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Grant Writing Training Toolkit

CIVIC Health Initiative

Deadline: 22nd August 2025

Focus Area: Advancing health and nutrition outcomes for women, children, and adolescents  

Grant Size: $5,000,000

Future for Nature Awards - 2026

Deadline: 25th August 2025

Focus Area: Protection of Wild Species

Grant Size: €50,000 

Call for Applications - 2025 Community Empowerment Grant

Deadline: 29th August 2025 

Focus area: Climate awareness, action, and sustainable development 

Grant size: $5000 - 8000

Call for Applications - Social Shifters Global Innovation Challenge 2025

Deadline: 29th August 2025

Focus Area: Youth-led social impact

Grant size: $3,000 - 15,000 

Emerging Climate Champions Award

Deadline: 29th August 2025

Focus Area: Climate Action

Grant Size: $1,000,000

Call for Applications: Amphibian Ark Grant Program

Deadline: 31st August 2025

Focus Area: Conservation projects for amphibian species that cannot currently be saved in the wild

Grant Size:$15,000  

Eidolon Grants

Deadline: 31st August 2025

Focus Area: Vernacular Photography

Grant Size: 25,000 EUR

Norec Work Exchange Grant

Deadline: 1st September 2025

Focus Area: global partnerships for sustainable development 

Grant Size: 1,5 mill NOK 

Halton Foundation Grant

Deadline: 1st September 2025

Focus Area: Improving indoor environmental quality 

Africa-Europe Foundation Youth Awards 2025

Deadline: 1st September 2025

Focus Area: Contributions of young people in shaping the Africa-Europe partnership 

Grant Size: 5,000 Euros 

Call for applications for the Restoration Returns grants

Deadline: 15 September 2025 

Focus Area: community-led ecosystem restoration initiatives 

Grant size: $17,000 

Joint Innovation Facility

Deadline: 15th September 2025

Focus Area: Tech-driven Climate Solutions

Grant Size: 100,000 – 250,000 EUR 

Call for applications for the Restoration Returns grants

Deadline: 15th September 2025 

Focus Area: Community-led ecosystem restoration initiatives 

Grant Size: US$17,000 

Connecting Indigenous Research and Leadership

Deadline: 23rd September 2025

Focus Area: Indigenous-Led Research and Knowledge Systems 

Grant Size: CAD100,000  

Connecting Indigenous Research Leadership in Canada and the Global South

Deadline: 23rd September 2025

Focus Area: Connecting Indigenous research and leadership in Canada and in the Global South 

Grant Size: CAD100,000 

Advanced Innovation Grants

Deadline: 30th September 2025

Focus Area: Translating validated innovations (technologies, techniques, or methodologies) into actionable clinical use 

Grant Size: $100,000 

Rainforest Trust Funding Programme

Deadline:1st October 2025

Focus Area: Protecting ecosystems in the tropics and subtropics critical to endangered species and climate mitigation 

Grant Size: $10,000 - 250,000

Operational Digital Platforms

Deadline: 16th October 2025

Focus Area: Deploying cross-border digital infrastructure that will accelerate the digitalization of the energy/mobility sector 

Solidarity in Tourism (SST) Grants

Deadline: 24th October 2025

Focus Area: Sustainable Tourism Development

Grant Size: CHF 5,000 - 25,000 

Angelman Syndrome Alliance Grant Program

Deadline: 1st November 2025

Focus Area: Research that can help support a better understanding of Angelman Syndrome 

Grant Size: €120,000 

EIC Pre-Accelerator

Deadline: 18th November 2025

Focus area: Boosting the innovation potential of early-stage deep-tech startups 

Grant Size: €300K - 500K 

Turtle Conservation Fund

Deadline: 1st December 2025

Focus Area: Turtle conservation

Grant Size: $20,000 - 50,000 

John Templeton Foundation Grant Program

Deadline: Rolling

Applicant Type: Open call

Internet Freedom Fund

Focus Area: Open Technology

Grant size: $10,000 - 900,000 

The Rapid Response Fund

Focus Area: HIV-related human rights

Grant size: $15,000 

Paul Hamlyn Foundation Youth Fund

Focus area: Young people (14-25) who experience systemic inequity

Grant size: £150,000

Ethereum Foundation Small Grants

Focus area: Open call

Grant size: $30,000 - 100,000

Grants to foster community philanthropy

Focus area: Development of community philanthropy organizations

Grant size: $100,000

Reece Foundation Grant

Focus area: Access to clean water, sanitation or irrigation for food security

Grant size: AUD$5,000 - AUD$30,000

Hayek Fund - Expense Support

Focus area: Research within the liberal tradition

Grant size: $500 -5,000

Opec Fund Grant

Open call

AJA Foundation Grant Program

Focus Area: Creating a sustainable impact 

The Rufford Foundation

Focus Area: Nature Conservation

Grant Size: £7,000 - 18,000 

International Computer Science Competition

Deadline: 24th August 2025

Applicant Type: Computer Science students and enthusiasts

Award Size: Prizes worth upwards of $1000

Henry Arnhold Fellowship

Deadline: 28th August 2025

Applicant Type: Innovative leaders with a conservation or climate solution 

Accelerator for tech nonprofits

Deadline: 8th September 2025

Applicant Type: Tech non-profit start-ups

ARUA’s 2025 Early-Career Research Fellowships

Deadline: December 2025

Applicant Type: 35yrs or younger African nationals within 5 years of completing their PhD 

IBSA Foundation Fellowships

Deadline: 31st January 2026

Grant Size: €32'000 

Applicant Type: PhD students, PhD, Post-Doc and residents with a degree in medicine, biology, pharmacy, biotechnology or bioengineering. Permanent positions such as Professors cannot apply.

Request for Applications: Savvy Fellowship Program

Deadline: Rolling

Focus: Entrepreneurship

OPEN CALL for Story Proposals: Bulgaria International Journalism Fellowship (BIJF)

Deadline: Rolling Basis

Applicant Type:  Journalists, storytellers, and media creators from around the world  

𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: 𝐃𝐀𝐀𝐃 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 – 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭-𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬

Deadline: 29th August 2025

Applicant Type: Doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers

Global Research Outreach Program

Deadline: 29th August 2025

Focus Area: Open innovation in the tech space

OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards 2026

Deadline: 31st August 2025

Applicant Type: Women who have received their PhD in a scientific discipline within the previous ten years  and whose current scientific research is related to the area of sustainable, affordable, and reliable energy 

Postdoctoral Student opportunity in Communication Science

Deadline: 31st August 2025

Applicant Type: Meeting general eligibility criteria for admission into doctoral studies

Merck KGaA Research Grants

Deadline: 31st August 2025

Applicant Type: Scientists in all career stages

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship

Deadline: 10th September 2025

Applicant Type: PhD holders with a maximum of eight years experience in research, from the date of the award of their PhD degree

JYU Visiting Fellow Programme 2026

Deadline: 15th September 2025

Applicant Type: Researchers with a doctoral degree, who are from outside Finland

Faraday Discovery Fellowships

Deadline: 23rd September 2025

Applicant Type: Mid-career researchers in STEM

Wellcome Early-Career Awards

Deadline: 30th September 2025

Applicant Type: Early-career researchers

Postdoctoral Position in Economics

Deadline: Rolling

Applicant Type: PhD holders/candidates with a strong interest in public policy and political institutions

Climate change, human migration and relocation

Deadline: 31st August 2025

Eligibility: Candidate who is enthusiastic about working in the area of climate-related adaptation and human migration and relocation

Study level: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)