There are some great social impact programs in Africa and emerging markets all over the world with calls for applications quickly approaching their deadlines!
We’ve featured all of these on our recent newsletters. Here’s our monthly recap.
Summary:
135 “rolling” opportunities
4 due by the end of the day, today, November 3, 2026 (Hurry!)
11 due by the end of the week, November 8, 2026 (Hurry!)
66 due later in November
33 due in before EOY (December 31, 2026)
14 due in January
8 with deadlines later in 2027
With 168 opportunities offering funding larger than $50,000!
But before we get into the 270+ Impact Funding Opportunities with open deadlines…
Why spend your time reviewing this list when you can just access our database?
Cut through the noise! If you’re a paid subscriber you’ll be able see all of these grants and more direct in our Airtable database. Searchable, sortable, and filterable by:
Deadline | Funding Amount | Type of Funding | Geography | Sector | Eligibility
That way you’ll not only get new grants sent direct to your inbox every week… you’ll be able to isolate all grants relevant to you and your organization on an interactive one-of-kind database. All for just $10 a month.
Fundraising Dispatch Free vs. Premium
We’re committed to saving you hundreds of hours in finding the right grant and investment opportunities as well giving you direct & actionable guides, cheat-codes and other resources dedicated to helping make fundraising and growing your organization easier. Here’s how we work:
Free subscribers
Grants and investment opportunities from $0 - $50k direct to your inbox every week and some public resources for fundraising, B2B sales, and building with AI
Premium subscribers
Grants and investment opportunities from $0 - $10m+ direct to your inbox every week
Access to our filterable/searchable database so you can always have a high-level overview of the grants available for you to apply to
End-to-end guides, walkthroughs, tips/tricks, cheat-codes, email templates, messaging strategies, and more, to use alongside your fundraising. Not theory. Actionable recommendations. Step-by-step, plug-and-play, etc-etc-etc.
Live use cases for integrating AI and automation in your day-to-day
Looking for a way to subscribe to premium through a different payment method?
Prefer not to use a card? Or would like a formal invoice?
We can get you (and others on your team) subscribed to our high ticket funding notifications, grant database, knowledge center, and other premium content directly through the payment method of your choice:
ACH/Swift | Bank Transfer | Wise | M-PESA (in Kenya) | Paypal
And more! Just reply here or email daniel@fundraisingdispatch.com.
Alright. Now let’s recap open funding.
271 Impact Funding Opportunities with Open Deadlines
Animal Welfare Grants. The Pollination Project.
• Support individuals and groups who are working to protect animals.
• 1) Reducing the consumption of land and sea animals raised using industrial agriculture practices, 2) Advocating for farmed animal welfare and 3) Helping animals that are not usually the focus of animal welfare efforts.
• Open to individuals in all countries with a special focus on Brazil, India and Mexico
• A $1k seed grant.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Awesome Foundation Micro Grants. Awesome Foundation.
• Awesome project on wide range of areas including arts, technology, community development, and more.
• Individuals, groups, and organizations working anywhere in the world.
• $1k.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Conservation Fund. International Marine Animal Trainers Association (IMATA).
• Conservation-oriented issues that serve marine mammal science through training, public display, research, husbandry, conservation, and education.
• Non-profit organizations.
• Global.
• Up to $5k.
• Applications accepted on rolling basis.
The Explorers Club Impact Grants. The Explorers Club.
• Fieldwork in biological sciences, archaeology, anthropology, paleontology, earth sciences, ecology, and astronomy.
• Exploratory projects that reveal new knowledge about the planet and its inhabitants, including regions undergoing environmental or cultural change.
• Researchers and explorers.
• Global.
• Up to $25k.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
The Egmont Trust EOI. Egmont.
• Innovative ways of combating the impact of HIV & AIDS on children and families and provide financial support and project management advice to local, grassroots organisations.
• NGOs/CSOs.
• Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia & Zimbabwe.
• Up to $20k grant.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Apply for a Rufford Small Grant. Rufford Foundation.
• Funds nature conservation projects.
• Species you are working on must be considered threatened.
• Early stages of conservation career. Focus on supporting current MSc or PhD students or recent graduates.
• Emerging or developing economy countries.
• Up to £18k.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Startups for Sustainable Development program. Google.
• Supports a global ecosystem of impact-focused startups.
• Connects them to the funding ecosystem, including venture capital and other investment partners.
• Supports them with advisors and technology.
• All countries.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Conservation Fund. Neotropical Birding and Conservation (NBC).
• Conservation action or research that has an intended measurable benefit.
• Globally threatened species — those on the IUCN’s global red list.
• Middle and South America and the Caribbean.
• Up to $5k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Grants to Foster Community Philanthropy. Global Fund for Community Foundations (GFCF).
• Aimed at strengthening individual organizations as trusted and effective grassroots grantmakers that can harness both local and external resources.
• Women’s fund, environmental fund, national public foundation, grassroots grantmaker or any other kind of organization that identifies with the concept and practice of community philanthropy.
• Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, or Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Up to $20k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Small conservation grants. Jana Robeyst Trust Fund (JRTF).
• Early career biologists/conservationists to carry out vital field conservation and research work of endangered mammals in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• All countries.
• Up to €1,500 grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (30th April, 31th August and 31th December each year).
Call for Proposals: Right Sharing of World Resources Partner in Kenya. Right Sharing of World Resources.
• Offers training, support, and financial grants to small, grassroots women’s groups. The goal is to grow strong and sustainable women-led income-generating projects.
• All groups who receive grants have first completed the Group Strength & Financial Training Program.
• Kenya, India, Sierra Leone, Guatemala.
• Up to $6,500 grant to launch a revolving loan fund.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Empowering Student Innovation Across Nigeria. Federal Ministry of Education.
