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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.
MTN Corporate Social Investment (CSI). MTN.
• Supporting innovative, inclusive projects that remove barriers and expand opportunities for women and girls in technology.
• NGOs, Non-profit organisations, Foundations, Educational or training institutions; and Social enterprises with a clear social mandate.
• Rwanda.
• Up to ~$33,896 (RWF 50 million) grant funding.
• September 4, 2026.
Global South Civil Society Microgrants. Pulitzer Center.
• Supporting Global South projects that use journalism to raise awareness of interconnected rainforest, ocean, and climate challenges while amplifying local community perspectives.
• Civil society —including grassroot collectives, community-led movements, artists, and civic coalitions.
• Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia.
• Up to $4k grants.
• September 6, 2026.
Tikkun Olam Grants. Jewish Helping Hands.
• Supporting sustainable, scalable projects that empower marginalized communities and improve access to essential needs such as education, food, shelter, water, healthcare, connectivity, and gender equity.
• Grassroots organizations. Will NOT make grants to capital, political campaigns, scholarships, fellowships, or programs administered by for-profit entities.
• East Africa, Central America, North America, Any Impoverished Jewish Communities and Israel.
• Up to $10k grant award.
• September 9, 2026.
Fundación Ama Amoedo Grants 2026. Fundación Ama Amoedo.
• Supporting artists, organizations, and publications with meaningful ties to Latin America to strengthen the region’s visual arts ecosystem and institutions.
• Artists, collectives, art professionals, non-profit organizations, institutions, and foundations.
• All countries, a significant connection with Latin America, either by nationality, cultural heritage and/or the site where the project will be carried out.
• Ten grants of $10k.
• September 9, 2026.
10th Call for Proposals for STEG PhD Research Grants. Growth Research Platform.
• Supporting rigorous research on structural transformation and economic growth in low- and middle-income countries, with priority for data, AI and automation, gender, informality, taxation, and climate-related research.
• Currently enrolled PhD students who provide a letter of support from their PhD supervisor within two weeks of the application deadline.
• All countries, research relevant to policy in low-income countries (LICs), particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
• Up to £15k grants.
• September 9, 2026.
Women in Tech Accelerator Program - Egypt. Standard Chartered.
• Supporting innovative, scalable, early-stage startups with at least one female co-founder and technology-driven solutions delivering sustainable environmental, social, or economic impact.
• Women-led, tech-enabled startups.
• Egypt.
• Up to $35k grant funding.
• September 10, 2026.
Estimating the size of the ‘pre-cook’ sector. MECS (Modern Energy Cooking Services).
• Research to map and estimate the size, characteristics, and growth potential of the pre-cooked food sector in Kenya, Ghana, or Nigeria, with a focus on its potential for electric cooking and productive energy use.
• Seeking a consultant/s or organisation to conduct the study.
• Kenya, Ghana or Nigeria.
• Up to £8k grant funding.
• September 13, 2026.
Technology Entrepreneurship Seed (TES). Makerere Innovation & Incubation Center.
• Supporting Uganda-based innovators to transform early-stage technology ideas and prototypes across digital, robotics, IoT, advanced manufacturing, energy, health, AR/VR, and blockchain into validated, market-ready ventures.
• Technology-enabled solutions.
• Uganda.
• Up to $2k grant funding alongside business coaching and expert mentorship.
• September 14, 2026.
The Sahara CodeSwitch Africa Challenge. Intron.
• Developing real-world voice AI applications that understand African code-switching, accents, and noisy environments to perform useful tasks across sectors such as health, finance, agriculture, education, and public services.
• Developers & engineers, AI/ML researchers, Startups & product teams, Student teams, Open-source builders, NGOs & civic-tech teams, Companies with voice or customer-facing workflows.
• Africa.
• Up to $1,200 prizes alongside Sahara API Credits.
• September 15, 2026.
Sowing the Seeds of Change Programme — Roots Track (Kenya). Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF).
• Supporting young environmental champions in universities and communities to lead locally driven biodiversity conservation, sustainable resource management, environmental advocacy, and community action.
• Youth-led organisations and young environmental champions, priority given to higher learning institutions and community-based groups. An applicant is considered youth-led where the organisation’s leadership (board, management committee, or steering committee) is composed of at least 70% individuals aged 29 years and below.
• Kenya.
• Up to ~$1,413 ($183k) grant funding (with possibility of increasing based on funding availability), awarded on a 50:50 grant-matching model.
• September 15, 2026.
ITEC2026 Global Entrepreneurship Competition. ITEC 2026.
• A real path into Chaoyang, China’s most connected business district. Projects across AI, digital health, intelligent robotics and other frontier fields.
• Startups.
• Global founders can apply from outside China. Applicants outside Chaoyang should demonstrate a genuine intention and plan to develop their project in the district.
• Up to ~$31,396 (¥5 million) grand prize.
• September 15, 2026.
Call for founders: Jobtech Alliance in Mombasa. Jobtech Alliance.
• Supporting live startups that help people in Mombasa find work, develop employable skills, grow businesses, or increase their income.
• Startups.
• Africa, only if you are open to expanding to Mombasa, Kenya.
• Up to $10k grant alongside technical support.
• September 18, 2026.
Field Research Grants. Primate Conservation, Incorporated (PCI).
• Field research that supports conservation programs for wild populations of primates.
• Priority will be given to projects that study rare and endangered primates and their conservation in their natural habitat.
• Graduate students, qualified conservationists and primatologists.
• Asia and West Africa.
• Up to $5k grants.
• September 20, 2026.
The Entrepreneurship Grants. AU-EU Youth Lab.
• Supporting youth-led initiatives that expand skills and entrepreneurship opportunities, grow responsible youth enterprises, and improve the policy environment for young entrepreneurs.
• Organisation must be youth-led: non-profit, operating as a Trust, Community Based Organisation, or as a NGO/Civil Society Organisation or Cooperative with a clear social/environmental mission.
• Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia (Somaliland region), Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
• Up to €31,500 grants.
• September 23, 2026.
The Innovation Grants. AU-EU Youth Lab.
• Supporting youth organizations developing innovative, locally relevant solutions to global challenges that create lasting community impact and contribute to wider systems, policy, and practice change.
• Organisation must be youth-led: non-profit, operating as a Trust, Community Based Organisation or as a NGO/Civil Society Organisation with a clear social mission.
• Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia (Somaliland region), Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
• Up to €42k grants.
• September 23, 2026.
Voices for Climate Justice campaign. Africa No Filter.
• Supporting African individual storytellers and content creators with established audiences to produce original, ethical stories on how climate change, gender, debt, and fossil fuels affect communities across Africa.
• Must be a storyteller ( journalists, content creators, podcasters, vloggers, muralists, data visualizers) aged 18 and above.
• Mozambique, Uganda, Nigeria, Angola, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Tanzania, South Sudan, Malawi, and Zambia.
• Up to $4k per grant alongside training and mentorship.
• September 25, 2026.
Community Impact Grant Program. TEEEM (The Empathy Equality Entrepreneurship Mission).
• Supporting community-driven organizations that create measurable, sustainable impact through education, youth development, empowerment, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
• Nonprofit and charitable organizations.
• All countries.
• Up to $30k grants.
• November 1, 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.
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