support and advance authentic Buddhist studies at the highest level of academic excellence…[more]
Call for Entries: World Sustainability Award
Deadline: 15-Dec-2025
The World Sustainability Award (WSA) celebrates individuals who have made pioneering contributions to sustainability research. It recognizes excellence across diverse academic disciplines and highlights research that has had a transformative impact…[more]
Call for Entries: Journal of Clinical Medicine Travel Award
Deadline: 31-Dec-25
Applications are now open for the Journal of Clinical Medicine Travel Award to two junior scientists for the year 2026…[more]
Entries open for Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water
Deadline: 31 December 2025
Nominations are now open for the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water, an international award focusing on water-related scientific innovation and judged by leading scientists from around the world…[more]
RFAs: Core Programmatic Support Grants Program
Deadline: 19-Dec-2025
The European Fund for the Balkans (EFB) has opened applications for its Common Ground Program, offering €20,000 core support grants for civil society organisations in the Western Balkans. The funding strengthens ongoing operations—such as governance, staff retention, and outreach—rather than new projects. This call prioritises organisations fostering dialogue, trust-building, and social cohesion across divided communities…[more]
RFPs: Accelerating Innovation in Vaginal Formulations in Support of Women’s Health
Deadline: 16-Dec-2025
The Gates Foundation is soliciting applications that contribute to development of vaginal formulations that promote optimal drug delivery within the vaginal compartment while positively supporting the vaginal milieu, and that also possess beneficial effects, even if unrelated to the API intended effect, that a user might consider desirable, such as enhancement of sexual pleasure…[more]
Call for Proposals: “Pacific Fund” Projects in 2026
Deadline: 31-Dec-2025
Applicants are now invited to submit applications for Pacific Permanent Secretariat to support projects in 2026 from the “Pacific Fund for Economic, Social and Cultural Cooperation”, known as the “Pacific Funds”…[more]
Apply for SCOR Visiting Scholars Program
Deadline: 15-Dec-2025
Applicants are now invited to submit applications for the SCOR Visiting Scholars Program to engage ocean scientists from both developed and developing countries in teaching short courses, as well as offering extended on-site education and mentorship at institutions in developing nations…[more]
develoPPP Ventures Funding Support for Innovative Early-Stage Businesses
Deadline: December 31, 2025
The develoPPP Ventures programme offers support for young companies aiming to scale innovative and impactful business models in emerging markets…[more]
Call for Applications: Artists-in-Berlin Program
Deadline: 15-Dec-2025
The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program provides international artists with a funded residency in Berlin, offering time, space, and resources to focus on their creative practice. The fellowship supports artists in visual arts, film, literature, and music & sound, emphasizing diverse perspectives, non-Eurocentric artistic voices, and engagement with contemporary issues. The program includes stipends, housing, travel support, and family accommodations, with applications accepted annually between mid-October and mid-December…[more]
Submit Applications for Darwin Plus Local Funds Projects
Deadline: 29-Dec-2025
The Darwin Plus Local Fund supports projects that protect biodiversity and enhance the natural environment in UK Overseas Territories. Funding is available up to £50,000 for organisations and £20,000 for individuals for projects lasting up to 12 months, starting April 2026. Projects must deliver tangible environmental outcomes in biodiversity, climate change, environmental quality, or capacity building…[more]
Open Call for Home-Grown Solutions Agribusiness Accelerator Program
Deadline: December 14, 2025
The Home-Grown Solutions Agribusiness Accelerator is a COMESA regional initiative designed to strengthen growth-stage agribusinesses that offer scalable and impact-driven solutions across Africa’s agricultural value chain…[more]
Join Now: Collaborative Network for Climate-Resilient Communities in South and Southeast Asia
Deadline: 14-Dec-2025
The REACH Hub has announced a regional funding opportunity for researchers, institutions, civil society, and industry partners from 14 South and Southeast Asian countries to develop community-grounded climate-health interventions. Supported by Canada’s IDRC and the UK’s FCDO, the call aims to enhance climate-resilient health systems and generate actionable, evidence-based solutions for communities facing climate-driven health risks…[more]
Call for Proposals: Youth-led Projects for Arctic Change
Deadline: 19-Dec-2025
Youth Together for Arctic Futures offers small grants of up to €25,000 to youth-led projects that drive climate action, cultural preservation, and policy influence in the Arctic. The initiative empowers young changemakers aged 18–35 to lead creative, environmental, and advocacy projects that strengthen Arctic communities and amplify youth voices…[more]
Applications open for ADT4Blue OC3 Acceleration Programme
Deadline: 30-Dec-2025
The ADT4Blue OC3 Programme offers a unique opportunity for startups, SMEs, entrepreneurs, and individuals in the Blue Economy sector to receive specialized training and mentoring to strengthen their entrepreneurial and technical capabilities…[more]
The Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award
Deadline: December 17, 2025
Applications are now open for the Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award to recognize an individual aged 18-30 who has contributed meaningfully with technology to help end extreme poverty…[more]
Apply Now: Kazickas Family Foundation Grant Program in US and Lithuania
Deadline: 31 December 2025
The Kazickas Family Foundation provides general operating and project support to the areas that have significance to the family and its members…[more]
RFPs: WASCAL’s Innovative Ideas Competition for Sustainable Energy (WISE)
