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Upcoming Grants In August (Part 3)

  • Business, NGOs, Startups, Women
  1. ILORIN INNOVATION CHALLENGE & HACKATHON 2025
  • Grant amount: up to ₦7,000,000
  • Deadline: August 18, 2025
  • Summary: Open to visionary innovators, developers, or startup founders in Nigeria solving real problems with bold technology.
  1. SHESCALES AFRICA—INVESTMENT READINESS PROGRAM
  • Grant Training
  • Deadline: August 19, 2025
  • Summary: This is a 6-week investment readiness program for female founders building the future of Africa.
  1. THE BORING FUND
  • Grant amount: $12,500
  • Deadline: August 19, 2025
  • Summary: The fund supports the essential but overlooked aspects of conservation technology.

  1. CLIMATE REPORTING GAP FELLOWSHIP IN NIGERIA
  • Grant amount: up to £5,000
  • Deadline: August 20, 2025
  • Summary: This new initiative will support six Nigerian journalists to report original stories on climate finance and energy transition through inclusive, data-driven, and community-centered reporting.

  1. CYD DISTINGUISHED POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
  • Grant amount: up to CHF5,000
  • Deadline: August 20, 2025
  • Summary: The CYD Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships provides salary, research and conference funds for up to two years, enabling fellows to complete a research project at the CYD Campus under the supervision of a professor at a higher education institution in Switzerland.

  1. ONE WORLD MEDIA GLOBAL HEALTH FILM GRANT 2025
  • Grant amount: up to £20,000
  • Deadline: August 20, 2025
  • Summary: The Global Health Film Grant is for an experienced filmmaker who wants to explore, through a short documentary, underreported stories about health in the global south.

  1. WILDLIFE FELLOWSHIP TRAINING 2025
  • Grant amount: $145,000
  • Deadline: August 20, 2025
  • Summary: The Morris Animal Foundation has launched its Wildlife Fellowship Training to bridge science and resources to advance the health of animals.

  1. PLAY LEARN THRIVE INITIATIVE
  • Grant amount: up to CAD1,500,000
  • Deadline: August 21, 2025
  • Summary: Open to not-for-profit organizations with a project or idea that focuses on strengthening and supporting children’s education, development, and/or support networks.

  1. FEMALE FUNDING FIT PROGRAMME (SOUTH AFRICA)
  • Grant amount: €10,000
  • Deadline: August 21, 2025
  • Summary: The Female Funding Fit Programme is a leading investment readiness programme for tech-enabled, female-led businesses in South Africa.
  1. THE PANDEMIC FUND (PHASE II) 2025
  • Grant amount: $500 million
  • Deadline: August 22, 2025
  • Summary: The Pandemic Fund announced its third Call for Proposals (3rd CfP) to prioritize high-impact investments.

  1. MEST AI STARTUP PROGRAM (WEST AFRICA)
  • Investment amount: $100,000
  • Deadline: August 22, 2025
  • Summary: The new MEST AI Startup Program is designed to equip Africa’s brightest minds to launch impactful AI-driven software startups.

  1. SEED SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IN UGANDA
  • Grant amount: €8,000,000
  • Deadline: August 22, 2025
  • Summary: The goal of the project is to enhance resilience and increase of smallholder farmers agricultural productivity and income through the availability and use of quality seed.

  1. POSTERHEROES 14: SEEDS OF KINDNESS CONTEST
  • Prize amount: €1,500–€2,500
  • Deadline: August 22, 2025
  • Summary: The 14th Edition of Posterheroes invites designers, illustrators, and visual storytellers from around the world to reflect on the generative power of empathy.

  1. FUTURE FOR NATURE AWARDS 2026
  • Prize amount: €50,000
  • Deadline: August 25, 2025
  • Summary: Are you a young (between 18 to 35 years old) and dedicated nature conservationist committed to protecting wild species? Do you combine passion with action to create concrete results in nature conservation? If yes, then this call is for you!

  1. CALL FOR PROJECTS FOR CSOs: STRENGTHENING COASTAL RESILIENCE IN WEST AFRICA
  • Grant amount: $40,000
  • Deadline: August 25, 2025
  • Summary: The call for projects is aimed at strengthening the resilience of West African coastal areas.

  1. SUSTAINE YOUNG RESEARCHERS AWARD
  • Prize amount: $1,000
  • Deadline: August 25, 2025
  • Summary: The award recognizes and rewards scholars for their outstanding research abilities in the area of sustainability by young scholars.

  1. DATA FOR FARM VALUE GLOBAL CHALLENGE
  • Prize amount: €5,000
  • Deadline: August 25, 2025
  • Summary: They support startups using farm-level data in innovative ways. The goal is to unlock value for smallholder farmers, who often generate key insights but are left out of the data-driven agrifood economy.

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