Innovate for Tomorrow Impact Accelerator 2025
- Grant amount: AED100,000–AED500,000
- Deadline 25th November 2025
- Summary: Designed to empower innovators to unlock a better and more sustainable future through circular economy innovation across the UAE’s most vital sectors.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/innovate-for-tomorrow-impact-accelerator-2025
Advancing Innovative Vaginal Formulations for Women Health (South Africa)
- Grant Amount: up to $250,000
- Deadline: 16th December 2025
- Summary: This challenge seeks applications for the development of vaginal formulations that promote optimal drug delivery within the vaginal compartment while supporting the vaginal milieu and offering desirable user benefits.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/advancing-innovative-vaginal-formulations-for-womens-health-south-africa
House of No Waste Competition
- Prize Pool: €30,000
- Deadline: 1st December 2025
- Summary: Calls upon aspiring young architects, landscape architects, building and structural engineers, planners, builders, material and environmental scientists, product designers, and built environment professionals to engage in a global competition that tackles pressing issues of the circular economy, Resource Nexus and waste management in the built environment.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/house-of-no-waste-competition
AYA Innovation Challenge 2025
- Grant amount: €100,000
- Deadline: November 10th 2025
- Summary: Invites technology-driven firms and start-ups to develop digital health solutions focused on managing diabetes and hypertension in Ghana
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/aya-innovation-challenge-2025
Young Leaders in Research Grant Program (Africa)
- Grant amount: up to $15,000
- Deadline: 21st November 2025
- Summary: Supports early-career African researchers in economics and related fields to lead policy-relevant, context-driven research that advances Africa’s transformation agenda.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/young-leaders-in-research-grant-program-africa
RFPs: Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund
- Grant amount: $75,000
- Deadline: 15th March 2026
- Summary: The Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund supports and advises innovative investigators across the world who are working to reverse climate change.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/climate-intervention-environmental-impact-fund
UNICEF StartUp Lab Education Challenge in Ghana
- Grant amount: $5,000
- Deadline: 21st November, 2025
- Summary: Calling for innovative and affordable solutions to accurately track the enrolment, retention, and learning of out-of-school children in Ghana.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/unicef-startup-lab-education-challenge-in-ghana
People Powered Funding & Mentorship For Participatory Programs
- Grant amount: up to $25,000
- Deadline: 30th November 2025
- Summary: A global opportunity for civil society organisations, governments, and program leaders to strengthen public participation, climate action, and youth engagement.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/people-powered-funding-mentorship-for-participatory-programs
PADI Foundation Electronic Grant Program
- Grant amount: $5,000–$10,000
- Deadline: 15th January 2026
- Summary: Offers a valuable opportunity for individuals and organizations engaged in research and education focused on aquatic environments.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/padi-foundation-electronic-grant-program
Mizna 27.1 Program
- Grant amount: $200
- Deadline: 1st December 2025
- Summary: Invites writers and artists to submit work for its upcoming issue, continuing its commitment to creative expression as a site of resistance, reflection, and liberation.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/mizna-27-1-program
STEG PhD Research Grants
- Stipend amount: up to £15,000
- Deadline: 1st December 2025
- Summary: Provide up to £15,000 in funding support for research assistance, data collection, purchase, and stipends aimed at enabling impactful research in structural transformation and economic growth.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/steg-phd-research-grants
Xiaomi Imagery Awards
- Prize amount: $10,000
- Deadline: 26th November 2025
- Summary: Applications are now open for the Xiaomi Imagery Awards to know your story through your lens.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/xiaomi-imagery-awards
The Michael Elliott Award for Excellence in African Storytelling
- Prize amount: $5,000
- Deadline: 9th January 2026
- Summary: Honors up-and-coming journalists in Africa who strive to strengthen people’s voices and illuminate the transformational change taking place on the continent.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/the-michael-elliott-award-for-excellence-in-african-storytelling
Keeling Curve Prize 2026
- Prize amount: $50,000
- Deadline: 15th January 2026
