Planning your 2026 fundraising strategy?

Catch up on the 190+ grant and investment opportunities that still have open deadlines.

Let’s start the new year off right with our full list of funding opportunities that we’ve sent out in recent weeks that still have open deadlines.

Summary:

• 48 with rolling applications

• 90 with applications due in January

• 31 with applications due in February

• 20 with applications due in March

• 6 with applications due later in 2026

With 97 opportunities over $100k!

Make sure you can see the full list!

But before we get into 190+ Impact Funding Opportunities with open deadlines…

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A few quick notes on what’s to come in 2026…

We’re committed to saving you hundreds of hours in finding the right grant and investment opportunities as well giving you direct & actionable guides, cheat-codes and other resources (including plug-and-play email templates) dedicated to helping make fundraising and growing your organization easier.

Last year, after rebranding to Fundraising Dispatch, we made some adjustments.

• We started sending out smaller ticket-sized grants in our free subscription tier

• We added notifications on grant programs designed for research, academia, and NGOs so that our network of for-profit enterprises could apply alongside their partners in relevant consortiums

• We added a full searchable/filterable grant database for paid subscribers

• We put together content dedicated to helping social enterprise leaders connect with, market to, and close new funders and clients (because your best funder will always be your customer)

• We launched walkthroughs to help non-technical teams maximize the use of AI in their day-to-day

And most importantly, we lowered our premium pricing to just $10 a month.

We want to keep premium at that low rate.

So that, for smaller organizations with tighter budgets, we can always send you grant opportunities that fit for your work and size.

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Alight. Now let’s recap open funding

190+ Impact Funding Opportunities with Open Deadlines

Animal Welfare Grants. The Pollination Project.
• Support individuals and groups who are working to protect animals.
• 1) Reducing the consumption of land and sea animals raised using industrial agriculture practices, 2) Advocating for farmed animal welfare and 3) Helping animals that are not usually the focus of animal welfare efforts.
• Open to individuals in all countries with a special focus on Brazil, India and Mexico
• A $1k seed grant.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Startups for Sustainable Development program. Google.
• Supports a global ecosystem of impact-focused startups.
• Connects them to the funding ecosystem, including venture capital and other investment partners.
• Supports them with advisors and technology.
• All countries.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Awesome Foundation Micro Grants. Awesome Foundation.
• Awesome project on wide range of areas including arts, technology, community development, and more.
• Individuals, groups, and organizations working anywhere in the world.
• $1k.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Wildlife Emergency Fund. Brevard Zoo.
• Rapid financial support to conservation-based organizations that are responding to sudden, episodic and unpredictable threats impacting wildlife.
• Applicants from 501(c)3 non-profits (or equivalent), governmental and NGOs that focus on direct in-situ conservation action.
• Global.
• Up to $2,500.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis

Conservation Fund. International Marine Animal Trainers Association (IMATA).
• Conservation-oriented issues that serve marine mammal science through training, public display, research, husbandry, conservation, and education.
• Non-profit organizations.
• Global.
• Up to $5k.
• Applications accepted on rolling basis.

The Explorers Club Impact Grants. The Explorers Club.
• Fieldwork in biological sciences, archaeology, anthropology, paleontology, earth sciences, ecology, and astronomy.
• Exploratory projects that reveal new knowledge about the planet and its inhabitants, including regions undergoing environmental or cultural change.
• Researchers and explorers.
• Global.
• Up to $25k.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

The Egmont Trust EOI. Egmont.
• Innovative ways of combating the impact of HIV & AIDS on children and families and provide financial support and project management advice to local, grassroots organisations.
• NGOs/CSOs.
• Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia & Zimbabwe.
• Up to $20k grant.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Apply for a Rufford Small Grant. Rufford Foundation.
• Funds nature conservation projects.
• Species you are working on must be considered threatened.
• Early stages of conservation career. Focus on supporting current MSc or PhD students or recent graduates.
• Emerging or developing economy countries.
• Up to £18k.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Startups for Sustainable Development program. Google.
• Supports a global ecosystem of impact-focused startups.
• Connects them to the funding ecosystem, including venture capital and other investment partners.
• Supports them with advisors and technology.
• All countries.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Priority Markets Expression of Interest. Dovetail Impact Foundation.
• Fueling extraordinary organizations serving individuals experiencing extreme poverty. Solutions that put people on a meaningful pathway out of poverty.
• Sector focus: 1) Health, 2) Education, 3) Livelihoods and 4) Justice.
• Madagascar, Mozambique, DRC, Burundi, Zambia, Niger, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia and Bangladesh.
• “Please note that this is not a funding application, simply a way for our team to learn about your organization and follow up if there is strategic fit.”
• Inquiries accepted on a rolling basis.

