[August 2021]
These small grants will provide financial support to NGOs for addressing new socio-economic challenges emerging from the pandemic. To boost fundraising efforts for your project, explore our latest list of grant opportunities.
Gupta Family Foundation’s Grant to empower Individuals Disadvantaged by Poverty or Disability
Deadline: 30-Sep-21
The Gupta Family Foundation is offering Grants to uplifting and empowering individuals disadvantaged by poverty or disability, or by discrimination based on race, class or religion; providing social services to the elderly, disabled, children and those who are disadvantaged; and providing relief for emergencies (such as genocide) and natural disasters…[more]
2021 Building Bridges Initiative Grant Program
Deadline: 15-Sep-21
Established jointly by Tree Research and Education Endowment Fund (TREE Fund), the Skiera Family, Wisconsin Arborist Association and the International Society of Arboriculture, The Bob Skiera Memorial Fund now provides financial support for the 2021 “Building Bridges Initiative” Grant Program to facilitate or engage interactions between urban forest managers, arborists…[more]
UEFA Foundation for Children inviting organisations anywhere in the world
Deadline: 15-Aug-21
This call for projects is aimed at any organisation that shares the values of the UEFA foundation and proposes practical measures to help children…[more]
Spencer Foundation: Conference Grants
Deadline: 13 October 2021
This program is intended to bring together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and other important collaborators whose expertise, substantive knowledge and practice, theoretical insight, or methodological expertise can be engaged in ways that help to build upon and advance education research…[more]
Fondation Segré Conservation Action Fund Grants Program
Deadline: 31 August 2021
The Fondation Segré Conservation Action Fund is pleased to announce its Grants Program to enable and support Civil Society Organizations engaged in the conservation of threatened animal species to carry out sustainable conservation measures at local level to protect the species, their habitats and to improve the livelihoods of the people who depend on them…[more]
Feminist Review Trust Grant Program Round 3
Deadline: 10 September 2021
The Feminist Review Trust Grant Program particularly welcomes applications from non-ODEC countries, small activist groups and projects with an intersectional and anti-racist perspective…[more]
Prince Claus Mentorship Awards
Deadline: 26-Aug-21
Apply now for the Prince Claus Mentorship Awards. This mentorship is a year-long interdisciplinary programme that creates space for artists and cultural practitioners to explore critical artistic practices on the intersection of arts and environmentalism…[more]
Camargo Foundation launches 2022-23 Core Program
Deadline: 1-Oct-21
The Camargo Foundation is pleased to launch the 2022-23 Core Program to support groundbreaking research, experimentation, and interdisciplinary approaches in the Arts and Humanities…[more]
Jewish Helping Hands: Tikkun Olam Grant Program
Deadline: 14 September 2021
Their goal is to help vulnerable populations in the United States and abroad through a variety of programs focused on economic development and social empowerment, with a particular focus on those demographics that have been overlooked and/or marginalized…[more]
2021 GCSP Prize for Innovation in Global Security (CHF 10’000)
Deadline: 23 September 2021
Applications may come from any country, but the projects should go beyond national borders in their reach or thinking, and must seek to address global security in innovative ways or through new ideas. A broad range of projects could qualify for consideration, including, but not limited to, technological and conceptual innovations, original research or grassroot initiatives…[more]
John Templeton Foundation’s Grant Program
Deadline: 20 August 2021
The John Templeton Foundation’s Grant Program to help people worldwide engage the fruits of that research and explore the Big Questions…[more]
The Alongside Wildlife Foundation Grant Program
Deadline: 13 August 2021
The Alongside Wildlife Foundation is a seed-grant program to support the kinds of important wildlife projects that are typically overlooked by most major organizations…[more]
Call for Projects to promote Sport as a tool for Development in Africa
Deadline: 1 September 2021
The purpose of the Impact 2024 International call for projects is to finance sports micro-projects dedicated to young people and equitably for girls, focused on equality and inclusion, citizenship and living together, the protection of childhood, education, health, environmental protection and vocational training and integration…[more]
UNCDF: Transitioning Local Micro and Small Enterprises to an Aggregator E-Commerce Platform
Deadline: 18 August 2021
The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are looking to work with legally established aggregator e-commerce platform operators that can support local entrepreneurs and microenterprises in Fiji, Palau, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu to migrate their business online…[more]
Noel Buxton Trust Grant
Deadline: Ongoing
Trustees tend to offer grants to smaller, grass-roots organisations and do not generally respond to appeals from large and well-supported charities…[more]
Joke Waller-Hunter Initiative to Support Young Environmental Leaders
Deadline: 31 August 2021
The Joke Waller-Hunter (JWH) Initiative creates opportunities for young people in the environmental sector in developing countries to unfold their full potential. By giving small grants to individuals to expand their knowledge, experience and training, the Initiative aims to strengthen environmental Civil Society Organisations capacity and efficiency…[more]
Small Fund to implement Non-profit Renewable Project Ideas in Sub-Saharan Africa
Deadline: 31-Aug-21
