Funding Opportunities - November 7, 2025

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216 Capital Venture Accelerator. 216 Capital.
• Designed to help pre-seed tech companies achieve their number one goal: investment readiness.
• Companies that have secured first clients or early traction.
• Pre-seed stage tech company. Product developed at a functional prototype/MVP stage or beyond.
• Tunisia.
• €50k in initial funding, with the possibility of larger follow-on investments for the most promising projects.
• November 9, 2025.

Call for EOI: To Implement an Early Childhood Care and Education Project in Kenya. Ruma CPA.
• Seeks to partner with a local organization with proven expertise in the education and health sector to implement a multi-annual ECCE project in one of the identified geographical regions.
• Organizations must be legally registered in Kenya with a proven track record in the education particularly ECCE, child protection and child development sectors.
• Kenya.
• Up to €70k funding.
• November 9, 2025.

TigerLaunch 2025. TigerLaunch.
• Compete and pitch your startup. Student-run entrepreneurship competition. Student-founders.
• Current undergrad or grad students, college/university, Any industry or stage (including pre-seed).
• All countries.
• Up to $60k in equity-free prizes.
• November 9, 2025.

Capacity Building Grant. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
• Finances community-led initiatives to address 5 critical threats to the global environment: 1) biodiversity loss, 2) climate change, 3) land degradation, 4) international waters and 5) chemicals.
• Aims to strengthen skills, knowledge sharing, and environmental sustainability. Ensure gender and youth inclusion.
• Civil Society Organizations this includes NGOs, Community-based Organizations, Research, Academia and Faith Based Institutions. Does not fund individuals or private companies.
• Zimbabwe.
• Up to $75k grant.
• November 10, 2025.

Pitch2Scale 2025 Competition. Mentor Matchup Challenge (MMC).
• To provide ambitious African entrepreneurs with a platform to showcase and pitch their ventures to investors, business leaders, and policymakers.
• 1) Agribusiness, 2) Manufacturing, 3) ⁠Energy, 4) Hospitality & Tourism and 5) Creative Economy.
• Africa.
• $10k in investment funding, along with strategic support to accelerate growth.
• November 15, 2025.

Direct Aid Program. Australian High Commission Mauritius.
• Activities that achieve sustainable and inclusive development.
• 1) Climate, oceans, environmental protection and/or promoting biodiversity 2) Governance, education and/or economic empowerment, 3) Gender equality, social inclusion and the protection of minority and/or human rights and 4) Disaster and/or livelihoods resilience (including food, water and health security).
• Proposals that have a disability focus are encouraged.
• Not-for-profits, community groups, NGOs.
• Mauritius, Comoros and Madagascar.
• Up to ~$39,294 (AUD60k) grant.
• November 23, 2025.

Climate Democracy Accelerator. People Powered.
• Seeking government and civil society leaders to join a new cohort of innovators who want to launch participatory programs that shape climate policy, with a focus on regenerative agriculture, renewable energy, and just transitions.
• A six-month, practice-oriented training and support program.
• Governmental institutions, civil society organizations or NGOs.
• All countries. Priority: Brazil, Indonesia, India, Mexico, South Africa.
• Up to $25k grant.
• November 30, 2025.

STEG PhD Research Grants. Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG).
• Focused around three cross-cutting issues that are simultaneously relevant to many areas of structural transformation: 1) Gender, 2) Climate change and the environment and 3) Inequality and inclusion.
• PhD students. Research relevant to policy in low-income countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
• All countries. Encourage applications that propose collaboration between researchers from LMICs.
• Up to £15k grants.
• December 1, 2025.

GenAI for Good Challenge. IEEE.
• Connecting innovators and changemakers to tackle real-world problems in health, agriculture, and climate resilience.
• Centers on 3 real-world use cases, each tied to a UN SDG and shaped by the needs of local priorities, choose one focus area: 1) Agriculture Extension Chatbot; Lesotho, 2) Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) Prevention Chatbot; The Gambia and 3) Extreme Weather Advisor; Bangladesh.
• All countries.
• Up to $25k funding.
• December 1, 2025.

Czech Challenge Fund. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
• Aims to respond to the development challenges by transferring innovative solutions for SDGs.
• Circular economy, Climate Resilience and Environmental Sustainability, Livelihoods, Inclusive Economic Transformation, Green Economy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Good Governance.
• Private sector, NGOs, universities, state institutions or research centres.
• Bosnia and Herzegovina, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Georgia, Kingdom of Cambodia, Republic of Moldova, Republic of Zambia.
• Up to $40k prize.
• December 1, 2025.