Deadline: 31 December 2025
Applicants are now invited to submit applications for the WASCAL’s Innovative Ideas Competition for Sustainable Energy to provide information and knowledge to its West African member countries from the local to the regional level…[more]
Submit Applications for Africa Impact Fundraising Grant Program
Deadline: 16-Dec-2025
The New Africa Fund’s Africa Impact Fundraising (AIF) Grant Program helps African NGOs, CBOs, and social enterprises build strong local fundraising capacity. Through training, a 30-day fundraising challenge, matching funds, intensive workshops, and fiscal sponsorship, the program strengthens financial sustainability and expands access to new funding pathways. It is open to legally registered organisations in all 55 African Union member states…[more]
Request for Proposals: EU-funded Fellowship Programme
Deadline: 30-Dec-2025
The Eastern Partnership Civil Society Facility Fellowship Programme supports individuals from Eastern Partnership countries to drive positive societal change through community engagement and civic digital innovation. Fellows receive up to €5,000 for six-month projects focused on civil society resilience, open data, participatory governance, and social justice…[more]
Apply Now: Grants for Issue-Based Networks to Advance Policy Influence for CSOs
Deadline: 21-Dec-2025
Minority Rights Group (MRG) is offering €20,000 issue-based grants to nonprofit civil society organizations in Lebanon, Tunisia, Palestine, and Morocco. These grants support networks and coalitions working to influence policy affecting minority and marginalized communities. Funded projects may include advocacy, policy research, network building, online platforms, and collaborative spaces for strategic coordination…[more]
WatEnerWine Call for Technology Providers: Water, Energy and Renewables in Wineries
Deadline: 15-Dec-2025
The WatEnerWine Open Call invites technology providers to submit market-ready solutions that improve water efficiency, energy efficiency and renewable energy integration in the wine sector. The initiative aims to accelerate sustainability, decarbonisation and resource optimisation across European wineries. Selected providers receive international visibility, inclusion in the Innovation Catalogue, and opportunities to showcase their technologies at events, field missions and sector networks…[more]
Apply Now: “Seeding The Future” Global Food System Challenge
Deadline: 15-Dec-2025
The Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge, organized by Welthungerhilfe, is designed to spark innovation that can reshape the future of food systems, particularly across the Global South…[more]
Luena WASH Grants – Small Grants for Community WASH Projects in Asia and Oceania
Deadline: 15-Dec-2025
The Luena Foundation grants are designed to empower communities to address critical water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) challenges with locally driven solutions…[more]
Call for Proposals: Community Partnership Grant Program (Norway and US)
Deadline: 15-Dec-2025
The Sons of Norway Foundation is pleased to announce its Community Partnership Grant Program to celebrate Nordic culture and heritage through scholarships and grants to their members and communities…[more]
HealthPro2 Grants for Vulnerable Populations Facing Food Insecurity
Deadline: 29-Dec-2025
The Italian Agency for Development Cooperation is now accepting applications for its HealthPro2 Grant Program…[more]
Open Call for Fonseca Leadership Program
Deadline: 18-Dec-2025
The World Wildlife Fund is excited to announce the competitive Fonseca Leadership Program supported by the GEF, designed to advance local and regional conservation leadership in Latin America…[more]
Call for Concept Notes: Global Framework on Chemicals Fund
Deadline: 15-Dec-2025
The Global Framework on Chemicals Fund (GFC Fund) offers an important opportunity for governments and civil society networks to access financial support for projects that promote the safe and sustainable management of chemicals and waste…[more]
RFAs: Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects
Deadline: 20-Dec-2025
The Government of Japan has announced the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP), also known as KUSANONE, to provide financial support for development projects that meet the diverse needs of communities in developing countries…[more]
Danube Region Programme 3rd Call for Proposals for Transnational Cooperation Projects
Deadline: 15-Dec-2025
The Danube Region Programme (DRP) is launching its 3rd targeted Call for Proposals to financially support transnational projects aimed at fostering innovation, sustainability, and social development within the Danube Region…[more]
Apply Now: Russell E. Train Fellowship Program
Deadline: 18-Dec-2025
The World Wildlife Fund is pleased to announce its Russell E. Train Fellowship Program to support current and aspiring university faculty affiliated with or currently employed at African, Asian, Latin American, and Caribbean universities for doctoral degree study in conservation-related fields…[more]
CFAs: Grants for Translation of Swedish Literature and Drama to other Nordic Languages
Deadline: 31-Dec-2025
The Swedish Arts Council provides grants to support international exchange and cooperation in the field of literature by funding translations of Swedish works into other languages…[more]
Request for Applications: West Africa Clean Cooking Fund
Deadline: 31-Dec-2025
The Worthington Companies Foundation is inviting applications for its West Africa Clean Cooking Fund, aiming to transform cooking practices in the region. This initiative targets areas where over 267 million people still rely on traditional biomass fuels for cooking. These outdated methods cause serious health issues—especially for women—and contribute to deforestation and increased greenhouse gas emissions…[more]
European Solidarity Corps Grants for Individual Volunteering
Deadline: 31 December 2025
Are you between 18 and 30 and looking for an opportunity to help the wider community, in Europe and beyond? You can do this with funding and support from the European Solidarity Corps, which helps young people take part in projects either abroad or in their own country…[more]