• Students and teams building high-impact solutions across Nigeria’s key development sectors: 1) Science, 2) Technology, 3) Engineering, 4) Mathematics and 5) Medical Science.
• Student-led businesses.
• Nigeria.
• Up to ~$34,528 (₦50 million) grant funding.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Rapid-Response, Advocacy & Protection Grants. Urgent Action Fund Africa.
• Strategic interventions that take advantage of opportunities to advance woman’s human rights.
• Both informal and formal women’s right organizations. Applications from non-registered collectives or groups are encouraged.
• Africa.
• Up to $20k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
The Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellow Awards. The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.
• Recognize emerging African scholars studying aspects of violence on or directly related to the African continent.
• Individual scholars, must be aged 45 or younger.
• All countries - must be currently enrolled in an accredited Ph.D. program at an African higher-education institution, and living on the continent.
• $10k research grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (March 1 of every year).
Bridges for Enterprise Incubation Programme. Bridges for Enterprise.
• Passionate entrepreneurs seeking to solve some of the world’s most urgent challenges. Lasts between 6-8 months.
• Pre-seed and seed stage social impact startups.
• Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.
• Consulting, Finance Advisory, Legal Advisory and Technical Advisory.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (April and 1 October).
Submissions open for Holohil Grant Program. Holohil.
• Supports research and educational work focused on endangered species.
• Projects that demonstrate strong conservation value and sound scientific design.
• Open to scientists and non-scientists.
• All countries.
• ~$1,800 (CAD 2,500 toward the purchase of Holohil transmitters for selected projects).
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (January 15, April 15, July 15, October 15).
TCF Grant Program. Turtle Conservation Fund.
• Projects that focus on tortoises or freshwater turtles that are highly threatened according to the IUCN Red List or the TFTSG Provisional Red List, as either Critically Endangered or Endangered, or which may be highly threatened but not yet officially classified as such on the Red List. We do not support work on marine turtles.
• Organizations or individuals.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (June 1 and December 1).
The United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery. United Nations.
• Providing rehabilitation and assistance to thousands of individuals whose human rights have been severely violated as a result of contemporary forms of slavery, including: children in armed conflict, debt bondage, forced and early marriage, forced labour, traditional slavery, trafficking of persons, sale of children, sale of wives, serfdom, sexual slavery, widow inheritance and worst forms of child labour.
• Civil society organizations (e.g. NGOs, rehabilitation centers, foundations, associations of victims, hospitals, legal clinics). Been in operation for at least two years.
• All countries.
• Up to $35k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (every year from 15 January to 1 March).
Stephen R. Tully Research Grant. Raptor Research Foundation.
• To support research, and conservation of raptors.
• Students and amateurs with limited access to alternative funding.
• All countries.
• Up to $4,500 grant, plus waived page charges to publish the research in the Journal of Raptor Research.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (30 June each year).
Kevin Kritz Research Grant. Raptor Research Foundation.
• Seeks to provide support and advance research on eagles and eagle conservation anywhere in the world.
• Conservationists.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grant plus waived page charges to publish their research in the Journal of Raptor Research.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (30 June each year).
IMATA Research Grant. International Marine Animal Trainers’ Association.
• To advance the humane care and handling of marine animals by fostering communication between professionals that serve marine animal science through training, public display, research, husbandry, conservation, and education.
• Principal Investigator (PI) who is a current Professional IMATA member who has maintained this membership level for a minimum of two years prior to the applications submission.
• All countries.
• Up to $3k grant.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Humanitarian Innovation Programme in Emergency Response (Hiper). World Food Programme (UN WFP).
• Life-saving solution in waste management, WASH, or personal resilience, designed for the critical first 60 days of a humanitarian emergency.
• Humanitarian actors, solution providers and private sector partners.
• All countries.
• Potential inclusion in the ecosystem, for consideration for ongoing opportunities and future challenges.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
The Thrive Seed Grant. Thrive Philanthrophy.
• Proposals that aim to create just, plant-based food systems by reducing the global consumption of animals, reducing industrial animal agriculture, or for vegan advocacy.
• Not a for-profit company, should not be an international chapter of a US-based organization. Geared toward new or small-scale organizations.
• All countries except the US.
• Up to $5k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (1 March, 1 June, 1 September, 1 December).
Thrive Grants. Thrive Philanthrophy.
• Proposals that aim to create just, plant-based food systems by reducing the consumption of animals, reducing industrial animal agriculture, or for vegan advocacy.
• Not a for-profit company, should not be an international chapter of a US-based organization. Geared toward mid-size or larger organizations.
• All countries except the US.
• Up to $30k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (1 March, 1 June, 1 September, 1 December).
Funding for Women-Led Initiatives in Africa. Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD).
• Women’s leadership and empowerment: initiatives led by women leaders that create positive community impact.
• Nonprofits, Grassroots organizations, Community-based organizations, Individual leaders, Social enterprises.
• Africa.
• Up to $5k grant.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Grassroots Climate Action Fund (GCAF). Centre for Environment and Migration Assistance(CEMA).
• Inclusive, locally led solutions to climate and environmental challenges.
• Community-based organizations (CBOs), women-led groups, youth-led initiatives, grassroots civil society organizations, local environmental justice movements.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Standard Product Grant. Wildlife Acoustics.
• Advancement of wildlife research, habitat monitoring, and environmental conservation. To advance the study of bats, birds, amphibians, and other terrestrial wildlife.
• Scientists.
• All countries.
• Up to $4k of product-in-kind grants (recorders, accessories, and software licenses).
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Empowering Women Entrepreneurs. Indie EmpowerHer.
• A specialised women’s financing and business initiative designed to support potential women-owned businesses across Lagos, Nigeria.
