[July 2022]
Call for Applications: Strengthening Young Women Peacebuilders’ Capacity in Complex Crises
Deadline: 15-Aug-22
Are you a young woman peacebuilder or human rights defender leading a local organization? Are you working to build and sustain peace, provide humanitarian relief in your community, prevent conflicts, or fight for human rights and equality? If your answer is YES, do not miss this opportunity…[more]
Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund Rapid Response Window: Short-Term Grants up to 100,000 USD
Deadline: Ongoing
The Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund is seeking applications for its Short-Term Grants, an opportunity for civil society organizations to implement urgent projects that address diverse barriers to women’s meaningful participation in a formal peace process or implementation of a peace agreement…[more]
Amnesty International’s 20,000 Ginetta Sagan Fund
Deadline: 1-Sep-22
The purpose of the Ginetta Sagan Fund of Amnesty International USA is to support courageous women human rights defenders who are working in dangerous contexts to further the rights of women and children. The creation of the Ginetta Sagan Fund emphasizes that more human rights work must be done by and for women…[more]
Pulitzer Center’s Gender Equality Grants Program
Deadline: Ongoing
The Pulitzer Center is inviting applications for the Gender Equality Grants Program. It is designed to help journalists take to a new level the reporting on issues related to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls…[more]
Grand Challenges Canada’s OPTions Initiative is now open
Deadline: 30-Sep-22
Seed grants between $250,000 to $400,000 CAD are available for innovations that seek to test and develop next-generation methods of pregnancy termination, menses induction, or conception interruption over an 18 to 24 month period…[more]
OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards (Cash prize of USD 5,000)
Deadline: 15-Sep-22
Applications for the 2023 awards are invited from women scientists who have made significant contributions in the area of food security, agricultural productivity and sustainable food production , whose research is linked to SDG2 (Zero Hunger), who have received PhDs within the last ten years and who have lived and worked for at least 5 years in an eligible Scientifically and Technologically Lagging Countries (STLCs)…[more]
Jewish Helping Hands’ Tikkun Olam Grant Program (up to $5,000)
Deadline: 19-Sep-22
The Jewish Helping Hands (JHH) supports sustainable and scalable programs through financial and hands-on support. Their objective is to promote organizations and projects that will make a tangible and lasting difference in the lives of the populations they serve…[more]
EUR 100,000 available under iF SOCIAL IMPACT PRIZE
Deadline: 9-Nov-22
Entries are now open for the iF SOCIAL IMPACT PRIZE to support projects that contribute to improving the society…[more]
Black Feminist Fund
Deadline: 1-Aug-22
The Black Feminist Fund is now open to Black feminist groups with bold visions, using innovative strategies and taking daring action towards self-determination, justice, solidarity and equity…[more]
Call for Proposals for Development Finance Institutions
Deadline: 9-Sep-22
This Call for Proposals is a one-time call, and up to six banks will be selected to benefit from assistance from September 2022 to August 2025. Interested institutions can submit a proposal for a set of activities, of which the majority should be related to WOMEN ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT (WEE) and gender-lens investing (GLI)…[more]
Wellcome Open Call: Biological Vulnerability to Extreme Heat in Maternal and Child Health (up to £2 million)
Deadline: 8-Aug-22
This award will fund research teams to significantly advance understanding of the biological vulnerability to extreme heat in the context of maternal and child health. By the end of the award, successful applicants will have delivered new knowledge at this intersection and generated evidence with the potential to inform new interventions that can be used in real world settings…[more]
Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program (a stipend of $78,000)
Deadline: 8-Sep-22
The Radcliffe Fellowship Program awards 50 fellowships each academic year. Applicants may apply as individuals or in a group of two to three people working on the same project. They seek diversity along many dimensions, including discipline, career stage, race and ethnicity, country of origin, gender and sexual orientation, and ideological perspective. Although their fellows come from many different backgrounds, they are united by their demonstrated excellence, collegiality, and creativity…[more]
The Maypole Fund seeking Applications from Women Only (up to £750)
Deadline: 31-Jan-23
Applications are now open for the Maypole Fund’s imaginative, non-violent projects and activities which proactively challenge militarism in locally relevant and appropriate ways…[more]
Austrian Development Agency Call for Project Proposals for Eastern Africa: Peace, Gender and Climate (EUR 4.500.000)
Deadline: 15-Aug-22
The Austrian Development Agency (ADA) is now inviting development organisations as well as other equivalent institutions Cooperation to submit project proposals addressing the intersections of conflict prevention and peacebuilding, gender equality, and environment and climate action…[more]
L’Oréal-UNESCO Young Talents Maghreb for Women in Science Program (receive an endowment of €10,000)
Deadline: 31-Aug-22
