Does your New NGO or Startup need funding? Here is a list of the newest grant opportunities which offer seed grants to new ideas and projects, promising efforts, potential scale-ups, and small NGOs.
WE Empower UN SDG Challenge: An Opportunity to receive a $20,000 Grant
Deadline: 15 April 2021
The WE Empower Challenge honors innovative women leaders from around the world who are pushing the SDGs forward through sustainable business practices and inspiring others to follow suit. The opportunity recognizes their innovative work and provides Awardees with capacity-building training sessions and opportunities to connect with an unparalleled global network to advance their enterprises. This program elevates and showcases the valuable contribution women entrepreneurs and business leaders can make toward the SDGs and solving the world’s greatest challenges…[more]
USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) Program
Deadline: 31 March 2021
DIV accepts applications from anyone, including businesses, not-for-profit organizations, researchers, faith-based entities, and governments. DIV supports innovations across all countries and development sectors in which USAID operates, including health, education, water, energy, economic development, and other sectors….[more]
World Bank Group Youth Summit 2021: Resilient Recovery for People and Planet
Deadline: 31 March 2021
The World Bank Group (WBG) is seeking applications for its Youth Summit 2021 which is an affiliate of the Youth-to-Youth (Y2Y) network, the largest volunteer organization at the WBG, which aims to inspire and empower youth within and outside the institution…[more]
2021 Innovating Justice Challenge: €10,000 Non-equity Seed Funding
Deadline: 30 April 2021
The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL) is currently accepting applications for the 2021 Innovating Justice Challenge, it is calling to all game-changing justice startups that want to grow their impact and business. HiiL is looking for the most promising startups from East Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa, the MENA region and Ukraine that aspire for everybody to have access to justice at work, at home, in the neighbourhood and in business…[more]
TEF Entrepreneurship Programme: $5000 Seed Capital, World-class Business Training, Mentorship, Networking Opportunities
Deadline: 31 March 2021
The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme is a $100million commitment made by the Elumelu family to empower 10,000 African entrepreneurs over a 10-year period through, training, mentorship and funding. The goal is to create at least 1million jobs and contribute over $10billion in revenue to the African economy…[more]
8th Call for Proposals of Indigenous Women’s Fund
Deadline: 31 March 2021
The Indigenous Women’s Fund – AYNI, is the economic and philanthropic arm of the International Indigenous Women’s Forum – FIMI and acts as a facilitating channel to accompany indigenous women’s movements and their interaction with broader movements, building leadership and strengthening their organizational processes through the provision of grants for the implementation of projects in different thematic areas…[more]
PCI offering grants to support Conservation Programs for Wild Populations of Primates
Deadline: 20 September 2021
The Primate Conservation, Incorporated (PCI) is seeking proposals for its grant program to fund field research that supports conservation programs for wild populations of primates. Priority will be given to projects that study, in their natural habitat, the least known and most endangered species. The involvement of citizens from the country in which the primates are found will be a plus…[more]
Call for Applications: Prince Claus Seed Awards
Deadline: 11 May 2021
The Prince Claus Fund has issued an open call for the Prince Claus Seed Awards. The award is looking for emerging artists and cultural practitioners whose innovative work addresses pressing social and/or political issues within their own context. Through the Prince Claus Seed Awards, will be supporting the career development, creativity and experimentation of emerging artists and cultural practitioners around the globe…[more]
Community Grants Program in the United States
Deadline: 30 April 2021
The Scott County Community Foundation has launched its Community Grants Program to improve the quality of life of the residents of Scott County…[more]
Innovation Fund Program: Call for Applications
Deadline: 1 April 2021
The Kroger Co. Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Foundation in collaboration with Village Capital, has announced their investment readiness program for U.S.-based start-ups working to prevent, recover and recycle food waste. Each of the cohort start-ups will receive $100,000 upfront as seed grant funding…[more]
Rhode Island Foundation offering $10,000 Grant each year for three years to each organization
Deadline: 16 July 2021
The Rhode Island Foundation is pleased to announce applications for Expansion Arts Grants Program. Supported by collaboration between Rhode Island Foundation, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA), and Rhode Island Council for the Humanities (RICH), the Rhode Island Expansion Arts Program (RIEAP) offers funding and organizational assistance to community-based, culturally diverse arts and cultural organizations…[more]
Ending Plastic Pollution Innovation Challenge
Deadline: 30 April 2021
The Ending Plastic Pollution Innovation Challenge (subsequently referred as “EPPIC”) is organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Viet Nam. 2 to 4 finalists will be selected as winners of the EPPIC 2021. Each of the winners will receive up to USD $18,000 each and they will be enrolled into a 9-month Impact Acceleration programme…[more]
Seed Fund Incubation Program for India | Derbi Foundation
Deadline: 16 April 2021
