Funding Opportunities - December 5, 2025
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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.
• Offers two different programs: 1) Preparing the soil and 2) Planting the seeds.
• Small, grassroots women’s groups that do not have access to other adequate support and funding. Leaders and all members of the Women’s Groups must be women.
• Kenya.
• Up to $6,500 grant.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (July 1 to December 31 of each year).
Call for Proposals: Right Sharing of World Resources Partner in Sierra Leone. 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.
• Small, grassroots women’s groups that do not have access to other adequate support and funding. Leaders and all members of the Women’s Groups must be women.
• Offers two different programs: 1) Preparing the soil and 2) Planting the seeds.
• Sierra Leone.
• Up to $6,500 grant.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (July 1 to September 30 of each year).
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.
Gender & AI Innovation Collective. A+ Alliance.
• Working with women’s rights organizations across Africa to explore how AI technology might help solve real problems in communities and move toward greater gender equality.
• Your work can focus on any area, including: Climate Justice, Labor Rights, Health Equity, Gender Equality, Digital Justice, Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence, Social Justice, Children’s Rights, Disability Rights, LGBTQIA+ Inclusion, Data Privacy, Civic Engagement, Peacebuilding, Media Literacy, or other intersecting issues.
• Civil society organization, interdisciplinary team, or activist organization. Women-led OR primarily working on women’s rights, a feminist or human rights mission.
• Africa.
• Up to ~$10,713 (CAD 15k) seed grant funding for prototyping.
• December 12, 2025.
D-Prize Challenges. D-Prize.
• Social impact organizations distributing proven poverty solutions,
all aiming to scale.
• First-time entrepreneurs launching new organizations.
• Low-and-middle income countries.
• Up to $20k grants.
• December 14, 2025.
Closing the Gaps in Climate Change and Health Research in South and Southeast Asia. Monash University Malaysia.
• Funding to support regionally led research projects that address the interconnected challenges of climate change and health. Prioritises support for vulnerable groups, including women, children, older adults, and Indigenous communities.
• Public research institutes, think tanks, universities, NGOs and community based organisations.
• South and Southeast Asia.
• Up to ~$96,828 (MYR 400k) grant.
• December 14, 2025.
AI Adoption Program. INDPULS.
• Collaborating with industrial partners to solve real-world challenges through AI.
• Tech Startups and SMEs.
• All countries.
• €3k cash prize alongside pilot opportunities and mentorship.
• December 15, 2025.
Community Development and Knowledge Management for Satoyama Initiative - COMDEKS Phase 4. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
• Expand and ensure the sustainability of sound biodiversity management, governance, and sustainable livelihood activities with local communities in the Afadzato South socio-ecological production landscape in the Volta Region.
• NGOs/non-profits, civil society organizations and community groups.
• Ghana.
• Up to $30k grants.
• December 15, 2025.
Africa Impact Fundraising Grant Program. New Africa Fund.
• Aimed at empowering African NGOs, community-based organizations and social enterprises to address the pressing need for funding and fundraising expertise.
• Only organizations registered in one of the 55 African Union member states are eligible to apply.
• Selected organizations will participate in a 30-day fundraising challenge, with up to $5,000 USD in matching funds available.
• December 16, 2025.
Grants for Issue-Based Networks for Policy Influence for Civil Society Organizations in the MENA Region. Minority Rights Group.
• To influence policy change by focusing on pressing issues at national or regional levels.
• Organizations with a track record of working with disadvantaged ethnic, religious, or cultural minorities or marginalized groups such as migrants, refugees, LGBTI, or persons with disabilities, and rooted in these marginalized communities.
• Not-for-profit civil society organizations, community-based organization and/or an NGO.
• Lebanon, Palestine, Tunisia or Morocco.
• €20k grants. A total of 4 grants.
• December 21, 2025.
2026 Capacity Enhancement Support Programme. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
• Focuses on enhancing the long-term capacity of participants to benefit from and contribute to GBIF’s mission to mobilize the data, skills and technologies needed to make comprehensive biodiversity information freely available for science and decisions addressing biodiversity loss and sustainable development.
• Not-for-profit.
• GBIF participant countries.
• Up to €20k grant funding.
• January 19, 2026.
Student Research Grants. American Ornithological Society (AOS).
• Supports research in various areas of avian biology.
• Undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs. Applicants need not indicate that they are applying for a particular grant, Committee will determine which fund is most appropriate for supporting the top proposals.
• All countries.
• Up to $4k grants.
• January 30, 2026.
Assistance program for Community Projects. Embassy of Japan in Mozambique.
• Aims to address various development needs quickly and comprehensively, the importance of grassroots development projects that can directly benefit local populations.
• Community-based non-profit organizations such as NGOs, schools, and local governments.
• Mozambique.
• ~$64,268 (10 million yen) grant.
• January 31, 2026.
GEO Mountains Small Grants Call 2026-2027. GEO Mountains.
• Proposals that address mountain monitoring, data, and information. Projects that consolidate the ‘state-of-the-art’ or promote transformative research capabilities for sustainable mountain development are particularly encouraged.
• Project proponents should encourage the inclusion and participation of early-career researchers.
• Andes, Central Asia, East Africa, South Caucasus, and Hindu Kush Himalaya.
• Up to ~$12,497 (CHF 10k) grants.
• February 20, 2026.
Small Grants Program. Mérieux Foundation.
• Local initiatives aimed at fighting infectious diseases in developing countries, particularly projects relating to maternal and child health.
• Non-profit association or a foundation.
• Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, DRC, Egypt, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Republic of the Congo, Tunisia, Senegal, Togo. Americas: Brazil, Haiti. Asia: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Tajikistan, Vietnam. Middle East: Iraq, Iran, Lebanon.
• Up to €5k grants.
• March 1, 2026.
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