Deadline: 8-Mar-21 The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) announces an open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for projects that support Religious Freedom in Africa, including North Africa. Through this project, DRL’s objective is to enable members of religious communities, faith based organizations, and NGOs to engage local and national governments and international organizations on strategies to protect cultural … [Read more...] about Bureau of DRL: Advocacy to Preserve Cultural Heritage in Africa
Latest Grant Funding Opportunities in South Africa
Check out the latest calls for proposals, calls for applications, request for proposals and other funding opportunities for NGOs and individuals in South Africa.
2021 Yidan Prize for Advancing Ideas in Education
Deadline: 31-Mar-21 The Yidan Prize Foundation is seeking nominations for the 2021 Yidan Prize to progress learning by building a global community committed to advancing ideas in education. The Yidan Prize is an inclusive education award that recognizes individuals, or up to three-member teams, who have contributed significantly to education research and development. Prize Categories Each year the Yidan Prize is awarded in two categories to individuals, or teams of up to three … [Read more...] about 2021 Yidan Prize for Advancing Ideas in Education
Ashden Awards 2021: Uncovering & Spotlighting World’s Next Climate Champions
Deadline: 3-Mar-21 The 2021 Ashden Awards are now open to climate action innovators to win a prize of up to £20,000 as well as ongoing development support, from professional mentoring to pro-bono legal help. The Ashden Awards boost outstanding climate solutions. For more than 20 years the awards have backed radical ideas delivering lower emissions and a fairer world, with grants and development support on offer to winners and finalists. This year’s award categories include greener … [Read more...] about Ashden Awards 2021: Uncovering & Spotlighting World’s Next Climate Champions
Volant Trust seeking Applications for Covid-19 Response Fund
Deadline: 31-Jul-21 The Volant Trust is currently seeking applications from charities in the UK and internationally that demonstrate a strong focus on alleviating social deprivation and helping vulnerable groups who have been particularly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The Volant Charitable Trust is committed to other work that includes international projects, the support of single parents through Gingerbread and more recently, charities assisting groups impacted by the Covid-19 … [Read more...] about Volant Trust seeking Applications for Covid-19 Response Fund
The Barakat Trust giving Grants to promote and preserve Artistic Culture and Heritage
Deadline: 31-Mar-21 The Barakat Trust has announced 2021 Grant Programme to support and promote the study and preservation of Islamic art, heritage, architecture and culture for future generations. The Barakat Trust was founded as a UK charity in 1987 and operates for educational and heritage purposes focusing on the heritage of the Islamic world. They provide scholarships and grants for study and research projects at the world’s most respected academic and cultural institutions at … [Read more...] about The Barakat Trust giving Grants to promote and preserve Artistic Culture and Heritage
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) Business and Human Rights Program
Deadline: 7-Feb-21 The Global Campus of Human Rights has announced the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) Business and Human Rights Program. The MOOC focuses on the link between companies, states and human rights with attention to the protection of human rights defenders, the concept of mandatory due diligence, recent case-law, and child labour issues. This MOOC is a contribution to such understanding. It looks at international standards and principles as well as regional and national … [Read more...] about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) Business and Human Rights Program
Embracing Our Differences announces 2022 Call for Artists
Deadline: 6-Oct-21 Embracing Our Differences invites you to participate in creating a world where differences are embraced and individuality is celebrated. Become a part of this exciting change through your visual art or creative writing submission to the annual Embracing Our Differences juried competition. Artists are asked to submit their interpretation of the theme “enriching lives through diversity and inclusion.” Funding Information $3,000 (US) will be presented in the form of … [Read more...] about Embracing Our Differences announces 2022 Call for Artists
UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize: Receive US$25,000
Deadline: 15-Feb-21 UNESCO is seeking nominations for 2021 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. The Prize is funded by the Cano Foundation (Colombia), the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation (Finland), the Namibia Media Trust (Namibia) and Stichting Democratie en Media (Netherlands). The objective of the Prize is in conformity with UNESCO's policies and is related to the program of the Organization in the field of communication and information and, more specifically, to the priority … [Read more...] about UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize: Receive US$25,000
Youth Action Lab: Grants, In-kind Support, Training, Strategy Development and Networking for Youth Activists
Deadline: 1-Feb-21 The Youth Action Lab is a pilot project initiated by CIVICUS to test different ways to support grassroots youth activists in the Global South by providing access to resources, building alliances and developing strategies with activists and movements. The Youth Action Lab is a one-year co-creation lab for grassroots youth activists based in the global south which works to support their movements to become more resilient and sustainable in their pursuit of a more equitable … [Read more...] about Youth Action Lab: Grants, In-kind Support, Training, Strategy Development and Networking for Youth Activists
Spencer Foundation announces Small Research Grants on Education
Deadline: 1-Mar-21 The Spencer Foundation is seeking applications for the Small Research Grants on Education Program to support education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived. The goal of this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious, and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education. They seek to support scholarship that develops new foundational … [Read more...] about Spencer Foundation announces Small Research Grants on Education
2021 NextWorldNow’s Community Investments Grant Program
Deadline: 31-Mar-21 NextWorldNow has announced a grant program as it holds that world communities can work together in an informed and personal way using technology and resources to improve the well-being of participants in each community. Aim NextWorldNow invests in and supports community development projects requiring modest capital. They fund projects that are owned by the local community, whose social impact and return on investment can be measured, and whose success can be … [Read more...] about 2021 NextWorldNow’s Community Investments Grant Program
7th Edition of Tony Entrepreneurship Programme: Are You Ready?
