Discover a curated list of 22 funding opportunities designed to support professionals and organizations in diverse fields. Whether you’re seeking grants for education, innovation, advocacy, or community development, this compilation offers a wide range of options to help you achieve your goals. Explore these opportunities and take a step closer to making a meaningful impact in your sector.
1. Mastercard Foundation & University of Cambridge Climate Resilience and Sustainability Research Fund 2025.
The Fund aims to catalyse new and strengthen existing collaborations between researchers in Africa and Cambridge and support high quality training activities. The focus of the scheme is research on climate resilience and sustainability.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 21
2. MEST Africa-Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship 2025 ($600,000 Equity Free Funding).
MEST Africa in partnership with Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship is a pioneering initiative aimed at revolutionizing the educational landscape in Ghana through technology-driven solutions. This accelerator program seeks to empower visionary EdTech companies by providing them with the resources, mentorship, and support needed to accelerate their growth and impact.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 21
3. Liveability Challenge 2025. ($2 million in funding)
Global temperatures are reaching dangerously new highs year after year, with the first half of 2024 witnessing unprecedented heat and the hottest months ever recorded. Achieving the climate targets – set under the Paris Agreement in 2015 – has never been more urgent, as societies and ecosystems face escalating threats from rising heat, extreme weather events and ecological deterioration.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 9
4. NTEEP 5.0 Entrepreneurship Empowerment Program 2025 for African Startups.
Empowering African Startups for Success NTEEP (Nomfro Technologies’ Entrepreneurship Empowerment Project) is back with its highly anticipated fifth edition, offering a golden opportunity for 500 startups to join a thriving community of entrepreneurs.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 30
5. Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme 2025 for African Entrepreneurs ($5,000 seed funding and more)
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF)-Africa’s leading philanthropy focused on empowering African entrepreneurs -is looking for the most innovative business ideas across the African continent.
Click here for to apply | Deadline: March 1
6. Africa Health Collaborative Research Fund 2025.
The key aim of the Health Collaborative Research Fund 2025 is to encourage and provide initial support for the development/expansion of high-quality research activities for Early Career Researchers (ECR) enabling principal investigators to subsequently apply for funding to support the next phase of their joint research that will result in greater impact.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 19
7. WHO Incentive Grants for Young Researchers from LMICs 2025.
The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Noncommunicable Disease Platform, in collaboration with the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, and the World Medical Association, is pleased to invite proposals from individual researchers who are enrolled in accredited academic institutions and conduct research projects as part of their graduate degree requirements.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 31
8. Jerome Foundation New York City Film Production Grant 2025 (Up to $30,000)
Powered every two years, Jerome Foundation’s NYC Film Production Grant provides New York City – based early career film directors production grants for short or long – form film projects in the ever – expanding creative genres of experimental, narrative, animation, or documentary genres or in any hybrid combination of these forms.
Click here to apply | Deadline: April 3
9. Northwestern University Racial Equity & Community Partnership Grants Program 2025 (up to $75,000)
The Racial Equity & Community Partnership Grants program is led by the Office of Neighborhood and Community Relations. A committee of University administrators and academics, along with community representatives, serves as advisors to the program. Beginning in 2020, Northwestern committed more than $500,000 annually to advance racial equity in their home communities of Evanston and Chicago.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 24
10. Green Money Project for Nigerian Youth in Agribusiness 2025.
Join this transformative journey and be part of the initiative that will shape the future of agriculture in Nigeria.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Unspecified
11. DWF Foundation Grant Programme 2025.
The DWF Foundation is offering grants to registered charities working to make a positive impact in their communities. This exciting opportunity could provide your organization with funding of up to £5,000 to support your valuable work.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 28
12. Kenya-UK PACT Clean Energy Transition Program 2025.
The UK Government is looking to extend its UK Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions (UK PACT) programme in Kenya with technical assistance and capacity-building projects supporting the clean energy transition sector.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 29
13. Powering Renewable Energy Opportunities (PREO) to support the implementation of Productive Uses of Renewable Energy (PURE) in sub-Saharan Africa.
This open call will accept applications from enterprises seeking to pilot innovative
PURE business models in sub-Saharan Africa in sectors including (but not limited to) solar water pumping for irrigation, cold storage for food, agro processing of crops (e.g. milling, drying, oil press), food value chain processing activities, electric mobility for taxi drivers and fishing boats, and more.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 31
14. NSERC College and Community Social Innovation Fund Grants 2025 (up to $120,000)
CCSIF grants are intended to foster community innovation by connecting the talent, facilities and capabilities of Canada’s colleges and polytechnics with the research needs of community organizations. CCSIF proposals should facilitate collaborative and innovative research that brings together researchers, students and partners to address challenges in community innovation in the social sciences, humanities, health sciences, natural sciences and engineering research fields.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 26
15. Mercy Corps Ventures Anticipatory Action Accelerator 2025.
This initiative, building on recent Anticipatory Action (AA) pilots completed in Kenya and Nepal, will partner with startups, NGOs, and more to usher in a new era of humanitarian aid, leveraging innovations in tech such as climate data analytics, Al/ML, and crypto payment rails.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 14
16. Royal Society Rising Star Africa Prize 2025.
The Royal Society Rising Star Africa Prize is to recognise early-career research scientists based in Africa who are making an innovative contribution to the physical, mathematical and engineering sciences. The prize was established in memory of Paul O’Brien FRS and his work encouraging excellence in science and education in Africa.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 21
17. Black Artists Grant 2025.
The Black Artists Grant (BAG) offered by Creative Debuts as a no-strings attached financial support to help Black artists. They can spend the grant on whatever they want – be that make new work, buy equipment or materials, travel, research, visit exhibitions or conferences, or to even just cover some life expenses.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Rolling Basis
18. ETH4D Doctoral Mentorship Grants 2025.
ETH for Development (ETH4D) provides grants for mentoring doctoral candidates from low- and lower-middle-income countries. The mentorship is a one-year appointment and comprises the following components:
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 30
19. Black Opportunity Fund – Justice Grant 2025.
This grant aims to support Black-led, Black-serving organizations working to address systemic injustices and promote equity within Black communities across Canada.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 23
20. American Mathematical Society (AMS) Young Scholars Program 2025 (up to $15,000)
The AMS Young ScholarsProgram, supported by the Epsilon Fund, was established to help fund summer mathematics programs in the United States for mathematically talented youth. The program aims to nurture those that are interested in mathematics by aiding summer programs that provide high school students with opportunities to engage with mathematics in a way that builds curiosity and confidence.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 22
21. FreshCo Community Action Fund 2025.
At FreshCo and Chalo! FreshCo, they are committed to making a meaningful difference in the communities they serve. The Community Action Fund is dedicated to supporting initiatives that promote the mental and physical health of children and families, and they invite eligible nonprofits to apply.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Ongoing
22. Ashoka Power of Local Challenge 2025. (Up to $60,000)
They are looking for small business ecosystem builders – organizations that provide small businesses with diverse and equitable opportunities like resources, tools, networking, and more. If this sounds like you, then you’re in the right place!
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 26
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