• Women entrepreneurs, been in operation for at least 12 months.
• Nigeria.
• Business loans of up to ~$3,667 (N5 million) alongside Capacity Building & Mentorship.
• Deadline TBC.
eCooking Demonstrators. CLASP.
• Proposals for the Domestic, Commercial and Institutional eCooking Demonstrator Project, a strategic initiative designed to accelerate the adoption of eCooking for institutional (such as schools, health facilities, correctional facilities) and commercial (e.g. MSMEs), eateries, food vendors, agro-processing) settings, as well as households.
• NGOs, governments, the private sector, academia, research institutes, policy representatives, and communities.
• Ghana, Kenya (Kajiado, Kilifi, Makueni, and Nairobi counties), Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda.
• Up to $20k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Join the timbuktoo Pan-African Incubation Programme for AgriTech Startups. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
• Tech-driven solutions with the potential to strengthen agricultural productivity, improve food systems, increase farmer incomes and build climate-resilient agriculture.
• Have a prototype or Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
• Particularly encourages applications from startups led by women, youth entrepreneurs, and founders working in underserved or rural communities.
• Africa.
• Structured incubation programmes alongside access to experienced mentors, entrepreneurs and sector experts.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Wildlife Emergency Fund (WEF). East Coast Zoological Foundation (ECZF).
• Conservation-based organizations that are responding to sudden, episodic, and unpredictable threats impacting wildlife. Ongoing, recurring, or long-term threats are not considered to be an immediate emergency.
• 501(c)3 non-profits (or equivalent), governmental and NGOs that focus on direct in-situ conservation action.
• All countries, except in countries or regions subject to U.S. government sanctions or restrictions.
• Up to $2,500 grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Original WIDU Grant. WIDU.
• To support entrepreneurs to develop their business ideas by providing professional business coaching and funding to them. Two partners, consisting of a diaspora donor in Europe and an Africa-based entrepreneur – need to team up.
• All sectors (e.g. small farms, garages, shops, hairdressers). Max. 20 employees. Investment of the diaspora donor and entrepreneur (50%).
• Entrepreneurs, micro or small business.
• Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Togo, The Gambia or Tunisia.
• Up to €5k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Emergency Funding for Conservation. Rapid Response Facility.
• Funding to address unforeseen emergencies in UNESCO natural World Heritage Sites (or occasionally sites with other international recognition for biodiversity).
• Types of organisations include (but are not limited to): Government bodies responsible for site management, Registered local, national or international NGOs, Private sector organisations.
• ODA eligible countries.
• Up to $40k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Amplify Kenya. Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF).
• Assists Kenya-based independent media through capacity building, leadership-focused development and network building within the broader East Africa media landscape.
• Access to a range of capacity-building activities, one-on-one coaching, opportunities to learn from experts, workshops and bespoke training.
• Early-stage new actors and digital-first outlets as well as more mature media companies pivoting to a new revenue model or adding a new revenue line.
• Kenya.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
The Next Wave Fund. Kickstarter.
• Early-stage tech startups and small businesses building bold new ideas across hardware, software, gaming, and connected technology.
• Entrepreneur or small business with fewer than 20 full-time employees.
• At least one member of your team is a citizen, resident, or O-1 visa holder in the United States.
• A $10k pledge when project goes live on Kickstarter alongside training and Opportunities for marketing exposure and promotion.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
The RCDIJ Africa Fund. Ripples Centre for Data and Investigate Journalism (RCDIJ).
• Small to mid-scale data and/or investigative journalism projects spanning a wide range of areas consistent with our objectives, including education, health, security, environment, democracy, corruption, economy, migration, technology, culture and development.
• Individual journalists: Employed/Freelance, Online, Print, Broadcast, Photo, Cartoon, Multimedia.
• Africa.
• Up to $10k grant funding.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Small Grants Program. Friends of Liberia (FOL).
• Community development projects across a diverse range of focus areas.
• From education and healthcare to economic development and environmental sustainability. The focus is on empowering local communities to take charge of their development, leveraging their unique insights and strengths to create lasting, positive change.
• Nonprofits and NGOs.
• Liberia.
• Up to $3k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
The Anzisha Fellowship. Anzisha.
• Identifies and supports young African entrepreneurs aged 15–22 who are already building and growing real businesses.
• Your business, invention, or social project can be in any field or industry.
• Young African entrepreneurs aged 15–22.
• Africa.
• $10k prize.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis. Program recurs yearly - 2026 Applications open on September 29, 2026.
IWRS Teaching Innovation Award. Insect Welfare Research Society.
• Instructors developing new approaches to teaching invertebrate biology that incorporate the 3Rs (replacement, reduction, and refinement). It also supports the development and implementation of any novel curricula addressing invertebrate welfare and sentience across invertebrate biology, animal welfare science, and/or veterinary medicine fields.
• An instructor at an educational institution, scientific society or museum, field-training course, or similar educational context.
• All countries that are not subject to sanctions from the UN and the USA.
• Up to $2k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (2 annual application deadlines — July 15 and November 15).
Rainforest Journalism Fund (RJF). Pulitzer Center.
• Supports journalists, staff and freelancers, to report on issues in tropical forests, especially in three main rainforest regions—Amazon, Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia.
• Applications with in-depth reporting that follow illegal wildlife trades across borders; shed light on harmful forest extraction industries; and investigate the systems, organizations, and people that enable corruption.
• Journalists, freelancers, a staff reporter or an editor with an idea can also apply.
• All countries, quality, independent journalism in three key regions: the Amazon, the Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia.
• Up to $15k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
IWRS Travel Grants. Insect Welfare Research Society.
