Celebrate this Valentine’s Year’s Day with a special gift from us: 50 global opportunities with deadlines fast approaching. Don’t miss out—take the leap and apply now before it’s too late!
1. 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
2. Nike Community Impact Fund – Toronto 2025.
Nike believes in the power of sport to change the world. They know that sport is inspiring, unifying and creates opportunities for individuals and communities to realize their full potential. The Nike Community Impact Fund (NCIF) takes a collaborative approach to grant making by partnering with Nike employees to participate in the grant-making process and directly impact the local communities where they live and work.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 15
3. Groundswell Annual Grant 2025.
Groundswell’s goal is to increase the capacity of organizations struggling for social change that challenges the dominant, oppressive structures of the political, social, and economic systems. Grants will be directed towards member-driven, grassroots initiatives or organizations that face difficulty raising funds due to the nature of their work.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 16, 2025
4. Unlock Her Future Prize 2025.
Powered by The Bicester Collection, as part of its DO GOOD programme, this annual start-up competition supports women social entrepreneurs like YOU to create sustainable businesses that make a real, lasting impact in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 10
5. Africa Youth in Tourism Innovation Challenge 2025.
The Africa Youth in Tourism Innovation Challenge is an exclusive platform designed to empower innovative African youth in the travel and tourism sector. It provides opportunities for funding, mentorship, partnerships, and global exposure, enabling participants to present their groundbreaking projects to an international audience and secure the necessary support to bring their ideas to life.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 28
6. Accerta Health Access Foundation Grant 2024.
The Accerta Health Access Foundation (the Accerta Foundation) improves the lives of those in need and actively gives back to the communities where they work and live. The Accerta Foundation amplifies the work that charitable organizations across Canada do to drive people toward better health, independence, and productivity.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 28
7. Inspiring Women in Science Awards 2025 ($50,000 prize)
Are you committed to advancing gender equality in STEM? Are you dedicated to encouraging girls and young women to engage with STEM subjects and pursue careers in science? Apply now for the Inspiring Women in Science Awards 2025.
Click here to apply | Deadline: April 9
8. Allbritton Journalism Institute Reporting Fellowship 2025-2027.
The fellowship offers aspiring journalists a two-year educational program that prepares them for careers as credible, nonpartisan reporters in the nation’s capital or wherever their work may take them. Students learn core skills from respected professional reporters and editors in a classroom setting, and they gain real-world experience by working as reporters at AJI’s publication, NOTUS.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 19
9. UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea Fellowship Programme 2025 for Young Women Scientists in Africa.
UNESCO and the Republic of Equatorial Guinea are launching for the first time a fellowship programme entirely dedicated to young African women scientists. It is designed to create concrete opportunities for young women to become actively involved in various life science disciplines in the African continent.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 31
10. RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Awards 2025.
For more than three decades, the RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Awards have recognized and celebrated the strides of Canada’s most accomplished, influential, and impactful women. It is the leading women’s awards program in the nation, elevating this group’s important contributions – from economic growth to social change across sectors and industries.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 21
11. Swedish Institute She Entrepreneurs Programme 2025.
She Entrepreneurs 2025 is a leadership programme for highly motivated women entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa who are building scalable businesses that contribute to sustainable solutions for the climate in areas such as, water, energy, food production, the circular economy, manufacturing, infrastructure, and transportation. Over the years, as the programme has been running, many entrepreneurs have received support that has helped them successfully expand and increase their impact.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 6, 2025
12. Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs Enterprising Futures Scholarship to Attend One Young World Summit 2025.
The Dutch Enterprise Agency (RVO), on behalf of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) is pleased to launch their annual scholarship in collaboration with One Young World to offer young leaders and entrepreneurs from these countries a place at the annual One Young World Summit.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 25
13. . DAWN Fellowship 2025.
The fellowship focuses on The Political Economy of Gender-Based Violence and Conflict, supporting a younger woman feminist with proven commitment to women’s rights and gender justice. Fellows will develop projects that deepen understanding of how gender-based violence and conflict shape gender dynamics, amplifying women’s feminist voices in public discourse. The inaugural fellowship will prioritise projects focusing on Palestine, but applications addressing other conflict-affected areas are welcome to apply.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 1
14. Health Communications Fellowship 2025.
Are you a journalist, researcher, public health expert, or academic passionate about improving health communication in Africa? Applications are open for the Africa Health Communications Fellowship 2025. This fellowship is designed for professionals.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 24
15. National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC) Women in Alternatives UP Fellowship Program 2025.
The Women in Alternatives UP Fellowship Program fosters professional development for mid-career ethnically diverse women in alternative investments through targeted skill building and overall career guidance.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 14
16. East-West Center Changing Faces Women’s LeadershipSeminar 2025.
The Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Seminar focuses on the vital role that innovation and entrepreneurship play in contributing to economic growth, job creation, and strengthening communities. During this 12-day professional training, dialogue, and travel program, participants engage in a series of workshops focused on leadership and entrepreneurship.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 11
17. World Food Forum (WFF) Young Scientists Group 2025-2027.
The WFF Young Scientists Group (YSG) was launched in 2022 as the main body providing scientific evidence and technical knowledge to the various initiatives of the WFF, including, but not limited to, the Youth Assembly, Innovation Lab, and Education Programme. This support culminates in the publication of a biennial report on specific technical issues of particular concern to youth related to agrifood systems Transformation.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 22
18. Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) Collegiate Accelerator 2025.
