Funding Opportunities - August 22, 2025

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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.

IGC Sierra Leone early-career local researcher fellowship 2025. IGC.
• Equips early-career researchers with the opportunity to engage directly in high-impact, policy-relevant work while addressing pressing national priorities.
• 1) Agricultural resilience and 2) Economic reforms.
• Currently enrolled in a postgraduate programme (PhD or Master’s) or serving as junior researchers or faculty in a Sierra Leonean institution.
• Sierra Leone.
• Up to £5k.
• August 29, 2025.

Social Shifters Global Innovation Challenge. Social Shifters.
• Young founder (18-30 years) leading a project or startup with a focus on social impact.
• Must contribute to at least one of the United Nations’ SDGs.
• All countries.
• Up to $15k.
• August 29, 2025.

Submissions open for Entrepreneurship Grants (Nigeria). Regis Ohia Foundation.
• Agribusiness, Healthcare, Education and Recycling.
• Business must be within 1 and 4 years old.
• Nigerian citizen, aged 18-40.
• Up to ~$1,630. (1st - ₦2.5M | 2nd - ₦1.5M | 3rd - ₦1M).
• August 31, 2025.

Call for Applications: Direct Aid Program (India). Australian Consulate-General in Mumbai.
• 1) Education, 2) Agriculture, 3) Diversity, equality, and inclusion, 4) Sports for development and 5) WASH.
• Consider the impact of the project on women, children or other disadvantaged groups, such as people with disabilities.
• NGOs, not-for-profits and academic institutions.
• India.
• Up to ~$17,200. (INR 15 lakhs).
• August 31, 2025.

Sahara Impact Fund (SIF) Fellowship programme. Sahara Group Foundation.
• Support and scale up high-impact social enterprises and changemakers.
• Innovative solutions to pressing community challenges.
• Africa. Innovators, researchers, inventors, and entrepreneurs.
• Up to $30k.
• August 31, 2025.

ALBORADA Research Fund. Cambridge-Africa.
• Encourage research, training and engagement activities between Cambridge and Africa.
• Both applicants must be at post-doctoral level or above.
• Up to £20k.
• September 5, 2025.

GET Compass Grant to Support Small and Medium-Scale Businesses. Grooming Endowment Trust (GET).
• Supports small and medium-scale businesses.
• Facilitates programs that would give you the expertise to carry out your business processes better.
• A registered operating business not more than three years old.
• Africa.
• Up to ~$1,300. (2 million naira).
• September 7, 2025.

Women leadership grants. IUCN.
• Support women-led or women-focused initiatives that strengthen women’s leadership in freshwater governance, ecosystem management, and restoration, with a clear link to transboundary water cooperation.
• Women’s groups or community-based organisations, civil society organisations and NGOs working directly with women.
• Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Ecuador, Guinea, India, Kenya, Lao PDR, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Peru, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Uganda, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.
• Up to ~$12,400. (CHF 10k).
• September 7, 2025.

Gender mainstreaming grants to river basin organisations and transboundary water institutions. IUCN.
• Gender equality in operations, governance frameworks, activities, and strategic plans.
• 1) Gender strategies, 2) Direct stakeholder engagement activities targeting women’s participation, 3) Capacity-building initiatives to strengthen women’s leadership within institutions and 4) Implementation of priority gender actions.
• Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Ecuador, Guinea, India, Kenya, Lao PDR, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Peru, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Uganda, Viet Nam and Zimbabwe.
• Up to ~$18,600. (CHF 15,000).
• September 7, 2025.

Apply Now: Direct Aid Program in India. Australian Consulate-General in Kolkata, India.
• 1) Education, innovation and entrepreneurship, 2) Sustainable farming and agricultural technology, 3) Climate action and energy and 4) Gender diversity and women’s empowerment.
• Community groups, non-government organisations (NGOs) and academic institutions engaged in development activities on a not-for-profit basis.
• India.
• Up to ~$11,440. (10 lakh INR).
• September 11, 2025.

Young Environmentalist Innovative Challenge 2025. Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF).
• Support and scale impactful environmental innovations led by young individuals and youth-led organisations.
• Environmental issues such as climate resilience, sustainable agriculture, circular economy, renewable energy, and ecosystem restoration.
• Youth (aged 15–35).
• Kenya.
• Up to ~$38,700. (KES 5,000,000).
• September 30, 2025.

Imminent Research Grants. Imminent.
• To help innovators who share the goal of making it easier for everyone living in our multilingual world to understand and be understood by everyone else.
• 5 grants from these topics: Language economics – Language data – Machine learning algorithms for translation – Human-computer interaction – Neuroscience of language.
• Startuppers, researchers, innovators, authors, university labs, organizations, and companies.
• All countries.
• Up to $20k.
• October 15, 2025.

Commonwealth Youth Awards. The Commonwealth.
• Impactful, sustainable development work in their communities.
• Aged 15 to 29 years old. Must have been engaged in development work for more than 12 months.
• Commonwealth citizen in a Commonwealth country.
• Up to £5k.
• October 17, 2025.

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