[July 2023]
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The Global Innovation Fund (GIF) has launched its Innovating for Climate Resilience fund in partnership with the Adaptation Research Alliance and the Global Resilience Partnership, with seed funding from the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office.
The Innovating for Climate Resilience fund invests, through grant, equity, and debt instruments, in innovations with the potential to scale and support the world’s poorest to build resilience and adaptation.
Seeding the Future Global Food System Challenge
Deadline: 1-Aug-23
The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) and the Seeding the Future Foundation are calling on all scientists, engineers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and multidisciplinary teams from non – governmental organizations (NGOs), non – profits, social enterprises, universities, research institutions as well as small and emerging for-profit enterprises to submit game changing innovations that will help transform the food system.
The goal of the Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge is to inspire and support innovative, diverse, and multidisciplinary teams to create game-changing innovations that will help transform the food system.
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.
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.
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.
Call for Startups: 2023 THRIVE Global Impact Challenge
Deadline: 28-Jul-23
Applications are now open for the THRIVE Global Impact Challenge, a global search for the most innovative startups who are advancing a more sustainable future for agriculture.
THRIVE is the #1 Agtech Accelerator and the most active agtech investor in the world. They are committed to advancing the future of food and agriculture through innovation, and they provide startups with investment, access to the corporate and farmer network, expert mentorship and advice, and phenomenal exposure through the THRIVE | Forbes Demo Day at the annual Forbes AgTech Summit.
UNICEF Request for EOIs: Open Source Technology Solutions for Children
Deadline: 28-Jul-23
The UNICEF Venture Fund is looking to make up to US$100K in equity-free investments to provide early-stage (seed) funding to for-profit start-ups developing frontier technology solutions that can positively impact the lives of the world’s most vulnerable children and youth. If your product is registered in one of UNICEF’s programme countries, is a working prototype, has demonstrated results, and is (or could be) open-source licensed, they encourage you to apply.
The Innovation Fund provides money, technical support and a network to help such companies grow. Funded projects will be connected to other similar early-stage projects in other countries, which should enable projects to develop faster and better.
UNWTO Global Startup Competition on Event Tourism: Mega Events and MICE Tourism
Deadline: 1-Sep-23
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is launching the global startup competition to source the most sustainable, innovative and disruptive business models to provide answers and smart solutions to the complex challenges Mega Events and MICE Tourism are facing.
One of the current priorities of UNWTO is to promote connections among the actors that form part of the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem in tourism as a means for the generation of employment and business opportunities, as well as for the sustainable development of the sector.
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.
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.
Open Call: Primate Conservation, Incorporated Grant Program
Deadline: 20-Sep-23
The Primate Conservation, Incorporated is accepting applications for its grant Program.
Priority will be given to projects that study, in their natural habitat, the least known and most endangered species. The involvement of citizens from the country in which the primates are found will be a plus. The intent is to provide support for original research that can be used to formulate and to implement conservation plans for the species studied.
Innovation Exchange Challenge – Solidification of Leachate Concentration
Deadline: 14-Jul-23
DCLM (operated by Veolia) is seeking solutions utilising innovative solidification agents that can deal with large and increasing volumes of concentrate.
This Innovation Exchange challenge, delivered by Innovate UK KTN through the Global Alliance Africa project, is supporting DCLM (operated by Veolia) to find economically viable ways to solidify the concentrate of their effluent treatment plant.
Applications open for Research Development Fellowships to reduce the burden of Disease in African Community
Deadline: 14-Sep-23
The Africa Research Excellence Fund, AREF, is pleased to launch the call for the AREF Research Development Fellowship Programme for 2023/24.
The aim of the Research Development Fellowship Programme is to provide opportunities for talented health researchers based in Africa, so that they can lead research that is responsive to its African settings and can contribute to reducing the burden of disease. It aims to develop emerging African scientists through developing their skills, experience, confidence and research outputs.