The WBENC Collegiate Accelerator (CA) is a multifaceted, cohort-based, entrepreneurial program focused on the advancement of collegiate female founders.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 17
19. Women for Zero Hunger Program 2025.
The Women for Zero Hunger Program is a signature initiative by Stop Hunger, in collaboration with WIA Philanthropy. This program is dedicated to combating hunger and food insecurity through the empowerment of women in Africa. By supporting sustainable initiatives led by women, they aim to create lasting solutions for communities in need.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 16
20. Bayer Foundation Women Entrepreneurs Award 2025 (€25,000 Prize)
Are you a women-led enterprise building sustainable solutions in health or food security? This is your moment! Apply now for the Bayer Foundation Women Entrepreneurs Award 2025. This award is tailored to provide the resources, support, and visibility needed to elevate your work and amplify your mission.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 18
21. Harpswell ASEAN Women’s Leadership Summit 2025.
The ASEAN Women’s Leadership Summit is a fully-funded opportunity for young women from the ASEAN nations and Nepal to develop as leaders and join a professional network of like-minded peers in the region.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 14
22. L’Oréal USA for Women in Science Award 2025.
Each year, the program attracts talented applicants from diverse STEM fields, representing some of the nation’s leading academic institutions and laboratories. Celebrating its sixteenth year in the U.S., the For Women in Science program has awarded 85 postdoctoral women scientists over $4 million in grants to advance their research and careers.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 14
23. AWARD Leadership Program for Emerging African Women in Agricultural Sciences 2025.
The program, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY) and implemented by African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD), seeks to build a pool of capable, confident, influential young women scientists equipped to excel in agricultural sciences, thrive in leadership roles, and champion gender integration in agriculture.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 12
24. UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea Fellowship Programme 2025 for Young Women Scientists in Africa.
UNESCO and the Republic of Equatorial Guinea are launching for the first time a fellowship programme entirely dedicated to young African women scientists. It is designed to create concrete opportunities for young women to become actively involved in various life science disciplines in the African continent.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 31
25. Women for Nature Young NatureLeaders Grant 2025.
Women for Nature have established a grant/bursary for a young person to develop and implement a project to celebrate the role that nature plays in Canadian culture and identity.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 18
26. 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
27. MEST Africa-Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship 2025.
MEST Africa in partnership with Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship is a pioneering initiative aimed at revolutionizing the educationallandscape 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
28. Liveability Challenge 2025.
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
29. 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
30. Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme 2025 for African Entrepreneurs.
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
31. 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
32. Jerome Foundation New York City Film Production Grant 2025.
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
33. 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
34. 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
35. 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
36. 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
37. 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
38. 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
39. 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
40. 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
41. 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
42.Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme 2025 for African Entrepreneurs ($5,000 Seed Funding and more)
Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme 2025 for African Entrepreneurs. 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 to apply | Deadline: March 1
43. Turn Your Story into $1,000 and a Documentary with Prototipe Media
Have you been working on a story that you think deserves to be adapted into a documentary or docu-series? Get your idea out of your notebook and onto the big screen with Prototipe. They will hold your hand every step of the way, from development to production. Apply to join Prototipe’s free community of journalists for a chance to be awarded a $1,000 stipend and to work with their team to develop your IP into doc/doc-series/feature film.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Unspecified
44. Global Fund for Women is hiring a Grant Writer
The Grant Writer will support the Institutional Partnerships team’s work to sustain and increase foundation and corporate giving revenue by preparing grant proposals, letters of inquiry, grant reports, and other fundraising materials.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Unspecified
45. 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
46. HER Voice Fund Ambassadors 2025.
Are you an adolescent girl or young woman (AGYW) aged 18 to 28 and living in Malawi, Tanzania, Cameroon, Eswatini, or Lesotho? Are you passionate about making your voice heard and leading the way in decisions that shape the lives of AGYW? This is your chance to make an impact! The Global Network of Young People Living with HIV (Y+ Global) is recruiting HER Voice Fund Ambassadors in Malawi, Tanzania, Cameroon, Eswatini and Lesotho.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 18
47. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum 2025
The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum 2025 taking place from 15 to 17 April at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The Forum provides a platform for young people to engage in a dialogue with Member States and other stakeholders to share their views and concerns as well as galvanize actions and recommendations to transform the world into a fairer, greener and more sustainable place led by the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 12
48. Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Journalism 2025.
The award recognises outstanding examples of investigative reporting that reveal untold stories, hold the powerful to account and question those in public life, and can be made to a journalist or team of journalists for a single story or a series of stories published or broadcast between 1 January and 31 December 2024.
Click here to apply | February 24
49. Call for Applications: African Gender Equality Research Group 2025 (Stipend available)
The Institute of Global Value Inquiry (IGVI) invites applications from scholars specialising in African feminist philosophies to join the African Gender Equality Research Group. The initiative aims to bring together researchers across Africa to explore and critically engage with African philosophies, values, and norms within the context of global values. The researchers in the group will undertake innovative research and advocacy on African feminist philosophies, gender equality discourses, women’s empowerment and rights, decoloniality, and Indigenous knowledge on women’s empowerment.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 28
50. Sankofatech Achievers in Technology (AIT) Program 2025.
Sankofatech’s Achievers in Technology (AIT) program is an intensive, four-year initiative designed to cultivate the next wave of Black technology leaders in the United States. Recognizing that young people of African descent often overlook technology careers due to limited industry awareness, community misconceptions (such as a perceived lack of prestige), and a scarcity of resources, AlT seeks to address these challenges head-on.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 3
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