- Summary: Celebrates and supports global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote sustainability.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/keeling-curve-prize-2026
Création Africa Programme
- Grant amount: €15,000–€30,000
- Deadline: 7th December 2025
- Summary: Aims to boost and support cultural entrepreneurship in South Africa, Lesotho, and Malawi.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/creation-africa-programme
Gavi Funding For Civil Society Organisations In Nigeria
- Grant amount: $500,000–$1,000,000
- Deadline: 2nd December 2025
- Summary: Support efforts that will ensure every child is protected from preventable diseases through improved routine immunisation activities and stronger community engagement.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/gavi-funding-for-civil-society-organisations-in-nigeria
Free STEM Fund
- Grant amount: €15,000–€50,000
- Deadline: December 01, 2025
- Summary: For organisations and groups dedicated to advancing gender equity within science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/free-stem-fund
AI for Financial Resilience Program
- Grant amount: up to $50,000
- Deadline: 1st December 2025
- Summary: Leverages emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and blockchain to expand financial inclusion, build climate resilience, and strengthen economic stability for unbanked and underbanked populations across emerging markets
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/ai-for-financial-resilience-program
The Global Citizen Prize, Cisco Youth Leadership Award 2026
- Prize Amount: $250,000
- Deadline: 17th December 2025
- Summary: Celebrates young changemakers leveraging technology to combat extreme poverty and advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/the-global-citizen-prize-2026
Create Apps Championship
- Prize Pool: over $720,000
- Deadline: 10th December 2025
- Summary: An opportunity for mobile app creators, students, entrepreneurs and international innovators to turn their ideas into market-ready applications.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/create-apps-championship
Circular Business Awards
- Prize amount: €10,000
- Deadline: 7th January 2026
- Summary: Recognise and celebrate best practices in the circular economy as implemented and promoted by businesses.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/circular-business-awards
Kim Wall Memorial Fund
- Grant amount: up to $5,000
- Deadline: 7th December 2025
- Summary: Empowers underrepresented voices in journalism by enabling women and nonbinary journalists to explore diverse subcultures through in-depth reporting
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/kim-wall-memorial-fund
MedTech Innovator Accelerator for Seed-Series C Companies
- Grant amount: up to $500,000
- Deadline: 1st December 2025
- Summary: Offers a transformative opportunity for early- to mid-stage medical device, diagnostic and digital health companies around the world.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/medtech-innovator-accelerator
NigComSat Accelerator Program Cohort 3.0
- Deadline: 10th January 2026
- Empowers Nigerian-registered technology startups and entrepreneurs with a clear digital innovation or satellite-enabled business concept.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/nigcomsat-accelerator-program-cohort-3-0
CCAC Challenge Programme for Accelerating uptake of eCooking
- Grant Amount: $2,000,000
- Deadline: 12th December 2025
- Summary: Seeks to accelerate eCooking uptake in Africa to reduce health and climate impacts, empower women and communities, and to unlock economic opportunities across the clean cooking value chain.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/ccac-challenge-programme-for-accelerating-uptake-of-ecooking
.
.
ALSO BROWSE ALL COLLATED OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE WEEK
.
.
UPCOMING GRANTS FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
- Discover over $930,000 in global grant opportunities focused on public health, climate resilience, women’s health innovation, and community development — closing from November to December 2025.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/upcoming-grants-for-not-for-profit-organizations
GRANTS FOR CREATIVE INDUSTRIES (ARTISTS, WRITERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS)
- View 10 upcoming creative and media opportunities closing between November 2025 and January 2026 — with over $500,000 in grants and prizes.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/upcoming-grants-for-creative-industries-artists-writers-photographers
UPCOMING GRANTS IN NOVEMBER (PART 2 AND 3)
- Over $7 Million in Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes for Innovators, Researchers, and Entrepreneurs this November (11–25, 2025)
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/upcoming-grants-in-november-part-2
UPCOMING GRANTS FOR BUSINESSES
- Explore 7 tech and innovation opportunities with over $1 million in funding.
- https://fundingsquare.org/grantszone/upcoming-grants-for-businesses-2