[September 2023]
Applications open for L’Oréal Fund for Women
Deadline: 30-Oct-23
Applications are now open for the L’Oréal Fund for Women to support frontline organizations in their efforts to help women to get out of poverty, prevent domestic, sexual and gender-based violence against women…[more]
Global Fund for Women Grant Program: Inviting Gender Justice Initiatives and Organizations
Deadline: Ongoing
If you are a nonprofit organization or women’s foundation that advocates for gender justice, you may be interested in applying for a grant from the Global Fund for Women’s Grant Program. The program is currently accepting applications from qualifying initiatives and organizations…[more]
Submit LOIs for One Day’s Wages Matching Grant Program
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The One Day’s Wages is now accepting Letters of Inquiry (LOIs) for matching grants to support locally-led, community-based organizations that do not have a Western-based branch, board, or network of donors…[more]
Applications open for Lush Charity Pot Grant
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
Applicants are now encouraged to submit applications for the Lush Charity Pot Grant…[more]
International Short Story Contest (VII Edition)
Deadline: 30 September 2023
The César Egido Serrano Foundation has launched an open call for an International Short Story Contest, a part of activities that the Foundation carries out to achieve its objective, which is none other than that the word is the tool against all violence and harmony between different cultures, religions and ideologies…[more]
Apply for Youth Well-Being Prize Competition
Deadline: 29-Sep-23
Are you a young person between the ages of 10 and 29 with an idea of how digital tools can be used to help improve other young people’s well-being? Do you have ideas about how we could creatively use technology to increase young people’s knowledge around issues that impact them? The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is looking for creative innovators with solutions to pressing issues around well-being. Is this you? If so, apply today for the Youth Well-Being Prize Competition…[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]
Applications open for Human Rights Advocates Program
Deadline: 15-Oct-23
The Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR) is inviting applications for the Human Rights Advocates Program to provide grassroots leaders the tools, knowledge, access, and networks to promote the realization of human rights and strengthen their respective organizations…[more]
Call for Applications: Young African Feminist Fund
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
Through Young African Feminist Fund, the African Human Rights Network (AHRN) is providing support to numerous young feminist movements across 14 African countries, both registered and non-registered…[more]
Merck Foundation: Africa Media Recognition Awards “More Than a Mother” 2023
Deadline: 30-Sep-23
The Merck Foundation is inviting applications for the Africa Media Recognition Awards…[more]
Call for Proposals: Gender Equality Partnerships Grants
Deadline: 20-Sep-23
Going Global Partnerships has launched its third round of Gender Equality Partnerships grants…[more]
Call for Proposals: Prevention Envelope of the Transition Support Facility
Deadline: 31 October 2023
The Transition States Coordination Office (RDTS) of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) is pleased to announce the launch of the first Call-for-Proposals (CfP) of the Prevention Envelope of the Transition Support Facility (TSF) introduced under the sixteenth replenishment cycle of the African Development Fund (ADF-16)…[more]
Call for Fellowships: Research into Online Gender Based Harassment
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
Do you want to take an active role in combating coordinated online abuse that targets African women journalists, election candidates or other human rights defenders? Code for Africa (CfA) in partnership with Jigsaw, is offering research grants and technical support for evidence-driven analysis into how malign actors coordinate harassment and complaints against African women journalists and fact-checkers across 21 African countries…[more]
UN Women: Small Grants to Scale-up Technical Substantive Capacity of Caribbean CSOs
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
UN Women is offering grants to expand the technical substantive capacity of civil society organisations on ending violence against women and girls in the Caribbean Region…[more]
UN Women Caribbean Regional Spotlight Initiative: Small Grant Advertisement
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
UN Women has announced the proposals for Caribbean Spotlight Initiative Small Grants to Scale-up Technical Substantive Capacity of Caribbean CSOs…[more]
Grants to Strengthen Information Integrity in Kosovo
Deadline: 18-Sep-23
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is seeking applications to Strengthen the capacity of youth from diverse ethnic backgrounds in Kosovo to address mis/disinformation and gendered mis/disinformation, promote information integrity, and embrace diversity…[more]
Peace Scholar Fellowship Program (United States)
Deadline: 16 November 2023
The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) seeks applications from Ph.D. candidates with high-quality, policy relevant research that will deepen understanding about conflict management, peacebuilding and other applicable security-related studies…[more]
CFPs to Strengthen Engagement of Men & Boys to Prevent SGBV Issues (Sri Lanka)
Deadline: 20 September 2023