Conservation Fund. Neotropical Birding and Conservation (NBC).
• Conservation action or research that has an intended measurable benefit.
• Globally threatened species — those on the IUCN’s global red list.
• Middle and South America and the Caribbean.
• Up to $5k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Grants to Foster Community Philanthropy. Global Fund for Community Foundations (GFCF).
• Aimed at strengthening individual organizations as trusted and effective grassroots grantmakers that can harness both local and external resources.
• Women’s fund, environmental fund, national public foundation, grassroots grantmaker or any other kind of organization that identifies with the concept and practice of community philanthropy.
• Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, or Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Up to $20k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

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.

Small conservation grants. Jana Robeyst Trust Fund (JRTF).
• Early career biologists/conservationists to carry out vital field conservation and research work of endangered mammals in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• All countries.
• Up to €1,500 grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (30th April, 31th August and 31th December each year).

Z4ABC Financial Matching Grants. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
• Innovative, value-adding activities. Aim to: 1) Promote innovation in technical and business practices, 2) Introduce environmentally sustainable technologies to improve productivity, 3) Enhance access to markets and 4) Create jobs and generate income, particularly for women and youth.
• Private sector entities, including SMEs, cooperatives, NGOs, and other relevant non-public sector entities.
• Zambia.
• Up to €60k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Call for Proposals: Right Sharing of World Resources Partner in Kenya. Right Sharing of World Resources.
• Offers training, support, and financial grants to small, grassroots women’s groups. The goal is to grow strong and sustainable women-led income-generating projects.
• Offers two different programs: 1) Preparing the soil and 2) Planting the seeds.
• Small, grassroots women’s groups that do not have access to other adequate support and funding. Leaders and all members of the Women’s Groups must be women.
• Kenya.
• Up to $6,500 grant.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (July 1 to December 31 of each year).

Call for Proposals: Right Sharing of World Resources Partner in Sierra Leone. Right Sharing of World Resources.
• Offers training, support, and financial grants to small, grassroots women’s groups. The goal is to grow strong and sustainable women-led income-generating projects.
• Small, grassroots women’s groups that do not have access to other adequate support and funding. Leaders and all members of the Women’s Groups must be women.
• Offers two different programs: 1) Preparing the soil and 2) Planting the seeds.
• Sierra Leone.
• Up to $6,500 grant.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (July 1 to September 30 of each year).

Empowering Student Innovation Across Nigeria. Federal Ministry of Education.
• Students and teams building high-impact solutions across Nigeria’s key development sectors: 1) Science, 2) Technology, 3) Engineering, 4) Mathematics and 5) Medical Science.
• Student-led businesses.
• Nigeria.
• Up to ~$34,528 (₦50 million) grant funding.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Rapid-Response, Advocacy & Protection Grants. Urgent Action Fund Africa.
• Strategic interventions that take advantage of opportunities to advance woman’s human rights.
• Both informal and formal women’s right organizations. Applications from non-registered collectives or groups are encouraged.
• Africa.
• Up to $20k grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Empowering West African Agriculture. WASSMAS.
• Designed specifically for West African agricultural entrepreneurs.
• 1) Livestock Farming, 2) Crop Cultivation, 3) Fish Farming, 4) Agro-processing, 5) Integrated Farming and 6) Small Ruminants.
• Small and mid-scale agricultural startups.
• West Africa.
• Up to $10k grants.
• Deadline not specified.

Youth Climate Justice Fund 2026 Grants. Youth Climate Justice Fund (YCJF).
• Solutions, campaigns, and projects that address the climate crisis by jointly tackling underrepresentation, exploitation, and oppression, as well as enhancing community power, equity and justice.
• Emerging youth-led climate justice and socio-environmental groups.
• East Asia and Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, Europe and Central Asia, and North America.
• Up to $20k grants.
• 2026 application round will open soon.

Blue Food Futures Research Grant Program. Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions.
• Early-career scholars with a strong interest in climate change and biodiversity implications, sustainable, equitable, and resilient blue food transitions, and blue food trade.
• Early-career researchers, professionals, and practitioners from academia, government, NGOs, and the private sector.
• All countries.
• $10k in research funding and travel support for fieldwork and policy engagement.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

The Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellow Awards. The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.
• Recognize emerging African scholars studying aspects of violence on or directly related to the African continent.
• Individual scholars, must be aged 45 or younger.
• All countries - must be currently enrolled in an accredited Ph.D. program at an African higher-education institution, and living on the continent.
• $10k research grants.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis (March 1 of every year).