• Supporting early-career researchers presenting invertebrate welfare research at major academic conferences, with funding for registration, travel, accommodation, and per diem costs.
• Early-career researchers who are undergraduate or graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, or within five years of completing their terminal degree.
• All countries except those subject to sanctions by the UN or the USA.
• Up to $1k grant funding.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
IWRS Small Meeting Grants. Insect Welfare Research Society.
• Supporting events on insects and other terrestrial or aquatic invertebrates, with funding for researcher travel, event logistics, registration waivers, childcare, and related costs.
• Open to event organizing committee members from any discipline, excluding professional fundraisers and conference agencies.
• All countries except those subject to sanctions by the UN or the USA.
• Up to $2k grant funding.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Impact Grant Fund (IGF). Financial Sector Deepening Tanzania (FSDT).
• Supporting high-potential, scalable MSMEs—particularly women- and youth-led—in climate-smart sectors, with a focus on growth, job creation, innovation, and climate resilience.
• MSMEs.
• Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar.
• Up to ~$11,331 (TZS 30 million) non-reimbursable grants.
• Deadline TBD.
Social Impact Track. WEMA Hackaholics.
• Solutions that improve lives while creating sustainable impact across communities.
• NGOs, Social Enterprises, Civic Technology Teams, Non-profits, Universities, Community Builders, Researchers.
• Africa.
• Up to ~$18,765 (₦25 Million) grant funding.
• Deadline: Not specified / Ongoing.
Startup Pitch Competition. WEMA Hackaholics.
• Startups with validated ideas or products and strong potential for innovation and scalable growth.
• Early-stage & growth-stage startups, Technology founders, Social enterprises, Product-led businesses, University spin-offs.
• Africa.
• Up to ~$18,765 (₦25 Million) grant funding.
• Deadline: Not specified / Ongoing.
Hackathon. WEMA Hackaholics.
• Technology solutions that address real-world challenges and helping builders turn ideas into practical solutions.
• Developers, Designers, Product Managers, Engineers, Data Scientists, AI Builders, Students.
• Africa.
• Up to ~$18,765 (₦25 Million) grant funding.
• Deadline: Not specified / Ongoing.
Catalytic Africa x Timbuktoo. Catalytic Africa.
• Providing 2:1 equity-free matching capital alongside angel investments to help African startups extend runway and accelerate growth.
• Very specific requirements: Must be a ABAN network affiliated angel investor or group that applies and would receive matching funding only for investment into a Timbuktoo incubated start-up.
• Africa.
• Invest up to $20k and Catalytic Africa matches at 2:1 on an equity-free basis.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Recertification Assistance Fund. Marine Stewardship Council (MSC).
• Supports MSC-certified fisheries by covering Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) fees for their second and subsequent MSC recertifications, with eligible fisheries required to have completed at least three certifications overall.
• MSC-certified fisheries.
• All countries.
• Up to £30k grant funding.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Seed Grant. Thrive Philanthropy.
• Supports organizations advancing alternatives to industrial animal agriculture, developing plant-rich food systems, and improving access to or awareness of nutritious plant-based foods, with priority given to organizations operating on annual budgets below $500k.
• Nonprofits.
• All countries except USA. Africa proposals are accepted by invitation only or by previous grantees. If you are based in Africa and haven’t been invited to apply for a grant, you are welcome to join Thrive’s other Africa initiatives such as the Thrive Africa Accelerator HERE.
• Up to $5k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (Deadlines are 11:59 pm GMT on: 1 March, 1 June, 1 Sept, 1 Dec).
Fine and Country Foundation Charity Grants. Fine and Country Foundation.
• Grants must be used for prevention of homelessness, care of the homeless or constructive projects to get homeless people off the streets permanently.
• Open to homeless charities, poverty prevention projects, and housing associations. Grants must be used for prevention of homelessness, care of the homeless or constructive projects to get homeless people off the streets permanently.
• All countries.
• Grants of up to £3k.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (spring and autumn).
Architects of Trust: Community-Driven Demand Creation for New TB Vaccines. Treatment Action Group (TAG).
• Supports organisations experienced in TB, immunisation, or health advocacy, with community or policy engagement experience, a dedicated project lead to build community trust, and appropriate safeguarding, inclusion, legal compliance, and research governance policies.
• Civil society and community-based organizations.
• Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Peru, the Philippines, South Africa, Tanzania, Vietnam, and Zambia, as well as regional networks working across Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
• Up to $45k grants.
• November 4, 2026.
2026 Abu Dhabi Youth Challenge. Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority.
• Supports young innovators in the UAE in developing practical water-sustainability solutions that promote conservation, responsible consumption, children’s development, and community wellbeing, with opportunities to prototype, pilot, and present solutions at the UN Water Conference.
• Young Innovators and entrepreneurs.
• All countries, should be based in the UAE.
• Up to ~$5,445 (AED 20k) prizes.
• November 5, 2026.
WPS Civil Society Activation Initiative. The Asia Foundation.
• Supports civil society-led pilot initiatives advancing Women, Peace and Security through environmental security, digital transformation, and women’s participation in peacebuilding.
• Practitioners, women human rights defenders, artists, researchers, advocates, women’s rights organizations, civil society organizations, informal groups.
• Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Indonesia, Philippines, Timor-Leste, Thailand, and Vietnam.
• Up to $3k grant funding.
• November 6, 2026.
Velocity. The Climate Pledge.
• Supports proven, late-stage climate solutions at TRL 6+ to scale commercially through integration into Amazon’s and its partners’ operations, focusing on materials innovation, circularity, waste recovery, low-carbon materials, industrial electrification, energy storage, renewable energy, and energy efficiency.
