Do not miss these global grant opportunities ending in the month of August and September!
UNCTAD Youth Forum
Deadline: 31 August 2021
Applications are now open for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Youth Forum to prepare a Youth Declaration that will be officially submitted to governments at the UNCTAD15 ministerial Conference. The world stands at a critical point, with its inequalities in sharp focus as the COVID-19 pandemic and its socio-economic impact continues to increase unresolved challenges…[more]
Call for Proposals for ERC Advanced Grant
Deadline: 31 August 2021
European Commission is calling for proposals for European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they have already established research leaders with a recognized track record of research achievements…[more]
Submit Applications for 2021 RISE Fellowship
Deadline: 31 August 2021
RISE by Sundara’s fellowship supports early-stage female entrepreneurs (or female-led NGOs) working to resolve critical water, sanitation or hygiene issues in emerging economies. Through the fellowship, successful applications will receive seed-funding, mentorship and business resources for a year…[more]
British Council Researcher Connect programme
Deadline: 24 August 2021
The British Council is inviting requests for proposals from trainers with international experience in online training to deliver the Researcher Connect programme that aims to enhance the productivity of individual researchers and, in turn, provide client universities and research institutions with a competitive advantage in the fast moving international research environment…[more]
THRIVE Global Initiative LATAM Challenge
Deadline: 31 August 2021
Applications are now open for the THRIVE Global Initiative LATAM Challenge to solve problems in the LATAM agrifood industry, accelerates the development of the ecosystem, and selects the best startups and scaleups for investment and global recognition…[more]
Apply Now for Lead2030 Challenge
Deadline: 30 August 2021
Applications are now open to support the Lead2030 Challenge for SDG4 for the third year. Working together, they can accelerate innovative youth-led solutions to achieve inclusive, equitable, and quality education for all. Education is a cornerstone of sustainable development – it empowers and uplifts individuals, nations, and society. However, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted students’ education and learning worldwide…[more]
GEF-7 Non-Grant Instrument Program
Deadline: 26 August 2021
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) invites GEF Partner Agencies to submit proposals and investment opportunities under the Non-Grant Instrument Program (the GEF-7 “NGI Program”). Since 2008, the GEF and its Partner Agencies have successfully used a wide array of non-grant instruments such as debt, equity and guarantees to attract private sector investment and deliver global environmental benefits beyond business as usual…[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]
Call for Applications for Digital Freedom Fund
Deadline: 30 August 2021
The Digital Freedom Fund (DFF) supports strategic litigation on digital rights in Europe that contributes to advancing human rights in the digital context…[more]
Prince Claus Mentorship Awards
Deadline: 26 August 2021
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. Artists and cultural practitioners across the world are setting up initiatives and rethinking responses to environmental change and the climate crisis…[more]
L’Oréal-UNESCO Young Talents for Women in Science Program
Deadline: 31 August 2021
Applications are now open for the L’Oréal-UNESCO Young Talents for Women in Science Program to support the involvement of young women in scientific research. This program identifies and rewards brilliant young women researchers in life and environmental sciences, material sciences, mathematics, computer and information sciences, engineering sciences and technology…[more]
Submit Proposals for Welfare and Ecology of Juvenile Wild Animals
Deadline: 29 August 2021
The Wild Animal Initiative is pleased to solicit proposals for research on the welfare, ecology, and everyday experiences of juvenile wild animals. Relevant projects might include studies that extend captive animal welfare assessment techniques to juvenile wild animals, or those that demonstrate how ecological concepts can relate to wild animal health and wellbeing…[more]
Professional Development Language Grant
Deadline: 31 August 2021
The Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe is seeking applications for its Professional Development Language Grant. Language grants are available to Jewish heritage professionals for online courses in Hebrew or any Jewish language…[more]
Nominations Open for the ITU Digital World 2021 Awards
Deadline: 3 September 2021
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has opened applications for its annual ITU Digital World SME Awards to promote digital innovation by small- and medium-sized enterprises around the world. The Awards, now in their seventh edition, aim to hone SME pitching skills, showcase sustainable solutions, help make key connections, foster investment, and provide valuable United Nations recognition…[more]
Entries Open for 2022 Future For Nature Awards!
