Funding Opportunities - June 5, 2026
Inside: 18 grant & investment programs including $500k for AI-powered businesses, $100k for sustainability-focused innovation, $100k for Alzheimer’s research, & more!
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Grants and investment opportunities from $50k to $10m+ -> premium.
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See below for the newest social impact funding opportunities in Africa and around the world.
OPay Innovation Challenge 2026. OPay.
• Empowers Nigeria's brightest undergraduates to create tech solutions that transform Africa.
• Must have downloaded the Gemini App and initiated basic prompts within Gemini.
• Must be an undergraduate student offering any course of study in a Nigerian Tertiary Institution.
• Nigeria.
• Up to ~$7,322 (₦10m project grant + ₦300k Scholarship Award) alongside mentorship.
• June 14, 2026.
Call for Nominations: 2026 NRF Awards. National Research Foundation.
• Individuals whose work demonstrates outstanding scholarly achievement, innovation, and leadership, while advancing transformation within the national research system.
• Categories: 1) Lifetime Achievement Award, 2) Public Engagement with Research Award, 3) Hamilton Naki Award, 4) Research Excellence Award for Next Generation Researchers, 5) Research Excellence Award for Early Career / Emerging Researchers, 6) Champion of Research Capacity Development and Transformation Award and 7) Science Team Award.
• Individuals, researchers.
• South Africa.
• Up to ~$30,719 (R500 000) grants.
• June 15, 2026.
Mobility Challenge for AI-Driven Cybersecurity Startups. Maruti Suzuki.
• AI-driven, automation-first cybersecurity solutions to enhance enterprise-wide security resilience across Maruti Suzuki’s digital ecosystem.
• Aims to transform the Indian mobility space by engaging with startups in growth stage and supporting a faster GTM.
• Established startups that have reached a mature stage and are ready to deploy their solution(s).
• All countries.
• Up to ~$5,249(₹5,00,000) cash rewards alongside mentorship and an opportunity to co-create with Maruti Suzuki.
• June 25, 2026.
11th Call for Small Research Grants. Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG).
• Broad systemic patterns and processes of structural transformation and growth for low-income countries. Cross-cutting issues: a) Gender, b) Climate change and the environment and c) Inequality and inclusion.
• Six research themes: 1) Data, measurement, and conceptual framing, 2) Firms, frictions and spillovers, and industrial policy, 3) Labour, home production, and structural transformation at the level of households, 4) Agricultural productivity and sectoral gaps, 5) Trade and spatial frictions; 6) The role of the public sector.
• Principal investigators, have a PhD or be enrolled in a PhD programme.
• All countries, relevance to policy in low-income countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Up to £25k grants.
• June 29, 2026.
👇 14 Funding Opportunities above $50k 👇
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Funding Opportunities above $50k
What’s below?
● 7 opportunities from $50k to $200k
● 4 opportunities from $200k to $1m
● 3 opportunities for more than $1,000,000
Including:
- $100k for sustainability-focused innovation
- $100k for Alzheimer’s research
- $100k in building capacity for positive change
- $250k in preserving heritage for resilient ecosystems
- $500k for AI-powered businesses
