Are you looking for opportunities to advance your career or make a difference? Here are 29 opportunities that can help you achieve your goals.
- Girls Who Click Ambassador Program 2025
Nature is fabulously diverse and the voices telling the stories of nature must be equally so. This is why they created the Ambassador Program. Currently the profession of nature photography is dominated by white, male photographers. Girls Who Click aims to identify and encourage young female and female. identified+ nature photographers who are motivated to take their art to the next level.
Click here to apply | Deadline: November 10
- Leica Women Foto Project Award 2025 ($10,000)
The sixth annual Leica Women Foto Proiect Award-a prestigious initiative dedicated to celebrating and empowering visual storytellers with a unique feminine perspective. This year’s theme, Unity Through Diversity, invites photographers to submit a photo essay exploring the importance of connection in times of division, using any make or model of camera
Click here to apply | Deadline: November 5
- MPOWER Financing Women in STEM Scholarship 2025
MPOWER Financing believes in addressing inequality in education. In recognition of the extraordinary potential of women in the sciences, they created the MPOWER Women in STEM Scholarship.
Click here to apply | Deadline: December 31
- Global Leadership Challenge 2024 for Young Leaders
They are looking for a diverse group of postgraduate students and young professionals who are ready to rise to the challenges of our time and develop themselves as the responsible leaders our world desperately needs now. GLC Members can participate virtually from around the world.
Click here to apply | Deadline: November 3
- Global Press Shifting Democracies Reporting Fellowship 2025 (Up to $3,000)
Global Press’ Shifting Democracies fellows will examine changing governance structures in countries around the world, and how those shifts are interconnected. During this two-year, full-time fellowship, fellows will produce investigative and explanatory journalism, participate in advanced skills training and be part of an international cohort of women journalists, all working and living in their home countries.
Click here to apply | Deadline: November 8
- Learning PlanetYouth Design Challenge 2024-2025 ($1,000 prize)
The Learning Planet Youth Design Challenge is an annual global initiative encouraging young individuals aged15-26 to pitch their ideas for innovative learning programmes for their dream university. This is your chance to make a real impact on the future of learning!
Click here to apply | Deadline: December 1
- WA & Grundfos Youth Action for SDG 6 Fellowship 2025-2026 (Funded)
The IWA & Grundfos Youth Action for SDG 6 Fellowship was established in 2022. Since then, it has been recognised by the global community as one of the most impactful youth engagement initiatives in the water sector. Building upon the success and momentum generated by its first edition, the 2025-2026 Fellowship seeks to address the evolving needs and priorities of the water sector in the context of a rapidly changing world.
Click here to apply | Deadline: November 14
- Youth Advisory Council (YAC) Members for the African Youth for Forest 2024
The African Forest Forum (AFF) is looking for interested individuals to become members of the Youth Advisory Council for the African Youth4Forests Project. The Youth Advisory Council (YAC) will provide oversight and guidance on cross-cutting issues affecting youth in the forestry. Made up of four (4) members from each African sub-region, it will constitute knowledgeable and dynamic young women and men with broad experience of challenges and opportunities facing the environment and African forestry youth stakeholders.
Click here to apply | Deadline: October 28
- MASDAR Youth 4 Sustainability Programs 2024/2025
Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Youth 4 Sustainability (Y4S) is a Masdar global initiative that empowers the next generation of sustainability leaders.
Click here to apply | Deadline: November 30
- Hello Alice Tech x Women Boost Camp 2024
What does your business need to thrive? Capital! How do you secure it? By joining this exclusive Boost Camp that’s designed to show trailblazing female tech founders how to fuel their business growth and access the capital they need!
Click here to apply | Deadline: November 1
- Call for Application: Action for Women’s Health 2024/2025
Pivotal, a Melinda French Gates organization, launched Action for Women’s Health, a $250 million global open call that will fund organizations around the world that are improving women’s mental and physical health.
Click here to apply | Deadline: December 3
- Inspiring South Australian Women’s Award 2025
The Inspiring South Australian Women’s Award recognises an exceptional and inspiring woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the community. The Award is jointly coordinated by the Australia Day Council of South Australia and the Office for Women. The Award is provided by Katrine Hildyard MP, Minister for Women and the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence.
Click here to apply | Deadline: November 1
- Yves Rocher Foundation Terre De Femmes International Award 2025 (€10,000 prize)
Launched in 2019, the International Terre de Femmes Award is a thematic prize open to all women worldwide. It rewards on-the-ground actions carried out by a woman or a group of women within a non-profit organization.
Click here to apply | Deadline: November 30
- U.S. Department of State TechGirls Program 2025
TechGirls is a U.S.-based summer exchange program designed to empower and support young women (ages 15-17) from the United States and select countries around the world to pursue higher education and careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields through hands-on skills
development training.
Click here to apply | Deadline: December 6
- American Association of University Women (AAUW) International Fellowships 2025 (Funded)
The International Fellowships have been in existence since 1917. The program provides support for women pursuing full-time graduate or postdoctoral study in the United States to women who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents, and who intend to return to their home country to pursue a professional career.
