Upcoming Grants in August (Part 1)

  1. U.S. EMBASSY HARARE PUBLIC DIPLOMACY PROGRAM 2025 (ZIMBABWE)
  • Grant amount: $250,000
  • Deadline: August 01, 2025
  • Summary: PD Harare invites proposals for projects that strengthen networks between the people of the United States and the people of Zimbabwe through exchanges highlighting their shared goals and values.

  1. STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY-BASED DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT AND RESILIENCE IN KENYA
  • Grant amount: up to $45,000
  • Deadline: August 01, 2025
  • Summary: The United Nations Development Programme has launched the call for proposals to strengthen Community-Based Disaster Risk Management and Resilience in Kenya.

  1. STDF PROJECT PREPARATION GRANTS PROGRAM 2025
  • Grant amount: up to $50,000
  • Deadline: August 01, 2025
  • Summary: The Project Preparation Grants (PPGs) help developing countries overcome constraints faced in the articulation of their SPS needs.

  1. STANDARDS AND TRADE DEVELOPMENT FACILITY’S PROJECT GRANT PROGRAM
  • Grant amount: $1,000,000
  • Deadline: August 01, 2025
  • Summary: The Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) Project Grant Program improves sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) capacity in developing countries to facilitate safe trade.

  1. GCI CREATIVE GRANTS PROGRAM
  • Grant amount: $1,000
  • Deadline: August 01, 2025
  • Summary: The Global Climbing Initiative is accepting applications for its Creative Grants Program to support climbing communities worldwide in sharing their perspectives and experiences through innovative projects in the arts.

  1. MÉRIEUX FOUNDATION LAUNCHES SMALL GRANTS PROGRAM 2025
  • Grant amount: up to €5,000
  • Deadline: August 01, 2025
  • Summary: They support local initiatives aimed at fighting infectious diseases in developing countries, particularly projects relating to maternal and child health.

  1. KLUZ PRIZE FOR PEACETECH 2025
  • Prize amount: $20,000
  • Deadline: August 01, 2025
  • Summary: They invite organizations to submit impactful PeaceTech projects using emerging technologies to advance peace and human dignity.

  1. BLUE CARBON PLUS MANGROVE-POSITIVE BUSINESSES FUNDING PROGRAM (NIGERIA, GUINEA-BISSAU & SENEGAL)
  • Grant amount: up to $1.25 million
  • Deadline: August 01, 2025
  • Summary: This is a global initiative designed to address systemic bottlenecks to scaling business models that incentivize the conservation of blue carbon ecosystems such as mangroves, seagrasses, and tidal marshes. 

  1. OBEL AWARD TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS 2025
  • Grant amount: up to €75,000
  • Deadline: August 01, 2025
  • Summary: The 2025 cycle of the fellowship program seeks to provide the funding necessary so that universities may incorporate new voices into the institution to develop impactful courses relating to how they can rethink, reinterpret and repurpose existing resources within the built environment.

  1. BLACK ATLANTIC EDITORIAL FELLOWSHIP (AFRICA)
  • Stipend Amount: $500
  • Deadline: August 03, 2025
  • Summary: The fellowship is a six-month programme designed towards the commissioning, writing and curation of stories rooted in Blackness and the African experience.

  1. STRENGTHENING ‘PRE-COOKED’ FOOD BUSINESSES IN EAST AND WEST AFRICA
  • Grant Amount: £30,000
  • Deadline: August 03, 2025
  • Summary: Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) invites proposals from entrepreneurs, start-ups, businesses, and food service providers interested in establishing or expanding a sustainable pre-cooked food business using electricity as the main fuel for cooking based in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, or Nigeria.

  1. VESALIUS INNOVATION AWARD
  • Prize pool: $25,000
  • Deadline: August 03, 2025
  • Summary: The annual 2025 Vesalius Innovation Award celebrates outstanding innovations from young entrepreneurs and start-ups. This is a unique opportunity for exposure and gives science’s future leaders the chance to take their ideas to the next level.

  1. IN-COUNTRY YOUTHADAPT 2025
  • Grant amount: up to $30,000
  • Deadline: August 04, 2025
  • Summary: Open to young entrepreneurs operating in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and Nigeria seeking to raise funds for their climate impact business.

  1. CATALYTIC FUNDING FOR AFRICAN-LED INNOVATION
  • Grant amount: up to €250,000
  • Deadline: August 04, 2025
  • Summary: They invite African-led innovation consortia to apply for catalytic funding ranging from €100,000 to €250,000. Partnership Structure: Include at least two partners from Sub-Saharan Africa or Europe, with the African partner in a leadership role. Digital Innovation: Advance digitally enabled innovations, with a preference for frontier technologies (e.g., AI-based, IoT, etc.) in climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience.

