Essential Innovation Challenge – Empowering Youth for an AI Future

Funding Organization: The StepForward Funding focus: Empowering youth and early career individuals with the knowledge and skills to confidently step into an AI-powered world. Eligibility Criteria: This Challenge will select six nonprofit solutions, one per global region: Asia-Pacific (excluding India), Europe, India, Latin America, Middle East and Africa, and North America Grant Limit: Six winning…

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2025 Call for Proposals, Wild Animal Initiative

Funding Organization: Wild Animal Initiative Funding focus: Animal Welfare; Focus areas: wild animal welfare, mortality analysis, environmental variation. This call prioritizes interdisciplinary science that expands understanding of wild animal experiences, especially in areas underfunded by mainstream conservation or academic systems. Priority themes include the relationship between mortality and welfare, impacts of environmental variation, and tools for…

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ALDA – European Association for Local Democracy

Funding Organization:ALDA – European Association for Local Democracy Funding focus: Policy & Campaigns, Human Rights, Diversity & Inclusion, etc Eligibility Criteria:Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) working with youth in Low-income countries, specifically Sub-Saharan African countries. Grant Limit: Open Deadline: 15 Jan, 2025  Each Year Website: WYDE Civic Engagement call for proposals – Third Round – Alda…

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Women, Peace and Security

Funding Organization: Government of the Netherlands (FemFocus 2026–2030) Funding focus: strengthening women’s leadership in conflict prevention and mediation, ensuring meaningful participation and influence of women in formal and informal discussions and decision-making on peace and security, and supporting survivors and victims of CRSV, corresponding with the pillars of Participation and Protection in Security Council Resolution on…

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WWF’s Russell E. Train Education for Nature (EFN) Program

Funding Organization:WWF’s Russell E. Train Education for Nature (EFN) Program Funding focus: Community-based Forest Restoration Grant for restoration of deforested and degraded landscapes, managing natural resources, diversification of livelihoods, landscape restoration actions. Eligibility Criteria: Local organizations, NOGs in Ghana, etc Grant Limit: Applicants may apply for one year of funding up to $15,000 USD Deadline: Deadline…

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Applications open for Young Leaders in Research Grant Program (Africa)

Funding Organization: The African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) Funding focus: Green Industrial Transformation, Gender Equality, Regional Integration, Innovation & Digital Policy, Eligibility Criteria: African nationals or applicants holding permanent residency in African countries. Applicants must be 35 years or younger at the time of application and have completed or be enrolled in a master’s…

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Commonwealth Foundation

Funding Organization: Commonwealth Foundation Funding focus: Health Justice, Freedom of Expression, Climate Justice, etc Eligibility Criteria: not-for-profit civil society organisation (CSO) registered in an eligible Commonwealth Foundation Member State. (Ghana). with three years’ demonstrable experience. Grant Limit: £30,000 to 60,000 Deadline: 24 October 2024 1pm BST Application open each year Website: Open grants call – Commonwealth Foundation

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FCDO’s Just Rural Transition Support program GOV.UK

Funding Organization: FCDO’s Just Rural Transition Support program GOV.UK Funding focus: community of non-state actors to engage on agricultural policy reform and subsidy repurposing climate (mitigation, adaptation). Nature (protect and restore biodiversity. people (healthy diets, incomes) Eligibility Criteria: not-for-profit organisations in any country. Grant Limit: More than £1,000,000 Deadline: 28-Jan-2025. 11.59pm UK time  Website: Creating…

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Climate Investment Challenge

Funding Organization: Climate Investment Challenge Funding focus: To develop creative solutions that help mobilise capital, improve investment decision-making, or increase the effectiveness of climate-related investments across sectors, markets, and regions. Focused on: Greenwashing detection indicators, Climate risk and resilience metrics, AI-based climate or transition risk models, Tools supporting climate-aligned portfolio decisions. Eligibility Criteria: The challenge…

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The Avery Dennison Foundation grantmaking

Funding Organization: Avery Dennison Foundation (ADF) Funding focus: Focused on areas of education access; environmental sustainability; secure livelihoods; diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI); and disaster relief. Supports and builds partnerships with nonprofit/non-governmental organizations in communities across the globe, with an emphasis on geographies of high need align with the UN SDGs.  Eligibility Criteria: NGOs that demonstrate…

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