Funding Opportunities - January 27, 2026
Special mid-week edition to showcase some new grants with tight deadlines!
Your weekly one-stop-shop for grant opportunities, calls for proposals, requests for applications, and other programs published by funders like GIZ, Gates Foundation, AECF, Norad, and many more.
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See below for the newest social impact funding opportunities in Africa and around the world.
2026 Grant Cycle. Aspire Coronation Trust Foundation (ACT).
• Health: Scalable interventions such as mass screenings and health literacy campaigns ensuring access to care for underserved populations. Entrepreneurship: financial literacy and innovation that uplift communities; digital and vocational skills programs tied to entrepreneurship pathways e.g. seed funding for youth-led and female-led social enterprises, access-to-finance initiatives with capacity building for sustainable growth; financial Literacy Campaigns; training of youth/women to run recycling businesses, public-private partnerships for waste-to-wealth initiatives; Community-based interventions on sustainable agriculture.
• Africa.
• Funding amount not specified.
• Nonprofits and Social enterprises having been operating for at least two years.
• January 30, 2026.
2026 African Impact Challenge (AIC). African Impact Initiative.
• 1) Health Entrepreneurship: supporting Pan-African healthtech ventures, and 2) Country Innovation: enabling scalable solutions across all non-health sectors within our annually chosen focus African country. For 2026, the Country Innovation stream will centre on Nigeria.
• Early innovators/entrepreneurs.
• Africa.
• Finalists will receive a non-dilutive grant or Safe Agreement for Future Equity option.
• January 31, 2026.
IIH-PDP Healthcare Innovation Campaign 2026. Ifakara Innovation Hub.
• Devices that improve daily living, access to care, treatment and care delivery, designed for local context and for early detection.
• 1) Healthcare Focus, 2) Potential for Impact, 3) Early Stage Projects.
• Innovators, engineers, researchers, startups, and health practitioners.
• All countries.
• Up to $3k in in-kind support, access to specialized tools and Incubation and Business Modelling Support.
• February 1, 2026.
Milken–Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition. Milken-Penn GSE.
• Purpose-driven ventures that seek to advance teaching and learning through innovation.
• Encourage applicants working in every conceivable educational setting–from early childhood through corporate and adult training.
• Both nonprofit and for-profit.
• All countries.
• Up to $40k Grand Prize.
• February 11, 2026.
Fondation Centre Pompadour Global Feminist Grant for Research and Advocacy. Fondation Centre Pompadour.
• Research, development, and dissemination of feminist ideas, the promotion of comprehensive gender equality in all areas of life, and feminist communication and representation.
• Applicants can be individuals, or a team and include people of any gender.
• All countries.
• Up to €30k grant.
• February 28, 2026.
Call for Entries: Climate Investment Challenge. Climate Investment Challenge.
• 1) Innovative Financing Mechanisms: structures which unlock capital to support climate positive outcomes and 2) Climate Analytics: tools and metrics which work to improve investment decision-making for climate-aware investing.
• Postgraduate students or equivalent (i.e., MSc, MBA, PhD, etc.).
• All countries.
• Up to £24k prize pool.
• March 16, 2026.
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