2026 Startup Innovation Challenge. Energie AG Oberösterreich.
• Innovative ideas, newest technology and creative approaches to help push the energy industry to the next level.
• Topics: 1) Digital Customer Service World, 2) Renewables SiteFinder; Boosting Wind and PV transition with AI Solutions and 3) AI Enabled Energy Audit and Consulting for SMEs.
• Well-established startups or companies with a minimum team size of three employees that have moved beyond the initial ideation phase.
• All countries.
• Up to €50k funding.
• January 4, 2026.

I&P Acceleration WE4A - Women Entrepreneurship for Africa Track 2. I&P.
• Aims to strengthen the development and resilience of high-potential women-led businesses, particularly in green and transition sectors.
• Annual turnover under €50k.
• Women entrepreneurs without access to credit.
• Uganda.
• An average loan amount of €22k combined with technical assistance.
• January 5, 2026.

I&P Acceleration WE4A - Women Entrepreneurship for Africa Track 3. I&P.
• Aims to strengthen the development and resilience of high-potential women-led businesses, particularly in green and transition sectors.
• Annual turnover comprised between €50k and €500k.
• Women entrepreneurs, growing ventures, strong traction.
• Reimbursable financing averaging €52k, at zero interest and without collateral, along with technical assistance.
• January 5, 2026.

Focused Projects Grant for Junior Investigators. American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation.
• Supports early career investigators dedicated to focusing their research on basic, translational, clinical, or population sleep and circadian science.
• Individuals with an MD, DO, DDS, DMD, DNP, DNSc, PharmD, PhD, or equivalent professional degree, within 10 years of their terminal degree, post-doctoral training, or clinical training.
• All countries.
• Up to $50k grant.
• January 5, 2026.

Tenth Call for Proposals for STEG Small Research Grants. Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG).
• Broad systemic patterns and processes of structural transformation and growth for low- and middle-income countries. Cross-cutting issues: a) Gender, b) Climate change and the environment and c) Inequality and inclusion.
• Six research themes: 1) Data, Measurement, and Conceptual Framing, 2) Firms, Frictions and Spillovers, and Industrial Policy, 3) Labour, Home Production, and Structural Transformation at the Level of Households, 4) Agricultural Productivity and Sectoral Gaps, 5) Trade and Spatial Frictions and 6) The Role of the Public Sector. • PhD students.
• All countries. Applications that propose collaboration between researchers from lower- and higher-income countries are encouraged.
• Up to £25k grants.
• January 6, 2026.

AU-EU Youth Action Lab Entrepreneurship Grant Program 2026. AU-EU Youth Lab.
• To provide support to youth actors that work on strengthening the economic opportunities for young people. Social/environmental impact: you can demonstrate measurable impact (jobs for youth, improved livelihoods, affordable services, environmental gains). You have at least basic systems for tracking and reporting results.
• Non-profits, operating as a Trust, Community Based Organisation, NGO, Civil Society Organisation (CSO) or Cooperative with a clear social/environmental mission.
• Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia (Somaliland region), Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
• €30k grants.
• January 7, 2026.

The 2026 Seed Award. Prince Claus Fund.
• Emerging artists and cultural practitioners that add a new wave of ideas that addresses pressing social/political issues that are important within their local context.
• Emerging artists and cultural practitioners are in the early and exploratory stages of their career, within the initial 1 to 5 years of their professional career (excluding study years).
• OECD’s DAC listed countries.
• Up to €5k grant award.
• January 8, 2026.

Local Transformation Projects for 2026. Embassy of the Czech Republic in Addis Ababa.
• Projects must be in line with the priorities of human rights promotion and transformative cooperation and should include for example: 1) supporting civil society, including human rights defenders; 2) promoting equality and non-discrimination; 3) promoting human rights in the areas of employment and environment.
• Local NGOs.
• Ethiopia, the Comoros and South Sudan.
• Up to ~$24,085 (500,000 CZK) grant funding.
• January 8, 2026.

Wild Bird Health Grant Opportunity. Association of Avian Veterinarians (AAV).
• Pre-proposals for research projects addressing wild bird health.
• Projects of interest include but are not limited to epidemiology of disease in wild populations, ecotoxicology, diagnostic testing and treatment of wild birds, and conservation medicine.
• Principal investigators.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants.
• January 9, 2026.

2026 Future Conservationist Awards. Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP).
• Projects must be focused on protecting species categorised by the IUCN Red List as globally threatened. Projects may address themes such as climate impact and adaptation, habitat restoration and/or management, social development and wellbeing, Indigenous community participation, and/or environmental policy.
• Early-career conservationists. Project teams must include at least 3 people.
• LMICs as well as High-income Caribbean and Pacific Island economies are eligible.
• Up to $15k grant.
• January 9, 2026.

