[April 2023]
In this article, we take a look at such donors that are offering funding opportunities that have no deadlines and are open for applications all year round.
Pulitzer Center’s Gender Equality Grants Program
The Pulitzer Center is inviting applications for the Gender Equality Grants Program. It is designed to help journalists take to a new level the reporting on issues related to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls…[more]
Global Impact Grant Program for NGOs serving Underserved Communities
Cisco Global Impact Cash Grants are available for nonprofits and NGOs that address a significant social problem in the area of access to education, economic empowerment, and critical human needs…[more]
Catalyst Fund inviting Early-stage Ideas or Projects addressing Global Challenges
The Roddenberry Foundation is accepting proposals for the Catalyst Fund from anyone, anywhere in the world who has an early-stage idea or project that addresses pressing global challenges…[more]
Call for Proposals: Innovating for Climate Resilience Fund
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…[more]
Rising Tide Foundation launches Call for Proposals “Freedom in Practice”
Rising Tide Foundation’s mission is to promote freedom to improve quality of life everywhere. The foundation supports projects that enhance freedom and prosperity in society…[more]
City Climate Finance Gap Fund
The City Climate Finance Gap Fund is now open for applications to support cities with early-stage technical assistance for low carbon and climate resilient urbanization plans and projects…[more]
Pulitzer Center inviting Projects on Labor & Climate Issues under Work/Environment Reporting Initiative
The Pulitzer Center, a nonprofit organization that supports independent global journalism, is now accepting applications for its Your Work/Environment Initiative- a new reporting initiative focused on climate change and its effects on workers and work…[more]
Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists
The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) has announced a call for proposals for the Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists to promote the work and advancing the role of women in the news media across the globe is critical to transparency and a diversity of voices…[more]
Waitt Foundation: Rapid Ocean Conservation (ROC) Small Grants Program
The Waitt Foundation’s is currently seeking applications for its Rapid Ocean Conservation (ROC) small grants program to strengthen and expand marine protected areas, and to promote sustainable fisheries…[more]
Fruit Tree Planting Foundation: Orchard Grant Program
The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation (FTPF) is seeking applications for its Orchard Grant Program…[more]
Explorers Club Discovery Expeditions Grants Program
The Explorers Club is excited to announce a new grant program in partnership with Discovery, Inc…[more]
Microsoft announces Climate Innovation Fund
Microsoft is pleased to announce an open call for the Climate Innovation Fund to accelerate technology development and deployment of new climate innovations through equity and debt capital…[more]
Global Reporting Grants Program
Applications are now open for the Pulitzer Center’s Global Reporting Grants Program to support in-depth, high-impact reporting on critical issues that are often overlooked in the media, from global health to climate change…[more]
An Opportunity to pitch your Company to The Global Entrepreneurship Centre
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The Global Entrepreneurship Centre (GEC)is pleased to launch a call for applications to support transformative companies that focus on Sustainable Technologies (SusTech) for achieving circularity, the global climate targets of the Paris Accord and the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations…[more]
Smurfit Kappa Foundation Grant Program
If you are a registered charity/not-for-profit working in a community and support projects that positively impact the lives of underprivileged people in the communities where Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG) has a presence, then apply for the Smurfit Kappa Foundation Grant Program…[more]
[2024 Edition] Food Planet Prize – Nominate Now!
