- Grant amount: $10,000–$25,000
- Deadline: December 01, 2025
- Summary: The Convening Grant Program supports programs that stimulate interdisciplinary and intercultural exchange through conferences, workshops and gatherings worldwide.
- Grant amount: $10,000–$100,000
- Deadline: December 01, 2025
- Summary: The Pure Earth Opportunity Fund has opened a new round of grants to support innovative projects that tackle the global challenge of lead exposure.
- Grant amount: $200
- Deadline: December 01, 2025
- Summary: The Mizna 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.
- Grant amount: $50,000
- Deadline: December 01, 2025
- Summary: If your startup in Africa or Latin America is already generating revenue, the Q4 2025 Kuya Grant offers a rare chance to access non-dilutive capital (no equity given away) to fuel your next growth leap.
- Grant amount: up to $25,000
- Deadline: December 01, 2025
- Summary: The challenge invites innovators to develop an AI-powered, multilingual chatbot targeting Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) prevention and management, aimed at reducing the high burden of NCDs in The Gambia by delivering personalized health guidance through accessible digital platforms.
- Grant amount: €15,000–€50,000
- Deadline: December 01, 2025
- Summary: The FREE STEM Fund presents an important opportunity for organisations and groups dedicated to advancing gender equity within science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
- Grant amount: up to $500,000
- Deadline: December 01, 2025
- Summary: The MedTech Innovator Accelerator offers a transformative opportunity for early- to mid-stage medical device, diagnostic and digital health companies around the world.
- Grant amount: SAR10,000–SAR30,000
- Deadline: December 01, 2025
- Summary: Venture-Z is an exciting and dynamic startup competition that offers aspiring entrepreneurs from Generation Z an incredible platform to showcase their innovative business ideas and make a lasting impact on society.
- Grant amount: up to $50,000
- Deadline: December 01, 2025
- Summary: The program aims to leverage 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.
- Prize Pool: €30,000
- Deadline: December 01, 2025
- Summary: The competition 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.
- Stipend amount: $5,000
- Deadline: December 01, 2025
- Summary: The Big Bets Fellowship Program supports emerging leaders who are driving bold, systemic solutions to create a prosperous and sustainable future for underserved communities across Africa.
- Grant amount: up to $100,000
- Deadline: December 01, 2025
- Summary: They offer early-stage investigators funding for original, investigator-initiated research in blood banking, transfusion medicine, and biotherapies.
- Stipend amount: up to £15,000
- Deadline: December 01, 2025
- Summary: The PhD Research Grants 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.
- Grant amount: $500,000–$1,000,000
- Deadline: December 02, 2025
- Summary: The initiative aims to support efforts that will ensure every child is protected from preventable diseases through improved routine immunisation activities and stronger community engagement.
- Stipend amount: $17,000
- Deadline: December 02, 2025
- Summary: The Microsoft Research Fellowship creates opportunities for academic scholars (faculty, PhD students, and postdocs) to collaborate with Microsoft Research on open research challenges that advance scientific understanding, drive innovation, and deliver societal benefit.
- Grant amount: $50,000–$100,000
- Deadline: December 03, 2025
- Summary: The Innovation Challenge programme is designed for small and medium-sized news publishers exploring the potential of artificial intelligence.
- Grant amount: up to $900,000
- Deadline: December 04, 2025
- Summary: The RFA supports early-stage development, preclinical testing, and initial clinical evaluation of continuous C-peptide monitoring (CCPM) technologies.
- Investment amount: €25,000
- Deadline: December 07, 2025
- Summary: The Startupbootcamp BOLD2 Food & AgriTech is a 3-month hybrid accelerator program starting January 2026 in Amsterdam designed for passionate early-stage founders with game-changing solutions in food and agriculture, aiming to accelerate startups and drive positive change by providing knowledge, connections, and opportunities.
- Grant amount: up to €30,000
- Deadline: December 07, 2025
- Summary: The programme supports innovative young founders building solutions that contribute to economic growth and sustainable job creation.
- Grant amount: €15,000–€30,000
- Deadline: December 07, 2025
- Summary: Création Africa is a groundbreaking initiative by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, coordinated by the Embassy of France and the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS), aimed at boosting and supporting cultural entrepreneurship in South Africa, Lesotho, and Malawi.
- Grant amount: ₦1,000,000
- Deadline: December 07, 2025
- Summary: The GrowthGia Business Grant II by GrowthGia Technologies is designed to provide businesses with financial resources and support for growth.
