Deadline: January 30, 2026
Applications are open for the Aspire Coronation Trust (ACT) Foundation Grant 2026. At ACT Foundation, they seek to promote broad-based participation and partnership with other institutions and/or donor organizations aimed at building sustainable communities that provide innovative solutions to social, economic, and environmental challenges.
They provide organizations with grants to ensure sustainable action in areas that align with their priority focus areas. They also guide their implementing partners through every step of the grant process so that they are not isolated. Their strength lies in the partnerships they create and sustain through grants for interventions with the potential of overturning the downward trajectory of development on the continent.
This year they seek to prioritize scalable, high-impact programs that leverage community mobilization, ensuring inclusion of marginalized and vulnerable groups (women, rural youth, children, persons with disabilities). They encourage collaboration and prioritize interventions that leverage technology to achieve scale, while demonstrating strong capacity for sustainability and driving systems-level change. Applicants are advised to be intentional about including marginalized and vulnerable groups (women, rural youth, children, and persons with disabilities).
Focus Areas
- Health: Africa faces a dual burden of disease: persistent maternal and child health challenges alongside a rising prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). We seek to focus on scalable interventions such as mass screenings and health literacy campaigns ensuring access to care for underserved populations. These initiatives can also equip community champions, health workers, and youth advocates to drive awareness and influence health-seeking behaviours. We will support interventions such as:
- Maternal & Child Health: e.g community health education sessions and campaigns, provision of safe delivery kits for pregnant women, prevention of malaria in pregnancy and pregnancy-induced diseases.
- Community Health Screenings: Partner with relevant health institutions to run large-scale non-communicable diseases screening campaigns and referral programs for hypertension, Hepatitis, diabetes, cancers and eye health etc.
- Entrepreneurship: Africa’s youth population is booming, yet unemployment remains high. Our strategy this year seeks to create businesses, influence, mentor, and drive systemic change among youth-led and female-led businesses. This approach supports financial literacy and innovation that uplift communities. We will support interventions such as:
- Supporting young, female-led entrepreneurs: Digital and vocational skills programs tied to entrepreneurship pathways e.g. seed funding for youth-led and female-led social enterprises, access-to-finance initiatives with capacity building for sustainable growth.
- Financial Literacy Campaigns: leveraging Radio programs and social media.
- Climate and renewable energy: Training of youth/women to run recycling businesses, public-private partnerships for waste-to-wealth initiatives.
- Micro-farming (Sustainable agriculture): Community-based interventions on sustainable agriculture.
Eligibility
Organizations applying for ACT Foundation’s grant must meet the following criteria:
- Work within ACT Foundation’s focus areas of Health and Entrepreneurship.
- Be registered with the appropriate legal entity within their respective (African) countries for not less than two years (24 months).
- Be legally registered as a non-profit or social enterprise.
- Show a strong governance structure – Board of Directors or Trustees, management team etc.
- Show evidence of previous/other sources of funding.
- Must show evidence of matching funds for the application.
- Partnership with another organization is an added advantage.
- Have a minimum staff strength of 3 full-time or part-time paid Individuals.
- Be directly responsible for the execution of the proposed intervention.
- Including marginalized and vulnerable groups (women, rural youth, children, and persons with disabilities) is an added advantage.
- Program/Initiative must be implemented within Africa.
Application
Ready to make an impact? Start your grant application today. The call for applications will close on 30th January 2026 11:59pm (WAT).
For more information, visit ACT Foundation Grant.