United Nations Development Programme invites applications for ensuring justice for victim-survivors of sexual and gender based violence in Sri Lanka…[more]
Applications open for Sparkplug Foundation Grant Program (US)
Deadline: 2-Nov-23
The Sparkplug Foundation is encouraging Black, Indigenous, People of Color, people with disabilities, women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, queer and other queer-identifying communities, organizations or organizers to apply for its grant program…[more]
Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation: Shelter Grant Program (Canada)
Deadline: 30-Sep-23
The Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation is accepting applications to support women and children experiencing domestic violence by providing grants to women’s shelters and community outreach programs through the annual Shelter Grant Program…[more]
Call for Proposals: Funding Research Projects in the Field of Violent Extremism – Tunisia
Deadline: 22 October 2023
The UNDP launches, in partnership with the National Commission for the Fight against Terrorism, the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MESRS – General Directorate of Scientific Research) within the framework of the ” Tarabot ” project, a call for proposals for the establishment of a research fund aimed at fostering a shared understanding of concepts related to violent extremism and relevant prevention strategies…[more]
USAID/Guatemala Locally Led Development Annual Program Statement (APS)
Deadline: 27-Aug-24
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Guatemala invites applications to advance Guatemala’s development by connecting indigenous peoples, women, and youth to opportunities that enable them to achieve prosperous, secure, and dignified lives at home in Guatemala under Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS)…[more]
Funding to support Activities and Actions related to addressing GBV (Kenya)
Deadline: 17-Sep-23
International Solidarity Foundation (ISF) now invites community-based organizations, grassroots movements, and civil society organizations to apply for funding to support activities and actions related to addressing Gender Based Violence (GBV) in Kisii and Nyamira counties…[more]
2023 Volunteer Ireland Awards
Deadline: 8 October 2023
Nominations are now open for the 2023 Volunteer Ireland Awards an annual initiative to celebrate volunteers in Ireland…[more]
Grants Competition for Non-Governmental Organisations in Ukraine
Deadline: 20-Sep-23
In order to strengthen the sustainability and effectiveness of civil society organizations that provide services to the population affected by a full-scale invasion, as well as to promote the development of organizations in war conditions, within the framework of the second phase of the program “Capable and Strong” Eastern Europe Fund announces the grant competition…[more]
Engaging Survivors of Sexual Violence and Trafficking in HIV and Substance Use Disorder Services (US)
Deadline: 5-Aug-24
National Institutes of Health has launched a grant to support exploratory research and preliminary interventions to address the interrelated and compounding contextual factors that contribute to substance use and HIV risk among sexual trafficking survivors…[more]
Emerging Leader Grants in the United States
Deadline: 30-Sep-23
The We Raise Foundation is seeking applications for the Emerging Leader Grants, an investment in the development of leaders, between the ages of 20-35, at Christian organizations who are leading new programs at the intersection of poverty, violence, and inequality in the United States…[more]
Social Justice Fund in the United States
Deadline: 23-Oct-23
The Muste Institute is pleased to announce an open call for proposals to the Social Justice Fund for grassroots activist projects in the US, giving priority to those with small budgets and little access to more mainstream funding sources…[more]
Call for Micro Projects: Quick Response Fund in Slovenia
Deadline: 1-Oct-23
The Norway Grants is accepting proposals for the Quick Response Fund to support organisations, when quick advocacy, legal, communicational or other form of reaction is needed either to seize up the advocacy/campaigning opportunities or tackle challenges (e.g. pressures on civic space and incidences of hate speech)…[more]
UNICEF Meena Media Awards 2023 (Bangladesh)
Deadline: 30-Nov-23
Submissions are now open for the UNICEF Meena Media Awards 2023 to recognize excellence in journalistic reporting that promotes child rights in Bangladesh media…[more]
USAID: Democracy, Human Rights and Accountability APS (Uganda)
Deadline: 28-Mar-24
The United States Agency for International Development in Uganda (USAID/Uganda) seeks applications from non-profit and for-profit organizations to participate in USAID’s Uganda Democracy, Human Rights and Accountability (DRA) Annual Program Statement (APS)…[more]
UN Women Spotlight Initiative Call for Small Grants in Jamaica
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
UN Women is soliciting grant proposals to support leadership and monitoring and evaluation capacity strengthening programmes for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Jamaica especially those working with underserved communities (LBTQI persons, women and girls with HIV, women and girls with disabilities, women living in rural communities etc.)…[more]
ACF Malta: Bilateral Cooperation Initiatives (Call 3)
Deadline: 30-Jun-24
The SOS Malta announces an open rolling call for NGOs for the outcome “Enhanced collaboration between beneficiary and donor state entities involved in the Programme”…[more]