Launch path 2026 Imagine Cup. Microsoft.
• Solutions that address real-world challenges using Microsoft cloud and AI technologies. Whether you’ve built a prototype, tested an Minimum Viable Product (MVP), or are still refining your direction.
• Have not received any amount of dilutive funding, or no more than $100k in external, non-dilutive funding.
• An enrolled student at an accredited educational institution - high school or college/university (or equivalent) degrees (including home schools) between September 30, 2025, and May 31, 2026.
• All countries (not prohibited by U.S. export regulations).
• $50k prize.
• January 9, 2026.

2026 Aguka Ideation Programme. The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF).
• Youth-led ventures in technology, agriculture, health, education, and renewable energy.
• Young entrepreneurs.
• Rwanda.
• $3k in non-refundable seed funding.
• January 11, 2026.

WIN WIN Youth Award. WIN WIN Gothenburg Sustainability Award.
• Celebrates the efforts of young changemakers between the ages of 13 and 29 who have developed inspiring sustainability solutions.
• Youth.
• All countries.
• ~$5,291 (50,000 SEK) award.
• January 11, 2026.

School Leadership Research in Tanzania. Education Sub Saharan Africa (ESSA).
• Aim to strengthen the capacity of Tanzanian researchers and support the generation of highquality, context-specific, and policy-relevant evidence on school leadership in Tanzania.
• The lead applicant should ideally hold a PhD and be affiliated with a Tanzanian university, research institution, government department/ministry, or other recognised research or knowledge organisation. Collaboration with early-career researchers, include women researchers, are strongly encouraged.
• Tanzania.
• Up to $35k grants.
• January 11, 2026.

School Leadership Research in Africa. Education Sub Saharan Africa (ESSA).
• Research that is context-specific, policy-relevant, and capable of driving meaningful improvements in leadership preparation, professional development, and systemic transformation across African education systems.
• The lead applicant should ideally hold a PhD and be affiliated with an African university, research institution, government department/ministry, or other recognised research or knowledge organisation. Collaboration with early-career researchers, include women researchers, are strongly encouraged.
• Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Malawi.
• Up to $35k grants.
• January 11, 2026.

Case studies of innovation for scaling renewable energy. Fundación Avina.
• Projects that generate evidence-based insights on the strategies, partnerships, and enabling conditions that expand renewable energy technologies (RETs) uptake among low-income households, women, youth, farmers, small-scale entrepreneurs, indigenous groups, and other vulnerable communities.
• Universities or research centers with demonstrated capacity in applied research on energy transitions.
• Latin America & the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Up to $40k grant funding.
• January 12, 2026.

Melvin Yahr Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Research Award. Parkinson’s Foundation.
• To prepare young neurologists specializing in Parkinson’s disease for a career in clinical research.
• Should hold an MD degree; be specialized in one of these fields: neurology, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, or related fields; be either less than 35 years old or 5 years out of the residency program (which one best applies).
• Early-stage investigators based at universities, research hospitals, or non-profit research institutions.
• All countries. (Under-represented countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America are particularly encouraged to apply) .
• Up to $50k for 1-year.
• January 12, 2026.

ExciteLab Hybrid Acceleration Program. ExciteLab.
• Startups in the field of robotics, sensors, IoT, semiconductors, and quantum.
• Early-stage startups.
• All countries.
• Up to €6k prize. Startups that establish a legal entity in Saxony, Germany can additionally receive up to €30k non-dilutive funding.
• January 13, 2026.

Innovative Student Research Grant Program. Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis (SABA).
• Students in psychology or behavior analysis doctoral programs and students in psychology or behavior analysis master’s programs that can support applied or basic research in the experimental analysis of behavior.
• Applicants may not apply for an Innovative Student Research Grant and a Bijou Grant in the same year.
• Doctoral and Master’s students in a department of psychology, education, behavioral science, or an allied discipline.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants.
• January 14, 2026.

Public Awareness Grant Program. Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis (SABA).
• Projects designed to deliver messaging focused on behavior science and behavior analytic solutions to important problems. Messaging should be grounded in scientific evidence and target an audience that has not yet been reached by existing initiatives.
• Individuals.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants.
• January 14, 2026.

International Development Grant. Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis (SABA).
• To increase opportunities for individuals and organizations for the development and/or dissemination of behavior analysis internationally.
• Individuals or organizations, must be formally affiliated with a university or institution.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants.
• January 14, 2026.

Innovative Student Research Grant in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis (SABA).
• To support graduate-level study of issues relevant to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in behavior analysis.
• Enrolled or have been accepted in a graduate program in a department of psychology, education, behavioral science, or an allied discipline.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants.
• January 14, 2026.