Do you have an idea that could solve the dilemma of feeding a growing population on a warming planet? Do you know of an innovation that has the potential to sustainably transform the food system? Give it a chance to win the world’s biggest environmental Prize and nominate for the Food Planet Prize…[more]
Fund for Innovation in Development to Reduce Global Poverty and Inequality
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…[more]
OPEC Fund for International Development
Applications are now open for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Fund for International Development to provide financial assistance to developing countries, particularly low-income countries, in support of their economic and social development efforts…[more]
Call for Proposals: Best Practice Pandemic Governance and Civic Society Collaboration
The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) seeks individuals or organizations to conduct research assessing examples of pandemic governance best practices with respect to civic freedoms and civil society collaboration…[more]
ICNL Call for Grant Proposals: Up to $45,000 USD in Funding
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) is pleased to invite proposals for grants as part of its ongoing project to safeguard civic freedoms and address democratic backsliding that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic…[more]
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award
Would you like to nominate an international researcher from abroad who completed their doctorate less than 18 years ago for a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award? If you are a recognised academic at a research institution in Germany, you can submit nomination for the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award…[more]
Ettijahat announces Art Lives Initiative Programme
Ettijahat – Independent Culture is pleased to announce a new call for applications within the Art Lives Initiative for the year 2021, with the aim of providing support in covering the cost of health services for cultural practitioners and artists who live in fragile conditions…[more]
Open Call for Black Founder Startup Grant
SoGal is inviting applications for Black Founder Startup Grant to Support Black Women & Black Non- Binary Founders…[more]
Emergency Fund to support Environmental Defenders throughout Africa
Applications are now open for the ‘Emergency Fund‘ to promote respect for and enhance the protection of African Environmental Defenders working on land and environmental issues, by providing urgent emergency support to defenders throughout Africa…[more]
Second Call: EL*C Emergency Grants for Lesbian Groups
EuroCentralAsian Lesbian* Community is pleased to announce the 2nd call for EL*C Emergency Grants for Lesbian Groups that are in urgent need of financial support due to the Covid-19 crisis…[more]
Apply for funding through the Flexible Response Mechanism
The New Democracy Fund has launched the applications for the Flexible Response Mechanism to support civil society organisations in the Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine – in a flexible and fast way in a highly unpredictable and turbulent environment…[more]
Yesod Europe’s Jewish Learning Fund
The Yesod Europe is inviting applications for the Jewish Learning Fund to support Jewish community professionals and educators in Europe in gaining knowledge and skills to feel confident expressing Jewish language and values throughout their community work…[more]
UN Women Caribbean Regional Spotlight Initiative: Small Grant
UN Women has announced the proposals for Caribbean Spotlight Initiative Small Grants to Scale-up Technical Substantive Capacity of Caribbean CSOs…[more]
Call for Proposals: Ubumbano Solidarity Action
The ACT UBUMBANO is calling for proposals for Ubumbano Solidarity Action, a platform to facilitate connection of people and organisations, and to provide some financial support to enable those connections and actions to take place. Proposals are again invited from all their partners in the region…[more]
Call for Fellowships: Research into Online Gender-Based Harassment
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
Do you want to take an active role in combating coordinated online abuse that targets African women journalists, election candidates or other human rights defenders? Code for Africa (CfA) in partnership with Jigsaw, is offering research grants and technical support for evidence-driven analysis into how malign actors coordinate harassment and complaints against African women journalists and fact-checkers across 21 African countries…[more]
Amazon Rainforest Journalism Fund
The Pulitzer Center invites journalists who are working on projects related to tropical rainforests to submit a proposal to the Rainforest Journalism Fund…[more]
Congo Basin Rainforest Journalism Fund
The Pulitzer Center invites journalists who are working on projects related to tropical rainforests to submit a proposal to the Congo Basin Rainforest Journalism Fund (RJF)…[more]
UN Women: Small Grants to Scale-up Technical Substantive Capacity of Caribbean CSOs (Up to USD 30,000 per organisation)
UN Women’s Small Grants are designed to support institutional strengthening and capacity-building, especially for smaller organisations. This call specifically supports CSOs working in the area of family violence, especially responding to the needs of women and girl survive ors as well those who face discrimination or marginalisation…[more]
Southeast Asia Rainforest Journalism Fund
Applications for the Pulitzer Center’s Southeast Asia Rainforest Journalism Fund are now open to support and build the capacity of local, regional, and international journalists reporting on issues related to tropical rainforests…[more]
Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects in Rwanda
The Government of Japan has announced Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP) in order to respond to diverse development needs in developing countries…[more]
Friends of Liberia inviting Applications for Small Grants Program
Friends of Liberia (FOL) invites applications for small grants of up to $3000 supporting programs in the areas of General Education, Health Education, and Psychosocial Support Systems for Vulnerable Groups…[more]
Focused Grant Program in the Philippines
The Forest Foundation Philippines is currently inviting applications for the Focused Grant Program to support projects that foster the protection, conservation, and sustainable management of forests outside the Foundation’s focal landscapes…[more]
Teach For Cambodia’s 2022 Fellowship Program
Apply now for Teach For Cambodia’s 2022 Fellowship Program, a 2-year full-time, fully-funded leadership development program for outstanding Cambodians to unleash their professional and leadership potential while committing to full-time teaching in the classroom…[more]
Call for Applications from Ukraine: Journalists-in-Residence Programme in Kosovo
The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) has opened the call for applications from Ukraine for the Journalists-in-Residence Kosovo (JiR Kosovo) Programme…[more]
Call for Advancing Indigenous Gender Equality Through Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (Canada)
The Indigenous Innovation Initiative is pleased to launch the next phase of its program: Advancing Indigenous Gender Equality through Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship…[more]
Resiliency & Recovery Fund in India
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…[more]
U.S. Embassy in the Netherlands: Small Grants Program
The U.S. Embassy in The Hague has announced applications for Small Grant Program that advance U.S. foreign policy objectives, purpose of grants are intended for local representatives of civil society, including non-governmental organizations and universities (non-profit organizations only)…[more]
Small Grants Program in Suriname
The U.S. Embassy Paramaribo Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the U.S. Department of State is accepting applications for the Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program…[more]
Call for Proposals for Granting Financial Aid in Morocco
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria through the Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in Rabat announces a procedure for acceptance and selection of proposals for projects that will be implemented with grants within the official development assistance of the Republic of Bulgaria with an initial implementation period in 2023…[more]
Villgro Africa: Business Incubator Program in Kenya
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…[more]
Australia: Small Sponsorships Program
The City of Unley is seeking applications for its Small Sponsorships Program to assist eligible organizations and individuals with projects, programs, or activities that benefit the residents of the City of Unley…[more]
Expression of Interest: Participating in Online Digital Trainings (Macedonia)
Are you a company that has a vision and follows the trends imposed by the new digital age? Do you need new employees or collaborators that you can “create” and train according to your needs? Need a network administrator to connect your company network devices? Or do you need a digital marketing person? Maybe you want to develop in the field of e-commerce or want to have your own e-store? Or would you like to have a person available to analyze data according to your needs? Maybe you need some adaptive web solutions or mobile apps? If yes, so finally you have an opportunity to find a young unemployed person under the age of 34 and give him the chance to get new digital skills and together become part of the winning team…[more]
Call for Expressions of Interest: UNIDO/NCPC (South Africa)
UNIDO/NCPC-SA call to companies, project developers, technology and service providers to submit Expressions of Interest for support for energy-water nexus projects in South Africa…[more]
Public Call for Employers to Participate in Online Digital Trainings in North Macedonia
Are you a company that has a vision and follows the trends imposed by the new digital age? Do you need new people in your company, interns or current associates that you can train according to your needs? You finally have the opportunity to choose a person and give them a chance to acquire new digital skills. UNDP offers you an extraordinary opportunity for 70% co-financing of online digital trainings that are in demand in the market and can help you as a new impetus for the development of your company…[more]
UN Women Spotlight Initiative: Call for Small Grant Proposals (Trinidad and Tobago)
UN Women is offering a small grant to engage in social accountability for legislation and the conduct of service providers to specific at-risk groups, to scale up services and programmes, to increase and enhance coordinated advocacy, and to strengthen institutional capacity related to Family Violence and Ending Violence Against Women and Girls…[more]
Open Call: Relief, Resilience, Recovery Program in Ukraine
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
In response to the security challenges and humanitarian crisis caused by Russia’s war against Ukraine, the German Marshall Fund (GMF) of the United States and its Ukraine: Relief, Resilience, Recovery program is launching a new call for project proposals for civil society organizations and independent media from Ukraine…[more]
