Latest funding opportunities for NGOs, Startups, and Entrepreneurs working in the field of digital innovations and technology to conserve the Environment. Get a detailed look at the opportunities.
Global Impact Grant Program for NGOs serving Underserved Communities
Deadline: Ongoing
Cisco Global Impact Cash Grants are available for nonprofits and NGOs that address a significant social problem in the area of access to education, economic empowerment, and critical human needs.
Funding Information
- The maximum request amount for first-time grant recipients is US$75,000.
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Global Corporate Innovation & Accelerator Program
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
Applicants are invited to submit their applications for the Global Corporate Innovation & Accelerator Program.
Focus Areas
- Environmental, Social & Governance: To achieve zero harm, zero waste & zero discharge across operations at Vedanta.
Allied Excellence: To digitally transform the areas of commercial operations, legal & compliance, training, and digital enablement of the workforce. - Digital Core: To bring technological innovations in mining, metals, and oil & gas to digitally transform Vedanta’s core business.
Emerging Technology: To gain access to breakthrough & futuristic technologies with disruptive potential.
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Microsoft announces Climate Innovation Fund
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
Microsoft is pleased to announce an open call for the Climate Innovation Fund to accelerate technology development and deployment of new climate innovations through equity and debt capital.
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
Microsoft is pleased to announce an open call for the Climate Innovation Fund to accelerate technology development and deployment of new climate innovations through equity and debt capital.
Areas
Microsoft will primarily deploy this capital in two areas:
- to accelerate ongoing technology development by investing in project and debt finance; and
- to invest in new innovations through equity and debt capital.
In addition to this new fund, they will continue to invest in carbon monitoring and modeling projects through the AI for Earth program, which has grown over the past two years to support more than 450 grantees across more than 70 countries.
Primary Focus
The primary focus of the Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund is to:
- Invest in emerging climate technology solutions that have early commercial traction and need capital to scale in the market
- Provide project financing to bring existing climate solutions to scale
- Invest directly in companies, with opportunities to:
- Scale new innovative solutions in the market
- Demonstrate the viability of new technologies
- Partner with other investors to meet the world’s climate objectives
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NEC Innovation Challenge for Startups from Around the World
Deadline: 4-Dec-22
Internationally renowned IT and electronics group, NEC, and its Partner companies, are on a quest to find innovative companies worldwide with solutions in Healthcare & Lifesciences, the Metaverse and Carbon neutral. Could you be the perfect fit? If yes, NEC is looking for startups with Healthcare & lifescience, Metaverse and Carbon neutral solutions to collaborate together.
- Award Prize
- 4 different types of prizes await their selected startups!
- NEC Prize
- Proof of Concept of up to US$20,000.
- NEC X Prize
- Access to the NEC X venture studio and travel to Silicon Valley for the kickoff week (flight and hotel expenses covered for 1 person).
- NOFF Prize
- Discussions for funding from NOFF
- NOFF (NEC Orchestrating Future Fund) is a multi-LP corporate venture capital managed by Translink Capital as a GP. NEC is an Anchor LP for the fund.
- Bird Initiative Prize
- Access to the BIRD startup studio.
- NEC Prize
- 4 different types of prizes await their selected startups!
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Amazon Web Services: Clean Energy Accelerator
Deadline: 3-Jan-23
The Amazon Web Services is inviting applications to accelerate your net zero pathways at scale with Clean Energy Accelerator 3.0, a hybrid, high-pace, equity-free accelerator for mature startups.
Eligibility Criteria
- In order to eligible to apply for the Program, you must:
- Be incorporated (in any country), and provide proof of that registration if requested by the Program Members;
- Offer a product or service solution in at least one of the recruitment categories:
- Note that start-ups with business models that are based solely on consulting are ineligible to participate.
- Have a market ready solution with at least early customers (not idea-stage).