- Grant amount: up to $5,000
- Deadline: December 07, 2025
- Summary: The program aims to empower underrepresented voices in journalism by enabling women and nonbinary journalists to explore diverse subcultures through in-depth reporting
- Prize amount: $5,000
- Deadline: December 08, 2025
- Summary: The prize recognizes and showcases outstanding examples of cancer journalism by individual professional journalists.
- Grant amount: $5,000–$10,000
- Deadline: December 08, 2025
- Summary: The Juntanza Fund seeks to uplift youth-led efforts that are addressing urgent social issues through service projects, advocacy, community organizing, and creative problem-solving.
- Prize Pool: over $720,000
- Deadline: December 10, 2025
- Summary: The Create Apps Championship in Dubai offers a remarkable opportunity for mobile app creators, students, entrepreneurs and international innovators to turn their ideas into market-ready applications.
- Grant Amount: $5,000–$50,000
- Deadline: December 12, 2025
- Summary: This grant supports indigenous African organisations working on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) by promoting strategic, evidence-based, and collaborative litigation initiatives.
- Grant Amount: $2,000,000
- Deadline: December 12, 2025
- Summary: The CCAC Challenge 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.
- Grant Amount: $5,000–$10,000
- Deadline: December 12, 2025
- Summary: The Allianz x Social Shifters MoveNow Global Social Innovation Challenge supports youth-led projects and startups addressing Financial Empowerment & Inclusion, Health & Wellbeing, and Climate Resilience.
- Grant Amount: €20,000–€60,000
- Deadline: December 14, 2025
- Summary: The Connect and Create Creative Tandems program is opening a new call for proposals to support innovative partnerships in the performing arts and music sectors between organizations in sub-Saharan Africa and Europe.
- Prize amount: $50,000
- Deadline: December 15, 2025
- Summary: The award honors individuals who have made groundbreaking contributions to sustainability research.
- Grant Amount: €650,000
- Deadline: December 15, 2025
- Summary: The Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) has launched a new initiative to enhance the sustainable contribution of Uganda’s forest resources to national economic growth and global environmental goals, including efforts to combat climate change and biodiversity loss.
- Grant Amount: up to $30,000
- Deadline: December 15, 2025
- Summary: The UNDP COMDEKS-SGP programme has opened its 2025 call for proposals, offering small grants of up to US$30,000 under COMDEKS Phase 4 to non-governmental organizations, civil society groups and community-based organizations.
- Grant Amount: up to €4,000
- Deadline: December 15, 2025
- Summary: The Mobility Grants Programme is for African and European artists to collaborate, co-create, and exchange knowledge across borders.
- Grant Amount: $50,000
- Deadline: December 15, 2025
- Summary: The Spencer Foundation has launched its Small Research Grants on Education Program to support education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived for projects ranging from one to five years.
- Grant Amount: $25,000–$100,000
- Deadline: December 15, 2025
- Summary: The Seeding the Future Global Food System Challenge, organized by Welthungerhilfe, is designed to spark innovation that can reshape the future of food systems, particularly across the Global South.
- Grant Amount: $30,000
- Deadline: December 15, 2025
- Summary: The Global Fellowship Program is for visual storytellers who aim to create meaningful social impact through innovative storytelling and community engagement.
- Prize Amount: €3,000
- Deadline: December 15, 2025
- Summary: The AI Adoption Program 2025, developed by INDPULS, offers a powerful pathway for startups and small-to-medium enterprises to bring their artificial intelligence solutions into real industrial settings.
- Prize Pool: $10,000
- Deadline: December 15, 2025
- Summary: The 2025 Canva Africa Design Challenge is an opportunity for young African creatives to design practical, high-impact templates tailored to the needs of local businesses.
- Prize Pool: up to $25,000
- Deadline: December 16, 2025
- Summary: EdTechnical has launched the “Education in 2028: AIEd Forecasting Competition”, inviting submissions from anyone interested in predicting how AI will reshape teaching, learning, and higher education by 2028.
- Grant Amount: up to $250,000
- Deadline: December 16, 2025
- Summary: The Gates Foundation is soliciting applications that contribute to development of vaginal formulations that promote optimal drug delivery within the vaginal compartment while positively supporting the vaginal milieu, and that also possess beneficial effects, even if unrelated to the API intended effect, that a user might consider desirable, such as enhancement of sexual pleasure.