• Commercially scalable climate solutions at TRL 6 or higher with proven pilots and confirmed customers, developed by eligible Climate Pledge signatories, Amazon suppliers, Earthshot Prize finalists and winners, Climate Pledge Fund investees, Plug and Play affiliates, or nominated operational partners.
• All countries.
• Up to $100k in AWS promotional credits alongside nine months of targeted support.
• November 6, 2026.
EQUALS in Tech Awards. EQUALS Global Partnership.
• Recognizes global, regional, and national initiatives, programmes, products, and services that use technology to advance digital gender equality and close the digital divide through emerging technology inclusion, digital skills and leadership development, and safe, inclusive digital spaces for women and girls.
• Civil society and NGOs, government institutions, international organizations, academic and research institutions, private-sector entities, multi-stakeholder initiatives, social enterprises and entrepreneurial ventures.
• All countries.
• Winners receive recognition from a global, multisectoral partnership committed to gender equality in the digital age, join a strong community of support and expand their networks.
• November 7, 2026.
Organoid Reagent Grant Program. R&D Systems.
• Supports innovative stem cell and organoid research in disease modelling, basic science, and personalised medicine through funding, recognition, and access to high-quality research reagents.
• Scientists, researchers.
• USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Luxembourg, Poland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, China, Singapore, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, or Philippines.
• Three $10k grants in Bio-Techne reagents.
• November 7, 2026.
FBIS Africa Freshwater Biodiversity Data Mobilisation Small Grants. Freshwater Research Centre.
• Provides grants to mobilise and publish existing African freshwater biodiversity occurrence data on FBIS Africa, supporting eligible records not already published on GBIF for specified freshwater taxa, with clear ownership and publication permission, complete taxon names, sampling dates and geographic coordinates, and readiness for mobilisation between January and June 2027.
• Freshwater biodiversity data holders, including universities and research institutions, museums and natural history collections, government agencies, NGOs, freshwater biodiversity programmes, and individual researchers or data custodians working through eligible host institutions.
• Africa.
• Up to $10k grants.
• November 9, 2026.
Creatives For Our Future. Swarovski Foundation.
• Aims to accelerate the next generation of creatives in sustainable development and is open to creatives aged 21-30, across various creative disciplines including jewelry, fashion, art, design, architecture, videography, photography, and engineering.
• Creative individuals, aged 21 to 30.
• All countries.
• Six selected participants will each receive a €20k grant, alongside an immersive week in London featuring workshops, collaborative experiences and exclusive activations.
• November 9, 2026.
The BRIDGE-in Agriculture Pitch Competition. ASH Africa.
• Ghanaian agripreneurs with revenue-generating businesses in agriculture or related sectors, helping them scale their operations, create jobs, and deliver measurable impact through clear, action-oriented growth plans.
• Entrepreneurs aged 18–35.
• Ghana.
• Up to $5k grants.
• November 9, 2026.
Ikigai Grants, Cohort 1. Alex S. Araki.
• Supports emerging researchers pursuing bold, underfunded biomedical innovations across areas such as chronic pain, longevity, reproductive health, precision neuropsychiatry, biomarkers, immunology, and gene modulation, offering a conviction-driven network built on open collaboration and future knowledge-sharing.
• Scientists with bold ideas in underfunded areas.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants alongside custom mentorship and community.
• November 9, 2026.
Local Impact Mini-Grants. Interledger Foundation.
• Initiatives that work to expand digital financial access from the inside out.
• 1) Open payments and digital financial access, 2) Open source and open innovation, 3) Financial inclusion and fintech ecosystems and 4) Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI/DPG) and related themes.
• Community organisations, nonprofits, cooperatives, civil society and advocacy groups, local fintech startups, social enterprises, and individual practitioners.
• All countries, projects serving communities in the Global South, rural areas, or peri-urban regions are a priority.
• Up to $3k grants.
• November 11, 2026.
Conservation Action Now Grants. Oklahoma City Zoo.
• Supports invertebrate conservation through education, scientific research, and species preservation initiatives benefiting threatened species and their habitats.
• Early career professionals, defined as those currently enrolled in a graduate program (e.g., MSc, PhD, DVM) or those who were awarded a graduate degree no earlier than 2021.
• All countries.
• Up to $2,500 grants.
• November 13, 2026.
Civic Action and Community Empowerment Grant (CACEG). InformAction.
• Supports previously funded grassroots CBOs in Narok, Laikipia, Turkana, Bungoma, Busia, and Isiolo Counties to advance governance, civic participation, accountability, human rights, gender equality, inclusion, and business-related human rights through community-led initiatives.
• Grassroots community-based and civil society organisations, including unregistered groups, with strong encouragement for youth-led, women-led, disability-led, and marginalised community organisations.
• Kenya.
• Up to ~$10k (KES 1.3m) grant funding.
• November 13, 2026.
Ocean Storytelling Photography Grant 2026. Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF).
• Supports visual storytellers who use compelling photography and emotional narratives to raise awareness and inspire action for ocean conservation, covering marine wildlife, habitats, fisheries, and coastal communities.
• Early-career and emerging photographers with no more than five years of experience, with particular encouragement for women, gender-diverse applicants, and historically underrepresented communities.
• Global South.
• Each winner receives a $2k cash prize and a paid three-week photography assignment documenting an SOSF-supported marine research or conservation project.
• November 15, 2026.
Business Freedom Grant. Coach Darcy.
• Aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners at any stage and across any industry, supporting startup costs, marketing, equipment, and digital tools for business growth.
• Entrepreneurs, founders at any stage.
• All countries.
• $1k grant funding.
• November 15, 2026.
Poverty solutions. D-Prize.
• Proven poverty solutions in: 1) Agriculture, 2) Education, 3) Energy, 4) Health, 5) Livelihoods, 6) Public services, 7) Water.
