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Upcoming Grants in August (Part 2)

  • Business, NGOs, Startups, Women
  1. RENEWED HOPE EMPLOYMENT INITIATIVE – PHASE 2 (NIGERIA)
  • Grant Training
  • Deadline: August 11, 2025
  • Summary: The NDE Renewed Hope Employment Initiative (RHEI) Phase 2 is an initiative of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) aimed at providing unemployed Nigerians with hands-on skills to enhance their employability and entrepreneurial capabilities.

  1. RESEARCH GRANTS
  • Grant amount: $120,000
  • Deadline: August 11, 2025
  • Summary: The PKD Foundation’s principal mission is to support basic, translational, and clinical research that will benefit patients with autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD and ARPKD).

  1. PULITZER CENTER’S AI ACCOUNTABILITY FELLOWSHIPS 2025-2026
  • Grant amount: up to $20,000
  • Deadline: August 11, 2025
  • Summary: The Fellowship program provides selected journalists with financial support, a community of peers, mentorship, and training to pursue in-depth reporting projects that interrogate how AI systems are funded, built, and deployed by corporations, governments, and other powerful actors.

  1. EU SUPPORT FOR SUSTAINABLE AND INNOVATIVE SOCIAL PROTECTION PROGRAMMES (NIGERIA)
  • Grant amount: up to €10 million
  • Deadline: August 11, 2025
  • Summary: The global objective of this call for proposals is to contribute to “Improve the Social Protection in Nigeria”.

  1. WERNER FENZ GRANT FOR ART IN PUBLIC SPACE
  • Grant amount: €17,000
  • Deadline: August 12, 2025
  • Summary: The grant promotes art that gives a critical impetus to public space and social change, art that “assumes social responsibility” (Werner Fenz) and seeks to engage citizens.

  1. THE PIVOT CHALLENGE IN NIGERIA
  • Grant amount: ₦50 million
  • Deadline: August 13, 2025
  • Summary: Are you small or growing business in the South- East? Here’s your chance to access business support including tools, funding, and mentorship. Whether you sell fabrics in Ariaria or manage a furniture workshop in Enugu, we’re here to help you grow.

  1. SPENCER FOUNDATION’S VISION GRANTS PROGRAM 2025
  • Grant amount: $75,000
  • Deadline: August 13, 2025
  • Summary: The program funds the collaborative planning of innovative, methodologically diverse, interdisciplinary research on education that contributes to transforming education systems for equity.

  1. GLOBAL CITIZEN/PAYPAL SMALL BUSINESS IMPACT AWARDS 2025
  • Prize amount: $25,000
  • Deadline: August 15, 2025
  • Summary: Global Citizen is looking for innovative leaders of small businesses and social enterprises who have developed products, services, and business models that make a positive social or environmental impact.

  1. USAU SMALL GRANTS PROGRAM
  • Grant amount: $5,000–$50,000
  • Deadline: August 15, 2025
  • Summary: The U.S. partnership with the African Union (AU) focuses on advancing peace and security; promoting economic growth, trade, and investment; strengthening global health security; and fostering shared goals. 

  1. YALE DRAMA SERIES COMPETITION
  • Prize amount: $10,000
  • Deadline: August 15, 2025
  • Summary: This contest is restricted to plays written in the English language. Worldwide submissions are accepted. The Yale Drama Series is intended to support emerging playwrights. 

  1. EMERGING CLIMATE CHAMPIONS AWARD
  • Prize amount: $1,000,000
  • Deadline: August 15, 2025
  • Summary: The award is a global open call that will provide flexible multiyear funding to youth-led organizations advancing climate solutions across the globe.

  1. ZENDESK FOUNDATION’S TECH FOR GOOD IMPACT AWARDS 2025
  • Grant amount: $5,000–$50,000
  • Deadline: August 15, 2025
  • Summary: The Zendesk Foundation is inviting nonprofit organizations to apply for the Tech for Good Impact Awards.

  1. SWISS FOUNDATION FOR SOLIDARITY IN TOURISM (SST) GRANT PROGRAM
  • Grant amount: CHF 5,000—CHF 25,000
  • Deadline: August 15, 2025
  • Summary: The SST Foundation supports organisations, projects, and initiatives that pursue sustainable tourism development.

  1. I4A FUNDING PROGRAMME
  • Grant amount: up to €10,000
  • Deadline: August 15, 2025
  • Summary: The Wellcome Trust is seeking applications for its i4A Access Grant for low- and middle-income country researchers to access imaging infrastructures and training opportunities.

  1. CONSERVATION, FOOD & HEALTH FOUNDATION GRANT PROGRAM
  • Grant amount: up to $50,000
  • Deadline: August 15, 2025
  • Summary: The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation seeks to protect the environment, improve food production, and promote public health in Africa.

  1. MTN CLOUD ACCELERATOR PROGRAM 2025
  • Grant amount: ₦5,000,000
  • Deadline: August 15, 2025
  • Summary: The MTN Cloud Accelerator is a 12-week innovation-driven program designed to empower growth-stage African startups by giving them access to MTN’s powerful platforms, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and funding opportunities.

  1. YOUTH SOLIDARITY FUND 2025/2026
  • Grant amount: up to $25,000
  • Deadline: August 15, 2025
  • Summary: The fund provides seed funding to youth-led organizations dedicated to fostering peaceful and inclusive societies. YSF supports projects, designed and developed for and by young people, that demonstrate innovative and effective approaches to intercultural or interfaith dialogue.

  1. AFRICA AGRI-FOOD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (AADP) GRANT
  • Grant amount: up to €250,000
  • Deadline: August 15, 2025
  • Summary: They support the role of the private sector in sustainable food systems development.

WBENC INDUSTRY ACCELERATOR PROGRAM 2025

  • Grant amount: $10,000
  • Deadline: August 15, 2025
  • Summary: The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) Industry Accelerator | Kroger Feeding Growth Opportunities is a cohort-style accelerator program featuring education sessions, mentoring, pitching opportunities, and more

SHESUSTAINS ACCELERATOR 2025

  • Grant amount: $10,000
  • Deadline: August 15, 2025
  • Summary: The SheSustains Accelerator is a three-month training program designed for Nigerian women-led enterprises focused on climate action and sustainability to receive tailored support, mentorship, access to industry network and resources, and access to funding opportunities
  1. SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION OF CARE REFORM PROGRAM IN KENYA
  • Grant amount: $80,000
  • Deadline: August 16, 2025
  • Summary: The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) calling for expression of interests for the support implementation of Care Reform Program.

  1. PUBLISHING GRANT 2025–26
  • Grant amount: $15,000
  • Deadline: August 17, 2025
  • Summary: The Sharjah Art Foundation invites cultural producers, including art and culture scholars, translators, writers, editors, independent publishers and publishing houses, collectives and non-profit institutions, to submit project proposals for the Foundation’s Publishing Grant.

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