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See below for the newest social impact funding opportunities in Africa and around the world.
2026 Mwangaza Award Pilot. Khaki Foundation.
• Recognises Tanzanian nonprofits delivering early childhood education in Pwani Region and Pemba North, rewarding at least three years of measurable, sustained impact, innovation, inclusion, and community engagement.
• Nonprofit organizations.
• Tanzania.
• Up to ~$18,909 (TZS 50 million) grant funding.
• November 10, 2026.
PayPal AI Hackathon. Devpost.
• Invites developers, founders, students, and designers worldwide to build working AI-powered applications or prototypes that meaningfully integrate PayPal technologies and APIs.
• Individuals of legal adult age, teams of eligible individuals, and legally established organisations, including for-profit and nonprofit entities.
• All countries.
• Up to $12k cash prizes.
• November 10, 2026.
Science for crisis response and solutions research continuity grants for Africa. UNESCO.
• Supports natural-science researchers whose work has been disrupted by conflict or natural or biological hazards, helping them resume or complete research, preserve scientific data, and rebuild research capacity.
• African researchers with at least a Master’s degree at recognised African universities or research institutes, particularly encouraging women, under-40 researchers, and those from African least developed countries and Small Island Developing States.
• Africa.
• Up to $2k grants.
• November 15, 2026.
Narrative Short Film Grant. The Film Fund.
• Funds writers and filmmakers to produce original narrative fiction short films of up to 15 minutes, through a one-sentence story pitch and brief production funding plan, with applicants required to own the underlying rights.
• Writers and filmmakers, at all levels of experience.
• All countries.
• Up to $10k grant funding.
• November 17, 2026.
Industrial Policy and Growth in Africa Project. African Economic Research Consortium (AERC).
• Supports early-career African and Africa-focused economists conducting rigorous research on industrialisation, firm productivity, investment, and industrial policy to inform economic strategies and strengthen research capacity.
• Requires lead applicants and co-applicants to hold a PhD in Economics or a related field awarded in 2016 or later, with confirmed data access; research teams, particularly African–international collaborations, female and Francophone/Lusophone economists, are encouraged.
• All countries.
• Up to $10k grant per commissioned study.
• November 21, 2026.
Story Grants to Report on Mining, Environment and Human Rights in Africa. Earth Journalism Network.
• Provides story grants to African journalists investigating underreported issues at the intersection of mining, environmental protection, and human rights, with emphasis on accountability, community impacts, and emerging solutions.
• Early-career and experienced journalists across print, online, television, and radio, including freelancers and staff from international, national, local, and community media, with professional reporting experience, particularly in mining, environmental, and human rights issues.
• Ghana, DRC, Uganda or South Africa.
• Up to 10 grants with budgets of up to $2k each.
• December 1, 2026.
Erase Indifference Challenge 2026. Erase Indifference.
• Recognises innovative, existing initiatives with measurable impact in combating indifference to discrimination, fostering empathy, challenging bystander inaction, and promoting inclusion and respect for diversity.
• Accepts ongoing, completed, or recurring initiatives, provided completed projects ended no earlier than December 2023 and the implementing organisation remains operational at the time of application.
• NGOs, startups, companies and public institutions.
• Excludes politically affiliated or funded applicants, organisations whose activities conflict with the Foundation’s mission, and initiatives focused solely on commercial profit, theoretical research without practical bystander action, or religious proselytising.
• All countries.
• Up to €20k grant award.
• December 4, 2026.
👇24 Funding Opportunities above $50k 👇
What’s below for our paid subscribers?
● 6 opportunities from $50k to $200k
● 13 opportunities from $200k to $1m
● 5 opportunity for more than $1,000,000
Including:
$50k for low-carbon solutions
€90k for agriTech innovation
€95k for climate adaptation innovation in Tanzania
$100k for economic and social sustainability
$250k for enterprise software innovation
$250k for climate and energy solutions
$450k for sector-agnostic tech
Millions for clean energy in Sub-Saharan Africa