DRK Foundation’s Seed Funding of $300,000 for 3 years
Deadline: Ongoing
The Draper Richards Kaplan (DRK) Foundation is inviting proposals for its grants program to support outsized impact through entrepreneurs and enterprises that create a transformational paradigm shift to meaningfully address a pressing societal problem affecting people’s lives and to achieve substantial positive change in the world.
The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation is honored to be able to consider the many ideas presented to them that aim to achieve substantial positive change in the world.
USAID Innovation Grant for Socio-Economic Development in Education, Environment, Poverty and Others: Anyone from anywhere can apply!
Deadline: 31-Oct-23
Through a year-round grant competition, Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) sources proposals for innovations that address international development challenges and improve the lives of people living in poverty in developing countries around the world. DIV provides tiered funding to pilot, test, and transition to scale (i.e., grow to reach the highest number of beneficiaries possible) those innovations that demonstrate evidence of impact, cost-effectiveness, and the potential to scale.
DIV funds four types of grants. Stage 1, Stage 2, and Stage 3 grants follow a tiered approach that aligns the funding amount to the strength of the evidence of impact, cost-effectiveness, and scalability of the proposed innovation. Evidence Generation grants are reserved for rigorous evaluations of already scaled or scaling development solutions that lack sufficient rigorous evidence of impact and cost-effectiveness.
COVID-19, Vaccines and Global Health Inequities Reporting Grant Program
Deadline: Ongoing
The Pulitzer Center is seeking applications for enterprise and underreported stories about COVID-19 inequities and other U.S. and global health system failures.
They’re interested in systemic barriers to all sorts of care, including, but not limited to, COVID-19 vaccines and treatment. They’re also interested in stories about misinformation and politicization that impede improved access to care and preparation for future health crises.
Sanabil 500 MENA Seed Accelerator Program (USD $100,000+ for selected startups)
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
500 Global is looking for the next generation of talented entrepreneurs in MENA through this accelerator program designed for tech startups with early traction.
The program is divided into 3 phases. All founders must be on the ground in-person in Riyadh for Week 1 – 2 Foundations of Growth and Weeks 10-12 Pitch Prep & Demo Day. For Weeks 3-9 Growth Weeks, founders may participate remotely.
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program
Deadline: 25-Oct-22
The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) invites exceptional early-career researchers from across the natural, biomedical and social sciences and the humanities to join one of the interdisciplinary research programs that address some of the most important questions facing science and humanity.
The CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program accelerates the development of the next generation of research leaders and positions them to heighten their impact in academia and beyond.
We Founder Circle launches EvolveX Accelerator Program
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
WFC invites founders and mentors to nominate deserving startups for the EvolveX Accelerator Program.
The EvolveX flagship program accelerates high potential early-revenue companies from all sectors. This year, WFC is launching 3 more programs focusing on the high growth sectors of FinTech, Web3 and EduTech. Take your startup to the next level with the help of the extensive network of seasoned mentors who’ve seen it all and exceptional entrepreneurs who’ve done it all.
Animal Welfare Grants to Support Individuals and Groups
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The Pollination Project (TPP) is offering grants through its Animal Welfare Grants to support individuals and groups who are working to protect animals.
They are a vegan organization guided by values of compassion consciousness. Their grants are open for anyone in the world whose work is focused on helping animals, and they also have a special focus on receiving applications from people in Brazil, India, and Mexico who are involved in farmed animal advocacy.
Seed Grants for Small Grassroots Organizations in India
Deadline: 31-Dec-23
Right Sharing of World Resources is seeking applications to provide seed grants to small grassroots organizations to implement women-led, income-generating projects.
Right Sharing of World Resources (RSWR) is an independent Quaker not-for-profit organization sharing the abundance of God’s love by working for equity through partnerships around the world.
Seed Grants available for Small Grassroots Women’s Groups in Sierra Leone
Deadline: 31-Dec-23
The Right Sharing of World Resources (RSWR) is offering seed grants to small grassroots organizations to support micro-enterprise and self-employment projects.