Microcredentials Grant. Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis (SABA).
• To strengthen the quality of both the science and practice of behavior analysis by developing microcredentials that target foundational training in the behavior-analytic science.
• Potential microcredentials could include (a) assessment of skills that individuals already possess or (b) a combination of a programmatic learning experience followed by demonstration of the specific skill.
• Individuals within programs that are within the Tiered Model of Education (ABAI Accredited or ABAI Recognized).
• All countries.
• Up to $10k grant.
• January 14, 2026.

Sidney W. and Janet R. Bijou Grant Program. Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis (SABA).
• Emergence of and progressive changes in and across behavioral repertoires and the function of the relevant contextual, organismic, and historical variables. The research should directly relate to or inform child development, including basic animal processes for neurotypical development.
• Applicants may not apply for a Bijou Grant and an Innovative Student Research Grant in the same year.
• Doctoral students in departments of psychology, education, behavior analysis, or other disciplines that support research in behavioral development.
• All countries.
• $12k grants.
• January 14, 2026.

Global Climate Fellowship (2026). Halcyon.
• Founders tackling pressing challenges in climate adaptation and resilience. Through a hybrid programming format, selected entrepreneurs will attend a one-week, in-person residency in Washington, DC, 5 virtual programming days, and a final one-week, in-person residency in Los Angeles, California.
• For-profit startups. Must have a working Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and a realistic potential to scale.
• All countries.
• $6K equity-free stipend per venture alongside workshops with experts in product-market fit, capital strategy, and leadership.
• January 15, 2026.

Keeling Curve Prize. Climate Curve.
• Recognizes and supports innovative climate solutions that aim to bend the Keeling Curve downward, ultimately reducing the concentration of atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gases.
• 1) Carbon Sinks, 2) Energy, 3) Finance, 4) Social & Cultural Pathways and 5) Transport & Mobility.
• Entrepreneur/startup, a university research group, a non-profit or community leader, or an intrapreneur at a large company or organization.
• All countries (not able to support those that the U.S has sanctions).
• $50k prize.
• January 15, 2026.

Global Raptor Research and Conservation Grant. HawkWatch International.
• Projects addressing global raptor priorities ranked according to the updated RCPI score using the most recent (2025) IUCN RedList categories.
• Priority species are all raptors with an RCPI-Edge > 0.5 (n = 158 species, 28% of raptor species).
• Researchers with a demonstrated commitment to raptor research.
• All countries except USA, Canada, or Europe.
• Up to $3,500.
• January 15, 2026.

Diamond Challenge Competition. Diamond Challenge.
• Original business and social venture concepts.
• Teams must consist of 2-4 high school students aged 14-18. Each team is required to have one adult advisor aged 21 or older.
• Participants can choose to pitch live or virtual/pre-recorded. Concepts that have advanced to the final round (Summit) in prior years cannot be resubmitted.
• All countries.
• Up to $12k prize.
• January 15, 2026.

Grants for Marine Conservation 2026. PADI Foundation.
• Projects that 1) enrich mankind’s understanding of aquatic environments and encourage sensitivity to and protection of ecosystems, 2) Increase understanding of sport diving physics and physiology and 3) Improve understanding of, and response to, hazards to humans and ecosystems related to climate change in coastal and ocean environments.
• Research and education.
• All countries.
• Up to $12k grants.
• January 15, 2026.

GNPC Proteomics Data Challenge. Alzheimer’s Disease Data Initiative.
• Help accelerate biomarker discovery in Alzheimer’s and related dementias (ADRD).
• Researchers, data scientists, and clinicians. We encourage diverse applicants and interdisciplinary teams.
• All countries.
• Up to $10k prize. Up to 16 total prizes.
• January 15, 2026.

Rise Up Together Launches Leadership & Advocacy Program in South Africa. Rise Up Together.
• Leadership and Advocacy Accelerator training from April 13–18, 2026, to strengthen gender equity and justice.
• Visionary local leaders in South Africa’s Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal Provinces.
• South Africa.
• Up to $17k grant funding.
• January 15, 2026.

Democracy Innovation Lab. Keseb.
• Promising early-stage innovations reimagining the building blocks of democracy. Innovative community-building solutions that aim to foster cross-group belonging in diverse societies.
• Innovators from diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise e.g Democracy practitioner, Grassroots activist, Journalist or storyteller, Organizer, Researcher or academic, Technologist, Artist, e.t.c.
• All countries.
• $10k in seed funding.
• January 16, 2026.

Climate and Finance Innovations (ClimaFii) Alliance. BFA Global.
• Clean energy and electric mobility solutions that raise productivity, increase incomes, and build resilience for small business owners, while reducing emissions and local pollution.
• Microenterprises, early-stage startups.
• Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Up to $87,500 in catalytic capital funding (grants and in-kind support).
• January 16, 2026.