• Does not support organizations that have more than 18 months of full-time operations, or raised more than $30k in outside funding.
• For-profit, nonprofit, and other business models. Supporting new organizations, especially first-time entrepreneurs in LMICs developing poverty-focused solutions or scaling proven evidence-based interventions.
• All countries.
• Up to $20k grant funding to support a three-month pilot.
• November 15, 2026.
MENA Regenerative Agriculture Venture Programme. Goumbook.
• Supports scientists, researchers, and students developing research, science, and nature-based regenerative agriculture solutions addressing food security, soil health, water scarcity, climate resilience, carbon sequestration, biodiversity, desertification, and farmer livelihoods in the MENA region.
• Researchers and innovators seeking to develop their work to proof-of-concept stage.
• All countries, address agricultural conditions and opportunities within the MENA region.
• Up to $20k grants alongside mentorship.
• November 15, 2026.
Exploration Co-Lab 2027. Unearthodox.
• Supports early-stage initiatives reimagining nature–society systems through innovative, regenerative approaches to environmental and social challenges.
• Individuals, informal teams, community collectives, and nonprofit or for-profit organisations led by applicants pursuing social and ecological impact.
• All countries.
• CHF 10k grant funding alongside tailored mentorship.
• November 16, 2026.
Space-IoT Innovation Programme. KijaniSpace.
• Supports projects with existing agriculture-related solutions to enhance crop or fish farming and other climate-smart applications using Copernicus Earth Observation, IoT, and Space-IoT Box resources, with a focus on benefits to the Lake Victoria Basin.
• SMEs & start-ups.
• Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
• Up to €5k grant funding alongside mentoring.
• November 16, 2026.
Ralph Brown Expedition Award. Royal Geographical Society with IBG.
• Supports experienced researchers leading expeditions in aquatic environments, including coral reefs, rivers, lakes, and shallow seas, with projects expected to benefit the host country and, where possible, local communities.
• Researcher. Applicants must be Fellows or Members of the Society.
• All countries.
• £15k grant award.
• November 16, 2026.
National Call for Applications in the Sudan. Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD).
• Supports youth-led climate innovations in Sudan’s agriculture and livestock value chains to create jobs for youth and women and reduce fragility.
• Open to 18–35-year-old IGAD citizens legally residing and able to own businesses in Sudan who are current students or recent university/TVET graduates, co-founders of a proposed initiative, and not employed full-time.
• Select IGAD member countries, namely South Sudan, Sudan and Djibouti. Preference will be given to citizens of Sudan.
• Seed funds of up to $10k.
• November 20, 2026.
Young Talents from Africa Prize: Energy and Environment. Eni Award.
• Supports African PhD researchers developing research and innovation in energy and environmental fields, including renewable energy, energy storage, decarbonisation, circular economy, water treatment, biodiversity, nature-based solutions, and sustainable agriculture, with potential benefits for African countries or the continent.
• PhD students under 40 (born in 1986 or later) who hold a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree or equivalent, are in the first or second year of their PhD, and are pursuing their doctorate at a university or research institute in an eligible African country.
• Africa.
• Up to €25k prizes.
• November 20, 2026.
BIE-Cosmos Prize Expo 2027 Yokohama. Bureau International des Expositions.
• Initiatives that promote harmony between people and nature, sustainable communities through greenery and agriculture, the creation of nature-based industries, and collaborative solutions to environmental and societal challenges.
• Individuals, NGOs, social enterprises, research institutes.
• All countries.
• €20k prize.
• November 20, 2026.
Youth Ecopreneur Programme (YECO). International Trade Centre.
• Supports young innovators with a clear understanding of environmental challenges and scalable, acceleration-ready solutions focused on land restoration and green business development.
• Founders, co-founders, or CEOs under 35 who lead legally registered businesses majority-run by young people.
• For the Bootcamp, businesses from any UN-recognized country are eligible. For the Accelerator and Awards stages, businesses registered in developing or least developed countries are eligible. The complete country list is available here.
• $10k prize money.
• November 22, 2026.
Regenerative Change-makers Grant. Re-Alliance.
• Supports experienced regenerative practitioners living and working in the Global South to expand the impact of regenerative approaches benefiting refugees and internally displaced communities through grassroots engagement, regional policy influence, international knowledge-sharing, and collaborative fundraising.
• Individual expert change-maker who lives and works in the Global South with people who have been displaced.
• The Global South.
• £6k grant.
• November 22, 2026.
Climate Democracy Accelerator. People Powered.
• Supports innovators developing participatory climate-policy programmes that empower local communities to shape and implement climate solutions focused on renewable energy, regenerative agriculture, and just transitions, promoting clean energy access, ecosystem restoration, climate resilience, food security, and inclusive local economic development.
• Governmental institutions, civil society organizations, or NGOs.
• Prioritizes applicants from the four priority countries (Brazil, Indonesia, India, and Mexico), with additional spots available for participants from other countries worldwide, especially in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
• Provides all participants with a $10k implementation grant, with the top six action plans in each cohort eligible for an additional $15k award.
• November 27, 2026.
Call for nominations for the OPEC Award for Research. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
• Researchers, academics and experts from around the world are invited to nominate outstanding individual candidates whose work has made a significant contribution to advancing knowledge and understanding of the petroleum industry and oil-related issues.
• Individuals, institutions and organizations can submit nominations.
• Outstanding individual candidates, be well-known in the energy industry and/or academia.
• OPEC Member Countries and the developing world: Algeria, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.
• Monetary prize of €10k.
• November 30, 2026.
Alice McCosh Trust Grants. Alice McCosh Trust.
• Supports work and study in natural history and environmental fields, including fieldwork, educational materials, and initiatives that increase environmental understanding, engagement, and conservation action.