Deadline: 1 September 2021
Are you a young (between 18 to 35 years old) and dedicated nature conservationist committed to protecting species of wild animals and plants? Do you combine passion with action to create concrete results in nature conservation? Are you the future for nature? If yes, then 2022 Future For Nature Awards is for you! The Future For Nature (FFN) Award is a prestigious international award that celebrates tangible achievements in protecting wild animal and plant species…[more]
Amnesty International offering grants to protect Child and Women Rights
Deadline: 1 September 2021
Nominations are now open for the Ginetta Sagan Award to recognize and assist women who are working to protect the liberty and lives of women and children in areas where human rights violations are widespread. The purpose of the Ginetta Sagan Fund of Amnesty International USA is to support courageous women human rights defenders who are working in dangerous contexts to further the rights of women and children. The creation of the Ginetta Sagan Fund emphasizes that more human rights work must be done by and for women…[more]
2021 GCSP Prize for Innovation in Global Security
Deadline: 23 September 2021
Nominations are now open for the 2021 Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP) Prize for Innovation in Global Security to recognise deserving individuals or organisations that have an innovative approach to addressing international security challenges. The prize is designed to reach across all relevant disciplines and fields. It is intended to encourage and recognise excellence in contributing to new approaches to enhancing sustainable global security…[more]
King Bhumibol World Soil Day Award
Deadline: 10 September 2021
Nominations are now open for the King Bhumibol World Soil Day Award to encourage organizers of WSD events at all levels to facilitate challenging and outstanding celebrations around the globe. The 6th GSP Plenary Assembly endorsed the establishment of the annual King Bhumibol World Soil Day Award (WSDA), as a recognition tool for individuals and/or institutions that have made an effort to organize successful celebrations…[more]
Agrobiodiversity Innovation Challenge 2021
Deadline: 30 September 2021
Are you an innovator driven by the interest in solving challenges in the agri-food sector that contribute to mainstreaming agrobiodiversity solutions in conservation, production, and consumption? If yes, submit your application! The Congress encourages innovation by recognizing ideas, best-practices, services, and products that could be made available to farmers, consumers and food companies to increase production effectiveness, competitiveness and resilience while conserving agrobiodiversity…[more]
Challenge to achieve Universal Access to Equitable Sanitation and Hygiene
Deadline: 23 September 2021
The One Young World is seeking applications for the Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 6 to Achieve Universal Access to Equitable Sanitation and Hygiene. The importance of sanitation and hygiene obviously transcends time and geography—but even where this is explicitly recognized in policy, the needs of hundreds of millions of global citizens remains unmet. The proportion of the global population using at least a basic sanitation service increased from 59% in 2000 to 68% in 2015…[more]
Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 2
Deadline: 23 September 2021
Applications are now open for the Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 2 to support the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by working to eradicate the burden of preventable disease, improving infant and child nutrition (particularly during the first 1000 days), and helping the world live more sustainably within its planetary boundaries…[more]
Nominations Open for the EURORDIS Black Pearl Awards
Deadline: 10 September 2021
Nominations are now open for the EURORDIS Black Pearl Awards that are presented to individuals, organisations, and companies who dedicate their lives to making a difference for the rare disease community. The 12 award categories recognise the outstanding efforts of individuals, organisations, companies, researchers, scientists, media, and policy makers in bringing about change to improve the lives of the 30 million people in Europe and 300 million worldwide living with a rare disease…[more]
John Z. Duling Grant Program
Deadline: 15 September 2021
The Tree Research and Education Endowment Fund (TREE Fund) is inviting proposals for the John Z. Duling Grant Program to provide start-up or seed funding to support innovative research and technology transfer projects that have the potential of benefiting the everyday work of arborists…[more]
Jack Kimmel International Grant Program
Deadline: 15 September 2021
The Tree Research and Education Endowment Fund (TREE Fund) is offering Jack Kimmel International Grant Program to provide much needed funding to arboriculture and urban forestry researchers all over the world…[more]
Safe Arborist Techniques Fund Grant Program
Deadline: 15 September 2021
The Safe Arborist Techniques Fund (SATF) is a joint program of Tree Research and Education Endowment Fund (TREE Fund) and International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) to support research and development into the techniques and equipment that arborists use in climbing, rigging, and working on trees, and the means of identifying potential hazards, to provide a safer working environment…[more]
McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism
Deadline: 30 September 2021
Are you a journalist with a great idea for a story that “Follows the Money,” but no funds to get it done? The McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism would like to hear from you. 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]
The Froebel Trust’s Open Call for Research Grant scheme
Deadline: 23 September 2021