2026 Capacity Enhancement Support Programme. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
• Focuses on enhancing the long-term capacity of participants to benefit from and contribute to GBIF’s mission to mobilize the data, skills and technologies needed to make comprehensive biodiversity information freely available for science and decisions addressing biodiversity loss and sustainable development.
• Not-for-profit.
• GBIF participant countries.
• Up to €20k grant funding.
• January 19, 2026.

The IYBA-WE4A Entrepreneurship Programme. The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF).
• Aims to empower women entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa by enhancing their access to finance and business knowledge. It focuses on green businesses and seeks to drive economic inclusion, job creation, and sustainable development.
• Women entrepreneurs operating green businesses (0–5 years old).
• Senegal, Togo, Malawi, Uganda, Cameroon, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania.
• Up to $5k seed capital alongside training and mentoring.
• January 25, 2026.

iF Design Student Award 2026. iF Design.
• Innovative, future-oriented design concepts that tackle real problems and align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs 1–15).
• Current students and recent graduates (having gained their diploma up to two yers ago).
• All countries.
• €50k prize money.
• January 28, 2026.

NEF Commemorative Grant Fund for Capacity Building of Young Scientists (CGF). Nagao Foundation.
• Helping young scientists grow up as world-class scientists in the fields of conservation of wildlife and ecosystem.
• Under 40 years old, a researcher working in a university or research institution with a PhD or Doctor’s degree.
• Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Fiji, Indonesia, Kiribati, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federal of), Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Vietnam.
• Up to ~$16,905. (2.5m Japanese yen maximum grant size).
• January 30, 2026.

Student Research Grants. American Ornithological Society (AOS).
• Supports research in various areas of avian biology.
• Undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs. Applicants need not indicate that they are applying for a particular grant, Committee will determine which fund is most appropriate for supporting the top proposals.
• All countries.
• Up to $4k grants.
• January 30, 2026.

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.

Open call for waste management startups. Ecoembes.
• Startups with disruptive solutions for urban waste management. 1) New solutions to optimise waste management in cities and 2) New solutions to improve operational
efficiency in waste sorting plants.
• Legally established companies (commercial or social economy) with less than 10 years of existence.
• All countries.
• €2k prize.
• January 31, 2026.

Startupbootcamp Georgia MVP Program. Startupbootcamp.
• Structured support for startups seeking to build, brand and test their Minimum Viable Product.
• Founders with early traction or MVPs looking for the next step.
• All countries.
• $50k grant alongside workshops & masterclasses.
• January 31, 2026.

Assistance program for Community Projects. Embassy of Japan in Mozambique.
• Aims to address various development needs quickly and comprehensively, the importance of grassroots development projects that can directly benefit local populations.
• Community-based non-profit organizations such as NGOs, schools, and local governments.
• Mozambique.
• ~$64,268 (10 million yen) grant.
• January 31, 2026.

IJURR Foundation Writing-Up Grants. IJURR Foundation.
• Promotes urban and regional research, particularly encourages an understanding of the interconnection between social, economic and political processes and of the broader causes and effects of these processes.
• Post graduate (Doctorate) research students working within the field of urban and regional studies.
• Low and middle-income countries.
• Up to £6k grant.
• January 31, 2026.

Feed the Future Ethiopia Transforming Agriculture: Partnerships to Drive Innovation, Build Capacity, and Scale Impact in Ethiopia’s Food and Agriculture System. RTI International.
• Innovative solutions to development and agribusiness challenges through partnerships with private sector firms and NGOs operating in Ethiopia to align with the aim to increase access to healthy diets by improving the competitiveness and resilience of the Ethiopian food and agriculture system.
• Private sector or NGO.
• Ethiopia.
• No ceiling on how much funding can be programmed through this APS.
• January 31, 2026.

Blue Corridors for Turtles (BC4T) Small Grants Fund. State of the World’s Sea Turtles (SWOT).
• Projects that engage local communities in research-driven initiatives aimed at contributing to the objectives of the Blue Corridors for Turtles project (BC4T).
• Be a registered organisation, legally recognised association or local community group actively engaged in marine turtle research and conservation.
• All countries.
• Proposals under $3k are strongly encouraged.
• January 31, 2026.

Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship-Cohort 3. Sahara Consult.
• EdTech companies that leverage cutting-edge technology and innovative approaches to improve educational outcomes and accessibility.
• Growth-stage, impact-driven EdTech companies.
• Tanzania.
• Up to $70k Equity-Free Funding plus Customised Technical Support.
• 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.

