- Grant Amount: up to $10,000
- Deadline: October 13, 2025
- Summary: The Explorers Club is seeking applications for its Kensington Conservation Grant Program to support vital, on-the-ground conservation projects now, and in the future.
- Grant Amount: up to CHF 50,000
- Deadline: October 13, 2025
- Summary: The Luxury Retail Challenge seeks high-potential startups with ready-to-market solutions focused on Future Digital & Smart Experiences to redefine luxury retail through cutting-edge digital innovation.
- Grant Amount: up to $15,000
- Deadline: October 13, 2025
- Summary: The McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism invites journalists with strong ideas for impactful stories that “Follow the Money” to apply for editorial and financial support.
- Grant Amount: $1,000
- Deadline: October 13, 2025
- Summary: The program is open to explorers conducting fieldwork to address a novel scientific, environmental, or historic question.
- Grant Amount: $55,000
- Deadline: October 15, 2025
- Summary: The Global Feminist Technology and Innovation Lab is open to women’s rights organizations and activists. One key goal is to help women’s rights groups leverage technology and innovation to support their advocacy and movement-building efforts.
- Grant Amount: up to $62,000
- Deadline: October 15, 2025
- Summary: The Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program offers in-resident opportunities for independent research and study related to Smithsonian collections, facilities, and/or research interests of the Institution and its staff.
- Grant Amount: $50,000–$250,000
- Deadline: October 15, 2025
- Summary: The Amref Health Africa invite bold, innovative proposals from research institutions and multi-stakeholder consortia ready to deliver transformative research on the climate-health nexus in Eastern and Southern Africa.
- Grant Amount: ₦5,000,000
- Deadline: October 15, 2025
- Summary: Open to NGOs implementing short-term but impactful projects focused on women’s health, gender-based violence (GBV) prevention, women’s economic empowerment (WEE), and social justice.
- Prize Pool: $128,000
- Deadline: October 15, 2025
- Summary: They invite applications from dynamic teams and organisations owned and managed by young people between the ages of 18 and 35 to design and produce creative outputs that disseminate findings from a study covering 17 African countries.
- Grant Amount: up to $20,000
- Deadline: October 15, 2025
- Summary: The Accelerator Grand Challenge aims to surface and develop innovative ideas from business, government, civil society, and academia that have the potential to address systemic issues at any point in the poultry feed value chain.
- Grant Amount: $20,000
- Deadline: October 15, 2025
- Summary: Imminent was founded to help innovators who share the goal of making it easier for everyone living in our multilingual world to understand and be understood by everyone else.
- Grant amount: up to ₦2,000,000
- Deadline: October 15, 2025
- Summary: They are offering agripreneurs the opportunity to access up to ₦2 Million in grant funding to grow and scale their agribusiness.
- Grant Amount: CAD$2,000
- Deadline: October 15, 2025
- Summary: Applications are now open for the Holohil Grant Program to support endangered species research and educational work for a variety of agencies and researchers. The Holohil Grant Program is available to conservation professionals and researchers from anywhere in the world. The Holohil Grant Program is open to scientists and non-scientists from anywhere in the world.
- Grant Amount: up to $50,000
- Deadline: October 15, 2025
- Summary: The Africa Research Excellence Fund invites applications from high-achieving Malaria researchers to be considered by their institution for nomination to the Excell Malaria Programme. The AREF Excell programme, they will provide capacity building needed to equip African post-doctoral malaria researchers with the research leadership skills they need to progress and lead malaria research throughout their careers.
- Grant Training
- Deadline: October 17, 2025
- Summary: ImpactHER is inviting female entrepreneurs across Africa’s processing sector to apply for its Foundation for Business Growth Training, a fully funded capacity development program designed to help women scale their businesses sustainably and competitively.
- Prize Amount: R35,000–R87,000
- Deadline: October 17, 2025
- Summary: The PachiPanda Challenge 2025, launched by MTN South Africa in partnership with Nedbank, is designed to inspire young entrepreneurs and youth-led SMEs to create technology-driven solutions that tackle urgent environmental issues while supporting South Africa’s Just Transition goals.
- Grant Amount: €15,000–€30,000
- Deadline: October 20, 2025
- Summary: The Ignacio H. de Larramendi Research Grants aims to improve people’s quality of life and the progress of society through multinational programs and activities. The grants are open to any academic and professional researcher and research teams.
- Grant Amount: $1,000–$500,000
- Deadline: October 20, 2025
- Summary: This grant is designed for women in diverse fields, from small business owners to corporate leaders who are ready to take bold steps in expanding their impact.
- Grant Amount: ₦3,000,000
- Deadline: October 20, 2025
- Summary: The Naffiexquisite Empowerment Initiative (NEEI) Mentorship Cohort 2025 offers a chance not only to receive mentorship and business support but also to compete for a grant of ₦3,000,000 to help scale your venture.
- Grant Amount: up to $100,000
- Deadline: October 21, 2025
- Summary: The UNICEF Climate Innovation Challenge invites tech startups in emerging economies to help protect children’s health and reinforce community resilience.
- Grant Amount: up to $5,000
- Deadline: October 21, 2025
- Summary: The BeGreen Programme helps young founders launch or scale ventures in the green economy by offering training, mentorship, and grant funding.
- Grant Amount: up to £60,000
- Deadline: October 23, 2025
- Summary: The Commonwealth Foundation offer grants of up to £60,000 to civil society organisations in the Commonwealth. The open call grants seek to facilitate constructive engagement between civil society and decision-makers, including civil society participation in policy development and implementation.
- Grant Amount: CAD260,000–CAD500,000
- Deadline: October 23, 2025
- Summary: The Blended Finance Accelerator for Fund Managers (A4FM) is designed to support fund and asset managers in developing and scaling blended finance vehicles to mobilize institutional capital into emerging and developing markets.
- Grant Amount: $25,000–$800,000
- Deadline: October 24, 2025
- Summary: This initiative seeks to fund work aimed at improving outcomes and treatment options for osteosarcoma patients.
- Prize Pool: $1,500
- Deadline: October 24, 2025
- Summary: The United Nations University has launched its Video Pitch Contest that celebrates collective action and capacity-building for urban transformation, connecting with the spirit of the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 30), hosted under the Brazilian Presidency.
- Investment Amount: up to $50,000
- Deadline: October 25, 2025
- Summary: SWIT supports research-based ventures, deep tech, clean tech, and other high impact startups through acceleration, commercialization of research, strategic investment, and ecosystem building.
- Grant Amount: $50,000–$200,000
- Deadline: October 26, 2025
- Summary: The InTex Africa Project focuses on enhancing sustainability in the textile sector through eco-innovation, life cycle assessment (LCA), and circular economy principles.
- Stipend Amount: up to $1,000
- Deadline: October 27, 2025
- Summary: The Princeton in Africa has launched its General Fellowship Program for graduates of US-accredited universities.
- Grant amount: ₦500,000
- Deadline: October 27, 2025
- Summary: The RAHVAI Entrepreneurship Grant 2025 presents a real chance for business owners and hopeful entrepreneurs to gain funding, visibility, and expert feedback.
- Grant amount: $10,000–$80,000
- Deadline: October 27, 2025
- Summary: The Democracy at Work Fund (DAWF) is inviting applications for its latest round of grants aimed at empowering frontline worker organizations.
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