ACLS inviting Applications for Digital Justice Seed Grants Program in the US
Deadline: 15-Feb-22
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to invite applications for Digital Justice Seed Grants, which are made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
ACLS Digital Justice Seed Grants are designed to promote and provide resources for newly formulated projects that diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and/or contribute to public understanding of racial and social justice issues.
Fund for Innovation in Development to Reduce Global Poverty and Inequality
Deadline: Ongoing
Applications are now open for the Fund for Innovation in Development (FID) is a new initiative to support innovation that contributes to reducing global poverty and inequality.
FID enables innovators and researchers to test new ideas, build rigorous evidence of what works, and scale the highest-impact and most cost-effective solutions.
Bhumi Fellowship Cohort 2024 for India (Monthly Grant and Seed Fund)
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
Applications are now open for the Bhumi Fellowship Cohort 2024, a unique full time paid program based in Chennai.
Bhumi Fellowship, an initiative by Bhumi, is aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 – “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.”
Seed-Start Grants Program in Australia
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The Australian Government has announced the applications for Seed-Start Grants Program to provide early-stage startups with matched funding to help them commercialize an innovative product or service.
The Seed-Start program operates through the Government of South Australia’s Research and Innovation Fund (RIF) to provide financial support for early-stage, high-growth potential businesses.
Canada Council for the Arts: Seed Grants Program
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The Canada Council for the Arts is inviting applications for the Seed Grants Program component of the Strategic Innovation Fund to provide seed funding to kickstart small-scale innovation activities that explore and develop capacity, partnerships, and promising innovation ideas.
This component supports small-scale activities intended to explore and develop innovation projects that address systemic issues in the arts sector. Projects must respond to key strategic areas intended to rebuild a more resilient, sustainable, equitable, accessible, greener, healthier, and connected arts sector.
Startup India Seed Fund Scheme – India
Deadline: Ongoing
Applications are now open for the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme to provide seed funding to startups with an innovative idea to conduct proof of concept trials.
Startup India Seed Fund Scheme (SISFS) aims to provide financial assistance to startups for proof of concept, prototype development, product trials, market entry and commercialization.
Villgro Africa: Business Incubator Program in Kenya
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
Villgro Africa is a business incubator in Kenya looking for innovative solutions that address the lack of access to quality and affordable health services in low-income populations across Africa.
Villgro Africa is a business incubator in Kenya looking for innovative solutions that address the lack of access to quality and affordable health services in low-income populations across Africa.
Call for Advancing Indigenous Gender Equality Through Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (Canada)
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The Indigenous Innovation Initiative is pleased to launch the next phase of its program: Advancing Indigenous Gender Equality through Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship.
The Indigenous Innovation Initiative was started to address health, social, and economic challenges and spark community-led Indigenous innovation. Their vision is to improve all life through Indigenous innovation.
Applications open for SPIE Startup Challenge
Deadline: 16 October 2023
Applicants are now invited to submit applications for the SPIE Startup Challenge.
SPIE Startup Challenge is a chance for leaders of new optics and photonics companies to shine a light on their innovation, hard work, and ingenuity.
Apply now for Communications Accelerator Programme
Deadline: 31 October 2023
Cherish PR, announces the launch of its Communications Accelerator Programme to celebrate its 20th anniversary, which is now open for applications from scaleups from all over the globe.
The Communications Accelerator Programme will take the learnings and experiences from two decades of working with world-leading startups and pay it forward to the innovation of the future.
THRIVE APAC Accelerator Program
Deadline: 18-Nov-22
The THRIVE is seeking applications for its APAC Accelerator, a 12 week program that supports early-stage agrifood tech startups from across the value chain whose technologies drive us towards a more efficient, sustainable, and secure agriculture future.
Supporting companies across the agrifood value chain, the THRIVE APAC Accelerator places a strong emphasis on companies creating a sustainable future through innovation.
2023 Call for Proposals: Right Sharing of World Resources Grant Program – Kenya
Deadline: 30-Nov-23
Applications are now open for the Right Sharing of World Resources Grant Program.
RSWR is a Quaker organization supported primarily by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the United States.
Planning: Early Support Grant for Sustainable Affordable Housing Projects (Canada)
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) is accepting applications for Planning: Early Support Grant for Sustainable Affordable Housing Projects.
