Funding Opportunities - May 14, 2025

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New Commons Challenge.
• Develop or further develop a data commons for AI. “Data commons for AI” - collaboratively governed data ecosystems designed to aggregate and provide responsible access to diverse, high-quality datasets to enable the development and deployment of generative AI applications that address public interest challenges.
• Priority areas: Strengthen Disaster Response; Enabling Localized Decision-Making.
• Global.
• Eligible to nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, start-ups, and development organizations.
• 2 winners. $100k each.
• June 2, 2025.

Youth Fund. Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
• Funding organizations who work with young people (14–25) to drive change so that future generations of young people can thrive.
• Eligible to non-profit and for-profit organizations where at least 50% of the organization’s focus is on work with and for 14–25 year olds.
• 50k£.
• Rolling applications.

Foster Community Philanthropy Grants. Global Fund Community.
• Eligible to community philanthropy organizations, community foundations, women’s funds, environmental funds, national public foundations, or grassroots grant-makers.
• Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, or Latin America and the Caribbean.
• $20k.
• Rolling applications.

Call for Proposals EMF Research. Swiss Research Foundation for Electricity and Mobile Communication (FSM).
• Supporting innovative research on EMF-technologies and associated electromagnetic fields focusing on short-, medium- and long-term impacts on health, society, and environment.
• Focusing on research projects investigating exposure to high-frequency electro-magnetic fields from new satellite communication applications.
• Eligible to public and private (domestic and foreign) research institutions and researchers.
• CHF 150k (about 181k USD).
• June 30, 2025.

Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 6. One Young World.
• Make innovative use of digital technology and AI to reach more people and enable access to water, sanitation, and hygiene on a wide scale.
• Promote good hand hygiene practices and reduce water-borne diseases.
• Help us tackle WASH related challenges in our value chain supporting Reckitt's Water positive agenda e.g. water recycling and reuse at factories.
• Solution must be founded by a person aged 18 – 30, and proven scalable.
• $50k.
• May 26, 2025.

Call for Solutions. Youth4Climate.
• Supporting youth-led climate solutions in 6 thematic areas.
• Open to youth ( aged 18 to 29) from 159 countries and territories covered by UNDP.
• Eligible to legally registered, youth-led civil society organization (CSO), non-governmental organization (NGO), community-based organization (CBO), or company with the majority of the organization’s leadership being young people aged 18-29 years at the time of submitting the application.
• $30k.
• May 26, 2025.

Digital Transformation for Universal Health Coverage. Global Development Network.
• Supports the career advancement of researchers in the Global South
• Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
• Health, digital health.
• Eligible to social science researchers and NGO’s and CSO’s.
• $30k- $50k.
• June 18, 2025.

I4N AWARD. Innovate 4 Nature.
• Awarding solutions that promote a vibrant ecosystem and inspire transformative thinking towards a regenerative economy.
• 4 themes: Sustainable Management of Ecosystems; Nature as infrastructure and planet-compatible cities; Productive and Regenerative Agriculture; Circular nature-positive solutions.
• Global.
• Pre-seed and seed stage
• CHF 20k (about 30k USD).
• June 12, 2025.

Standard Chartered Women in Tech Cohort 8 Program. Women in Tech.
• Accelerator for women in Tech.
• Eligible to women between 18-35 years of age with Kenyan nationality or permanent residency.
• Startups must be legally registered, for-profit, 1–10 employees) and with an annual revenue between KES 500k – 1m.
• $10k.

Startup Innovation Awards. WFF.
• Global competition showcasing entrepreneurs who are using the power of technology to transform agri-food systems to end global hunger and achieve the United Nations' SDGs.
• Agritech.
•Eligible to startups with a minimal viable product.
• $80k.
• May 22, 2025.

The Canada Fund for Local Initiatives – Liberia (2025). Government of Canada.
• Supports small-scale, high-impact projects in developing countries, aligning with Global Affairs Canada’s thematic priorities.
• Projects must align with at least one of the following thematic priorities: inclusive governance, including diversity, and marginalized groups, democracy, human rights and the rule of law; growth that works for everyone, including women's economic rights, decent jobs and entrepreneurship, investing in the poorest and most vulnerable, and safeguarding economic gains; peace and security, with a focus on conflict prevention and building peace.
• Eligible recipients include local non-governmental, community, and not-for-profit organizations; local academic institutions; international NGOs working on local development activities; intergovernmental, multilateral, and regional institutions; municipal, regional, or national government institutions or agencies of the recipient country; and Canadian NGOs and not-for-profit organizations working on local development activities.
• Liberia.
• CAD $100k for 1 year projects.
• May 25, 2025.

The Canada Fund for Local Initiatives – Côte d’Ivoire (2025). Government of Canada.
• Supports small-scale, high-impact projects in developing countries, aligning with Global Affairs Canada’s thematic priorities.
• Projects must align with at least one of the following thematic priorities: peace and security, with a focus on conflict prevention and building peace, including disinformation and the role that women can play as agents of reconciliation, living together and peace; inclusive governance, including women, girls, youth, and marginalized groups, democracy, human rights and the rule of law; environment and climate action focusing on adaptation and mitigation for growth that works for everyone.
• Eligible recipients include local non-governmental, community and not-for-profit organizations, local academic institutions working on local projects, municipal, regional or national government institutions or agencies of the recipient country working on local projects.
• Côte d’Ivoire.
• CAD $100k for 1 year projects.
• May 25, 2025.

The Canada Fund for Local Initiatives – Burkina Faso (2025). Government of Canada.
• Supports small-scale, high-impact projects in developing countries, aligning with Global Affairs Canada’s thematic priorities.
• Projects must align with at least one of the following thematic priorities: inclusive governance, including democracy, human rights and the rule of law; peace and security, with a focus on conflict prevention and building peace; growth that works for everyone, including women's economic rights, decent jobs and entrepreneurship, investing in the poorest and most vulnerable, and safeguarding economic gains.
• Eligible recipients include local non-governmental, community and not-for-profit organizations, local academic institutions working on local projects; international non-governmental organizations working on local development activities; intergovernmental, multilateral and regional institutions, organizations and agencies working on local development activities, Canadian non-governmental and not-for-profit organizations that are working on local development activities.
• Burkina Faso.
• CAD $100k for 1 year projects.
• May 31, 2025.

The Canada Fund for Local Initiatives – Benin (2025). Government of Canada.
• Supports small-scale, high-impact projects in developing countries, aligning with Global Affairs Canada’s thematic priorities.
• Projects must align with at least one of the following thematic priorities:inclusive governance, including democracy, human rights and the rule of law; peace and security, with a focus on conflict prevention and building peace; growth that works for everyone, including women's economic rights, decent jobs and entrepreneurship, investing in the poorest and most vulnerable, and safeguarding economic gains.
• Eligible recipients include local non-governmental, community, and not-for-profit organizations; local academic institutions; international NGOs working on local development activities; intergovernmental, multilateral, and regional institutions; municipal, regional, or national government institutions or agencies of the recipient country; and Canadian NGOs and not-for-profit organizations working on local development activities.
• Benin.
• CAD $100k for 1 year projects.
• May 31, 2025.

Lemur Conservation in Madagascar. Save Our Species.
• Protect threatened lemurs in Madagascar.
• Eligible to local or international non-profit organizations, or a local or national civil society organizations (CSOs).
• Madagascar.
• 10 awards, CHF 100k each.
• July 9, 2025.

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