UN Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking: 5th Call for Proposals (USD 5,000 to USD 20,000)
Deadline: 31-Jan-2021
The UN Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking (UNVTF) has launched the Fifth Call for Proposals. This Call for Proposals takes into consideration the importance of harnessing all available resources towards the implementation of activities aimed at meeting the objectives of this Grants programme…[more]
2020 Youth Solidarity Fund: Seed Grants of up to USD 25,000
Deadline: 31-Jan-21
The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) is inviting applications for the 2020 Youth Solidarity Fund. The Youth Solidarity Fund (YSF) supports youth-led organizations that foster peaceful and inclusive societies. Seed funding is given to projects, for and by young people, that demonstrate innovative and effective approaches to intercultural or interfaith dialogue…[more]
USAID announces YouthPower 2 Annual Program Statement (Award Ceiling: $25,000,000)
Deadline: 29 March 2021
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Bureau for Economic Growth, Education and Environment (E3) and supporting Bureaus are issuing YouthPower 2 (YP2) Annual Program Statement (APS) to provide a vehicle for engaging with youthled and youth-serving organizations…[more]
Motorola Solutions Foundation’s 2021 Grant Program ($50,000 Grants)
Deadline: 01-Feb-2021
The Motorola Solutions Foundation has announced its 2021 Grant Program to support nearly 200 organizations across 30 countries – benefiting more than two million students and first responders…[more]
Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund: Grants of $25,000
Deadline: 28-Feb-2021
Applications are now open for Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund to provide targeted grants to individual species conservation initiatives, recognize leaders in the field of species conservation; and elevate the importance of species in the broader conservation debate…[more]
IWMF’S Kim Wall Memorial Fund 2021 ($5,000 grants to Journalists)
Deadline: 16-Jan-2021
The IWMF’s Kim Wall Memorial Fund will provide two $5,000 grants to journalists whose work embodies the spirit of Kim’s reporting. The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF), in partnership with Kim’s family and friends, seek to make sure the kinds of stories Kim loved continue to be told, through the creation of the Kim Wall Memorial Fund…[more]
Feminist Review Trust’s Grant Program (UK £15,000 in funding)
Deadline: 31-Jan-2021
Applications are now open for the Feminist Review Trust’s Grant Program to support projects that transform the lives of women. Set up in 2001, the Trust was funded by Feminist Review. Run as a collective since its inception in 1979, the voluntary work of Feminist Review’s editorial teams over the years has provided the means for the Trust to share the success of the journal with groups of women throughout the world similarly working for change…[more]
IMMANA Competitive Research Grants (Up to £250,000)
Deadline: 21-Jan-2021
The Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA) programme based at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has launched the Call for Applications for Round 4 of the IMMANA Competitive Research Grants Programme – the final round of funding…[more]
Spencer Foundation’s Large Research Grants on Education Program ($125,000 and $500,000)
Deadline: 15-Jan-2021
The Spencer Foundation has announced the Large Research Grants on Education Program thta supports education research projects which will contribute to the improvement of education. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location…[more]
Global Equality Fund (Funding Ceiling: $1,000,000)
Deadline: 05-Feb-2021
The U.S. Department of State Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor announces an open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for projects that provide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) individuals and communities with the tools to empower local movements and communities…[more]
Minor Foundation for Major Challenges: Small Grants (Up to EUR 10,000) and Larger Grants (Up to to €200,000)
Deadline: 15-Jan-2021
The Minor Foundation for Major Challenges (MFMC) is a Norwegian foundation that supports communication projects which advance the transition to a low carbon economy. The Foundation supports advocates of climate change mitigation. The calls for applications are open to international applicants…[more]
Arrell Global Food Innovation Awards ($125,000 CAD)
Deadline: 28-Feb-2021
The Arrell Global Food Innovation Awards recognize global excellence in food innovation and community impact. Arrell Food Institute recognizes global leaders who are ensuring future food security for the planet, and hopes to inspire new leaders to take bold steps towards change. Scientific excellence and community engagement are necessary to overcome the challenges our world will face in feeding 9 billion people and beyond…[more]
2021 MIT Water Innovation Prize (Up to $35K in Innovation Grants)
Deadline: 11-Jan-2021
Nominations are now open for the 2021 MIT Water Innovation Prize that is a startup competition focused on water innovation that awards up to $35K in innovation grants annually to student-led teams from across the country and internationally. The Prize started in 2015 and has since awarded $100K to 12 teams…[more]
2021 Sigma Awards for Journalism (5000 USD Cash Prize)
Deadline: 01-Feb-2021
The Sigma Awards is a competition to celebrate the best data journalism from around the world. The international data journalism community is facing many challenges, and they want to support them. This year’s Sigma Awards will be about highlighting the very best data journalism done about the pandemic (and building an international database record of such projects), but also those covering other topics such as politics, sports, or the environment…[more]
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation: 2021 Roux Prize (Receive $100,000)
Deadline: 28-Feb-2021
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is inviting nominations for the 2021 Roux Prize to honor individuals or groups from around the world who have used health evidence in bold, innovative and impactful ways. The prize recognizes the person who has used health evidence in bold ways to make people healthier – and to highlight just what’s possible when visionaries use health evidence to change lives…[more]
Women Building Peace Award: Receive $10,000
Deadline: 02-Feb-2021
USIP’s Women Building Peace Award honors the inspiring work of women peacebuilders whose courage, leadership, and commitment to peace stand out as beacons of strength and hope…[more]
WWSF Prize for Women’s Creativity in Rural Life: US$ 1000 per laureate
Deadline: 30-Apr-2021