The fund is designed to provide seed corn grants for individual researchers or collaborative research partnerships and networks to develop innovative studies that will ultimately lead to larger projects. Seed corn projects should still work towards tangible outcomes and impacts that support the Froebel Trust’s charitable objects…[more]
Gupta Family Foundation’s Grant to empower Individuals Disadvantaged by Poverty or Disability
Deadline: 30 September 2021
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]
Nominations Open for the Young Journalist Award
Deadline: 10 September 2021
Thomson Foundation are excited to announce the return of the prestigious Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award where young journalists, their work and their voices are at the centre, and where journalism’s power to enact meaningful change is as present as ever. The Young Journalist Award – in partnership with the UK Foreign Press Association – is Thomson Foundation’s annual journalism competition dedicated to finding and inspiring ambitious journalists from across the globe…[more]
Tree and Soil Research Fund Grant Program
Deadline: 15 September 2021
The Tree Research and Education Endowment Fund (TREE Fund) Board of Trustees is launching the new Tree and Soil Research Grant Program, made possible by a permanently restricted endowment fund supporting areas of research of interest to the landscape architecture community with special focus in the area of trees and the soils that support them…[more]
Dream Building Fund powered by GSD
Deadline: 29 September 2021
The Dream Building Fund powered by Global Sports Development (GSD) is a biennial call for projects aiming to support initiatives that solve problems within their communities. The ITTF Foundation and its partner The Foundation of Global Sports Development (GSD) provide financial and knowledge support to change makers, that wish to use table tennis as a tool to improve an aspect of human welfare in their local reality…[more]
2021 Building Bridges Initiative Grant Program
Deadline: 15 September 2021
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, and other professionals committed to maximizing value/use of the urban forest resource…[more]
Small Research Grants on Education Program
Deadline: 1 September 2021
Applications are invited for the Spencer Foundation’s Small Research Grants on Education Program to support education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived. Eligible investigators may also request additional supplemental funds for a course release…[more]
GNI Startups Lab Europe
Deadline: 20 September 2021
Applications are now open for the Google News Initiative (GNI) Startups Lab Europe to support high-quality reporting for local communities, single-topic audiences, and/or previously underserved communities. The GNI Startups Lab Europe aims to help journalistic startups better understand their audiences, create higher quality content (text, audio and/or video) and navigate the pitfalls of monetisation…[more]
Call for proposals for Small Grants
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]
Grants Supporting Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Deadline: 29 August 2021
PFAN is now accepting applications from projects and businesses in low- and middle-income countries…[more]
Open Call for EuroMed Capital for Dialogue Award
Deadline: 10 September 2021
The Anna Lindh Foundation has opened applications for the EuroMed Capital for Dialogue Award to promote knowledge, mutual respect and exchange between the peoples of the region, in the framework of the EuroMed Partnership…[more]
COALAR Grants to Enhance & Strengthen links between Australia and Latin America
Deadline: 10 September 2021
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is pleased to announce Council on Australia Latin America Relations grant that aims to enhanced and strengthened links between Australia and Latin America in the priority areas of business, education, sustainability, tourism and cultural promotion…[more]
SGA LIFE Operating Grants
Deadline: 28 September 2021
The European Commission (EC) is pleased to launch a call for proposals for the Specific Operating Grant Agreements (SGAs) LIFE Operating Grants. LIFE Specific Operating Grant Agreements will only be concluded with organisations that have successfully signed a LIFE 2021 Operating Grant Framework Partnership Agreements (FPA OG)…[more]
Expression of Interest for Landscape Restoration Grant
Deadline: 23 September 2021
The Endangered Landscapes Programme (ELP) is inviting expressions of interest from organisations and partnerships for the for Landscape Restoration Grant…[more]
Submit Applications for Ecologists in Africa
Deadline: 10 September 2021
The British Ecological Society has announced the applications for Ecologists in Africa to provide support for ecologists in Africa to carry out innovative ecological research…[more]
Open Call – Civil Society Action for Intercultural Cities and Learning
Deadline: 10 September 2021
Applications are now open for the Civil Society action for Intercultural Cities and Learning. Both National Network and Cross-Network Activities will aim to capitalise on Network members’ knowledge and experience in addressing challenges related to intercultural dialogue at the local level with…[more]
USAID: Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Soybean Value Chain Research Program
Deadline: 17 September 2021
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications for a five year Leader with Associates cooperative agreement from qualified entities to implement the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Soybean Value Chain Research program…[more]
CoAct Open Calls on Gender Equality
Deadline: 30 September 2021
CoAct is launching a call for proposals, inviting civil society initiatives to apply for our cascading grants to conduct Citizen Social Science research on the topic of Gender Equality. A maximum of four (4) applicants will be selected across three (3) different open calls. Applications from a broad range of backgrounds are welcome, including feminist, LGTBQ+, none-binary and critical masculinity perspectives…[more]
