Funding Opportunities - March 13, 2026
Inside: 27 grant programs including $400k for scaling digital solutions in clean energy, $100k in “rapid-fire”’startup funding, $80k for global conservation champions, & more!
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See below for the newest social impact funding opportunities in Africa and around the world.
Women In Tech Accelerator. Standard Chartered Bank Ghana.
• Women-led tech businesses.
• Ghanaian women owning at least 50% of a registered business. Women with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Ghana.
• Up to $10k in equity-free grants alongside personalized mentorship.
• March 27, 2026.
Call for Research Grant Proposals. Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM).
• Address agroecology principles and align with African agricultural priorities: 1) Agroecological Principles, 2) Policy Advocacy, 3) The role of agroecology in food and nutrition security and 4) Gender-sensitive outreach and social inclusion in agroecological practices.
• Students, early-career researchers, academic staff, farmer organizations, NGOs, or research institutes.
• Africa.
• Up to €5k grants. A maximum of 10 proposals will be funded under this call.
• March 30, 2026.
Youth Empowerment Fund (YEF). Global Youth Mobilization (GYM).
• Youth-led initiatives focusing on the implementation of the SDGs at the local level.
• Young individuals (aged 14 to 30), informal groups or registered youth-led organizations.
• See full list of eligible countries here.
• Up to €5k grant fumding.
• March 31, 2026.
Marine Conservation Finance in the Western Indian Ocean. Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA).
• Applied, field-based research proposals that contribute to strengthening marine conservation finance.
• Early Career Ocean Professionals (ECOPs), or currently enrolled in an ongoing Master’s or PhD programme at a recognized institution within a WIO country.
• WIO countries: Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa, Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and France.
• Up to $6k grants.
• March 31, 2026.
Become an All Good Venture. All Good Venture.
• Exclusively fund social enterprises that are people-centric, not planet-focused, enterprises that primarily serves an environmental cause are not eligible.
• Put eventual profits towards bringing freedom to people who lack equal access to one or more of life’s basic requirements: food and/or water, clothing, shelter, healthcare, education, safety, employment, or other.
• Social enterprises in the pre-seed, seed or early stages of development.
• All countries.
• Up to ~$11,756 ($20,000 NZD) grants alongside a year of business mentoring.
• March 31, 2026.
Seed Grant for New African Principal Investigators (SG-NAPI). UNESCO-The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).
• Promising high-level research projects in Agriculture, Biology, Chemistry, Earth sciences, Engineering, Information Computer Technology, Mathematics, Medical Sciences and Physics and/or Germany’s High-Tech Agenda carried out in African countries lagging in science and technology identified by TWAS.
• Early career researchers (be 40 years old or younger) who have obtained their PhD abroad and have recently returned or will shortly return to an academic position in their home country.
• Select countries in Western Africa, Eastern Africa, Central Africa and Southern Africa. See full list here under eligibility criteria.
• Up to $20k grants.
• March 31, 2026.
Research Grants. Waltham Petcare Science Institute.
• To promote innovation and the use of humane scientific studies that make a better world for pets and for their owners.
• All scientific researchers, including those at the early stages of their careers.
• All countries.
• Up to £25k grant awards.
• March 31, 2026.
Conservation Project Funding Call 2026. European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA).
• Projects must conserve, protect, enhance, restore, and/or reconnect habitats within a given landscape that are particularly important for the biodiversity there.
• Non-profit institutions.
• All countries except the United States and Canada.
• Up to €30k grants per project.
• March 31, 2026.
Excellence in Science Communications. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
• For individuals who are working on the frontlines of science communication, science journalism, or practicing research, and who can demonstrate the potential or ability to develop high-quality, engaging science communications or reporting.
• Science communicators, journalists and research scientists.
• All countries.
• Up to $40k prizes.
• April 3, 2026.
Elevating Global Innovative Organizations. Intercultural Innovation Hub.
• Innovative projects advancing intercultural dialogue, integration and social inclusion e.g. promoting gender equality, preventing xenophobia, violent extremism, and hate speech, promoting the use of sport, art and culture as tools to drive social change and foster social inclusion, supporting the LGBTQI+ community and championing gender diversity, advocating for disability inclusion, and using AI and new technologies at the service of humanity.
• Not-for-profit organizations.
• Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.
• Up to $20k grant.
• April 15, 2026.
Call for Solutions 2026. Youth4Climate.
• Climate action focused projects: 1) Sustainable Energy; 2) Food & Agriculture; 3) Climate, Peace and Security; 4) Oceans and Blue Economy; 5) Sustainable Fashion and Textiles; 6) Architecture for Adaptation.
• Youth-led civil society organization, NGOs, community-based organization, or company with the majority of the organization’s leadership being young people aged 18 to 29 years.
• Countries listed in the Annex of the Call for Solutions Guidelines document. See full list here.
• Up to $30k in seed funding.
• April 30, 2026.
ACU Gender Grants. The Association of Commonwealth Universities.
• Initiatives that will boost gender equity and equality on campus.
• Staff members of ACU member universities.
• ACU countries. See full list here.
• Five grants of up to £2k.
• May 8, 2026.
Turn Your Agribusiness Idea Into Impact. Agri-Business Facility for Africa.
• A viable, climate-smart business concept, related to cocoa, maize, cashew, or livestock (cattle, sheep, goats).
• Young and emerging agripreneurs, aged 18 and above.
• Member states of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS). See full list here.
• Stand a chance to win €2k or mentoring or tablet/laptop.
• May 31, 2026.
A Global Call to Visionaries. The Sigourney Award.
• Work that strengthens and reimagines psychoanalysis, whether your contribution is clinical, theoretical, creative, interdisciplinary, or social in nature.
• Clinicians, Theorists, Teachers and researchers, Artists, writers, filmmakers, and musicians, Social advocates, Interdisciplinary professionals and Organizations and teams.
• All countries.
• Up to $30k monetary prize.
• July 31, 2026.
👇 13 Funding Opportunities above $50k 👇
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Funding Opportunities above $50k
What’s below?
8 opportunities from $50k to $200k
5 opportunities from $200k to $1m
Including:
- $80k for empowerment-focused innovations in South Africa
- $80k for global conservation champions- $100k in “rapid-fire” startup funding
- $400k for scalable digital innovations supporting clean energy access
- $450k for sustainable development initiatives in OPEC countries