Awarded since 1994 by the Women’s World Summit Foundation (WWSF), an international, nonprofit, humanitarian NGO, serving the implementation of women’s and children’s rights and the UN development agenda – the Prize (US$ 1000 per laureate) honors women and women’s groups around the world exhibiting exceptional creativity, courage and commitment for the improvement of the quality of life in rural communities…[more]
Charity Entrepreneurship’s 2021 Incubation Program: $200,000 to Charities
Deadline: 15-Jan-2021
The Charity Entrepreneurship (“CE”) has launched a call for applications for the 2021 Incubation Program. The two-month, cost-covered online course will take you from a basic familiarity with starting charities to being fully prepared to create and operate an effective organization. Management, fundraising, impact analysis: everything you need to know, taught by mentors with experience establishing multiple EA charities – including a GiveWell top charity…[more]
2021 Right Livelihood Award: Win 1M Swedish Krona in Cash Prizes
Deadline: 03-Mar-2021
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation receives nominations from all around the world for its 2021 Right Livelihood Award. Through this open process, the Foundation acquires a sense of what people around the world perceive as the most urgent problems – and who is working to solve them…[more]
2021 Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity: Receive 1 million euros
Deadline: 28-Feb-2021
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is seeking nominations for the 2021 Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity to recognize people, groups of people and/or organizations from all over the world whose contributions to mitigation and adaptation to climate change stand out for its novelty, innovation and impact…[more]
2021 St Andrews Prize for Environment: $2 million in Prize Money
Deadline: 26-Feb-2021
Entries are now open for the 2021 St Andrews Prize for the Environment which is a major international initiative led by the University of St Andrews that recognises and supports innovative and inspirational responses to environmental challenges, including the climate crisis…[more]
16th Biodiversity Conservation Awards offering Prize Money
Deadline: 31-Mar-2021
The BBVA Foundation Awards for Biodiversity Conservation seek to recognize and support the work done by conservationist organizations, institutions and agencies in carrying forward environmental conservation policies and projects, and the efforts of communication professionals who have placed their abilities at the service of protecting our natural heritage…[more]
Internet Freedom Annual Program Statement (Award Ceiling: $3,000,000)
Deadline: 05-Mar-2021
The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) announces a Request for Statements of Interest (RSOI) from organizations interested in submitting Statements of Interest (SOI) for programs that support Internet Freedom…[more]
Global Giving Accelerator: A Crowdfunding Campaign ($5,000 Grants)
Deadline: 05-Feb-2021
The Global Giving Accelerator is an opportunity for you and your organization to build skills, access tools, and grow your base of supporters to achieve crowd funding success. When you graduate, your organization becomes a permanent member of Global Giving, and you’ll have access to all the tools, training, and one-on-one support available in the Global Giving community…[more]
Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2021 ($1M USD in funding)
Deadline: 29-Jan-2021
Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge aims to recognize new business ideas that leverage technology for social impact from entrepreneurs around the world. Their goal is to advance early-stage projects that are beyond the concept or idea formation stage, but which have not yet generated over $1M USD in funding and/or revenue…[more]
McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism: Grant of up to $15,000 for Each Project
Deadline: 15-Jan-2021
Are you a journalist with a great idea for a story that “Follows the Money,” but no funds to get it done? If yes, then apply for this McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism. The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Center for Business Journalism, an initiative of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, began offering reporting fellowships in the summer of 2014…[more]
Racial Equity 2030: Receive $1 million planning grants
Deadline: 28-Jan-2021
Applications are open for Racial Equity 2030, which is a global challenge in honor of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s 90th anniversary. It is a call for bold solutions to drive an equitable future for children, their families and communities. This $90 million challenge seeks ideas from anywhere in the world and will scale them over the next decade to transform the systems and institutions that uphold inequity…[more]
Endangered Material Knowledge Programme: Small and Large Grants
Deadline: 31-Jan-2021
Endangered Material Knowledge Programme (EMKP) is pleased to announce that the 2020/2021 cycle of grants is now open for new applications. The programme offers small and large grants to document material knowledge systems that are under threat and in danger of disappearing. This includes knowledge systems associated with the making, use, repair and re-purposing of material objects, spaces, architecture, performances and environments…[more]
Private Sector Engagement and Market-Based Development: Co-Creating and Partnering for Impact via Global Development Alliances (Award Ceiling: $2,000,000)
Deadline Date – 16-Dec-2022
The United States Government as represented by the U.S Agency for International Development (USAID), Bureau for Economic Growth, Education and Environment (E3), Private Sector Engagement Team, invites applications for Global Development Alliances (GDAs). The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is committed to engaging and working with the private sector to determine how markets, market-based approaches, and private sector behavior can drive development outcomes, results and impact in an ongoing and sustainable manner…[more]
2021 Global Fellowship Program to Promote Research on Child and Youth Development (CHF 150’000 for 3 years)
Deadline: 11-Jan-2021
The Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program is a globally competitive fellowship program for early and mid-career researchers whose work is dedicated to improving the development, learning, and living conditions of children and youth…[more]
Eco-Hero Awards 2021: Cash prize up to $500
Deadline: 28-Feb-2021
The Action For Nature (AFN), a non-profit organization, created the International Young Eco-Hero Awards to recognize and reward the successful individual environmental initiatives of young people ages 8 to 16…[more]
2021 Keeling Curve Prize: 10 awards of $25,000 each
Deadline: 10-Feb-2021
The Keeling Curve Prize is accepting applications for the prize from innovative climate change solutions in the areas of Capture & Utilization, Energy, Finance, Social & Cultural Pathways, and Transport & Mobility…[more]