Deadline: 31-Mar-21 The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s leading philanthropy dedicated to empowering African entrepreneurs has launched 7th Edition of Entrepreneurship Programme to connect African Entrepreneurs to Business Beyond Borders. This year’s intervention prioritizes the economic recovery of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) and young African entrepreneurs, following the Covid-19 disruption to economic activities. The Tony Elumelu Foundation's Entrepreneurship … [Read more...] about 7th Edition of Tony Entrepreneurship Programme: Are You Ready?
2021 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards: Nominations now open
Deadline: 30-Jun-21 Nominations are now open for 2021 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards to recognize fundamental contributions in a broad array of areas of scientific knowledge, technology, humanities and artistic creation. Candidates may be one or more natural persons of any nationality, without limitation of number, that have made independent or convergent contributions to a given advance, whether due to a formal collaboration (with the nominees belonging to one or more … [Read more...] about 2021 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards: Nominations now open
Karibu Foundation’s Grants Program to support Alternative Voices from Global South
Deadline: 11-Jan-21 The Karibu Foundation has launched Grant Program to support alternative voices from the Global South that provide alternatives to the dominant paradigms of power, distribution, and development. Karibu has grown out of a spirituality, a practical, faith-based commitment, and a critical and analytic understanding of power and domination in the world. The aims of Karibu are therefore to bring together and support agencies that use analytical insight, moral courage, and … [Read more...] about Karibu Foundation’s Grants Program to support Alternative Voices from Global South
Nominations Open for 2021 World Habitat Awards
Deadline: 15-Mar-21 Nominations are now open for the 2021 World Habitat Awards to recognise and highlight innovative, outstanding and sometimes revolutionary housing ideas, projects and programmes from across the world. The Awards were established in 1985 for the identification and the promotion of good habitat practices. They were initiated in 1987 as World Habitat contribution to the United Nations International Year of Shelter for the Homeless. The concept of identification of good … [Read more...] about Nominations Open for 2021 World Habitat Awards
Applications Open for UNDP Social Innovation Support Program
Deadline: 25-Jan-21 UNDP Social Innovation Support Program, UNDP Turkey H 's izlandir Up Laboratory ( Accelerator Lab) more effectively to social problems in the city, sustainable, inclusive, and is a support program initiated in order to develop fair solutions. The program is focused on unlocking, mobilizing and supporting women's innovation potential and power. Social impact goals of the program; to spread social innovation awareness and culture, to encourage innovative thinking and … [Read more...] about Applications Open for UNDP Social Innovation Support Program
Entries Open for 2021 International Children’s Peace Prize
Deadline: 6-Mar-21 Entries are now open for 2021 International Children's Peace Prize that is awarded annually to a child who fights courageously for children’s rights. It is an initiative of Marc Dullaert, Chairman and Founder of the KidsRights Foundation. The prize recognizes the achievements of the young winner. The prize also offers the winner a global platform to promote his ideals and further his work. With the newfound attention, these young heroes’ messages reach an international … [Read more...] about Entries Open for 2021 International Children’s Peace Prize
Submit Nominations for Borlaug Field Award
Deadline: 15-Jun-21 Nominations are now open for the Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research which will recognize exceptional, science-based achievement in international agriculture and food production by an individual under 40 who has clearly demonstrated intellectual courage, stamina, and determination in the fight to eliminate global hunger and poverty. The $10,000 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation, will be presented every … [Read more...] about Submit Nominations for Borlaug Field Award
Call for Nominations for World Food Prize
Deadline: 1-May-21 The World Food Prize is awarded for a specific, exceptionally significant, individual achievement that advances human development with a demonstrable increase in the quantity, quality, availability of, or access to food through creative interventions at any point within the full scope of the food system. The Prize recognizes achievements made by individuals working in every part of the world, representing the diversity of the global food and nutrition security community. … [Read more...] about Call for Nominations for World Food Prize
Call for Applications for 2021 Åland Peace Fellowship
Deadline: 15-Jan-21 Are you interested in issues of autonomy, minorities, peace and conflict, and the possibility to combine research and practical societal engagement? Are you curious about life on an island in the middle of the Baltic Sea? If yes, then this first Åland Peace Fellowship is for you. The Åland Islands Peace Institute is looking for applications from researchers – in their early career as well as established ones – in the fields of law, peace research, political science, … [Read more...] about Call for Applications for 2021 Åland Peace Fellowship
