Funding Opportunities - November 14, 2025

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Africa Digital Rights Funding. CIPESA.
• Activities that promote digital rights and digital democracy, including advocacy, litigation, research, policy analysis, skills development, and movement building.
• Human rights defenders, media, activists, think tanks, legal aid groups, and tech hubs. Entities working on women’s rights, or with youth, refugees, persons with disabilities, and other marginalised groups are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Africa.
• Up to $25k grant.
• November 17, 2025.

2025 African Business Challenge. Africa Business Club.
• Opportunity to pitch, achieve visibility, and compete for monetary help to speed up enterprise development.
• Viable business model with a minimum of 1 year in operation but less than 5 years at the time of application submission.
• Early-stage startups.
• Africa.
• Up to $2,500 cash prize.
• November 20, 2025.

Transforming menstrual health markets. M Ventures.
• Helping menstrual health enterprises to expand their product choice and market access to reusable- and more sustainable single-use menstrual products, such as those made with biodegradable, compostable, or reduced-plastic materials.
• Established business – at minimum you have a minimum viable product (MVP) launched and first sales generated.
• East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia.
• Up to $30k catalytic grant funding alongside tailored technical assistance.
• November 21, 2025.

Innovate4Children:Out of School Children Challenge. UNICEF StartUp Lab.
• An innovative and affordable solution that accurately tracks enrolment, retention, and learning of out-of-school children in Ghana.
• Innovators.
• Ghana.
• $5k prototype funding grant.
• November 21, 2025.

Exploration Co-Lab 2026 Cohort: Edges of Possibility. Unearthodox.
• Designed for people working on today’s nature-society challenges while exploring transformative ideas that cross conventional boundaries.
• Especially welcome underrepresented voices from the global majority and historically excluded communities.
• Both individuals and organisations. Innovators with an early-stage idea already in motion. Not designed for projects that prioritise speed, growth, or profit above purpose.
• All countries.
• ~$12,416 (CHF 10k) grant funding alongside CHF 60k in non-financial but tailored support.
• November 25, 2025.

Phoenix Open Call: Sustaining HIV Services in Resource-Constrained Settings. Inspire.
• Anyone with an idea or insight on sustaining HIV services in resource-constrained settings is eligible to submit. By sustainability, we mean the long-term maintenance and continued use of effective HIV prevention and control infrastructure.
• Individuals, community organizations, NGOs, universities, health institutions, policymakers, or researchers.
• All countries.
• Up to $10k cash prizes.
• November 30, 2025.

AI Ventures Accelerator Program. Technovation.
• Fast-tracks teams of young women (interested in technology and AI) from idea to investor-ready AI venture.
• No prior coding or AI experience required.
• A team of young women aged 19-24 (teams of 2-4 preferred, solo founders also welcome).
• Recent graduates, students, budding entrepreneurs, and anyone with a strong interest in AI and technology problem-solving.
• India, Nigeria, Mexico or the US.
• $10k in equity-free seed funding.
• November 30, 2025.

AI for Financial Resilience. Mercy Corps Ventures.
• Scales solutions such as AI-driven insurance, parametric credit, savings via bond tokenization, and anticipatory cash transfers and remittances, aiming to improve financial access, economic resilience, and trust in digital finance.
• Unbanked and underbanked populations, with a strong emphasis on low-income individuals, women, immigrants, and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs).
• Startups.
• Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Up to $50k equity free funding.
• December 1, 2025.

Emerging Researcher Award: Pilot Grant. CMT Research Foundation.
• Projects that address key barriers in CMT drug development.
• Research projects rooted in good science with high potential to generate meaningful preliminary data. This funding aims to encourage early-stage ideas that could lead to significant advancements.
• Researchers who have completed their terminal degree (MD, PhD, etc.) no more than 10 years before the application deadline.
• Must have the resources and ability to conduct independent research under the mentorship of a PI. The proposed research must be independent of the PI’s ongoing research or concepts that have not been previously funded.
• All countries.
• $75k grant.
• LOI deadline: December 1, 2025.

Circular Business Awards by the EU CERC. Sitra.
• Celebrates best practices in the circular economy.
• Each year, 2 circular business prizes awarded: 1) for a circular business in a specific sector and 2) for a young woman entrepreneur on any sector (in 2026, Electronics & ICT sector).
• Micro-, small or medium size company, active for at least 3 years.
• ODA eligible countries.
• Up to €10k prize.
• December 7, 2025.

Orange Corners Nigeria Incubation Programme. Orange Corners Nigeria.
• Transform your innovative idea into a thriving business with a 6-month incubation programme.
• Young entrepreneurs aged 18-35.
• Nigeria.
• Up to €30k funding alongside business incubation & advisory.
• December 7, 2025.

