FUNDRAISING

Calls For Proposals

For support with your proposal, contact the development office  devt@usiu.ac.ke

Lloyd’s of London Foundation: Funding Research for a Resilient Future

Deadline: 25th July 2025

Focus Area: Innovative research in risk management or climate adaptation 

Grant size: £50,000 - 100,000

Embassy of Finland in Nairobi: Call for Circular Economy Project Proposals

Deadline: 31st July 2025

Focus Area: Advancing circular economy 

Grant Size: EUR 100,000 - 120,000 

SVRI Research Grant 2026

Deadline: 31st July 2025

Focus Area: Prevention and response of gender based violence

Grant Size: $40,000 - 100,000 

Standards and Trade Development Facility’s Project Grant Program

Deadline: 1st August 2025

Focus Area: Food safety, animal & plant health 

Grant size: $50,000 – 1,000,000 

Solidarity in Tourism (SST) Grants

Deadline: 15th August and 24th October 2025

Focus Area: Sustainable Tourism Development

Grant Size: CHF 5,000 - 25,000 

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 

CJIFA’s Community Empowerment Grant

Deadline: 29th August 2025

Focus Area: Local engagement in climate awareness, action, and sustainable development 

Grant Size: $5000 - 8000

Norec Work Exchange Grant

Deadline: 1st September 2025

Focus Area: global partnerships for sustainable development 

Grant Size: 1,5 mill NOK 

Connecting Indigenous Research and Leadership

Deadline: 23rd September 2025

Focus Area: Indigenous-Led Research and Knowledge Systems 

Grant Size: CAD100,000  

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

Rolling Calls For Proposals

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

Fellowships, Residencies & Fundraising Training Opportunities

Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship

Deadline: 1st August 2025

Applicant Type: Professionals (5-10yrs) in the clean energy and climate change space.

International Computer Science Competition

Deadline: 24th August 2025

Applicant Type: Computer Science students and enthusiasts

Award Size: Prizes worth upwards of $1000

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  

Internships & Traineeships

There is no content in this portlet.

Postdoctoral Opportunities

Postdoctoral position in Humanities

Deadline: 1st August 2025

Applicant Type: Holders of a PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Computational Humanities (or Social Sciences), or a related field with a focus on NLP.

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

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

Postdoctoral Position in Economics

Deadline: Rolling

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

Graduate/Post Graduate Scholarships

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)

Mastercard Foundation Scholarship at Sciences Po (Fully Funded)

Deadline: 30th November 2025

Eligibility: Students from African countries (35yrs old or younger)

Study level: Masters

Handouts

Donor Mapping 2025

This is a helpful tool for individuals that do not know where to start their grant search, and also helpful for experienced grant writers that need to write proposals.