They provide planning grants to assist housing providers in the early stages of sustainable affordable housing development. This grant is intended to fund the development of deliverables required in applications for additional funding (e.g., GMF’s Sustainable Affordable Housing (SAH) study grant or the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s (CMHC) Seed Funding program) as you progress through the next stages of energy-efficient affordable housing projects.
Resiliency & Recovery Fund in India
Deadline: Ongoing
The Pollination Project is seeking applications for the Resiliency & Recovery Fund.
The Pollination Project’s global community of 4,000+ grassroots volunteer leaders in 120+ countries is comprised of individuals who have deep ties to their communities, experience organizing resources around a defined need, and the desire to serve their neighbors.
IdeaLab: Pre-accelerator Entrepreneurship Program (Lebanon)
Deadline: 20 October 2023
If you are a clever tech team of two or more and have a business idea in the fields of cleantech or agrifoodtech, then IdeaLab is your go-to program!
IdeaLab is a pre-accelerator entrepreneurship program to help turn your ideas or prototypes in these fields into viable businesses.
The Future is Fungi Award for Researchers and Startups
Deadline: 15 October 2023
Fungi hold the solution to many of the environmental challenges. With this award, they honor the cutting-edge research and innovations in the fungi field for the environmental solutions that the world needs.
NESCAN Hub’s Seed Funding in the UK
Deadline: 28-Feb-24
Are you ready to take action on climate change within your community, but unsure where or how to start? You might be in Right Place!
NESCAN Hub seed funding has returned for 2023. Small grants are available for community groups, organisations and individuals within Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire to set up projects aiming to mitigate or adapt to climate change, increase biodiversity and work towards a fairer, healthier, more sustainable future.
Call for Applications: Publicly Funded Intellectual Property or Technologies (South Africa)
Deadline: 2 October 2023
The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) invites applicants with technology solutions that have been publicly funded at a later stage of the innovation value chain based on Technology Readiness Level (TRL) progression that seek piloting at TRL 6-7 or/and market entry at TRL8.
The Innovation Fund is established by the Department of Science and Innovation to enhance SA’s capacity to commercialise technological innovations. The objectives of the Innovation Fund are to serve as an opportunity to de-risk investments through technology development and demonstration and to serve as a catalyst for co-investment and follow-on investment from industry and private sector sources (commercial funding).
Request for Applications: UArctic Entrepreneurship Fund
Deadline: 27 October 2023
The UArctic Entrepreneurship Fund is supporting the development of new services or products in the incubator stage that have a direct, beneficial impact to the Arctic environment or Arctic communities.
To truly solve the challenges facing the Arctic, and thus the world, they believe strongly in supporting local solutions and multiple avenues for innovation for new services and products.
Apply now for Techstars Payments Accelerator
Deadline: 4 October 2023
Submissions are now open for the Techstars Payments Accelerator Program that focuses on innovative fintech solutions addressing gaps across payments infrastructure throughout Latin America.
Techstars is looking for bold founders in the fintech space that recognize the massive opportunity across emerging markets, and who are already using or are interested in using blockchain to scale their technology across the following themes: digital wallets, infrastructure, transactions/ecommerce, credit/debt, digital identity, infrastructure as a service, and financial literacy.
Innovators for Bharat: Climate Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods (India)
Deadline: 11 October 2023
Innovators for Bharat: Climate Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods is a program to provide incubation support to startups to create pan-India impact on agricultural livelihoods and make smallholder farmers resilient to climate change.
The program aims to accelerate startups sustainably by providing them with equity seed funding, grant capital support, incubation support and ecosystem advocacy.
Grants to advance Journalism on Issues Impacting Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa
Deadline: Ongoing
The Pulitzer Center is seeking proposals to advance wide-reaching and relevant journalism on issues impacting communities in sub-Saharan Africa, including but not limited to water and sanitation, land degradation and coastal erosion, education, maternal health, and climate resilience.
They place special emphasis on projects that inform behavior and policies that improve the lives of the communities reported on, and they encourage local journalists to apply.