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Open Call: Green Web Fellows 2023 (Global South)
Deadline: 8-Dec-22
The Green Web Foundation is seeking five practitioners for a paid part-time fellowship of 10 months for its 2023 cohort.
Benefits
- Stipend of €8,400 to compensate your time.
- Project budget of €2,500 to pay your collaborators, materials, travel and other expenses for your proposed project.
- Mentorship from experienced practitioners in greening the internet, climate justice, digital rights and facilitative leadership.
Applying for an Australia Awards Fellowship
Deadline: 22-Jan-23
The Australian Government is inviting applications for Australia Awards Fellowship to support emerging leaders to undertake study, research and professional development activities that build skills, knowledge and people to people links with the aim of contributing to the long-term development needs of Australia’s partner countries.
Funding Information
- Up to a maximum of $450,000 per Fellowship. Funding can be implemented over two financial years (July 2022 to June 2023 and July 2023 to June 24).
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UM6P and IFA launch the Africa Agtech Startup Showcase (€20,000 prize)
Deadline Date: 30-Nov-2022
Innovation is positioning African agricultural systems for a productive and sustainable future. In light of this transformation process, the International Fertilizer Association (IFA) and Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) have launched the Africa Agtech Startup Showcase.
Funding Information
- The largest gathering of the fertilizer industry, and the winning startup will receive a €20,000 prize.
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African Peacebuilding Network: Individual Research Fellowships
Deadline: 10-Feb-23
The African Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) invites research fellowship applications from African researchers, policy analysts, and practitioners working on conflict and peacebuilding issues at universities and research institutions; or regional, governmental, and nongovernmental agencies or organizations based in Africa.
Funding Information
- Up to eighteen (18) individual fellowships of a maximum of $15,000 each will be awarded.
Fellowships are awarded on a competitive, peer-reviewed basis and are intended to support six months of field-based research, from June 2022 to December 2022.
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Call for Nominations: Women in AI Awards 2023
Deadline: 19-Mar-23
Are you a female innovator in the AI field and based in Asia-Pacific? If so, then Women in AI is looking for you!
Award Information
The winner from each award category will be entered into judging for the following top awards.
- $50,000 Prize Pool
Grand Award
‘APAC WAI Innovator of the Year’
- Winner – $15,000
- First runner-up – $12,000
- Second runner-up – $9,000
- APAC WAI Trailblazer’ – $7,000
- ‘APAC Indigenous Leadership in AI’ – $7,000
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Call for Proposals: Climate Change AI Innovation Grants 2023
Deadline: 1-Mar-23
The Climate Change AI (CCAI) is excited to announce its Innovation Grants.
Funding Information
- This program will allocate grants of up to USD 150K for conducting research projects of 1 year in duration. Research projects shall leverage AI or machine learning to address problems in climate change mitigation, adaptation, or climate science, or shall consider problems related to impact assessment and governance at the intersection of climate change and machine learning.
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CookFund Programme: Accelerated Market roll-out of Clean Cooking Solutions in Tanzania
Deadline: 17-Dec-22
The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) is inviting eligible Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and companies which are involved in the clean cooking value chain / technologies to apply for technical and financial assistance to accelerate market roll-out of clean cooking technologies in Programme targeted urban areas/regions.
Funding Information
The size of individual awards will range from €10,000 – €300,000, with a possibility for follow-on funding subject to performance and availability of funding.
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RBC Tech for Nature Grant Program (Canada)
Deadline: 4-Feb-23
The RBC Tech for Nature Grant Program is now open for applications.
The pressing environmental challenges of today are growing at a rate that often outpaces the solutions designed to address them. They recognize that technology offers immense potential to develop innovative solutions that provide new pathways to address those challenges. RBC is leveraging its technology capabilities in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and app development to work with charitable partners to address water, climate and other environmental challenges. They are actively seeking partners who share the vision and are pursuing technology-based solutions.
Funding Information
- The RBC Foundation is committing $100 million by 2025 to innovate environmental programs.
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