Click here to apply | Deadline: November 15
- WAAW Foundation Scholarship 2024/2025
WAAW (Working to Advance Science and Technology Education for African Women) Foundation’s Annual Scholarship Programme aims to support African Females Students studying any Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) related course at the university.
Click here to apply | Deadline: November 30
- Youth Look Up Innovation Challenge 2025 (Up to $ 2,500)
This challenge is for exceptional youth advocates, storytellers, and innovators with bold ideas to address the youth mental health crisis through digital wellbeing and youth-led movements and solutions.
Click here to apply | Deadline: November 15
- Call for Applications: Aspire Leaders Program 2025
The Aspire Leaders Program welcomes low-income, first-generation college students and recent graduates around the world to participate in a free online immersive leadership journey including professional skills training, an exclusive course designed and delivered by Harvard faculty, and interactive seminars led by world-class educators.
Click here to apply | Deadline: December 4
- UPG Sustainability Leadership Program 2025 (Fully Funded to the U.S)
Are you a passionate citizen, aged 18 to 35, who believes your actions can support your local community and that every small positive action can make the world a better place? Apply for the United People Global (UPG) Sustainability Leadership Program 2025.
Click here to apply | Deadline: December 31
- Mountaintop Fellowship 2025 for Leaders (Up to $ 3,600)
Mountaintop’s flagship program is a paid, one-year, full-time fellowship for the most promising local leaders to stay in or return to their home communities and contribute to systems change in lower-income places around the world.
Click here to apply | Deadline: November 8
- Peter Cullen Water & Environment Trust Leadership Program 2025
The Peter Cullen Water & Environment Trust invites applications from people who are actively involved in water and environmental science, systems, advocacy, policy or management, to participate in their unique Leadership Program.
Click here to apply | Deadline: November 17
- Mo Ibrahim Leadership Fellowship 2025 ($100,000 Stipend)
The Ibrahim Leadership Fellowships are a 12-month programme designed to support the professional development of future African leaders. The Fellowship programme invites emerging leaders from across Africa to apply to join the 2025 cohort of MIF Fellows and make the most of this opportunity.
Click here to apply | Deadline: November 20
- Chevening Gurukul Fellowship for Leadership and Excellence 2025-2026
The Chevening Gurukul Fellowship for Leadership and Excellence is the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s flagship fellowship for India and has run for more than 20 years. The fellowship is aimed at young high-flyers and mid-career professionals from diverse backgrounds with strong and demonstrable leadership potential. The fellowship addresses issues faced by leaders in all fields and explores changing ideas and practices of leadership, looking at the implications of globalisation for Indian leaders.
Click here for details | Deadline: November 5
24. Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship 2025-2026
The Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship is a tailored programme of leadership development which aims to enrich and transform cultural practice and engagement by developing leadership potential, acumen and skills.
Click here for details | Deadline: November 5
25. Machel-Mandela Internship Programme 2025
The Brenthurst Foundation is inviting applications from young graduates for the Machel-Mandela Internship Programme, named in honour of former South African President Nelson Mandela and his wife Graca Machel. The Machel-Mandela Internship programme offers an opportunity for a graduate to participate in the work of one of Africa’s leading think tanks, including participating in the organisation of events, the writing of papers and op-eds and other policy work.
Click here to apply | Deadline: November 15
26. Prince Talal International Prize for Human Development 2024 (Up to $1,000,000 in Prizes)
The prize is awarded annually by the Arab Gulf Programme for Development (AGFUND) with the aim of inciting and encouraging innovation and creativity in human development. The idea of the Prize is stemmed from AGFUND’s approach to enhance development performance and support key development projects in order to achieve the goal of sustainability and investment in people.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 15
27. Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Science Diversity Leadership Award 2025 ($1.15 million grant)
The award supports principal investigators who are outstanding early- to mid-career biomedical researchers at U.S. universities, medical schools, or nonprofit research institutes who-through their outreach, mentoring, teaching, and leadership-have a record of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in their scientific communities.
Click here to apply | Deadline: December 3
28. Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity (AFSEE) Programme 2025-2026 for Social-change Leaders
Are you a changemaker committed to fighting inequality? Do you want to learn from scholars, innovators, activists and social change organisations, and the latest academic research and expert insights on inequalities? Are you ready to join forces with a lifelong global network of peers? Apply the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity (AFSEE) Programme 2025-2026 for Social-change Leaders.
Click the link to apply | Deadline: January 10
29. Kectil Program 2025 for Youth Leaders
“KECTIL” is an acronym that refers to the Knowles Educational and Charitable Trust for International Leadership. The Program connects talented youth leaders born for greatness in developing countries worldwide for deep discussion and networking about issues that matter, as well as proposed actions to improve the quality of life locally and globally. The Program is offered for free from the Malmar Knowles Family Foundation. Youth in the Kectil Program are referred to as Kectil Colleagues.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Ongoing
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