Funding Opportunities - January 5, 2026
For Grant Seekers and Fundraising Dispatch Subscribers
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See below for the newest social impact funding opportunities in Africa and around the world.
Submissions open for Holohil Grant Program. Holohil.
• Supports research and educational work focused on endangered species.
• Projects that demonstrate strong conservation value and sound scientific design.
• Open to scientists and non-scientists.
• All countries.
• ~$1,800 (CAD 2,500 toward the purchase of Holohil transmitters for selected projects).
• January 15, 2026.
Accelerating Youth-Led Action in Addressing Climate Mobility in Africa. International Organization for Migration (IOM).
• Youth-led, community-driven solutions addressing the intersection of environmental degradation, disasters, climate change and human mobility.
• Youth-Led Civil Society Organisations (CSOs).
• Africa.
• Up to $15k grants.
• January 18, 2026.
Design Equality with Innovation. BE OPEN Foundation.
• Solutions that achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and support the achievement of the SDGs.
• Students and recent graduates/young professionals.
• All countries.
• Up to €5k prize.
• January 31, 2026.
INCiTiS-FOOD Open Call for Independent Innovators (IIs). European Commission.
• Applicant is expected to select one topic of the following: 1) High cost and limited availability of critical inputs for urban farming, 2) High market prices for fish and indigenous vegetables, 3) Inadequate technical capacity and support for operating and maintaining agri-aquaculture systems, 4) Environmental stresses and climate variability are affecting consistent production and food system stability, 5) Low awareness and adoption of circular food production tech and 6) Limited financial resources and institutional support to sustain and scale Living Lab activities.
• Individuals, start-ups and SMEs.
• Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
• Up to €3,500 grants.
• February 9, 2026.
Open Call for Knowledge Transfer. European Commission.
• Interactive, practice-oriented courses connecting researchers with farmers, producers, start-ups, and public health actors.
• Academies, national/regional authorities or agencies, public or private research funding organizations, research centres, research infrastructures, universities, NGOs.
• Africa and Europe.
• €25k grants.
• March 2, 2026.
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Funding Opportunities above $50k 👇
What’s below?
6 opportunities from $50k to $200k
2 opportunities from $200k to $1m
3 opportunities for more than $1,000,000
