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Grant Writing Training Toolkit
Peace & Recovery Initiative
Deadline: 13th June 2025
Focus Area: Prevention of, responses to, and recovery from most forms of social and political violence as well as humanitarian emergencies
Grant Size: $10,000 - 500,000
Call for Applications - 2025 Amplify Change Grant
Deadline: 16th June 2025
Focus Area: Innovative ideas and approaches on sexual and reproductive health rights
Grant size: £75,000
Open Ocean Research Grant Program
Deadline: 17th June 2025
Focus Area: Enhancing ocean governance by publicly sharing data on human activity at sea
Grant Size: $10,000 - 20,000
AmfAR Target Grant Program
Deadline: 18th June 2025
Focus Area: Finding a cure for HIV
Grant Size: $480,000
Call for Applications - The Climate Communication Fund
Deadline: 20th June 2025
Focus Area: Climate Action
Grant size: €10,000
The Youth for Peace: UNESCO intercultural leadership programme
Deadline: 22nd June 2025
Focus Area: Intercultural dialogue to address global challenges
Grant Size: $10,000
Tutator Forward Grants Program 2025
Focus Area: Community Development
Grant size: Fully customized software solutions (software applications that help NGOs and social enterprises streamline operations, enhance beneficiary management, and scale their impact)
Call for Applications - 2026 Restoration Stewards Program
Deadline: 29th June 2025
Focus Area: Youth-led restoration projects in any of the following ecosystems: forest, mountains, oceans, wetlands, peatlands, drylands or rangelands
Grant size: EUR 5,000
Clinical Cancer Research Grant Program
Focus Area: Patient centered clinical trials
Grant Size: $100,000
Swiss Research Foundation Grant Program
Deadline: 30th June 2025
Focus Area: Research project investigating exposure to high-frequency electro-magnetic fields from new satellite communication applications
Grant Size: CHF 150,000
Meaningful Engagement – Transformative Action (META) for Structured CSO Dialogue in Kenya
Deadline: 4th July 2025
Focus Area: Safeguarding the rights of African women and girls
Grant Size: 600,000 KES - 3,000,000 KES
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
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
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
Focus Area: Youth-led social impact
Grant size: $3,000 - 15,000
Call for Applications - 2025 GDF Conservation and Communities Fellowship
Applicant Type: Leaders in local civil society or grassroots organizations
Call for Applications - 2025 Circular Economy Fellowship
Deadline: 15th June 2025
Applicant Type: Youth (18-25yrs) with demonstrated interest in environmental issues and the circular economy
United Nations African Policy Innovation Fellowship
Deadline: 20th June
Call for Applications - CNN Voices from the South Program
Deadline: 23rd June 2025
Applicant Type: Anyone identifying as a content creator, journalist, or storyteller in the early stages of their career
Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdocs and experienced researchers
Grant Size: €2,700- €3,200 monthly stipend plus additional benefits
Fellowship length: 6 - 24 months in Germany
Request for Applications: Savvy Fellowship Program
Deadline: Rolling
Focus: Entrepreneurship
ARUA’s 2025 Early-Career Research Fellowships
Deadline: December 2025
Applicant Type: 35yrs or younger African nationals within 5 years of completing their PhD
John Templeton Foundation Grant Program
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
UCL IMPACT Scholarship 2025 in UK (University College London)
Eligibility: All countries
Study level: Masters
Mastercard Foundation Scholarship at Sciences Po (Fully Funded)
Deadline: 30th November 2025
Eligibility: Students from African countries (35yrs old or younger)
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