The L’Oréal-UNESCO Young Talents for Women in Science program identifies and rewards talented young women researchers in life and environmental sciences, material sciences, mathematics, computer and information sciences, engineering and technology…[more]
2022 Context Matters Research Grants Program
Deadline: 1 August 2022
CODE, in partnership with the International Literacy Association (ILA) is pleased to announce the fifth Call for Research Proposals for Context Matters Research Grants 2022 Program to support research which is clearly situated in local contexts and recognizes the multifaceted and complex relationships between the local and global in education…[more]
IFC ScaleX Accelerators Program
Deadline: 13-Nov-23
The IFC ScaleX program aims to incentivize accelerators to actively pursue efforts that help women-led early-stage startups gain access to Private Equity and Venture Capital investment opportunities…[more]
Open Call for EU Prize for Rising Innovators
Deadline: 18-Aug-22
The European Commission (EC) is accepting nominations for European Union (EU) Prize for Rising Innovators. The opportunities created by novel technologies and disruptive innovations promise to deliver the fair and sustainable recovery Europe needs. But Europe risks missing out on these opportunities if half its population is overlooked as a source of innovation and creative talent…[more]
EU Prize for Women Innovators
Deadline: 18-Aug-22
The EU Prize for Women Innovators celebrates the women entrepreneurs behind game-changing innovations. In doing so, the EU seeks to raise awareness of the need for more women innovators and create role models for women and girls everywhere…[more]
Noel Buxton Trust Grant
Deadline: Ongoing
Applications are now open for the Noel Buxton Trust Grant to bring about relevant policy change through effective advocacy…[more]
Unlock Your Leadership Program 2022-2023
Deadline: 12-Aug-22
Unlock Your Leadership is a one-of-a-kind, transformational leadership program developed over eight years of coaching, training, and championing more than 1,500 women change leaders across the globe. Designed to accelerate leadership capacity, it is the only program that is specifically created for high-potential and early-career women working in social and environmental change…[more]
Women of the Future Awards in Southeast Asia
Deadline: 7-Sep-22
The Women of the Future Awards Southeast Asia are open to all women aged 35 or under (candidates must be aged 35 or under on the 31st December 2021) Candidates must be citizens or permanent residents of one of the countries: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Singapore and Vietnam…[more]
European Commission Open Call for EIT Cross-KIC Strategic Synergies
Deadline: 28-Sep-22
The European Commission (EC) has announced an open call for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Cross-KIC Strategic Synergies…[more]
Open Call for Proposals under the “Justice” Program – EUR 2 000 000 Small Grants Fund 1
Deadline: 8-Aug-22
The Ministry of Justice, Operator of the “Justice” Program, co-financed by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism for 2014-2021, announces an open call for applications under the Small Grants Fund 1 in the program area of Counteracting domestic violence and gender-based violence…[more]
UNESCO-Al Fozan International Prize for the Promotion of Young Scientists in STEM (50,000 USD)
Deadline: 15-Nov-22
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is accepting nominations for its Al Fozan International Prize for the Promotion of Young Scientists in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) to encourage young people to undertake scientific careers and make their work more visible to the community and society…[more]
Aura Cacia Positive Change Project Grant Program in US and Canada ($145,000 in grants)
Deadline: 30-Sep-22
The Aura Cacia has announced the Positive Change Project Grants to support organizations committed to helping women and girls facing difficult life situations make transformational improvements in their lives…[more]
#BeInclusive EU Sport Awards 2022 – Promoting Gender Equality in Sport “Be Equal” (EUR 15 000)
Deadline: 29-Sep-22
The European Commission (EC) is pleased to launch a call for nominations for the #BeInclusive EU Sport Awards 2022 – Promoting Gender Equality in Sport “Be Equal” to reward projects promoting the empowerment and participation of women and girls in sport…[more]
European Commission Call for Proposals: Women TechEU
Deadline: 4-Oct-22
Women TechEU targets highly innovative start-ups founded, or co-founded by women, holding a top management position (CEO, CTO or equivalent) in the company at the time of submission…[more]
2022 F5 STEM Education Grants Program for Women and Girls of Color (one-time $50,000 USD grant)
Deadline: 19-Aug-22
F5 STEM Education Grants is now open for Women and Girls of Color to build the pipeline of tomorrow’s female changemakers and future leaders through their science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) Education…[more]
SADC Challenge Fund for Non-Profit Organizations: Grants of up to EUR 20,000 each
Deadline: 12-Aug-22
In response to the impacts on women arising from COVID-19, the SADC Challenge Fund is now open to support non-profit organizations and women in business associations that are already supporting the capacity building and/or training of women entrepreneurs to improve their skills in business and product development…[more]
EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women™ MENA Program
Deadline: 15-Aug-22
The Entrepreneurial Winning Women™ program provides women entrepreneurs with advice, resources and access to unlock their full potential and realize their ambition…[more]