The GIZ Green People’s Energy (GBE) project, through its Small Projects Fund, offers financial support to initiatives in the field of decentralised renewable energy. The fund assists organisations in implementing their own non-profit project ideas in sub-Saharan Africa. With its Challenge Call, the Fund is looking for concrete solutions to either of two identified local challenges to address…[more]
Small Grant Scheme “Development of Green Industry Innovation and ICT Products”
Deadline: 31 August 2021
The Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (hereinafter – LIAA), as the Norwegian Financial Mechanism’s 2014-2021 Programme “Business Development, Innovation, and SME’s operator is pleased to announce an open call for the small grant scheme “Development of green industry innovation and ICT products”…[more]
Call for Applications: Grants to Investigate Environmental Crimes in Africa
Deadline: 31-Aug-21
The Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime, working with the Henry Nxumalo Foundation and the Oxpeckers Centre for Investigative Environmental Journalism, is offering grants to journalists to investigate environmental crime in Africa…[more]
Africa Regional Services Paris Statement of Interest: Small Grants
Deadline: 31 August 2021
The ARS invites statements of interest with proposals for programs that strengthen ties between the U.S. and sub-Sahara African countries through virtual and in-person programs that highlight shared values and promote an understanding of U.S. policies and institutions, as well as the political, economic, social, and cultural context from which they arise…[more]
Small Grant Program “Staying Resilient Amid Pandemic in Southeast Asia”
Deadline: 1 September 2023
The 3-year program, with support of the China Medical Board Foundation and WIEGO, provides funds to efforts working to build social capital, strengthen community resilience, improve the living and health conditions of local communities (geographical as well as functional) and enhance their capacity to cope with the current situation of COVID-19 and its longer-term socio-economic and health impacts…[more]
SUMERNET Small Grants: Open Research Call
Deadline: 31 August 2021
Applications are now open for the Small Grants to support SUMERNET members and other partners in conducting various smaller-scale activities that improve the influence of SUMERNET research…[more]
European Cooperation Projects Small Scale
Deadline: 7 September 2021
Proposals are now open for the European Cooperation Projects Small Scale to support projects involving a large diversity of players active in different cultural and creative sectors, to carry out a broad spectrum of activities and initiatives…[more]
Mama Cash Spark Fund Grants Program
Deadline: 29 August 2021
Mama Cash supports up-and-coming feminist activism in the Netherlands, Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao Saba, Sint Eustasius or Sint Maarten (ABCSSS islands) with small grants. These grants, from Mama Cash’s Spark Fund, are intended to strengthen the bold work of self-led groups in the Netherlands and the ABCSSS islands working on the rights of women, girls, trans people and intersex people…[more]
Disability Rights Fund (USD 5,000 – USD 20,000)
Deadline: 31 August 2021
The Disability Rights Fund is now open to support organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs) around the world to build diverse movements, ensure inclusive development agendas, and achieve equal rights and opportunity for all…[more]
New England Biolabs Foundation’s Grant Program
Deadline: 20 August 2021
The Foundation recognizes that the natural and cultural values of landscapes and seascapes are inextricably linked, and that indigenous and local communities play a fundamental role in their stewardship…[more]
SADC TFCA Financing Facility: Call for Biodiversity Conservation in Southern Africa
Deadline: 15 September 2021
The SADC TFCA FF will address the critical needs for conservation by integrating the three dimensions of “species”, “habitat” and “people”, and aligning with the overall socio-economic development and regional integration goals of SADC TFCAs…[more]
Grant Call for Kiwa Initiative Local Projects Component
Deadline: 31 August 2021
The Kiwa Initiative Local Projects Component will open for submissions of concept notes for Very Small, Small and Medium Grants…[more]
European Commission Call: Radical Improvement of Road Safety in Low and Medium Income Countries in Africa
Deadline: 19 October 2021
The European Commission (EC) is pleased to launch the Radical Improvement of Road Safety in Low and Medium Income Countries in Africa to create a strong analytical base and to develop and assess, with local partners, the implementation of small scale system pilots and its various components, at city, regional, national and continent level…[more]
European Commission: Mainstreaming Inclusive Small-Scale Bio-Based Solutions
Deadline: 6 October 2021
Regional platforms for innovation support services are needed to help European regions develop their bio-based economies and to increase awareness and knowledge about emerging opportunities as well as the environmental and socio-economic impacts relating to the valorisation of locally or regionally available biomass…[more]
Small Research Grants on Education Program
Deadline: 1 September 2021
The Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years…[more]
Public Diplomacy Small Grant Program
Deadline: 30 September 2021
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]
Global Biodiversity Information Facility: Call for APplications
Deadline: 7-Sep-21
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Secretariat is seeking contractors to support the team developing a community of practice in Asia through the SYNTHESYS+ project and the Biodiversity Information Fund for Asia (BIFA programme). Individuals located in eligible countries and areas in South-East Asia, South Asia and North-East Asia…[more]
Call for Proposals: Zoonotic Diseases and One Health in the Asia-Pacific Region
Deadline: 15-Aug-21
EJN is offering story grants for Zoonotic Diseases and One Health to journalists to support the production of in-depth stories that will call attention to zoonotic diseases and One Health in Asia and the Pacific region…[more]