- Grant Amount: $5,000
- Deadline: December 16, 2025
- Summary: The Africa Impact Fundraising Grant (AIFG) Program is a new initiative by the New Africa Fund, aimed at empowering African NGOs, community-based organizations, and social enterprises to address the pressing need for funding and fundraising expertise.
- Grant Amount: up to $250,000
- Deadline: December 16, 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.
- Grant Amount: $100,000–$200,000
- Deadline: December 16, 2025
- Summary: The Science for Africa Foundation seeks applications that contribute to the development of vaginal formulations promoting optimal drug delivery within the vaginal compartment while supporting the vaginal milieu and offering additional desirable benefits such as enhancement of sexual pleasure.
- Grant Pool: NOK 2,000,000
- Deadline: December 17, 2025
- Summary: The Ibsen Scope Grants award innovative projects in drama and performing arts that engage with existential, social, and society-related themes.
- Grant Amount: $300,000
- Deadline: December 17, 2025
- Summary: The One Health IPC and AMS Training Programme to support the design, implementation, and evaluation of quality improvement projects in antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention and control.
- Prize Amount: $250,000
- Deadline: December 17, 2025
- Summary: The 2026 Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award is an initiative by Cisco and Global Citizen that celebrates young changemakers leveraging technology to combat extreme poverty and advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- Grant Amount: ₦10,000–₦100,000
- Deadline: December 19, 2025
- Summary: The Petty Traders Grant Support Programme is a community-focused financial empowerment initiative aimed at uplifting small-scale entrepreneurs across Nigeria.
- Prize amount: €15,000
- Deadline: December 29, 2025
- Summary: Open to visual artists working in the fields of sculpture, installation, sound installation, mixed media, constructions using natural materials, land art, environmental art, ecological art, and practices that interweave art and nature to create innovative experiences in open-air environments.
- Grant amount: $8,000–$50,000
- Deadline: December 30, 2025
- Summary: The Grant Program support artists whose practices expand empathy, nurture connection, and respond to the ecological and social challenges of their time.
- Grant amount: $1,000,000
- Deadline: December 31, 2025
- Summary: The Worthington Companies Foundation is seeking applications for its West Africa Clean Cooking Fund to focus on transforming cooking practices in West Africa.
- Grant amount: up to $6,500
- Deadline: December 31, 2025
- Summary: Open to small, grassroots women’s self-help groups in Kenya.
- Grant amount: $20,000
- Deadline: December 31, 2025
- Summary: The Leading Minds Climate Education Fellowship opens a global call for youth (ages 10–30) working to transform climate education — whether in schools, communities or digital spaces.
- Grant amount: $50,000–$250,000
- Deadline: December 31, 2025
- Summary: The fund is now inviting applications from grassroots and community-based organisations worldwide that aim to expand access to quality education and sports for children in underserved communities.
- Grant amount: €1,500
- Deadline: December 31, 2025
- Summary: The Jana Robeyst Trust Fund (JRTF) provides financial resources to early career biologists/conservationists to carry out vital field conservation and research work of endangered mammals in Africa.
- Grant amount: €100,000
- Deadline: December 31, 2025
- Summary: The develoPPP Ventures Ideas Competition 2026 supports young entrepreneurs whose innovative business models improve living conditions in developing or emerging countries.
- Grant amount: €20,000
- Deadline: December 31, 2025
- Summary: This call aims to foster and support the implementation of innovative projects and development & research ideas regarding renewable energy (RE) and green hydrogen (GH2) in West Africa.
- Grant Amount: $3,000
- Deadline: December 31, 2025
- Summary: Are you a nonprofit with an innovative idea or impactful program? BenueAID is inviting applications for the Discretionary Grant to support Humanitarian Interventions in Benue State.
- Grant Amount: R200,000-R1,000,000
- Deadline: December 31, 2025
- Summary: The Orange Corners Innovation Fund (OCIF) GROW Programme supports innovative and high-growth entrepreneurs in South Africa (ages 18–35) who are building disruptive, scalable businesses with proven traction and strong potential for expansion.
- Grant Amount: $2,000–$2,500
- Deadline: December 31, 2025
- Summary: The program is designed to support young people and youth-led organizations across Africa and South Asia in implementing innovative, community-driven initiatives focused on water.
- Prize amount: $133,000–$266,000
- Deadline: December 31, 2025
- Summary: Entries are now open for the 2024 Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW), an international award focusing on water-related scientific innovation and judged by leading scientists from around the world. Five prizes are bestowed every two years.
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