Waterbird Society Research Award. Waterbird Society.
• To encourage significant advances in the biology, ecology, status assessment or conservation biology of waterbirds.
• Proposals that focus on: 1) Basic research on species not covered by other Waterbird Society grants, 2) waterbird population status, distribution, abundance or trends, especially for species that are data deficient or 3) Work that makes a substantial contribution to waterbird conservation.
• Open to student, professional, or amateur.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants.
• February 1, 2026.

Nisbet Research Award. Waterbird Society.
• Those interested in research and conservation on terns and gulls.
• Open to student, professional, or amateur.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants.
• February 1, 2026.

Kushlan Research Award. Waterbird Society.
• To encourage significant scientific advances in the biology, ecology, or conservation biology of wading birds (i.e. herons, storks, ibises, and their taxonomic allies).
• Proposals that focus on: 1) Species relationships within the group and 2) The status, range, and population sizes of little-known species of Ciconiiformes.
• Open to student, professional, or amateur.
• All countries.
• Up to $7k grants.
• February 1, 2026.

Wilson Ornithological Society Research Grants. The Wilson Ornithological Society.
• Avian research. 4 categories of research grant.
• Ornithologists, graduate students, young professionals, and independent researchers without access to funds.
• All countries.
• Up to $5k grants.
• February 1, 2026.

Graduate Research Competition. Organization for Autism Research (OAR).
• Early-career autistic investigators. Independent research studies only.
• Students conducting autism research as a requirement in pursuit of a master’s degree and students who are doctoral candidates or post-doctoral students.
• All countries.
• Up to $2k grants.
• February 2, 2026.

The Slingshot Challenge. National Geographic Society.
• We invite 13-18-year-olds to submit a 1-minute video describing their idea for solving environmental issues.
• Great ideas that drive impact in your community.
• All countries.
• Up to $10k award.
• February 6, 2026.

Qualcomm Make in Africa Startup Mentorship Program. Qualcomm.
• Promising early-stage startups keen on applying advanced connectivity and processing technologies to innovative end-to-end systems solutions, including hardware, and provide these companies with business coaching, access to engineering consultation for product development, and guidance on protecting intellectual property.
• Early-stage tech startups.
• Africa.
• One startup will be awarded a Social Impact Fund grant. All other participating startups will be eligible for a $5k stipend upon successful completion of program requirements.
• February 15, 2026.

Apply now for the 2026 Innovation Award. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
• 1) Demonstrate impact on more than one level of the supply chain, from small-scale agricultural producers (e.g. farmers, herders, fishers) to consumers; 2) Strengthen the link between small-scale producers and consumers through innovative mechanisms such as innovative institutional arrangements, policy and financial mechanisms, social processes, innovative technological solutions with due consideration to environmental, economic and social dimensions of sustainability.
• Individuals, international/regional organizations, academic or research entities, civil society organizations private sector entities.
• All countries.
• A cash prize of $10k.
• February 15, 2026.

The Vast x Explorers Club Grant. The Explorers Club.
• Explorers who are helping make life beyond Earth possible. This program fuels research that brings us closer to living, working, and thriving in space—whether in low Earth orbit, on the Moon, or on Mars.
• Early-career and established researchers, technologists, and explorers from any discipline relevant to space science or human adaptation beyond Earth.
• All countries.
• Up to $25k grants.
• February 15, 2026.

Environment and Peace Call for International Partners. PeaceNexus Foundation.
• International organisations with an environmental mission interested in integrating conflict-sensitive approaches in their operations and organisational systems.
• International non-profit environmental organisations.
• All countries.
• Up to ~$63,430 (50,000 CHF) grant.
• February 16, 2026.

GEO Mountains Small Grants Call 2026-2027. GEO Mountains.
• Proposals that address mountain monitoring, data, and information. Projects that consolidate the ‘state-of-the-art’ or promote transformative research capabilities for sustainable mountain development are particularly encouraged.
• Project proponents should encourage the inclusion and participation of early-career researchers.
• Andes, Central Asia, East Africa, South Caucasus, and Hindu Kush Himalaya.
• Up to ~$12,497 (CHF 10k) grants.
• February 20, 2026.

Royal Society Africa Prize. The Royal Society.
• Research scientists based in Africa who are making an innovative contribution to the biological or physical sciences which contribute significantly to capacity building in Africa.
• Researchers at a senior stage of their research career.
• Africa.
• £15k grant and a personal gift of £2k.
• February 20, 2026.

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.

2026 Rebecca Rhodes African Inclusive Literacy Research Grant. Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA).
• Supports rigorous, locally grounded studies that advance literacy learning for children and youth with disabilities across Africa.
• An individual (not an organization).
• West, Central, East, or Southern Africa.
• $5k research grant.
• February 27, 2026.

