Funding Opportunities - June 12, 2026
Inside: 44 grant & investment programs including $400k for blue economy, $100k for maternal and infant health research, $100k for broadening educational access, & more!
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See below for the newest social impact funding opportunities in Africa and around the world.
Amplify Kenya. Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF).
• Assists Kenya-based independent media through capacity building, leadership-focused development and network building within the broader East Africa media landscape.
• Access to a range of capacity-building activities, one-on-one coaching, opportunities to learn from experts, workshops and bespoke training.
• Early-stage new actors and digital-first outlets as well as more mature media companies pivoting to a new revenue model or adding a new revenue line.
• Kenya.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
The Next Wave Fund. Kickstarter.
• Early-stage tech startups and small businesses building bold new ideas across hardware, software, gaming, and connected technology.
• Entrepreneur or small business with fewer than 20 full-time employees.
• At least one member of your team is a citizen, resident, or O-1 visa holder in the United States.
• A $10k pledge when project goes live on Kickstarter alongside training and Opportunities for marketing exposure and promotion.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
The RCDIJ Africa Fund. Ripples Centre for Data and Investigate Journalism (RCDIJ).
• Small to mid-scale data and/or investigative journalism projects spanning a wide range of areas consistent with our objectives, including education, health, security, environment, democracy, corruption, economy, migration, technology, culture and development.
• Individual journalists: Employed/Freelance, Online, Print, Broadcast, Photo, Cartoon, Multimedia.
• Africa.
• Up to $10k grant funding.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Orange Summer Challenge 2026. Orange Digital Center.
• Scale your AI solution and turn real-world challenges into business opportunities.
• Impactful technology project: Have a technological project idea aligned with the AI as a Business Accelerator theme, integrating an AI component (or based on AI) and addressing a real and concrete business need.
• Startups and young talents.
• Burkina Faso, Botswana, DRC, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Egypt, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Jordan, Liberia, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Tunisia and the Middle East.
• Financial grants, physical gifts, technological support, as well as mentoring with Orange's business teams
• June 20, 2026.
Youth Voices Third-Party Funding Mechanism. AU EU Youth Voices Lab.
• Supports youth-led organizations and groups working to amplify the voices of hard-to-reach young people and strengthen youth-led advocacy across Africa and Europe.
• To co-create a more inclusive and youth-responsive society across Africa and Europe.
• Youth-led organizations and groups.
• Cameroon, Burundi, South Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Tunisia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso and Belgium.
• Up to €10k grants.
• June 29, 2026.
The Japan Water Forum Fund 2026. Japan Water Forum.
• Aims to help solve of local water-related issues in developing countries by assisting in the implementation of sustainable solutions led by grassroots organizations.
• Grassroots organizations (locali NGOs and NPOs).
• Least Developed Country (LDC), Low Income Country (LIC), Lower Middle-Income Country (LMIC) according to the OECD’s DAC list.
• Up to $1,500 grants.
• June 30, 2026.
Dean Amadon Research Grant. Raptor Research Foundation.
• Persons working on the distribution and systematics, or taxonomy, of raptors.
• Systematics covers a wide array of interests from molecular work to differential migration of populations from various geographic regions, for example distribution also covers a wide array of interests but should have something to do with where raptors live or why they are there.
• Conservationists.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k plus waived page charges allowing the recipient to publish their research in the Journal of Raptor Research.
• June 30, 2026.
Leslie Brown Research Grant. Raptor Research Foundation.
• To promote the research and the dissemination of information on African birds of prey.
• Conservationists.
• All countries, focus on African raptors.
• Up to $5k plus waived page charges allowing the recipient to publish their research in the Journal of Raptor Research.
• June 30, 2026.
Working for Birds and Conservation in Africa. African Bird Club (ABC).
• Bird conservation. You should include: For species-based projects, the IUCN conservation status of the species involved, For site-based projects, a description of the habitat types, current threats and whether the area has any designation such as that of a protected area or Important Bird Area.
• Conservationists.
• Africa.
• Up to $5k grants.
• June 30, 2026.
2027 Lisle Global Seed Grant. Lisle International.
• Innovative projects which advance intercultural understanding through shared experiences, with the goal of creating a more just social order.
