- Investment amount: up to $1 million
- Deadline: September 26, 2025
- Summary: The contest is a game-changing opportunity to secure early-stage/seed investment in your tech startup.
- Grant amount: 1,000–5,000
- Deadline: September 26, 2025
- Summary: The Frameline Completion Fund Grant provides grants for emerging and established filmmakers.
- Grant amount: £400,000–£650,000
- Deadline: September 26, 2025
- Summary: The Kenya–UK PACT programme has launched a new Call for Proposals inviting organisations to pilot high-impact, inclusive nature-based solutions across Kenya.
- Grant amount: $5,000
- Deadline: September 26, 2025
- Summary: The iDICE Entrepreneurship School is a 12-week online program for aspiring entrepreneurs in Nigeria at the idea or concept stage.
- Grant amount: Kshs 40,000,000
- Deadline: September 26, 2025
- Summary: The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund has launched a new initiative in Marsabit County, Kenya, aimed at transforming water access and resilience for communities vulnerable to recurring crises and environmental shocks.
- Investment amount: $50,000
- Deadline: September 26, 2025
- Summary: The MEST Africa Challenge (MAC) is a leading Pan-African pitch competition designed for early-stage technology startups ready to scale.
- Investment amount: up to €50,000
- Deadline: September 28, 2025
- Summary: The SAIS Investment Readiness Programme 2026 is a free, year-long, tailor-made support programme for African start-ups creating impact in the agricultural sector and related fields.
- Grant amount: $250–$1,000
- Deadline: September 29, 2025
- Summary: The Wild Wonder Micro Grant Program is now inviting creative and inspiring applications from individuals around the world who are passionate about sharing nature through the art of nature journaling.
- Grant amount: €3,000
- Deadline: September 29, 2025
- Summary: Open to artists, groups and other professionals, both local and international, working in the fields of dance and the performing arts, and who are developing creative or research projects of different types
- Grant amount: $300,000–$1.5 million
- Deadline: September 29, 2025
- Summary: The Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) supports transformative, high-impact projects that not only increase smallholder incomes but also contribute to the regeneration of ecosystems.
- Grant amount: $10,000
- Deadline: September 29, 2025
- Summary: IAS – the International AIDS Society – invites you to submit a proposal requesting up to USD 10,000 to implement a six-month innovation project that addresses a need for young people living with and affected by HIV.
- Grant Training
- Deadline: September 29, 2025
- Summary: Applicants are now invited to submit applications for the McKinsey.org Forward Learning Program, a free ten-week learning program designed to equip individuals at different stages of their careers – from career starters to job changers – with practical skills to succeed in the future of work.
- Grant amount: $150,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Summary: The National Geographic Society is requesting applications for its Building Resilience in Agriculture Initiative to support innovative projects that apply science and innovation in a real-world context, focused on feasible, nature-positive solutions.
- Grant amount: $2,500–$5,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Summary: The fellowship provides financial support for youth-led projects that benefit Indigenous communities, along with opportunities for leadership development.
- Grant amount: up to $175,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Summary: The NurseHack4Health brings together a global community of nurses, healthcare professionals, developers, engineers, IT experts, and innovators to ideate and launch solutions for urgent healthcare challenges.
- Grant amount: K40,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Summary: The Namwala Town Council is pleased to inform the general public that applications for the Constituency Development Fund for Namwala Constituency are now open.
- Prize amount: ₦1,000,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Summary: The competition seeks to provide young entrepreneurs with a platform to showcase innovative ideas, receive expert feedback, and compete for financial support to grow their businesses.
- Grant amount: K40,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Summary: The Kalulushi Municipal Council is inviting applications for the grant empowerment from youths, women, people living with disabilities and other vulnerable persons in Kalulushi Constituency.
- Grant amount: $1,000–$5,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Summary: The Khyentse Foundation is now accepting applications for its Trisong Grants program, offering new support to individuals and organizations promoting mental health and well-being through the lens of Buddhist wisdom.
- Grant amount: up to KES 1,000,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Summary: The Young Environmentalist Innovation Challenge invites submissions of innovative solutions that promote environmental conservation and sustainable management.
- Grant amount: $1,000,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Summary: They are looking for visionary educators who are reinventing learning, tackling local challenges, and changing lives far beyond the classroom!
- Grant amount: €60,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Summary: They fund modern, Africa-based options that deal with meals security challenges.
- Grant amount: up to €414,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Summary: This initiative aims to strengthen youth organizations by transforming them into “Spaces for Youth” that can provide safe, inclusive, and empowering environments for young people while enhancing their capacity to deliver impactful projects.
- Grant amount: up to $100,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Summary: This challenge is designed specifically for women tech entrepreneurs across Africa who are looking to take the next significant step in their innovation journey.
- Grant amount: up to €1,000,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Summary: The European Commission is accepting grant proposals to support Civil Society Organisation to initiate, promote and strengthen active citizenship in pursuit of meaningful, equitable, sustainable, inclusive, and value-based development in South Africa.
- Grant amount: €100,000,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Summary: L’Oréal Groupe, the world’s leading beauty company, is opening the first call for applications for its newly launched Sustainable Innovation Accelerator to address the critical solution gaps within the industry and accelerate the delivery of L’Oréal’s sustainability ambitions.
- Stipend amount: $50,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Summary: The AAUW’s International Postdoctoral Research Fellowships promote education and equity for women by investing in international applicants who will be pursuing postdoctoral research in the U.S., with the intention of applying their expertise, professional skills, and leadership in the context of their home countries.
- Grant amount: up to £400,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Summary: The Wellcome Early-Career Awards Scheme provides funding for early-career researchers from any discipline who are ready to develop their research identity.
- Grant amount: $5,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Summary: The Green Institute Sustainability Impact Grant is a prestigious funding initiative aimed at supporting pioneering research, innovative solutions, and community-driven environmental projects worldwide.
- Stipend amount: €3,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Summary: The Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowships offer established academics with international reputations a chance to pursue independent research at the European University Institute (EUI).
- Grant amount: €500,000–€5,000,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Summary: The Coalition for Sustainable Development through Sport has launched its first Expression of Interest (EOI) to identify high-potential, investment-ready projects that could form part of the initial pipeline of the Global Sport Impact Fund (GSIF), an innovative blended finance vehicle currently under structuring.
- Grant amount: €10,000–€40,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Summary: The TUI Colourful Cultures offers tourists the opportunity to experience and appreciate these cultures and empowers communities to preserve and promote them through tourism.
- Grant Pool: ₦10 million
- Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Summary: The grant is a bold initiative designed to empower women-led businesses in Nigeria with the resources they need to grow, scale, and create lasting impact.
- Grant amount: €875,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Summary: This initiative is designed to support humanitarian interventions targeting the most vulnerable populations in Kenya who are severely affected by climate shocks such as droughts and floods.
- Grant amount: €2,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2025
- Summary: This program is designed to strengthen youth leadership, enhance knowledge transfer, and build community capacity across Africa by supporting participants to replicate and adapt the training in their respective countries.
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