Support

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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

Deadline: 22nd June 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

Deadline: 29th June 2025

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

Deadline: 29th August 2025

Focus Area: Youth-led social impact

Grant size: $3,000 - 15,000 

Call for Applications - 2025 GDF Conservation and Communities Fellowship

Deadline: 13th June 2025

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

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

Deadline: 29th June 2025

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

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

UCL IMPACT Scholarship 2025 in UK (University College London)

Deadline: 30th June 2025

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)

Study level: Masters

Donor Mapping 2025

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

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