U.S. Mission to Indonesia: YSEALI Regional Workshop 2024
Deadline: 29-Jul-23
The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy Jakarta of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for a cooperative agreement to develop and implement a Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Regional Workshop on the theme of Sustainable and Inclusive Cultural Tourism in a Post-COVID World.
The six-day workshop (inclusive of arrival and departure days) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, will highlight how the cultural tourism sector can rebuild in a sustainable and inclusive way after COVID-19 disruptions to the tourism industry. The workshop will take place in July 2024.
RFAs: Nature Positive Business Models for Sustainable & Resilient Transformation in Central Africa
Deadline: 12-Jul-23
The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) is seeking to engage and invest in companies or projects with potential to scale-up and replicate nature-positive solutions that enable resilience and adaptation to climate change.
UNCDF builds partnerships with other UN organizations, as well as private and public sector actors, to achieve greater impact in development; specifically, by unlocking additional resources and strengthening financing mechanisms and systems contributing to transformation pathways, focusing on such development themes as green economy, digitalization, urbanization, inclusive economies, gender equality and women’s economic empowerment.
Call for Applications: Landecker Democracy Fellowship 2023/24
Deadline: 6-Aug-23
The Humanity in Action is accepting applications for the Landecker Democracy Fellowship for the 2023/24 cohort.
This year, Humanity in Action is looking for projects related to the theme of Democracy and the Politics of Memory.
IMPULSO JOVEN – Because Youth Matter Program in Latin America
Deadline: 17-Jul-23
UNESCO and Nestlé launched the initiative “Because Youth Matter” to provide young people with the resources and the skills they need to develop and carry forward innovative solutions to achieve positive social impact in their communities.
The project will begin in Latin America with a call for applications across the region. The end-goal is to scale-up the partnership to global level in the future.
Request for Proposals: 100K CLIMA Grant Competition
Deadline: 31-Jul-23
Partners of the Americas (POA) and the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the U.S. Department of State (WHA/DOS) invites higher education institutions (HEIs) from the United States and Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay to create partnerships to submit proposals for consideration in this grant competition offered by the 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund, Alliance for Climate Action (100K CLIMA).
This new 100K Strong CLIMA grant competition is generously supported by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs and the U.S. Embassy in Chile in partnership with CAF: Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) and Partners of the Americas.
Seed Funding available under SI Baltic Sea Neighbourhood Programme
Deadline: 20-Sep-23
Does your organisation want to start or expand cooperation that contributes to an economically, environmentally and socially sustainable development in the EU countries around the Baltic Sea and in the EU’s eastern neighbourhood? If yes, then apply for seed funding under the Swedish Institute (SI) Baltic Sea Neighbourhood Programme.
The SI Baltic Sea Neighbourhood Programme is a programme which provides funding to projects in which Swedish organisations work on cross-border challenges and opportunities together with organisations from the EU countries around the Baltic Sea and countries in the EU’s Eastern Partnership.
2023 Equity Initiative Fellowship for mid-career Professionals from Southeast Asia and China
Deadline: 31-Aug-23
Submissions are now open for the Equity Initiative Fellowship Program to advance fellows’ competency in leadership and health equity, and to inspire and deepen their commitment to advancing social justice in health. The Equity Initiative Fellowship, also known as the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity in Southeast Asia (AFHESEA), is a fully funded award designed for working professionals from Southeast Asia and China.
The Equity Initiative Fellowship is a lifelong journey that begins with an inspiring and rigorous Induction Year, followed by a longer-term practice-based commitment to health equity through collective leadership for social change. The Fellowship program experience goes beyond traditional academic coursework, through various modalities of experiential, peer, and blended online learning organized around two themes: Health Equity and Leadership.
Seed Funding for CVC’s Social Enterprise Initiative – Guyana and Suriname
Deadline: 15-Jul-23
The Caribbean Vulnerable Communities has launched the second call for proposals to support Community Based Organisations (CBOs) with established social enterprises.
