[November 2024]
Looking for grants that offer flexibility and unrestricted funding? Here are 5 must-apply opportunities spanning diverse sectors, from women’s health and environmental justice to innovative food technology. Explore open calls, prizes, and funding programs designed to empower your projects with flexible support. Don’t miss out—applications are now open!
Apply for FoodTech Challenge 3.0: Can Your Tech-Driven Solution Transform Food Systems?
Deadline: 12 December 2024
Applications are now open for the FoodTech Challenge 3.0, a global competition that identifies and supports leading early-stage, tech-driven solutions that are poised to transform food systems in arid, hot, and increasingly challenging environments.
The FTC is organized and administered by Tamkeen Abu Dhabi LLC, in collaboration with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) International Affairs Office of the Presidential Court (IAO).
FTC champions four visionary winners, providing them with the opportunity to advance their tech- driven solutions in the UAE and the Global South.
Focus Areas
- Food & Water
- Innovations that optimize water use in agriculture, protein production, and food processing, enhance drought resistance, and increase crop yields in arid environments.
- Food & Energy
- Technologies that reduce the carbon footprint of food production by improving energy efficiency across the value chain.
- Food Loss & Waste
- Solutions that reduce food loss through optimized collection, processing, storage and distribution methods, address consumer behaviors to reduce waste, and mitigate emissions related to food decomposition.
Prizes
- Cash Prize
- $100k awarded to each winner to support the ongoing development of their start-up (unrestricted).
- UAE-focused Grants
- $200K awarded to each winner to enable immediate local impact by further developing, testing, and deploying the winning solution in the UAE in Year 1 post-award with the support of FTC’s local impact partners, including the Emirates Foundation and Silal.
- Global South-focused Grants
- $200K will be awarded to each winner to advance the further development, testing and deployment of the winning solution to their selected markets in the Global South, with the support of FTC’s global impact partners, in Year 2 post-award including the Gates Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative.
- In-kind Support
- Each winner will have the opportunity to engage with FoodTech Challenge partners’ in-kind support and acceleration programs, including:
- Hub71: Fast-tracked application pathway for Hub71’s Access Program.
- Sheraa: Fast-tracked access for winners to the S3 Incubation Program assessment process.
- Al Tamimi & Company: Each winner will receive 20 hours of pro bono support to assist their company set up in the UAE (excluding license fees).
- Each winner will have the opportunity to engage with FoodTech Challenge partners’ in-kind support and acceleration programs, including:
- Finalist Prize
- $15k Cash Prize for each finalist to support the ongoing development of their solutions and to recognize their efforts to participate in the FoodTech Challenge.
- Networking opportunities with FoodTech Challenge partners during the Finale event to explore avenues for collaboration and development in the local ecosystem.
Action for Women’s Health Program: Apply for $1M to $5M in Flexible Grants!
Deadline: 03-Dec-2024
Pivotal, a Melinda French Gates organization, launched Action for Women’s Health Program, a $250 million global open call that will fund organizations around the world that are improving women’s mental and physical health.
This initiative seeks to open access to funding streams to organizations and groups that historically have not had access to them.
Subject Areas
- Health
- Gender Equality
Funding Information
- Flexible funding between $1 million and $5 million USD
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible organizations serve women and have a record of improving women’s mental or physical health. They should center equity in their approach and be poised to scale their work to strengthen the health of more women. Organizations from around the world are invited to apply.
AACR June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism: Are You the Next Journalist to Highlight Cancer Research?
Deadline: 9 December 2024
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is accepting applications for the AACR June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism to raise awareness of the critical role that the media play in educating the public about cancer and cancer research.
Funded by a major bequest to the AACR from cancer research pioneer Dr. June L. Biedler, a scientist, mentor, and former member of the AACR Board of Directors, this prize showcases outstanding examples of cancer journalism and recognizes individual professional journalists who have produced accurate, informative, and compelling stories that enhance the public’s understanding of cancer, cancer research, cancer advocacy, or cancer policy.
Categories
- An applicant can submit in any of the following categories:
- Print and Online
- Newspapers
- Magazines
- Online/multimedia
- Broadcast
- Television/radio/podcasts
- Each submission may only be considered for one category as selected by the candidate in his or her application form.
- Print and Online
Prize Information
- The prize provides an unrestricted cash award of $5,000 and a commemorative award.
Who can apply?
- The AACR June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism is open to print, broadcast, and online professional journalists whose stories appear in newspapers, magazines, websites, and broadcast platforms that target lay public audiences.
Are You an Innovator in 3D Geospatial? Apply for Cesium Ecosystem Grants and Receive Up to $50,000!
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
Are you a student or educator looking to become a Cesium Certified Developer? Apply now for MicroGrants program and receive $800 for completing your Certification!
Cesium Ecosystem Grants are a commitment from Cesium to support and diversify its ecosystem.
Cesium Ecosystem Grants are Cesium’s commitment to fuel innovation, increase interoperability, lower the barrier for entry, and expand the 3D geospatial ecosystem.
Financial grants will be given to individuals and organizations that submit noteworthy ideas aligned with Cesium’s core values of Collaboration, Innovation, Customer Focus, and Continuous Learning. Applicants should describe how they are addressing a relevant need or opportunity in 3D geospatial and the resulting impact of their contribution.
Funding Information
- Awards are unrestricted grants of $5,000 – $50,000. Individuals will not be eligible for more than $15,000.
- Awards are grants of $800 USD to students and educators who complete the Cesium Certified Developer program within two months.
Who should apply?
Grants are open to early stage startups, educators, innovators, and students that are ready to grow the ecosystem through Cesium’s core values of Collaboration, Innovation, Customer Focus, and Continuous Learning.
Funding for Climate & Environmental Justice: Is Your Organization Women-Led and Focused on Climate Justice?
Deadline: 30-Nov-2024
WomenStrong is actively seeking potential grantees that identify as local women-led organizations working in urban and peri-urban areas on climate and/or environmental justice-related issues and taking a gender-responsive approach. It povides unrestricted grants to women-led organizations working in their communities.
They are seeking to build a cohort of women-led partner organizations based anywhere in the world striving to raise awareness of and build movements around climate and environmental justice. These organizations will work to mobilize women within their communities, both as the people most affected by climate breakdown and environmental injustice, but also as the key drivers behind local actions designed to tackle them. Many will work at the intersections of gender and climate because successful strategies for advancing climate and environmental justice require intersectional approaches.
Program Details
- They are seeking to build a cohort of women-led organizations striving to raise awareness of and build movements around climate and environmental justice within their communities.
- These organizations will work to mobilize women, both as the people most affected by climate breakdown and environmental injustice, but also as the key drivers behind local actions to tackle them.
- Many will work at the intersections of gender and climate and tackle the same issues that the current 19 WomenStrong partners work on – reproductive health, girls’ education, women’s economic security, and preventing violence against women and girls – as these issues are not only exacerbated by the climate crisis, but because successful strategies for advancing climate and environmental justice require intersectional approaches.
- They ask that the grantee partners join the WomenStrong Learning Lab. The Learning Lab is a (mostly) virtual community that brings the partners together to share, learn, and disseminate findings that can advance the evidence base for what works to improve the lives of women and girls. The Lab also provides opportunities for the partners to strengthen their capacity and connect with each other, so that they might strengthen their work and develop, test, sharpen, and disseminate their solutions more broadly.
Eligibility Criteria
- They have no geographic limitations to where they fund.