• Individuals attached to institutions and those following a programme of study or qualification, as well as people engaged in private/personal study related to natural history and/or the environment.
• All countries, preference will be given to individuals from (or work relating to) Scotland, England, Turkey or Uganda.
• £1k grants.
• November 30, 2026.
Terre de Femmes International Award. Fondation Yves Rocher For Nature.
• Open to women worldwide leading nonprofit initiatives that place trees at the heart of urban conservation, including urban greening, agroforestry, tree preservation, nurseries, reforestation, and restoration of urban green spaces.
• Any woman of legal age or collective of women committed to nature conservation in connection with trees through a non-profit organisation (association, NGO, foundation, etc.) established for at least 1 year.
• All countries.
• A €10k grant per project.
• November 30, 2026.
Incubation Programme. Orange Corners Nigeria.
• Empowers young entrepreneurs aged 18–35 to turn innovative ideas into sustainable businesses through a six-month incubation program aligned with the UN SDGs.
• Young entrepreneurs aged 18-35.
• Nigeria, Lagos State.
• Up to €30k funding support for prototype development and testing to bring your idea to life alongside Mentorship & Networking.
• November 30, 2026.
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Applied Research Centre. Global Research and Technology Development (GRTD).
• Research that fills evidence gaps in comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) while strengthening the coherence, uptake, and impact of existing and emerging SRHR research.
• Consortia must include one or two Lead Organisations (public universities, nonprofit research organisations, or private universities with a clearly defined nonprofit division) and Co-Applying Organisations, with a recommended size of 6–8 organisations and a maximum of 10.
• LMICs.
• Up to £30k grant funding.
• November 30, 2026.
Corporate-startup accelerator. EU-LAC Digital Accelerator.
• Supports corporate–startup partnerships to develop and validate proof-of-concept digital technologies with corporate partners, accelerating market-ready solutions across all industries, with a particular invitation for AI-driven innovations.
• Requires a two-partner consortium comprising at least one corporation and one startup, with partners based in two different eligible regions: the European Union, Latin America, or the Caribbean.
• Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Up to €7k grants.
• November 30, 2026.
SET Award 2027. Start Up Energy Transition.
• Recognises global energy and climate-tech startups with registered or pending registration, proof-of-concept solutions, and a functioning prototype or industry partner, across clean energy, digital energy, buildings, industry, and sustainable mobility.
• Eligible companies must have been founded in August 2016 or later.
• Startups.
• All countries.
• €10k in equity-free prize money.
• November 30, 2026.
Building pipelines for publishing DNA-derived data through GBIF. GBIF.
• Supports GBIF-endorsed organisations with large DNA-derived biodiversity datasets and technical capacity to develop automated, regularly updated workflows for openly publishing DNA barcoding and metabarcoding data through GBIF.
• Research institution, university, museum, NGO or government agency.
• All countries.
• Up to €20k grant funding.
• November 30, 2026.
Living Legacy: Grants for Fostering and Spreading the Traditional Building Cultures. Traditional Building Cultures Foundation.
• Supports research, documentation, conservation, education, training, publications, exhibitions, digital resources, and other non-commercial initiatives that advance the knowledge, practice, preservation, transmission, or dissemination of traditional building cultures.
• Applications may be submitted by individuals, as well as by associations, foundations, universities, research centers, cultural institutions, and any other entity committed to this field.
• All countries.
• Three grants of up to €3k each will be awarded.
• December 1, 2026.
2027 Horowitz Foundation Awards. Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy.
• Supports dissertation-level PhD research by emerging social science scholars addressing contemporary policy issues through significant, feasible, original, theoretically informed, and empirically rigorous research.
• Aspiring PhD students at the dissertation level.
• All countries.
• $10k research grants, with additional $3k and $5k awards for the most innovative and most outstanding projects, respectively.
• December 1, 2026.
Vital Impacts Environmental Photography Fellowships and Mentorships. Vital Impacts.
• Supports photographers to develop year-long documentary projects highlighting environmental and wildlife conservation challenges, with a focus on local communities, lasting relationships, ethical storytelling, and real-world solutions.
• Photographers.
• All countries.
• One $20k fellowship to an established environmental photographer and Six $5k fellowships to emerging photographers.
• December 1, 2026.
Open Payments SDK grant program. Interledger Foundation.
• To improve how developers integrate Open Payments into real-world applications.
• Improving Software development kit (SDK) generation tools so they can automatically create secure, up-to-date Open Payments SDKs for many programming languages.
• Individual or organization.
• All countries, except those subject to U.S. sanctions.
• Grants ranging from $5k - $25k.
• December 2, 2026.
The AACR June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism. American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).
• Recognizing professional journalists whose impactful cancer reporting advances public understanding of cancer, research, advocacy, and policy.
• Open to print, broadcast, and online professional journalists whose stories appear in newspapers, magazines, websites, and broadcast platforms that target lay public audiences.
• All countries.
• $5k unrestricted cash award and a commemorative award.
• December 7, 2026.
AI and the Workforce Faculty Research Grant Program. Institute for Humane Studies.
• Supports academic research examining AI’s long-term effects on employment, productivity, occupational change, economic opportunity, and innovation.
• Academic scholars, should be affiliated with an accredited college or university.
• All countries.
• Up to $20k grant funding.
• December 15, 2026.
MoveNow Social Innovation Challenge. Social Shifters.
• Supports young impact founders developing inclusive, community-driven solutions for underserved populations across digital financial inclusion, equitable healthcare, and climate resilience, encouraging responsible use of AI and emerging technologies to create accessible, sustainable social and environmental impact.
