Funding Opportunities - December 29, 2025
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Empowering West African Agriculture. WASSMAS.
• Designed specifically for West African agricultural entrepreneurs.
• 1) Livestock Farming, 2) Crop Cultivation, 3) Fish Farming, 4) Agro-processing, 5) Integrated Farming and 6) Small Ruminants.
• Small and mid-scale agricultural startups.
• West Africa.
• Up to $10k grants.
• Deadline not specified.
Youth Climate Justice Fund 2026 Grants. Youth Climate Justice Fund (YCJF).
• Solutions, campaigns, and projects that address the climate crisis by jointly tackling underrepresentation, exploitation, and oppression, as well as enhancing community power, equity and justice.
• Emerging youth-led climate justice and socio-environmental groups.
• East Asia and Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, Europe and Central Asia, and North America.
• Up to $20k grants.
• 2026 application round will open soon.
Blue Food Futures Research Grant Program. Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions.
• Early-career scholars with a strong interest in climate change and biodiversity implications, sustainable, equitable, and resilient blue food transitions, and blue food trade.
• Early-career researchers, professionals, and practitioners from academia, government, NGOs, and the private sector.
• All countries.
• $10k in research funding and travel support for fieldwork and policy engagement.
• 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).
Launch path 2026 Imagine Cup. Microsoft.
• Solutions that address real-world challenges using Microsoft cloud and AI technologies. Whether you’ve built a prototype, tested an Minimum Viable Product (MVP), or are still refining your direction.
• Have not received any amount of dilutive funding, or no more than $100k in external, non-dilutive funding.
• An enrolled student at an accredited educational institution - high school or college/university (or equivalent) degrees (including home schools) between September 30, 2025, and May 31, 2026.
• All countries (not prohibited by U.S. export regulations).
• $50k prize.
• January 9, 2026.
Global Climate Fellowship (2026). Halcyon.
• Founders tackling pressing challenges in climate adaptation and resilience. Through a hybrid programming format, selected entrepreneurs will attend a one-week, in-person residency in Washington, DC, 5 virtual programming days, and a final one-week, in-person residency in Los Angeles, California.
• For-profit startups. Must have a working Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and a realistic potential to scale.
• All countries.
• $6K equity-free stipend per venture alongside workshops with experts in product-market fit, capital strategy, and leadership.
• January 15, 2026.
Democracy Innovation Lab. Keseb.
• Promising early-stage innovations reimagining the building blocks of democracy. Innovative community-building solutions that aim to foster cross-group belonging in diverse societies.
• Innovators from diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise e.g Democracy practitioner, Grassroots activist, Journalist or storyteller, Organizer, Researcher or academic, Technologist, Artist, e.t.c.
• All countries.
• $10k in seed funding.
• January 16, 2026.
Climate and Finance Innovations (ClimaFii) Alliance. BFA Global.
• Clean energy and electric mobility solutions that raise productivity, increase incomes, and build resilience for small business owners, while reducing emissions and local pollution.
• Microenterprises, early-stage startups.
• Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Up to $87,500 in catalytic capital funding (grants and in-kind support).
• January 16, 2026.
iF Design Student Award 2026. iF Design.
• Innovative, future-oriented design concepts that tackle real problems and align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs 1–15).
• Current students and recent graduates (having gained their diploma up to two yers ago).
• All countries.
• €50k prize money.
• January 28, 2026.
Feed the Future Ethiopia Transforming Agriculture: Partnerships to Drive Innovation, Build Capacity, and Scale Impact in Ethiopia’s Food and Agriculture System. RTI International.
• Innovative solutions to development and agribusiness challenges through partnerships with private sector firms and NGOs operating in Ethiopia to align with the aim to increase access to healthy diets by improving the competitiveness and resilience of the Ethiopian food and agriculture system.
• Private sector or NGO.
• Ethiopia.
• No ceiling on how much funding can be programmed through this APS.
• January 31, 2026.
Blue Corridors for Turtles (BC4T) Small Grants Fund. State of the World’s Sea Turtles (SWOT).
• Projects that engage local communities in research-driven initiatives aimed at contributing to the objectives of the Blue Corridors for Turtles project (BC4T).
• Be a registered organisation, legally recognised association or local community group actively engaged in marine turtle research and conservation.
• All countries.