Incubation Program in India: Calling All Early-stage Woman Social Entrepreneurs
Are you solving important problems in innovative and impactful ways? Are you looking for incubation support to build and scale your organisation? If you are an early-stage Woman entrepreneur – founder of a Social Enterprise, UnLtd India has opened applications for its Feb’23 cohort to support Women Social Entrepreneurs under its incubation program…[more]
The Robertson Trust: Large Grants in the United Kingdom
Applications are now open for the Robertson Trust Large Grants to address poverty and trauma in Scotland…[more]
Reeds Grassroots Fund in the United Kingdom
The Community Foundation is seeking applications for Reeds Grassroots Fund to support projects in Tyne and Wear and Northumberland that aim to improve mental health, and tackle disadvantage and inequalities that limit life chances, especially for children and for disadvantaged communities…[more]
UN Women Spotlight Initiative Guyana Call for Small Grants
UN Women is offering small grant to engage on social accountability for legislation and the conduct of service providers to specific at risk groups including at-risk youth and network building among CSOs to support social justice activism on GBV and Family Violence…[more]
Quick Response Funding in Australia
The City of Ipswich is currently seeking applications for its Quick Response Funding to support community organisations delivering small community projects that address local needs and achieve community development outcomes…[more]
Community First Prime Opportunities Fund in the UK
The Two Ridings Community Foundation is offering Community First Prime Opportunities Fund to support voluntary organisations, community groups, small charities and other types of not for profit organisation based in and/or serving the communities in the area served by City of York council and Selby District council…[more]
Canada: Calgary Foundation Stepping Stones Grants
The Calgary Foundation is inviting applications for the Stepping Stones Grants to encourage active citizenship by helping grassroots community groups undertake small creative projects that build a sense of inclusive belonging in local communities…[more]
The Energia Derrysallagh Community Benefit Fund in Ireland
Energia has launched a Community Benefit Fund to support community and voluntary groups operating within a 5 km radius of its Derrysallagh wind farm on the border of Counties Sligo, Roscommon and Leitrim…[more]
Philippines: Forest Landscape Grant Program
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The Forest Foundation Philippines is seeking applications for the Forest Landscape Grant Program to support projects that foster the protection and sustainable management of forests in the focal landscapes: Sierra Madre, Palawan, Samar and Leyte, and Bukidnon and Misamis Oriental…[more]
Focused Grant Program in Philippines
Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
The Forest Foundation Philippines is currently inviting applications for the Focused Grant Program to support projects that foster the protection, conservation, and sustainable management of forests outside the Foundation’s focal landscapes…[more]
UN Women Spotlight Initiative Guyana Call for Small Grants
UN Women is offering small grant to engage on social accountability for legislation and the conduct of service providers to specific at risk groups including at-risk youth and network building among CSOs to support social justice activism on GBV and Family Violence…[more]
UN Women announces Small Grants for CSOs in Jamaica
Grant proposals are solicited to support the expansion of the technical substantive capacity of women’s organizations on issues of FV in order to scale up existing successful initiatives currently being implemented by CSOs in areas of; advocacy, service delivery, educational and psychoeducational programming, engaging men and boys, and creating safe spaces…[more]
UN Women Spotlight Initiative Call for Small Grants in Jamaica
UN Women is soliciting grant proposals to support leadership and monitoring and evaluation capacity strengthening programmes for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Jamaica especially those working with underserved communities (LBTQI persons, women and girls with HIV, women and girls with disabilities, women living in rural communities etc.)…[more]
Grants Program for “Local Voices, Informed Citizens” in Haiti
Internews is launching its Grants Program “Local Voices, Informed Citizens” to provide financial support for Haitian organizations to safely promote and distribute trusted, accurate, and relevant information and fill information gaps on the electoral process and democratic transition in Haiti…[more]
Call for Applications for Urgent Grants in Kosovo
The Kosovar Civil Society (KCS) Foundation has launched a call for applications for the Urgent Grants to support, applicants have to justify the need for quick reaction and in what ways would the intervention be jeopardized in the absence of an immediate reaction…[more]
Friends of Liberia inviting Applications for Small Grants Program
Friends of Liberia (FOL) invites applications for small grants of up to $3000 supporting programs in the areas of General Education, Health Education, and Psychosocial Support Systems for Vulnerable Groups…[more]
The Waterloo Foundation’s Small Grants Programme (UK)
The Waterloo Foundation is seeking applications for its Small Grants Programme to support smaller organizations delivering development work at a smaller scale…[more]
