Funding Opportunities - September 12, 2025
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Southern Africa Poultry Initiative (SAPI). Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF).
• Sustainable development of the poultry value chain by enhancing feed manufacturing efficiency, increasing productivity, and fostering market growth with a strong emphasis on delivering high-quality, cost-effective poultry feeds.
• Must detail how women and youth will be actively engaged and empowered to benefit from affordable poultry feeds.
• Private sector, industry associations, academia, NGOs, and government.
• Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi, and Mozambique.
• Up to $20k funding.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
The Habitat Foundation Grants 2026. The Habitat Foundation.
• Biodiversity conservation and sustainability across: 1) Conservation, 2) Research, 3) Education, 4) Sustainability and 5) Training.
• Environmental practitioners, academicians, students, researchers, community members and trainers.
• Malaysia.
• Up to ~$11,840. (RM 50k).
• September 15, 2025.
Kenya-France ‘PAMOJA’ Hubert Curien partnership. NRF Kenya.
• To support and encourage scientific and technological cooperation between French and Kenyan researchers within public institutions.
• Each project is carried out by two scientific teams, one in France and the other in Kenya. The projects are led by two coordinators (one from each country, belonging to a public scientific body).
• Kenya.
• Up to €23k funding per project over two years.
• September 15, 2025.
Grant Opportunities: Applications Now Open. GTIA.
• Nonprofits and schools using technology to address resource deficits as well as systemic barriers.
• 1) Technology that enhances educational opportunities and outcomes, 2) Programs that bridge the digital divide, 3) Workforce initiatives using tech to open doors, 4) Tech innovation that creates new pathways to prosperity and 5) Initiatives that use use technology to expand access and equity.
• Does not fund: individuals, for-profit efforts, political or religious groups, or organizations that discriminate.
• All countries.
• Up to $50k grants.
• September 15, 2025.
Open Call for Grant Financing for Circular Food MSMEs. AfriFOODlinks.
• Benefit MSMEs to improve their circularity, internal processes and the capabilities required to meet market demands for healthy and nutritious diets.
• Have an active annual revenue not higher than €50,000 and have between 1 and 50 full time employees.
• Prioritizes businesses led by or benefitting youth (35-year-old and younger) and/or women.
• Cape Town (South Africa), Ouagadougo (Burkina Faso), Kisumu (Kenya), Mbale (Uganda), and Tunis (Tunisia).
• Up to €50k grants.
• September 17, 2025.
DevelopSpace Grants Program. DevelopSpace.
• Projects working in relevant science and engineering areas that share their results and methods in an open manner.
• Work that is relevant to both Mars and the Moon.
• All countries.
• Up to $2,500 grant.
• September 20, 2025.
Supporting Grassroots Legal Empowerment in the Caribbean. Legal Empowerment Fund (LEF).
• Efforts that use legal empowerment to address the climate crisis, secure land rights, and protect communities from environmental harm.
• Intentionally center historically excluded communities, such as Afro-descendant, Indigenous, rural, or LGBTQ+ communities.
• Have an annual organizational budget of less than $200k.
• Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
• Up to $30k funding.
• September 29, 2025.
Call for Project Proposals: 2026 Indigenous Youth Fellowship. Cultural Survival.
• Youth-led ( 18 to 28) projects that benefit Indigenous communities, along with opportunities for leadership development.
• Groups are welcome to collaborate, but only one person, the designated project coordinator, should submit the application.
• 1) The Americas: Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, Belize, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Paraguay, Brazil, and Guyana; 2) Asia: Bangladesh, Mongolia, Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippines, and India; and 3) Africa: Chad, Cameroon, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, DRC, Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Uganda, and Angola.
• Up to $5k award.
• September 30, 2025.
Fueling Early-Stage Startups for Pre-Seed Success. TractionBoost Accelerator.
• A 2-month intensive program designed specifically for early-stage startups focused on product testing and customer acquisition.
• Empower startups to refine their products, expand their customer base, and achieve significant milestones.
• Africa.
• Up to $5k milestone-driven funding. They take a 5% equity stake in each supported startup.
• September 30, 2025.
Uncle Kory Foundation (UKF) Seed Grant Program. Uncle Kory Foundation (UKF).
• Allow Research Investigators to apply for much needed resources to begin or continue their research as it relates to brain cancer, and when possible, specifically Glioblastoma.
• All countries.
• $50k award.
• October 1, 2025.
TANGO2 Research Foundation Research Grants Program. TANGO2 Research Foundation.
• 1) Single-Institution: supports a research initiative within a single institution that may or may not involve multiple research investigators and/or a multi-departmental research team, and 2) Multi-Institution: supports a collaborative research initiative conducted in conjunction with an institution(s) or with personnel not affiliated with the awarded PI/PD’s academic/research institution.
• A clinical, basic, or community researcher with a terminal degree working in an academic medical institution or nonprofit/research institution.
• All countries.
• Up to $50k award.
• November 7, 2025.
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