• Applicants aged 18–30 serving as the founder, co-founder, or primary leader of a group, project, or startup, with clear decision-making authority.
• All countries, except those under UK government financial sanctions, cannot accept submissions from Russia, Belarus, Syria, North Korea, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela.
• Up to $10k grant funding.
• December 18, 2026.
Global Raptor Research and Conservation Grant. HawkWatch International.
• Supports local researchers conducting ecological research and conservation projects focused on high-priority raptor species (>0.5 RCPI-Edge*), including habitat, population, threat mitigation, and community-based conservation.
• Local researchers associated with a registered NGO and/or university in the country where the project will take place.
• All countries except USA, Canada, or Europe.
• Up to $3,500 grant funding.
• December 31, 2026.
Capacity Development Grants. Aubrey Barker Fund.
• 1) To help the development of curriculum or teaching materials (including translation to online) in a developing country, which will have lasting benefit to a number of students and society; or 2) for projects that develop the capacity of relevant professional institutions in developing countries.
• Educational or professional organisation.
• LMICs.
• Up to £3k grants.
• December 31, 2026.
Learning Planet Youth Design Challenge. Learning Planet Institute.
• Supports youth aged 15–26 to develop and scale innovative education projects that create real-world impact, particularly in peace and democracy, mental health and wellbeing, and environment and climate.
• Open to youth aged 15–26, with applications accepted from individuals or teams; for group projects, one member must serve as the designated representative and submit the application.
• All countries.
• $1k grant alongside mentorship.
• January 7, 2027.
Ran and Ginny Fiennes Award. Royal Geographical Society.
• Supports humanitarian, scientific or educational projects which follow in the Transglobe Expedition’s tradition of challenge and perseverance.
• Designed to support the next generation of emerging travelers and expeditioners.
• All countries.
• Up to £5k grants.
• January 8, 2027.
International Development Grant. Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis (SABA).
• To increase opportunities for individuals and organizations for the development and/or dissemination of behavior analysis internationally.
• Applicants must be formally affiliated with a university or institution.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants.
• January 13, 2027.
Sidney W. and Janet R. Bijou Grant. Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis (SABA).
• Supports doctoral research using a behavior-analytic natural-science framework to investigate behavioral development and its underlying processes, particularly cognitive, social, emotional, and language development in children.
• Doctoral students in psychology, education, behavioral science, or related fields conducting rigorous child-development research from a behavior-analytic perspective, with at least six months remaining in their program and adequate faculty supervision.
• All countries.
• Grants of up to $12k.
• January 13, 2027.
Global Entrepreneurship Competition. Diamond Challenge.
• Empowers young people to develop and pitch business or social venture concepts addressing customer or societal challenges.
• Teams must consist of 2-4 high school students aged 14-18 at the submission deadline. Each team is required to have one adult advisor aged 21 or older.
• All countries.
• Up to $12k prizes.
• January 14, 2027.
Women & Biosphere: Stories to Tell. Tuscan-Emilian Apennine National Park Authority.
• Invites photographers to showcase women’s roles in water and nature, sustainable development, biodiversity conservation, community life, and environmental protection through images reflecting the theme of water as a feminine element.
• Photographers.
• All countries.
• $5k prizes.
• January 20, 2027.
Innovation Cup Program. Merck KGaA.
• Offers students worldwide a week-long innovation summer camp to develop and commercialise ideas addressing unmet needs in life sciences, pharmaceuticals, advanced materials, and climate change, combining technical research, business planning, industry mentorship, and global networking.
• PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in life sciences and related fields, plus advanced MBA students or recent graduates with life sciences backgrounds and an interest in pharmaceutical business; healthcare professionals are ineligible.
• All countries.
• Up to €25k prizes.
• January 31, 2027.
Student Research Grants. Marine Stewardship Council (MSC).
• Supports postgraduate research that helps fisheries improve environmental performance and progress toward or maintain MSC certification.
• Current Master’s students or PhD candidates in fisheries science. Undergraduates with a secured postgraduate position by the start of the project.
• All countries.
• £10k grant.
• February 28, 2027.
Fourth Call to Proposals. The Pandemic Fund.
• Targeting countries with the greatest capacity gaps, highest pandemic risks, and significant socioeconomic challenges that have not been previously awarded single-country grants.
• Implementing Entities.
• Afghanistan, Benin, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Guinea, Haiti, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, and Uganda.
• The Grant Amount equals the total cost of pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (PPR) activities plus the Implementing Entity Administrative Fee.
• Rolling Applications until March 31, 2027.
Announcement of the 14th Continental Essay Competition. ARS0.
• Invites students, young scholars, and emerging African thinkers to propose practical, research-based solutions for advancing intra-African trade under the AfCFTA, focusing on conformity assessment, mutual recognition agreements, and unlocking the cotton-to-clothing value chain.
• Currently enrolled undergraduate or postgraduate students at a recognized tertiary institution, must be under 35 years of age.
• Africa.
• Up to $1k cash prizes + Certificate of Excellence + Travel sponsorship.
• April 23, 2027.
There are 168 Funding Opportunities for more than $50k below!
- Why subscribe to countless funder updates and wade through newsletter after newsletter of long reports, project updates, PR content, and donation requests… crossing your fingers hoping the next email has a relevant RFP?
- Why spend hours searching Google or asking Chat GPT about open funding programs?
- Why look through pages and pages of databases - bogged down by funding exclusive to nonprofits in the United States or scholarship/fellowship programs for students?
- Why follow 50+ influencers on LinkedIn, hoping their next post has the right opportunity?
When you can just catch new relevant opportunities in your inbox on a weekly basis? And then access a curated database - filterable by geography, eligibility, funding amount, sector, and type of funding.
🔒 Unlock the high-ticket grant and investment opportunities