• Projects may seek to bridge a variety of community divides, including ethnic, cultural, religious, racial or gender perspectives.
• Well-defined intercultural projects by small and young organizations.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants.
• June 30, 2026.
2026 FNF Afri GreenPitch Challenge. Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF).
• Economically viable green economy solutions: Circular economy and waste, renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, sustainable mobility, water and wastewater.
• Solution needs to be in at least the pre-growth (registered, trading and sales-generating – looking for funding) phase.
• Innovators and entrepreneurs.
• Botswana, eSwatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Tanzania.
• A range of cash and in-kind prizes to the value of ~$20k.
• June 30, 2026.
TWAS-CAS Young Scientists Award for Frontier Science. UNESCO-TWAS.
• Achievements in Astronomy and Cosmology.
• Self nominations and nominations from jury members will not be considered.
• Young scientists (not older than 45 years of age).
• Developing Countries in the South. See full list here.
• $10k grant award.
• June 30, 2026.
2027 Global Pluralism Award. Global Pluralism Award.
• Inspiring and brave work that is helping to build more inclusive societies where diversity is valued and protected. Apply or nominate a candidate.
• Candidates from any sector are eligible, including: Civil society organizations (e.g., NGOs, trade professional associations, faith-based organizations, labour unions, social movements, think tanks, and research or institutes, networks and platforms, faith-based organizations, etc), Social enterprises, Corporations (public or private), Educational, health, research and policy institutions (public or private), Individuals (e.g., artists, entrepreneurs, journalists, academics, policymakers, filmmakers, etc.).
• All countries.
• ~$35,864 (CAD 50k) monetary prize: a total prize pool of CAD 150k equally divided among 3 Award winners.
• July 10, 2026.
Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards 2026. Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF).
• Practical initiatives that place gender equality and women’s rights at the heart of climate action
• Categories: 1) Technical Climate Solutions: Gender-responsive solutions in sectors such as water, renewable energy, food production, digitalization, and waste reduction, 2) Non-Technical Climate Solutions: Projects promoting behavioural change, mutual learning, and capacity-building with a gender-responsive lens and 3) Transformative Climate Initiatives: Efforts targeting governance and institutional or social change that challenge patriarchal norms.
• Activist, grassroots, and civil society organisations and groups.
• Global South.
• A €5k cash prize.
• July 12, 2026.
Inclusive AI Innovations in Africa. Assistant Technologies for Disability Trust.
• Assistant technology for daily living, mobility, navigation, communication. AI ventures that are post-MVP/market ready, serving people with disabilities or their caregivers.
• Priority sectors: 1) Education, 2) Empoyment, 3) Mental health, 4) Other AT.
• AI ventures.
• Africa.
• Up to ~$38,651 (KES 5m) grant alongside technical, business and market support.
• July 17, 2026.
Moses Mapesa Research Grant. African World Heritage Fund (AWHF).
• To support African doctoral and master's students conducting research in the field of natural and cultural heritage.
• Seeks to strengthen academic engagement and build a new generation of African experts dedicated to the protection, conservation, and sustainable management of the continent’s rich heritage.
• Students who are: Currently or will be registered in 2027 in a Doctoral or Master's programme (Masters 2 for Francophone countries) at an African university.
• Africa.
• Up to $5k grants.
• July 31, 2026.
Biodiversity Conservation. Play for Nature.
• Biodiversity conservation project aimed at protecting an endangered species (on the IUCN Red List) and raising awareness of its protection, through the practice of a sport or the organization of a sporting event.
• Sport must be integrated within an overall biodiversity conservation project, in particular through educational and awareness-raising actions targeting citizens and local authorities.
• Civil society organisation (CSO), NGO.
• All countries.
• Up to €5k grants.
• August 16, 2026.
👇 27 Funding Opportunities above $50k 👇
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Funding Opportunities above $50k
What’s below?
● 13 opportunities from $50k to $200k
● 10 opportunities from $200k to $1m
● 4 opportunities for more than $1,000,000
Including:
- $100k for broadening educational access (U.S. and Nigeria)
- $100k for maternal and infant health research
- $400k for blue economy