CVC’s Social Enterprise Accelerator Initiative (SEA Change initiative) helps CBOs interested in learning more about social enterprise as a means of achieving a degree of self-sustainability as well as providing employment opportunities for community members.
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.”
GCERF Funding for Civil Society Organizations in Mauritania
Deadline: 9-Jul-23
The Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF), in collaboration with the G5 Sahel, is pleased to announce a call for expressions of interest of civil society organizations in Mauritania to become the primary recipient of funding from the G5 Sahel through GCERF ‘s core financing mechanism.
The Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF) and the G5 Sahel invite civil society organizations in Mauritania to apply for funding for prevention programs that implement preventive approaches to intolerance and violent extremism, create enabling environments for de-radicalization and support the preparation of coordinated communities to prevent intolerance and violent extremism and counter violent extremism Depending on the Mauritanian model.
Future of Health Grant Program to support Digital Health Startups (Switzerland)
Deadline: 30-Jul-23
The Future of Health Grant Program will help digital health startups boost their innovation by providing them with the resources and funding they need to progress. The program is designed to be flexible, so that startups can receive the funding they need as they progress through the different stages of their development. This will allow them to retain control of their companies and continue to innovate and grow without diluting their ownership.
The program is a great opportunity for digital health startups to get the funding they need to boost their innovation and growth.
Grooming Endowment Trust Accelerated Programme (Nigeria)
Deadline: 5-Aug-23
The GET Accelerated programme, a three-month hybrid startup acceleration program designed to support early-stage young entrepreneurs to develop the skills needed to transform their solutions, gain traction and reach customers. During the acceleration program, three focal areas will be explored: Business models, Strategic partnerships and Investment readiness.
The Grooming Endowment Trust is focused on supporting startup founders to build and scale solutions that leverage innovation and technology in solving urgent problems in Nigeria. Core focus areas for this cohort include financial services, healthcare, education, agriculture, digital (economy) infrastructure, social impact, media, mobility/Logistics and commerce (e-commerce or social commerce).
Call for Proposals: Young Changemaker Grants Programme in the UK
Deadline: 31-Aug-23
If you have a big idea that addresses a social need in your community, or a business idea that you need help to launch then apply for the Young Changemaker Grants programme powered by Verizon through the Unloc Changemaker Alliance.
These grants are designed to give you a chance to test your idea and get it off the ground.
Call for Submissions: Rebel Fund in the US
Deadline: 14-Jul-23
The Rosa Rebellion invites project proposals rooted in creative activism from women of color living in the United States.
The Rebel Fund is a newly formed 501(c)(3) that equips women of color, who are engaged in creative activism, with financial capital and a decolonizing community space. In doing so, they strive to nourish imagination and activate liberated futures where people of color thrive on the own terms and according to the own values.
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.
Kent Richard Hofmann Foundation Grant Program – United States
Deadline: 5-Aug-23
Applicants are now invited to submit their applications for the Kent Richard Hofmann Foundation Grant Program.
The Kent Richard Hofmann Foundation is a private foundation dedicated to the fight against HIV and AIDS. Grants are made to support developing or established programs, with emphasis on direct benefit to clients or target audiences.
Antler India Fellowship[$10,000 Grant] for Student-run Startups in India
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
Antler India Fellowship is now open for applications. Take your startup to the next level with an equity-free $10,000 grant, one-on-one mentorship by India’s best founders and your first institutional capital of $125,000.
Antler India Fellowship helps India’s brightest students build audacious companies of tomorrow. Besides providing the initial grant, they work with you in a highly personalized manner to help with various aspects of company building. This culminates into an opportunity for you to pitch and raise an institutional round with them.
Frances R. Dewing Foundation Grant Program (United States)
Deadline: 1-Oct-23
The Frances R. Dewing Foundation is inviting applications for its grant program to support innovative approaches to the education of young children in the United States.
The Frances R. Dewing Foundation supports innovation in early childhood education. Emphasis is placed on new, untried or unusual projects and programs that if successful could have a snowball or ripple effect benefiting the larger educational or local community. Generally such projects and programs need seed money to develop and try new educational methods and tools.