Nature Intelligence for Business Grand Challenge. Conservation X Labs.
• Solutions that enable SMEs to access nature intelligence and better understand their nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks, and opportunities.
• Proof-of-concept at submission and a prototype ready for user testing by January. Pre-seed stage solutions are eligible as long as they can reach prototype level in time.
• Individuals, startups, SMEs, universities, nonprofits, and associations. Governments at any level are not eligible.
• All countries.
• Up to $25k grants.
• December 15, 2025.

Nominations open for Simon Wiesenthal Prize 2025. Simon Wiesenthal Prize.
• Outstanding civic engagement to combat antisemitism and/or promote Holocaust education.
• Self nomination or be nominated by a third party.
• Individuals and groups from civil society civil society organisations, non-profits, NGOs, students and student groups, cultural organisations, educational and training institutions; youth organisations.
• All countries.
• Up to €15k prize.
• December 19, 2025.

WASCAL’s Innovative Ideas Competition for Sustainable Energy (WISE). WASCAL.
• To support the implementation of innovative projects and development & research ideas regarding renewable energy (RE) and green hydrogen (GH2) in West Africa.
• Any individual or group of young people (Students, academics, practitioners, scientists, technologists, entrepreneurs, associations…).
• West African Countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
• Up to €20k grant.
• December 31, 2025.

2026 Aguka Ideation Programme. The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF).
• Youth-led ventures in technology, agriculture, health, education, and renewable energy.
• Young entrepreneurs.
• Rwanda.
• $3k in non-refundable seed funding.
• January 11, 2026.

WIN WIN Youth Award. WIN WIN Gothenburg Sustainability Award.
• Celebrates the efforts of young changemakers between the ages of 13 and 29 who have developed inspiring sustainability solutions.
• Youth.
• All countries.
• ~$5,291 (50,000 SEK) award.
• January 11, 2026.

Innovative Student Research Grant Program. Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis (SABA).
• Students in psychology or behavior analysis doctoral programs and students in psychology or behavior analysis master’s programs that can support applied or basic research in the experimental analysis of behavior.
• Applicants may not apply for an Innovative Student Research Grant and a Bijou Grant in the same year.
• Doctoral and Master’s students in a department of psychology, education, behavioral science, or an allied discipline.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants.
• January 14, 2026.

Public Awareness Grant Program. Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis (SABA).
• Projects designed to deliver messaging focused on behavior science and behavior analytic solutions to important problems. Messaging should be grounded in scientific evidence and target an audience that has not yet been reached by existing initiatives.
• Individuals.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants.
• January 14, 2026.

International Development Grant. Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis (SABA).
• To increase opportunities for individuals and organizations for the development and/or dissemination of behavior analysis internationally.
• Individuals or organizations, must be formally affiliated with a university or institution.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants.
• January 14, 2026.

Innovative Student Research Grant in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis (SABA).
• To support graduate-level study of issues relevant to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in behavior analysis.
• Enrolled or have been accepted in a graduate program in a department of psychology, education, behavioral science, or an allied discipline.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants.
• January 14, 2026.

Microcredentials Grant. Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis (SABA).
• To strengthen the quality of both the science and practice of behavior analysis by developing microcredentials that target foundational training in the behavior-analytic science.
• Potential microcredentials could include (a) assessment of skills that individuals already possess or (b) a combination of a programmatic learning experience followed by demonstration of the specific skill.
• Individuals within programs that are within the Tiered Model of Education (ABAI Accredited or ABAI Recognized).
• All countries.
• Up to $10k grant.
• January 14, 2026.

Sidney W. and Janet R. Bijou Grant Program. Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis (SABA).
• Emergence of and progressive changes in and across behavioral repertoires and the function of the relevant contextual, organismic, and historical variables. The research should directly relate to or inform child development, including basic animal processes for neurotypical development.
• Applicants may not apply for a Bijou Grant and an Innovative Student Research Grant in the same year.
• Doctoral students in departments of psychology, education, behavior analysis, or other disciplines that support research in behavioral development.
• All countries.
• $12k grants.
• January 14, 2026.

The IYBA-WE4A Entrepreneurship Programme. The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF).
• Aims to empower women entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa by enhancing their access to finance and business knowledge. It focuses on green businesses and seeks to drive economic inclusion, job creation, and sustainable development.
• Women entrepreneurs operating green businesses (0–5 years old).
• Senegal, Togo, Malawi, Uganda, Cameroon, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania.
• Up to $5k seed capital alongside training and mentoring.
• January 25, 2026.

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