  1. PHOTOGRAPHY 4 HUMANITY GLOBAL PRIZE COMPETITION
  • Prize amount: $5,000
  • Deadline: August 05, 2025
  • Summary: Submissions are now open for the Photography 4 Humanity Global Prize Competition to promote climate justice.

  1. CCAC FOOD AND NUTRITION CHALLENGE 2025
  • Grant amount: $2,000,000
  • Deadline: August 06, 2025
  • Summary: They fund innovative, cross-sector projects that respond to a specific “challenge” — especially those that unite the super pollutant community around a common goal.
  1. DIGITAL SKILLS FOR ENTREPRENEURS 4.0 (WOMEN IN BUSINESS COHORT)
  • Grant Training
  • Deadline: August 06, 2025
  • Summary: The digital skill for entrepreneurs 4.0 is a comprehensive digital skills training tailored for women-owned businesses
  1. AFRICAN ADOLESCENTS BOLSTERED THROUGH LOCAL EVIDENCE INITIATIVE
  • Grant amount: up to CAD 692,000
  • Deadline: August 07, 2025
  • Summary: This new initiative aims to improve reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health outcomes in Africa, but with a primary focus on adolescent health and gender equality.  

  1. 8TH BRICS YOUNG INNOVATOR PRIZE (SOUTH AFRICA)
  • Prize Pool: $50,000
  • Deadline: August 07, 2025
  • Summary: The BRICS Young Innovator Prize is meant to encourage young people to use technology in creative ways to help grow the economy and make life better for everyone in South Africa

  1. FLOURISH AFRICA BUSINESS AND LIFE SKILL PROGRAM 2025
  • Grant amount: ₦1.3 Billion
  • Deadline: August 07, 2025
  • Summary: The Flourish Africa Business and Life Skills Programme 2025 (Cohort 4) is now open for applications! We are calling on ambitious, passionate, and driven female entrepreneurs across Nigeria to apply for a share of the 1.3 billion naira grant and gain access to world-class training and business development support.

  1. EMPOWERMENT GRANT PROGRAM (ZAMBIA)
  • Grant amount: K40,000
  • Deadline: August 08, 2025
  • Summary: The Mansa Municipal Council would like to inform members of the general public that the local authority has begun receiving applications for the empowerment grant under the 2026 constituency development fund (CDF) for both Bahati and Mansa central constituencies.

  1. REVUP WOMEN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
  • Grant Pool: $24,000
  • Deadline: August 08, 2025
  • Summary: This initiative is designed to accelerate early-stage, women-led businesses within the Agribusiness and E-commerce sectors.

  1. URGENT NEED FUND PROGRAM 2025
  • Grant amount: up to $10,000
  • Deadline: August 09, 2025
  • Summary: The Urgent Need Fund is for organizations that are planning or currently working on projects to rescue or care for animals or raise awareness to improve the way animals are treated. This may include rescue missions, medical care, food, or housing.

  1. KLIC CATALYST GRANT PROGRAM
  • Grant amount: up to $5,000
  • Deadline: August 10, 2025
  • Summary: They aim to accelerate access to pro-equity health innovations in LMICs through the KLIC Catalyst Grant Program, which supports piloting locally adapted, impactful solutions.

  1. RECKITT CATALYST INITIATIVE
  • Investment amount: up to $30,000
  • Deadline: August 10, 2025
  • Summary: The program will provide funding, mentorship, and expertise to support 200 social innovators to scale access to health and hygiene.

  1. STARTUPBOOTCAMP ENERGY AND CLIMATE ACCELERATOR PROGRAM
  • Investment amount: €25,000
  • Deadline: August 10, 2025
  • Summary: An accelerator designed to drive the transition to renewable energy and combat climate change by fostering disruptive innovations on a global scale.

  1. STARTUPBOOTCAMP DEEPTECH AND ROBOTICS ACCELERATOR PROGRAM
  • Investment amount: €25,000
  • Deadline: August 10, 2025
  • Summary: During their intense 3-month accelerator program, selected startups receive hands-on mentorship from over 100 industry experts, seed funding and access to a global and local network of investors with the ultimate goal of scaling their businesses and becoming industry-leading companies.

  1. STARTUPBOOTCAMP HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCE ACCELERATOR PROGRAM
  • Investment amount: €25,000
  • Deadline: August 10, 2025
  • Summary: Accelerating breakthrough solutions in health and life sciences to improve lives and shape the future of healthcare.
  1. ARTISTS FROM EAST AFRICA
  • Grant amount: £1,000
  • Deadline: August 10, 2025
  • Summary: The Delfina Foundation welcomes applications from artists based in East Africa for a twelve-week residency in London.

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