The Derbi Foundation is pleased to launch a call for applications for the GALLOP Incubation Program to validate startup solutions, support on product development, regulatory & IP, provide go-to-market strategies and offer one-on-one mentoring…[more]
United States: Grant Program to fight against HIV and AIDS
Deadline: 06 August 2021
The Kent Richard Hofmann Foundation is inviting applications for its grant program to fight against HIV and AIDS. The Kent Richard Hofmann (1946-1988) was an Atlanta-based architect and philanthropist. Established the Kent Richard Hofmann Foundation, initially for general philanthropic and educational purposes…[more]
Richard S. Shineman Foundation Grant Program – US
Deadline: 14 June 2021
The Richard S. Shineman Foundation is seeking applications for its Grant Program to enhance the quality of life in Oswego County. It will engage in charitable activities with integrity, honesty and compassion, and will pursue excellence through the highest professional grantmaking standards. The Foundation will use its resources to stimulate economic vitality, to encourage strong social bonds that strengthen the community, and to build the capacity of its not-for-profit partners…[more]
Social Justice Small Grants Program to assist Communities in Australia
Deadline: 29 March 2021
The Mercy Foundation is seeking applications for the Social Justice Small Grants Program to assist communities and organizations to build capacity that will help create structural change and bring about greater social justice in Australia…[more]
Ideas Academy 2021: Apply for Seed Funding in Ireland
Deadline: 7 April 2021
Do you have an innovative idea to solve a social problem? Are you ambitious, entrepreneurial, and passionate about social change? If yes, then apply to this 2021 Ideas Academy. The Ideas Academy will provide guidance and support to people with ideas to solve social problems, sparking a new generation of social entrepreneurs…[more]
2021 Build to Scale Program (United States)
Deadline: 29 April 2021
The Build to Scale Program invites organizations that are aiding companies in developing the next generation of technologies to apply for funding. These organizations may be operating initiatives to unlock investment capital across a region or sector, operating programs to accelerate company growth, empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs, and/or enabling technology commercialization…[more]
Annual Grants Program: Seed Funding for Early Stage Research (Australia)
Deadline: 1 April 2021
The Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation is seeking applications for its Annual Grants Program that supports quality research within the Universities, Research Institutes, Health Services and Other Organisations of South Australia…[more]
Lee County Charitable Fund Grant Program – U.S.
Deadline: 14 May 2021
The Lee County Charitable Fund is a volunteer grant committee made up of board members from The North Lee County Community Foundation and The Keokuk Area Community Foundation. The Lee County Charitable Fund Endowment is held in trust at The Keokuk Area Community Foundation. Every year, The Lee County Charitable Fund makes grants to ONLY Lee County, Iowa 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organizations and qualified governmental agencies…[more]
Norfolk Women’s Fund offering Small Grants to Seed Fund Transformational Ideas in the UK
Deadline: 31 March 2021
Norfolk Women’s Fund supports women’s economic empowerment in Norfolk, offering small grants to seed fund transformational ideas. NWF specifically wants to support nascent projects or initiatives that are finding it difficult to get support anywhere else…[more]
Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood Grant Program – United States
Deadline: 30 May 2021
The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood has announced a call for proposals for its grant program to improve the welfare of young children, from infancy through 7 years, in the United States. The Foundation’s goal is to provide seed money to implement those imaginative proposals that exhibit the greatest chance of improving the lives of young children…[more]
Small Grants for NGOs in Niger
Deadline: 31 August 2021
The U.S. Embassy Niamey Public Diplomacy Section (PDS Niamey) of the U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce that funding is available through its Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program. PDS Niamey invites individuals or organizations interested in submitting a proposal to use the award as seed money to generate buy-in from other stakeholders…[more]
American Psychological Foundation’s Visionary Grants Program
Deadline: 1 April 2021
The American Psychological Foundation’s Visionary Grants seek to seed innovation through supporting research, education and intervention projects and programs…[more]
Malawi: COVID-19 Private Sector Engagement & Partnership Fund
Deadline: 30 May 2021
The Department of State and USAID have launched the COVID-19 Private Sector Engagement & Partnership Fund with an additional $10 million in new assistance funds. The Fund has been established to strengthen the efforts of the private sector and bolster ongoing response efforts, helping the world’s most vulnerable overcome the devastation inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic…[more]
Emergency Assistance Grant: Apply for Seed Money in the US!
Deadline: 3 May 2021
The Sanilac County Community Foundation (SCCF) is seeking applications for its Emergency Assistance Grant to provide emergency assistance funding to local organizations that are going above and beyond their typical operations to assist the community during this time…[more]
Innovation Grants for Seed Innovation: United States
Deadline: 15 September 2021
The American Psychological Foundation (APF) is accepting proposals for the Drs. Rosalee G. and Raymond A. Weiss Research and Program Innovation Grants. This program seeks to seed innovation through supporting research, education and intervention projects and programs…[more]
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