Funding Opportunities - September 19, 2025

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Global Impact Cash Grants. Cisco.
• Innovative early-stage solutions that address a significant social problem.
• Focus on at least one of these social investment sectors: crisis response, education, economic empowerment, and/or climate impact and regeneration.
• Programs to be funded must serve an audience greater than 65 percent economically underserved, relative to the average standards of the target geography.
• Nonprofits and NGOs.
• All countries.
• Up to $75k.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

2026 Pet Care Innovation Prize. PetCare Innovation Prize (PCIP).
• Cat and dog food and treats, litter, specialty nutrition, diagnostics, and innovative pet care business opportunities beyond food and snacks to improve the health, welfare, and care of both dogs and cats.
• Early-stage companies.
• All countries.
• Up to $50k grand prize.
• September 21, 2025.

The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation. Royal Academy of Engineering.
• Commercialisation support to African innovators developing scalable engineering solutions to local challenges.
• Should have developed, and be in the early stages of commercialising.
• Applicants can apply as an individual or as part of a team.
• Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Up to £50k prize money.
• September 23, 2025.

Arts & Culture Grants. EUNIC.
• Artists and creatives looking to implement their artistic project in Egypt, without limitations to age, or theme of project.
• Small Grants (up to 200k EGP) for individuals or small institutions, no prior experienced required in managing projects.
• Medium Grants for big institutions, at least 2-year experience required in managing projects.
• Egypt.
• Up to ~$14,530. (700k EGP).
• September 30, 2025.

Pure Ocean Challenges. Pure Ocean.
• 1) Offering alternatives to petroleum-based plastics, 2) Fighting illegal fishing with satellite monitoring, 3) Studying life in the deep sea and 4) Conducted on the French coast (Atlantic, Mediterranean, Corsica).
• Early-career candidates encouraged to apply.
• Only non-profit organizations (research institutes, universities, and NGOs) are eligible to apply. May involve collaboration with private actors.
• All countries.
• Up to €80k for a two-year project.
• October 1, 2025.

Tech Challenge Sponsorship. The Water Council.
• Technology solutions and/or new systems for decision-making support for water quality addressing any stage of the water cycle related to human consumption, including drinking water and wastewater systems across residential, commercial and utility-scale applications well as their distribution networks.
• Individuals, university students or researchers, water professionals or private sector and government labs.
• All countries.
• $10k prize.
• October 10, 2025.

Kensington Conservation Grant. The Explorers Club.
• Research that supports cultural and environmental conservation.
• Supports a wide range of field science disciplines.
• Led by explorers from equity-deserving groups with a focus on sustainable tourism.
• Graduate students, post-graduate researchers, early-career scientists and independent explorers.
• All countries.
• Up to $10k awards.
• October 13, 2025.

Rolex Explorers Club Grants. The Explorers Club.
• For young explorers conducting fieldwork to address a novel scientific, environmental, or historical question.
• Open to all field science disciplines.
• All countries.
• $10k award.
• October 13, 2025.

Climate Catalytic Fund (CCF). IOM.
• Transform data-driven risk insights from the Risk Index for Climate Displacement (RICD) into concrete, on-the-ground, locally led adaptation initiatives.
• 1) Fund local actors to implement practical, scalable solutions, 2) Reduce the risk of climate-related displacement and 3) Strengthen local ownership, knowledge, and institutional resilience.
• Community-based organizations, local NGOs, Academic and research institutions and Private sector actors.
• Indonesia and the Philippines.
• Up to $25k grants.
• October 17, 2025.

BOOST x CEF: Green Urban Tech. UNDP.
• Tech solutions addressing one or more of the following: 1) Turning Data into Green Decisions, 2) Engaging Residents in the Green Transition and 3) Building Green and Resilient Urban Systems.
• Solution that is beyond the idea stage.
• Readiness to facilitate the adaptation of their solutions in secondary cities in Armenia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo, and/or Ukraine.
• Legally registered business, civil society organization, or academic institution.
• All countries.
• Up to $30k in funding.
• October 19, 2025.

Seed Fund for Research and Training (SFRT). SEAMEO.
• Researchers and scientists with a project that will contribute to: 1) Increased farmers' income, 2) Improved food security and nutrition, 3) Greater climate resilience of agricultural systems and 4) Empowered farmers, farmer groups, and agricultural stakeholders and their institutions.
• Southeast Asia.
• Up to $15k grants.
• October 31, 2025.

CIFAR Global Scholars Program. CIFAR.
• Offers early-career researchers the opportunity to develop and lead high-risk, high-reward interdisciplinary research.
• Natural, biomedical, and social sciences, as well as the humanities.
• Hold a PhD (or equivalent). Hold a full-time position at an institution of higher education or research.
• All countries.
• ~$72,200 (CAD $100k) in unrestricted research support.
• November 5, 2025.

Sustainable Investing Challenge. Kellogg-Morgan Stanley.
• Develop and pitch creative financial approaches to tackle pressing social and environmental challenges.
• Teams of graduate students.
• All countries.
• $10k prize for First Place Team.
• February 22, 2026.

Grants above $100k

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