[March 2025]
Looking for grants that offer flexible, unrestricted funding? Explore these six key opportunities covering diverse sectors like women’s rights, gender-based violence (GBV), and WASH. From open calls to prizes and funding programs, these grants are designed to support your projects with the freedom they need. Don’t miss out—apply today!
Submissions open for Creativity Pioneers Fund Program
Deadline: 7-Apr-25
The Creativity Pioneers Fund (CPF) catalyzes transformational social change by investing in, connecting, and championing cultural and creative organizations that advance bold and unconventional practices for building a more just, inclusive, and equitable world.
Funding Information
The Creativity Pioneers Fund provides selected organizations with an unrestricted grant of 5,000 euros to help cover general operational costs and any critical costs to successfully developing activities.
Eligibility Criteria
Support is exclusively granted to legally registered, non-profit organizations that are actively operating, with no restrictions on geographic origin.
For more information, visit Creativity Pioneers Fund.
Call for Applications: Innovative WASH Solutions
Deadline: 30-Apr-25
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub is looking for proven innovative WASH solutions with potential for accelerated scale.
Benefits
Catalytic funding: Access to an initial grant of approximately 150,000 USD in flexible funds to support evidence generation, feasibility studies, and market understanding and assessments.
Eligibility Criteria
- Be a Registered Entity: Apply with one lead entity as a registered company, university spin-off, NGO, UN organization or Government agency.
- Have Financial Viability: Availability of a detailed financial plan and projections for the next 12 months.
- Address WASH Hub Goals: Solution must clearly tackle at least one WASH Hub Problem Statement.
- Operates in UNICEF Countries: Has demonstrated the impact of the solution or plans to in at least UNICEF Programme Countries, with plans to expand.
For more information, visit UNICEF.
Call for LOIs: Mama Cash Resilience Fund
Deadline: 31-Mar-25
Applications are now open for the Resilience Fund to support feminist groups, collectives and initiatives that are founded, led, and/or run by people who belong to the communities whose rights they seek to advance.
Funding Information
The average grant size under the Resilience Fund is €35,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Work from a feminist, women’s, girls, trans rights and/or intersex rights perspective
- Self-led by the women, girls, trans people and/or intersex people they serve
- Promotion of women’s, girls’, trans people’s and/or intersex people’s human rights as primary mission
- Push for structural and fundamental change
- Focus on issues that are under-addressed and/or contested Mama Cash prioritises groups or initiatives that have an annual budget below 200,000 euros. Mama Cash does not prioritise providing financial support to larger groups, and very few of the grantee-partners have annual budgets over 200,000 euros.
For more information, visit Mama Cash.
Apply Now: Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize
Deadline: 15 May 2025
Nominations are now open for Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize for outstanding leaders who demonstrate the willingness and capacity to address the complexity of 21st-century challenges and whose work is global in aspiration or implication and is rooted in universal values.
Funding Information
Each winner will be celebrated by their peers, receive an unrestricted grant of $50,000, and be invited to join the Tällberg network of global leaders.
Eligibility Criteria
- Anyone can nominate a leader (except Prize jurors and candidates themselves).
- The Prize is open to leaders in all fields: business, politics, science, human rights, entrepreneurship, technology, arts, media, etc.
- Only individuals can be nominated (not organizations).
- No self-nominations.
- The working language for the nomination is English.
For more information, visit Tällberg Foundation.
Open Call: Funding Program to support Gender-based Violence Initiatives in India
Deadline: 20-Apr-25
J-PAL South Asia is launching a funding call to support individuals and organizations passionate about addressing the pervasive issue of sexual harassment and violence, as well as other forms of gender-based violence (GBV).
Funding Information
Selected awardees will receive: Flexible funding up to INR 50 lakhs to pilot and implement their new intervention ideas or support the implementation of existing solutions.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any institution, company, organisation or individual(s) passionate about addressing this problem and meeting the following criteria below are invited to send their best ideas:
- Geographical Scope: Suggested solutions must operate in India.
For more information, visit J-PAL.
Open Call: Creative Capital Award + State of the Art Prize (US)
Deadline: 3 April 2025
In celebration of its 25th Anniversary, Creative Capital expands its support of individual artists with the 2026 Open Call for the Creative Capital Award and the launch of the new State of the Art Prize.
Funding Information
- Creative Capital Award
- The Creative Capital Award provides unrestricted project grants of up to $50,000 to individual artists to create new work.
- State of the Art Prize
- The new State of the Art Prize provides unrestricted artist grants of $10,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- US citizen, permanent legal resident, O-1 visa holder, or Tribal ID holder
- At least 25 years old by application deadline
- Working artist(s) with at least 5 years of professional artistic practice within their chosen discipline
- Applicant may not be enrolled in a degree-granting program
- May not apply to the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant program in the same year
For more information, visit Creative Capital Foundation.