Human Trafficking Research Initiative Seed Grants Round 4. Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA).
• Interventions to reduce human trafficking or respond to the needs of human trafficking victims.
• Must focus on one or both forms of trafficking in persons as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (as amended): 1) Sex Trafficking and 2) Forced Labor.
• Researchers and organizations developing research on anti-trafficking interventions.
• All countries.
• Up to $75k grants.
• December 4, 2025.

Conservation Finance Alliance (CFA) Incubator - Round 4. Conservation Finance Alliance (CFA).
• A novel, finance-based approach to a conservation challenge that delivers measurable conservation outcomes or sustained financing.
• For profits, non-profits, independent entrepreneurs, public or civil society.
• All countries.
• Up to $25k grants alongside an intensive training and mentorship program.
• December 20, 2025.

2026 Startup Innovation Challenge. Energie AG Oberösterreich.
• Innovative ideas, newest technology and creative approaches to help push the energy industry to the next level.
• Topics: 1) Digital Customer Service World, 2) Renewables SiteFinder; Boosting Wind and PV transition with AI Solutions and 3) AI Enabled Energy Audit and Consulting for SMEs.
• Well-established startups or companies with a minimum team size of three employees that have moved beyond the initial ideation phase.
• All countries.
• Up to €50k funding.
• January 4, 2026.

Wild Bird Health Grant Opportunity. Association of Avian Veterinarians (AAV).
• Pre-proposals for research projects addressing wild bird health.
• Projects of interest include but are not limited to epidemiology of disease in wild populations, ecotoxicology, diagnostic testing and treatment of wild birds, and conservation medicine.
• Principal investigators.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants.
• January 9, 2026.

2026 Future Conservationist Awards. Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP).
• Projects must be focused on protecting species categorised by the IUCN Red List as globally threatened. Projects may address themes such as climate impact and adaptation, habitat restoration and/or management, social development and wellbeing, Indigenous community participation, and/or environmental policy.
• Early-career conservationists. Project teams must include at least 3 people.
• LMICs as well as High-income Caribbean and Pacific Island economies are eligible.
• Up to $15k grant.
• January 9, 2026.

Keeling Curve Prize. Climate Curve.
• Recognizes and supports innovative climate solutions that aim to bend the Keeling Curve downward, ultimately reducing the concentration of atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gases.
• 1) Carbon Sinks, 2) Energy, 3) Finance, 4) Social & Cultural Pathways and 5) Transport & Mobility.
• Entrepreneur/startup, a university research group, a non-profit or community leader, or an intrapreneur at a large company or organization.
• All countries (not able to support those that the U.S has sanctions).
• $50k prize.
• January 15, 2026.

Waterbird Society Research Award. Waterbird Society.
• To encourage significant advances in the biology, ecology, status assessment or conservation biology of waterbirds.
• Proposals that focus on: 1) Basic research on species not covered by other Waterbird Society grants, 2) waterbird population status, distribution, abundance or trends, especially for species that are data deficient or 3) Work that makes a substantial contribution to waterbird conservation.
• Open to student, professional, or amateur.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants.
• February 1, 2026.

Nisbet Research Award. Waterbird Society.
• Those interested in research and conservation on terns and gulls.
• Open to student, professional, or amateur.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants.
• February 1, 2026.

Kushlan Research Award. Waterbird Society.
• To encourage significant scientific advances in the biology, ecology, or conservation biology of wading birds (i.e. herons, storks, ibises, and their taxonomic allies).
• Proposals that focus on: 1) Species relationships within the group and 2) The status, range, and population sizes of little-known species of Ciconiiformes.
• Open to student, professional, or amateur.
• All countries.
• Up to $7k grants.
• February 1, 2026.

Membership Research Grant Scheme (MeRSA). Regional Studies Association (RSA).
• To provide opportunities for scholars who have already published in the field of regional studies and/or regional science and who are currently Individual members of the RSA.
• Welcomes research from any discipline contributing to advancing our understandings of regions and regional development.
• Individual researchers.
• All countries.
• Up to £5k grant.
• March 3, 2026.

Early Career Research Grant Scheme. Regional Studies Association (RSA).
• To support a discrete piece of regional studies and/or regional science research.
• Welcomes research from any discipline contributing to advancing our understandings of regions and regional development.
• Individual applicants in their early career (five years maximum between the date showing on their PhD certificate and the application deadline). Must be based within an eligible higher education institution and must be a current, early career member of the RSA and throughout the duration of the grant.
• All countries.
• Up to £10k grant.
• March 3, 2026.

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