Children’s Rights Education or Research Projects 2026. Children’s Rights Research (CRR).
• Funding for schooling and analysis tasks targeted on advancing youngsters’s rights. Assisting impactful initiatives within the Netherlands and internationally, with a powerful emphasis on significant participation of kids and high-quality tutorial or instructional outcomes.
• All applications must include at least one Maastricht University (UM) affiliated person on the project team.
• Students, researchers.
• Netherlands, all countries.
• Up to €5k grants.
• March 1, 2026.

Small Grants Program. Mérieux Foundation.
• Local initiatives aimed at fighting infectious diseases in developing countries, particularly projects relating to maternal and child health.
• Non-profit association or a foundation.
• Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, DRC, Egypt, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Republic of the Congo, Tunisia, Senegal, Togo. Americas: Brazil, Haiti. Asia: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Tajikistan, Vietnam. Middle East: Iraq, Iran, Lebanon.
• Up to €5k grants.
• March 1, 2026.

Project Preparation Grants. Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF).
• Application of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) related capacity evaluation tools, preparation of feasibility studies and/or formulation of project proposals to address specific SPS capacity building needs linked to trade.
• Public and private sector entities, non-profits and NGOs.
• Developing countries on the OECD Development Assistance Committee's list of Official Development Assistance recipients.
• Up to $50k grants.
• March 1, 2026.

Membership Research Grant Scheme (MeRSA). Regional Studies Association (RSA).
• To provide opportunities for scholars who have already published in the field of regional studies and/or regional science and who are currently Individual members of the RSA.
• Welcomes research from any discipline contributing to advancing our understandings of regions and regional development.
• Individual researchers.
• All countries.
• Up to £5k grant.
• March 3, 2026.

Early Career Research Grant Scheme. Regional Studies Association (RSA).
• To support a discrete piece of regional studies and/or regional science research.
• Welcomes research from any discipline contributing to advancing our understandings of regions and regional development.
• Individual applicants in their early career (five years maximum between the date showing on their PhD certificate and the application deadline). Must be based within an eligible higher education institution and must be a current, early career member of the RSA and throughout the duration of the grant.
• All countries.
• Up to £10k grant.
• March 3, 2026.

S+T+ARTS Prize 2026 competition. S+T+ARTS.
• Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts. People and projects that contribute to mastering the social, ecological and economic challenges this continent faces.
• Artists, creative professionals, researchers, and companies.
• All countries.
• €20k prize money.
• March 5, 2026.

Pilot Project on Labour Rights and Decent Working Conditions for Agricultural Workers in Ghana. Brücke Le Pont.
• A local partner organisation that: 1) works on labour conditions of field workers in agricultural value chains, 2) is strongly anchored in target communities.
• Civil society organisations.
• Ghana.
• Up to ~$62,821 (CHF 50k) grant funding.
• March 8, 2026.

Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund Grant. Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund (CIEIF).
• Supports: 1) EIA (environmental impact assessments), 2) predictive impact modeling, and 3) engagement efforts with potentially impacted stakeholders; for innovative climate intervention technologies that are on the verge of field testing.
• All countries.
• $75k grant.
• March 15, 2026.

Elisabeth & Amélie Fund - access to water - 2026. King Baudouin Foundation (KBF).
• Access to and integrated management of water in family farming (availability of and access to good quality water, protection of the resource, efficient use, reduction of losses, limitation of contamination, effective governance, coordination, etc.), based on the principles of agroecology and resilience to global change.
• Particular attention will be given to projects presenting structural preventive solutions.
• Initiatives of Belgian organizations active in Africa, Latin America and Asia.
• Up to €50k funding.
• March 19, 2026.

Species Conservation grants. Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund.
• All plant, animal, and fungi conservation efforts, endangered species.
• Individual species conservation initiatives.
• All countries.
• Up to $25k grants.
• March 31, 2026.

International Children’s Peace Prize 2026 (nominations open). KidsRights Foundation.
• A young changemaker (above 12 years and under 18 years of age) who is fighting courageously for children’s rights.
• Individuals and groups of children, of not more than five. Organizations cannot be nominated.
• Global.
• €50k prize, plus €25k invested in projects of young changemakers related to the theme of the winner.
• March 31, 2026.

Support for Vets and Vet Students. Zebra Foundation.
• Research projects that will further skills and knowledge of zoo and wildlife health.
• Individual vets and vet students.
• All countries.
• Up to $1k grants.
• March 31, 2026.

The Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application. World Food Prize Foundation.
• Exceptional, science-based achievement in international agriculture and food production by an individual under 40 who is working closely and directly “in the field” or at the production or processing level with farmers, animal herders, fishers or others in rural communities, in any discipline or enterprise across the entire food production, processing, and distribution chain.
• Intended to be awarded to one person.
• All countries.
• $10k prize.
• June 1, 2026.

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