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See below for the newest social impact funding opportunities in Africa and around the world.
Circular Innovation Challenge 2026. SOLVE.
• Supports innovative Southern African circular businesses with scalable solutions that eliminate waste, keep materials in use, regenerate nature, and create social and environmental impact.
• Businesses with scalable, market-ready circular solutions beyond ideation, demonstrating innovation, company-owned IP, and potential for economic, social, and environmental impact.
• Southern Africa (Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Zambia, Zimbabwe).
• Cash investment into your business to the value of ~$15,357 (R250 000).
• September 20, 2026.
The Scale-Up Games. Birmingham Tech Week.
• Late Seed to Series B startups in deep tech, cleantech, life sciences, or advanced manufacturing, considering an R&D presence or HQ in the UK, with a strong leadership team.
• High-growth international company.
• All countries looking to scale in the UK.
• Supports international startups entering the UK through soft-landing, investor, ecosystem, and business setup support.
• September 30, 2026.
Seeding Neuroscience Grants. International Brain Research Organization (IBRO).
• Supports groups of neuroscientists to establish new national, regional, or thematic neuroscience societies and networks through governance planning, strategic workshops, and community-building activities.
• Groups of scientists or organizations working towards the formation of a formal neuroscience society or thematic network.
• Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America.
• Up to $5k grants.
• September 30, 2026.
2027 CancerX Accelerator. CancerX.
• Digital solutions to improve cancer care, expand treatment and research access, strengthen healthcare infrastructure, reduce financial toxicity, and expand cancer screening.
• Startups with validated, market-ready solutions and at least one completed or launched pilot.
• All countries.
• Offers startups dedicated growth support, an exclusive mentor network, and targeted programming.
• October 1, 2026.
Brave New Visions: Creativity as Rebellion. PhotoVogue.
• Supports artists worldwide creating compelling photography, video, and multimedia works that engage with contemporary issues through bold, original visual storytelling.
• All artists aged 18 and above.
• All countries.
• Up to $6k grant funding.
• October 1, 2026.
AMBSO Impact Research Initiative. Africa Medical and Behavioral Sciences Organization (AMBSO).
• Early-stage health research and proof-of-concept projects across Africa addressing priority challenges in infectious diseases, AI and digital health, HIV, climate and health, cancer, maternal and child health, NCDs, and healthy ageing.
• Researchers, academic institutions, and research organizations. Doctoral students are encouraged to apply as part of a research team led by a faculty Principal Investigator.
• All countries.
• Up to $10k grants.
• October 2, 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.
• October 4, 2026.
Brain Awareness Week Grants 2027. International Brain Research Organization (IBRO).
• Outreach initiatives that raise public awareness of the brain, brain health, and neuroscience research in the region.
• Activities may include outreach efforts directed at local schools, the establishment of advocacy groups, and events targeted at policymakers and the media.
• Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, US/Canada.
• Up to $1,250 grant funding.
• October 15, 2026.
Species Conservation Fund. Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund.
• Global conservation projects protecting threatened or poorly known animal, plant, and fungal species, through targeted species-focused grants.
• Individual species conservation initiatives.
• All countries.
• Up to $25k grants.
• October 15, 2026.
AGNES-BAYER Research Grant. African-German Network of Excellence in Science (AGNES).
• Supports published PhD researchers from sub-Saharan Africa conducting doctoral research on biodiversity conservation and/or sustainable agriculture.
• Candidate must be officially registered for a Doctoral degree at a university/tertiary institute in sub-Sahara Africa and a national of a sub-Saharan African country.
• Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Up to €7k grant funding.
• October 16, 2026.
DFF Grantmaking Cycle 7. Doria Feminist Fund.
• Groups working to advance women’s and LBTQ+ rights, feminist movement-building, advocacy, knowledge production, services, legal reform, and other forms of social change.
• Feminist activists and feminist movement builders. Only collectives, groups, or organisations are eligible to apply, not individuals. Prioritise work led by women and trans groups and collectives.
• Middle East and North Africa.
• Up to $10k grant funding.
• October 19, 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.
• October 25, 2026.
Turn Your Agribusiness Idea Into Impact. Agri-Business Facility for Africa.
• Supports early-stage young agripreneurs through free training in business modelling, climate resilience, and investment readiness, focused on cocoa, maize, cashew, and livestock value chains.
• Young and emerging agripreneurs, aged 18 and above.
• Member state of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS).
• €6k award.
• October 30, 2026.
👇27 Funding Opportunities above $50k 👇
What’s below for our paid subscribers?
● 6 opportunities from $50k to $200k
● 20 opportunities from $200k to $1m
● 1 opportunity for more than $1,000,000
Including:
£50k for clean energy hardware innovators
$100k AI grants from Foresight Institute
$250k grants from the Water Research Foundation
$300k education grants from Tools Competition
$1m for climate & environmental innovation