Funding Opportunities - October 17, 2025

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New Round of Democracy at Work Fund. Democracy at Work Fund.
• Grants to frontline organizations aimed at building resilience and strengthening the capacity of workers’ organizations.
• Prioritizes efforts led directly by informal workers, those led by women and underrepresented groups, as well as efforts at the intersection of workers’ rights, gender justice, racial justice, and climate justice.
• Locally based organizations, trade unions, cooperatives, and non-profits; not government agencies, businesses, religious institutions, or groups partnering with international organizations.
• Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, Argentina and Brazil.
• Up to $80k.
• October 27, 2025.

Young Creatives to Disseminate Research Findings. Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment (CAPSI).
• Design and produce creative outputs that disseminate research findings exploring the contribution of the nonprofit sector to dignified and fulfilling work for African youth.
• Use creative and tech-savvy formats that resonate with youth audiences e.g Digital Media, Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Interactive Media, Writing, e.t.c.
• Dynamic teams and organisations owned and managed by young people between the ages of 18 and 35.
• North Africa, West Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa.
• $32k per team awarded to four winning proposals (Southern Africa, East Africa, North Africa, and West Africa).
• October 31, 2025.

EcoTech Emerge 2025. Aveva.
• Software ideas that will help industries overcome the challenges they face in achieving Net Zero. Whether it’s through innovative energy management, smarter resource usage, or any other game-changing approach.
• Team members must be studying in the same Region for the duration of the challenge.
• Be a Bachelor’s (at least 2nd year) or Master’s student studying Engineering, Business, Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics and other Sciences  
• All countries.
• £8k prize.
• November 2, 2025.

Transforming child welfare, crisis response, and the environment. Box Impact Fund.
• Advancing digital transformation projects in: child welfare, crisis response, and environment.
• Project requests to solely fund the purchase of hardware or software will not be considered for this grant.
• Nonprofits.
• All countries.
• Six organisations to receive $25k award each.
• November 10, 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.
• November 24, 2025.

Chapman Research Grants. American Museum of Natural History.
• Projects primarily focused on the evolutionary biology of birds, particularly those that conduct specimen-based research and participate in expeditionary work.
• Ornithological research.
• Graduate students.
• All countries.
• Up to $3,500 awards.
• November 30, 2025.

Micro-projects: Call for Applications 2026. Federal Foreign Office German Missions.
• Providing quick and efficient support where no funds from government institutions, other co-operating partners or civil society organizations are available.
• 1) Measures supporting the Just Energy Transition, 2) Local economic development, 3) Women’s rights and 4) Anti-discrimination of any kind.
• Civic organization, community based, non-governmental, non-profit or faith based organizations.
• South Africa, Eswatini or Lesotho. Priority target regions of Mpumalanga and Limpopo will be given enhanced consideration.
• Up to €25k funding.
• November 30, 2025.

Climate Democracy Accelerator. People Powered.
• Participatory programs that shape climate policy, with a focus on regenerative agriculture, renewable energy, and just transitions.
• Demonstrate at least one full year of operations and successful fundraising.
• Non-profit civil society organization/NGO working in partnership with a government institution.
• Five priority countries: Brazil, Indonesia, India, Mexico, South Africa, with additional spots available for participants from other countries around the world.
• Up to $25k grant.
• November 30, 2025.

Danforth Conservation Grants. Roger Williams Park Zoo.
• Conservation programs that protect threatened wildlife and habitats.
• Projects that demonstrate a multi-disciplinary approach to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation.
• Awarded to organizations (e.g., NGO, university), not individuals.
• All countries.
• $1k grants.
• January 1, 2026.

Global Raptor Research and Conservation Grant. HawkWatch International.
• Projects addressing global raptor priorities ranked according to the updated RCPI score using the most recent (2025) IUCN RedList categories.
• Priority species are all raptors with an RCPI-Edge > 0.5 (n = 158 species, 28% of raptor species).
• Researchers with a demonstrated commitment to raptor research.
• All countries except USA, Canada, or Europe.
• Up to $3,500.
• January 15, 2026.

Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund Grant. Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund (CIEIF).
• Supports: 1) EIA, 2) predictive impact modeling, and 3) engagement efforts with potentially impacted stakeholders; for innovative climate intervention technologies that are on the verge of field testing.
• All countries.
• $75k grant.
• March 15, 2026.

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