Dream Venture Masterclasses Program in Australia
Deadline: 12-Jul-23
Are you a first nation’s entrepreneur want to kickstart your dream venture? If, yes then apply for the Dream Venture Masterclasses and Make your business dreams reality.
The Dream Venture Masterclasses are dedicated to equipping First Nations Australians with the connections, capabilities and access to capital to become investor-ready.
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.
Resiliency & Recovery Fund in India
Deadline: Ongoing
The Pollination Project is seeking applications for the Resiliency & Recovery Fund.
At this time, grants for the Resilience and Recovery Fund are only available for projects that are taking place in India. All applications for projects that are not located in India will not be considered for grant funding.
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.
Grants of Up to $10,000 available under Experimentation Funding Program (Canada)
Deadline: 29-Sep-2023
Rozsa Foundation is inviting applications for the Experimentation Funding Program to support organizations as they undertake learning-focused experiments that explore new business strategies or modes of program delivery, testing hypotheses that carry the potential for transformational impact.
Experimentation funding provides seed funds for the initial stages of a new test or experiment that seeks to address and provide learning about a clearly identified challenge or opportunity facing the organization.
Children’s Mental Health Innovation Awards – US
Deadline: 14-Jul-23
Entries are now open for the Children’s Mental Health Innovation Awards to help fill the funding gap in the under-resourced children’s mental health sector and provide runway for game-changing ideas.
The Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children’s Mental Health Innovation Awards initiative aims to identify and fund mental healthcare solutions for children and young adults across the U.S. This program specifically addresses the lack of both private and public investment in children’s mental health and offers effective ways to connect innovative ideas with capital through seed funding, networking and capacity building opportunities.
Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants Program – US and Canada
Deadline: 12-Jul-23
BWF is seeking applications for its Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants Program.
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between scholars working in largely disconnected fields who might together change the course of climate change’s impact on human health.
U.S. Mission to India’s Academy for Women Entrepreneurs 4.0
Deadline: 16-Jul-23
The U.S. Embassy in India announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a program to train a cohort of women entrepreneurs from the northeastern states of Mizoram and Tripura.
This funding opportunity seeks to build on the previous three editions of the Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) program to train a cohort of 30 women entrepreneurs from Mizoram and Tripura, through the fourth edition, and continue to build on the already existing partnerships with the private sector and government agencies in these states.
Environment and Nature Fund 2023 in Ireland
Deadline: 28-Jul-23
The Community Foundation Ireland is inviting community groups and local charities to apply for grants to engage with expert consultants such as VOICE Ireland and develop a Community Circular Economy Action Plan (CCEAP) for their local area.
Priority will be given to community groups and charities that have a higher number of people completing the training course and have a history of sustainability initiatives in their areas.
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 supports income-generating, self-employment projects for poor women who are members of a self-help group. The project must include a revolving loan component. They believe that small scale income-generating projects offer a means of establishing self-sufficiency to very poor people. By requiring that the project include a revolving loan program, they can multiple the impact of the grant as the funds are revolved to different women within the community.
Grants to improve the Welfare of Young Children in the United States
Deadline: 29-Sep-23
The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood is offering grants to support research and development projects that appear likely to improve the welfare of young children, from infancy through 7 years, in the United States.
Grants are only made if a successful project outcome will likely be of significant interest to other professionals, within the grantee’s field of endeavor, and would have a direct benefit and potential national application.
Call for Proposals: Entrepreneur in Residence Program (India)
Deadline: 31-Jul-23
The ITM Pravartak Technologies Foundation is accepting proposals for the Entrepreneur in Residence Program to inspire the best talents and provide opportunities to create new startups.
This program focuses on the stage before a company is incorporated. Pravartak will be seeding the entrepreneur with an innovative idea in Cyber-physical systems for a limited period and provide them with an opportunity to enhance an idea towards forming a prototype. The maximum period for EIR is one year.