• Proposals under $3k are strongly encouraged.
• January 31, 2026.
Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship-Cohort 3. Sahara Consult.
• EdTech companies that leverage cutting-edge technology and innovative approaches to improve educational outcomes and accessibility.
• Growth-stage, impact-driven EdTech companies.
• Tanzania.
• Up to $70k Equity-Free Funding plus Customised Technical Support.
• January 31, 2026.
Wilson Ornithological Society Research Grants. The Wilson Ornithological Society.
• Avian research. 4 categories of research grant.
• Ornithologists, graduate students, young professionals, and independent researchers without access to funds.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants.
• February 1, 2026.
Graduate Research Competition. Organization for Autism Research (OAR).
• Early-career autistic investigators. Independent research studies only.
• Students conducting autism research as a requirement in pursuit of a master’s degree and students who are doctoral candidates or post-doctoral students.
• All countries.
• Up to $2k grants.
• February 2, 2026.
Qualcomm Make in Africa Startup Mentorship Program. Qualcomm.
• Promising early-stage startups keen on applying advanced connectivity and processing technologies to innovative end-to-end systems solutions, including hardware, and provide these companies with business coaching, access to engineering consultation for product development, and guidance on protecting intellectual property.
• Early-stage tech startups.
• Africa.
• One startup will be awarded a Social Impact Fund grant. All other participating startups will be eligible for a $5k stipend upon successful completion of program requirements.
• February 15, 2026.
Apply now for the 2026 Innovation Award. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
• 1) Demonstrate impact on more than one level of the supply chain, from small-scale agricultural producers (e.g. farmers, herders, fishers) to consumers; 2) Strengthen the link between small-scale producers and consumers through innovative mechanisms such as innovative institutional arrangements, policy and financial mechanisms, social processes, innovative technological solutions with due consideration to environmental, economic and social dimensions of sustainability.
• Individuals, international/regional organizations, academic or research entities, civil society organizations private sector entities.
• All countries.
• A cash prize of $10k.
• February 15, 2026.
The Vast x Explorers Club Grant. The Explorers Club.
• Explorers who are helping make life beyond Earth possible. This program fuels research that brings us closer to living, working, and thriving in space—whether in low Earth orbit, on the Moon, or on Mars.
• Early-career and established researchers, technologists, and explorers from any discipline relevant to space science or human adaptation beyond Earth.
• All countries.
• Up to $25k grants.
• February 15, 2026.
Environment and Peace Call for International Partners. PeaceNexus Foundation.
• International organisations with an environmental mission interested in integrating conflict-sensitive approaches in their operations and organisational systems.
• International non-profit environmental organisations.
• All countries.
• Up to ~$63,430 (50,000 CHF) grant.
• February 16, 2026.
2026 Rebecca Rhodes African Inclusive Literacy Research Grant. Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA).
• Supports rigorous, locally grounded studies that advance literacy learning for children and youth with disabilities across Africa.
• An individual (not an organization).
• West, Central, East, or Southern Africa.
• $5k research grant.
• February 27, 2026.
Project Preparation Grants. Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF).
• Application of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) related capacity evaluation tools, preparation of feasibility studies and/or formulation of project proposals to address specific SPS capacity building needs linked to trade.
• Public and private sector entities, non-profits and NGOs.
• Developing countries on the OECD Development Assistance Committee's list of Official Development Assistance recipients.
• Up to $50k grants.
• March 1, 2026.
S+T+ARTS Prize 2026 competition. S+T+ARTS.
• Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts. People and projects that contribute to mastering the social, ecological and economic challenges this continent faces.
• Artists, creative professionals, researchers, and companies.
• All countries.
• €20k prize money.
• March 5, 2026.
Support for Vets and Vet Students. Zebra Foundation.
• Research projects that will further skills and knowledge of zoo and wildlife health.
• Individual vets and vet students.
• All countries.
• Up to $1k grants.
• March 31, 2026.
The Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application. World Food Prize Foundation.
• Exceptional, science-based achievement in international agriculture and food production by an individual under 40 who is working closely and directly “in the field” or at the production or processing level with farmers, animal herders, fishers or others in rural communities, in any discipline or enterprise across the entire food production, processing, and distribution chain.
• Intended to be awarded to one person.
• All countries.
• $10k prize.
• June 1, 2026.
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