Funding Opportunities - October 31, 2025

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See below for the newest social impact funding opportunities in Africa and around the world.

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Voice Tech for All. SYSPIN.
• Seeks to advance TTS technology for underrepresented languages and styles, empowering communities with localized and expressive voice synthesis.
• Aims to address the challenge of creating TTS models that support accent and style transfer for SYSPIN’s 9 languages (Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Bhojpuri, Kannada, Magadhi, Chhattisgarhi, and Maithili), as well as languages of SPICOR TTS corpora, namely, English and Gujarati.
• Academicians, Startups, Students, Industry.
• All countries.
• Up to ~$4,510 prize (₹ 4,00,000).
• November 13, 2025.

Fembol Student Innovation Grant. Fembol Group.
• Designed to support young Nigerians with bold, impactful, and sustainable business ideas.
• Be enrolled in an undergraduate or Masters level study in any Nigerian tertiary institution. Aged between 16 and 28 years.
• Nigeria.
• Up to ~$2,066 (3 Million Naira) equity-free funding alongside a 3-day fully-funded innovation bootcamp in Lagos Nigeria.
• November 16, 2025.

Sustainable Protection Fund (Asia) 2025. Digital Defenders Partnership.
• Aims to help human rights organisations or collectives build their long-term digital security capacities.
• Environmental rights defenders organisations and Human Rights organisations documenting Human Rights violations, LGBTQI+ rights defenders organisations and labour rights organisations.
• Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Leste, and Vietnam, China, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal, and the Maldives.
• Up to €15k grants.
• November 20, 2025.

COLLABORATE Grant Program: Supporting Ageing Adults Living with Rare Diseases. Pfizer.
• 1) Accelerating time to diagnosis by increasing understanding of the symptoms (including the distinctions between ageing and illness) through enhanced clinical awareness and integration of genetic testing to identify underlying conditions earlier, 2) Supporting development of National Action Plans on Rare Disease (RD) to including solutions for the specific challenges faced by older adults and communities ageing with RD and 3) Gathering existing evidence to support advocacy for closing healthcare gaps and drive policy change.
• Health, and/or pharmacy professional schools; healthcare institutions; professional organizations; patient advocacy groups; and other entities with a mission related to healthcare improvement. Collaborations are encouraged.
• Only organizations are eligible, not individuals or medical practice groups.
• All countries.
• Up to $25k grant.
• November 24, 2025.

Africa Small Grants Programme for Palliative Care Development. The True Colours Trust.
• Support projects that deliver palliative care, in alignment with the WHO’s definition of palliative care.
• Priority areas: 1) Palliative care medicines, 2) Equipment for palliative care, 3) Transport for the delivery of palliative care services, 4) Mobile technology for the remote delivery of palliative care services and 5) Bereavement support.
• Registered hospices and palliative care providers. Small palliative care units which operate within hospitals or larger institutions, but which do not have separate financial accounts. Organizations with an average income of $500k and above over the last 3 years are not eligible to apply.
• Africa.
• Up to £5k grants.
• November 30, 2025.

Art Prize 2026. G & A Mamidakis Foundation.
• Proposals for a large-scale sculptural installation designed for permanent display in an outdoor setting in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, serving as a distinctive landmark within the space. The winning proposal will stand out for its originality, site-specificity, and creative vision.
• Visual artists working in the fields of sculpture, installation, sound installation, mixed media, constructions using natural materials, land art, environmental art, ecological art, and practices that interweave art and nature to create innovative experiences in open-air environments.
• All countries.
• Up to €15k prize.
• December 29, 2025.

Merck Innovation Cup 2026. Merck.
• Offers postgraduate students an exclusive opportunity to engage in a one-week summer camp near Frankfurt am Main, Germany, fostering innovation in science, technology, and business.
• Oncology, Neuroscience & Immunology, Drug Discovery, Fertility, Synthetic Biology, Smart Facturing and Advanced Electronic Materials.
• Postgraduate, postdoctoral or MBA students. Not open to U.S. healthcare professionals.
• All countries.
• Up to €20k prize.
• January 31, 2026.

2026 Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition. Johns Hopkins University.
• A competition to celebrate good design in healthcare.
• Project must be focused on a healthcare application in either of the 3 tracks: 1) Designs of Solutions for Advanced Health Systems, 2) Global Health/ Humanitarian Design and 3) Healthcare Apps/ Digital Health.
• Project must have been started after January 1st, 2024.
• Eligible full-time students include those working towards undergraduate, masters, doctoral, and professional degrees (MBA, MD, etc.). Project teams should comprise of more than one full-time student.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k prize.
• February 1, 2026.

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