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See below for the newest social impact funding opportunities in Africa and around the world.
Fine and Country Foundation Charity Grants. Fine and Country Foundation.
• Grants must be used for prevention of homelessness, care of the homeless or constructive projects to get homeless people off the streets permanently.
• Open to homeless charities, poverty prevention projects, and housing associations. Grants must be used for prevention of homelessness, care of the homeless or constructive projects to get homeless people off the streets permanently.
• All countries.
• Grants of up to £3k.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (spring and autumn).
9th Regional Call for Proposals. Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO).
• To strengthen LGBTQI movements, advance sexual rights and gender diversity, and promote equality, social justice, inclusion, autonomy, and intersectional representation.
• LGBTQI-led organisations, networks and groups, no legal registration requirement.
• Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo.
• Up to $30k grant funding.
• October 31, 2026.
TRANSPOSE Innovation Challenge 2026. Yamaha Corporation.
• Brings together startups worldwide to develop innovative businesses, technologies, and experiences in sound, music, and entertainment, addressing four challenge themes: Venue, Senior, Game, and Timeless.
• Startups.
• All countries.
• An award with up to ~$31,757 (JPY 5M) in Proof of Concept funding and potential collaboration with Yamaha.
• October 31, 2026.
Empowering Africa’s Creatives. The Fegho Umunubo Foundation.
• Provides technical assistance, mentorship, and funding support to Nigerian creative entrepreneurs and technology enterprises to help them innovate, grow, and contribute to Africa’s economic development.
• Entrepreneurs.
• Nigeria.
• Up to ~$1,118 (₦ 1.5m) grant funding alongside mentorship.
• November 1, 2026.
2026 Abu Dhabi Youth Challenge. Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority.
• Supports young innovators in the UAE in developing practical water-sustainability solutions that promote conservation, responsible consumption, children’s development, and community wellbeing, with opportunities to prototype, pilot, and present solutions at the UN Water Conference.
• Young Innovators and entrepreneurs.
• All countries, should be based in the UAE.
• Up to ~$5,445 (AED 20k) prizes.
• November 5, 2026.
WPS Civil Society Activation Initiative. The Asia Foundation.
• Supports civil society-led pilot initiatives advancing Women, Peace and Security through environmental security, digital transformation, and women’s participation in peacebuilding.
• Practitioners, women human rights defenders, artists, researchers, advocates, women’s rights organizations, civil society organizations, informal groups.
• Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Indonesia, Philippines, Timor-Leste, Thailand, and Vietnam.
• Up to $3k grant funding.
• November 6, 2026.
Organoid Reagent Grant Program. R&D Systems.
• Supports innovative stem cell and organoid research in disease modelling, basic science, and personalised medicine through funding, recognition, and access to high-quality research reagents.
• Scientists, researchers.
• USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Luxembourg, Poland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, China, Singapore, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, or Philippines.
• Three $10k grants in Bio-Techne reagents.
• November 7, 2026.
Ikigai Grants, Cohort 1. Alex S. Araki.
• Supports emerging researchers pursuing bold, underfunded biomedical innovations across areas such as chronic pain, longevity, reproductive health, precision neuropsychiatry, biomarkers, immunology, and gene modulation, offering a conviction-driven network built on open collaboration and future knowledge-sharing.
• Scientists with bold ideas in underfunded areas.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants alongside custom mentorship and community.
• November 9, 2026.
Civic Action and Community Empowerment Grant (CACEG). InformAction.
• Supports previously funded grassroots CBOs in Narok, Laikipia, Turkana, Bungoma, Busia, and Isiolo Counties to advance governance, civic participation, accountability, human rights, gender equality, inclusion, and business-related human rights through community-led initiatives.
• Grassroots community-based and civil society organisations, including unregistered groups, with strong encouragement for youth-led, women-led, disability-led, and marginalised community organisations.
• Kenya.
• Up to ~$10k (KES 1.3m) grant funding.
• November 13, 2026.
Business Freedom Grant. Coach Darcy.
• Aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners at any stage and across any industry, supporting startup costs, marketing, equipment, and digital tools for business growth.
• Entrepreneurs, founders at any stage.
• All countries.
• $1k grant funding.
• November 15, 2026.
Poverty solutions. D-Prize.
• Proven poverty solutions in: 1) Agriculture, 2) Education, 3) Energy, 4) Health, 5) Livelihoods, 6) Public services, 7) Water.
• Does not support organizations that have more than 18 months of full-time operations, or raised more than $30k in outside funding.
• For-profit, nonprofit, and other business models. Supporting new organizations, especially first-time entrepreneurs in LMICs developing poverty-focused solutions or scaling proven evidence-based interventions.
• All countries.
• Up to $20k grant funding to support a three-month pilot.
• November 15, 2026.
MENA Regenerative Agriculture Venture Programme. Goumbook.
• Supports scientists, researchers, and students developing research, science, and nature-based regenerative agriculture solutions addressing food security, soil health, water scarcity, climate resilience, carbon sequestration, biodiversity, desertification, and farmer livelihoods in the MENA region.
• Researchers and innovators seeking to develop their work to proof-of-concept stage.
• All countries, address agricultural conditions and opportunities within the MENA region.
• Up to $20k grants alongside mentorship.
• November 15, 2026.
SET Award 2027. Start Up Energy Transition.
• Recognises global energy and climate-tech startups with registered or pending registration, proof-of-concept solutions, and a functioning prototype or industry partner, across clean energy, digital energy, buildings, industry, and sustainable mobility.
• Eligible companies must have been founded in August 2016 or later.
• Startups.
• All countries.
• €10k in equity-free prize money.
• November 30, 2026.
Building pipelines for publishing DNA-derived data through GBIF. GBIF.
• Supports GBIF-endorsed organisations with large DNA-derived biodiversity datasets and technical capacity to develop automated, regularly updated workflows for openly publishing DNA barcoding and metabarcoding data through GBIF.
• Research institution, university, museum, NGO or government agency.
• All countries.
• Up to €20k grant funding.
• November 30, 2026.
Vital Impacts Environmental Photography Fellowships and Mentorships. Vital Impacts.
• Supports photographers to develop year-long documentary projects highlighting environmental and wildlife conservation challenges, with a focus on local communities, lasting relationships, ethical storytelling, and real-world solutions.
• Photographers.
• All countries.
• One $20k fellowship to an established environmental photographer and Six $5k fellowships to emerging photographers.
• December 1, 2026.
Women & Biosphere: Stories to Tell. Tuscan-Emilian Apennine National Park Authority.
• Invites photographers to showcase women’s roles in water and nature, sustainable development, biodiversity conservation, community life, and environmental protection through images reflecting the theme of water as a feminine element.
• Photographers.
• All countries.
• $5k prizes.
• January 20, 2027.
Innovation Cup Program. Merck KGaA.
• Offers students worldwide a week-long innovation summer camp to develop and commercialise ideas addressing unmet needs in life sciences, pharmaceuticals, advanced materials, and climate change, combining technical research, business planning, industry mentorship, and global networking.
• PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in life sciences and related fields, plus advanced MBA students or recent graduates with life sciences backgrounds and an interest in pharmaceutical business; healthcare professionals are ineligible.
• All countries.
• Up to €25k prizes.
• January 31, 2027.
👇14 Funding Opportunities above $50k 👇
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● 7 opportunities from $50k to $200k
● 4 opportunities from $200k to $1m
● 3 opportunity for more than $1,000,000
Including:
$100k for femtech solutions
$150k for scaling AI solutions in the UAE
$500k in building the future of AI journalism
$1m for deep-tech innovations in optics & photonics
€1.5m for scaling local production in Sudan