EU Award for (Academic) Gender Equality Champions (Receive EUR 0.1 million: EUR 0.4 million maximum in total)
Deadline: 13-Oct-22
The European Commission (EC) is seeking nominations for its Gender Equality Champions. The award is meant as a booster and complement to the requirement for higher education and research organisations applying to Horizon Europe to have in place a Gender Equality Plan (GEP) in place, and as an enabler for the new priority on inclusive gender equality plans and the transformation agenda for universities..[more]
US$5,000-$15,000 Public Diplomacy Small Grant Program
Deadline: 30-Sep-22
The Public Diplomacy Section at the U.S. Embassy Suva considers small grant requests on a quarterly basis (pending funding availability). The grant proposals must benefit Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, or Tuvalu and address one of the Public Diplomacy Initiatives or Embassy Goals…[more]
Girls’ Education Skills Partnership – £750,000 to £1.5 million (GBP) Challenge Fund
Deadline: 16-Sep-22
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office is pleased to launch the Girls’ Education Skills Partnership – Challenge Fund to boost girls’ access to education and address the skills deficit in adolescent girls in developing countries…[more]
2022 UNESCO ICM Martial Arts Education Prize (Cash Prize of USD 10,000, Prize Certificate, Medal)
Deadline: 17-Aug-22
The Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship is inviting nominations for International Human Rights Award to recognize the work of foreign institutions and/or individuals residing abroad to promote and protect Human Rights…[more]
Gender and Artificial Intelligence Challenge
Deadline: 31-Aug-22
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), through its innovation laboratory IDB Lab, in the context of the fAIr LAC initiative, has launched an open innovation challenge to identify, pilot, and accelerate technological solutions based on artificial intelligence (AI) that contribute, through the concept of algorithmic justice, to reduce bias and discrimination based on sex and gender…[more]
€ 10,000 Terre de Femmes Prize – Nominate Now!
Deadline: 30-Sep-22
Are you a woman committed to the preservation of nature? Do you need support? The Terre de Femmes Prize is made for you…[more]
Call for Proposals: SGCI offering approx. $1,020,000 to NGO Projects
Deadline: 5-Aug-22
The goal of the project on Gender Equality and Inclusivity, to be funded under this call by the new SGCI partnerships involving IDRC, the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), is to reinforce the capacity of science granting councils to mainstream gender and inclusivity into science, technology and innovation…[more]
CFPs Feminist & Fair: The Future of Agricultural Supply Chains
Deadline: 1-Aug-22
Are you passionate about sustainable agricultural supply chains? And are you serious about dismantling barriers and increasing equity along the supply chain? Are you driven to lead by example and implement a feminist development policy? Submit your innovative project ideas to build more equitable and sustainable agricultural supply chains & contest existing systemic & normative inequalities…[more]
Gender Responsive Agriculture Systems Policy Fellowship
Deadline: 31-Aug-22
The African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) is accepting applications for its Gender Responsive Agriculture Systems Policy (GRASP) Fellowship, a career development program that targets mid-career African women in the policy field to catalyze the design and implementation of gender-responsive agricultural policies across Africa…[more]
Swedish Institute SHE 2022 Leadership Programme
Deadline: 1-Sep-22
The 2022 programme will focus on advancing our participants as leaders in a VUCA world, managing in a fast paced work environment and changing societies. It will consist of two live networking opportunities and four different interactive workshops. For each workshop, participants are expected to prepare by taking part of an online information material…[more]
UN Women: Small Grants to Scale-up Technical Substantive Capacity of Caribbean CSOs (Up to USD 30,000 per organisation)
Deadline: Ongoing
UN Women’s Small Grants are designed to support institutional strengthening and capacity-building, especially for smaller organisations. This call specifically supports CSOs working in the area of family violence, especially responding to the needs of women and girl survivors as well those who face discrimination or marginalisation…[more]
USD 50,000 Laerdal Foundation Grant Program
Deadline: 1-Oct-22
The Board will be prioritizing projects relating to interventions on day of birth – including prevention of stillborn deaths. Applications that go beyond a local impact and have the potential to document long term practical value and stimulate developments also in other regions/countries will be prioritized…[more]
European Commission Call for Proposals: Women in the Blue Economy (EUR 2 500 000)
Deadline: 22-Sep-22
The European Commission (EC) is calling for proposals for Women in the Blue Economy. The call for proposals is open to all sustainable blue economy sectors…[more]
The Resilience Fund for Women: Open Grants ($10,000 – $75,000 USD) in Cambodia and Vietnam
Deadline: 8-Aug-22
The Resilience Fund for Women in Global Value Chains is an innovative fund that pools funding from eight corporations to invest in the long-term health, well-being, and economic resilience of women who form the backbone of global economy…[more]
