New in:
Call for Proposals: Grant Scheme for Common Cultural Heritage (EU-Turkey)
Grants, Van Tienhoven Foundation (see list of countries)
Small Grants Program, Mérieux Foundation (list of countries in link)
International Training Programme (ITP), Sida (Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia)
Call for Proposals, Civil Society Organizations as Actors of Governance and Development work in the field, European Commission (South Africa)
Call for Inquiry Forms, 2020 Grant Program, Motorola Solutions Foundation
Request for Applications, Grant Competition, US Institute of Peace
Endangered Animal Species small grants project, Fondation Ensemble
All currently open calls:
Grant-making opportunities
Applications Open for Generation Unlimited Youth Challenge in Kenya
Applications are now open for Generation Unlimited Youth Challenge, which is an opportunity to identify solutions that can have a positive impact around education, skills, training, employment opportunities and empowerment of young people. Kenya is one of the first countries to pilot Generation Unlimited with President Uhuru Kenyatta as a Global Champion for youth empowerment. This year, the Generation Unlimited Youth Challenge is back in Kenya as one of 41 countries participating globally.
Award Information: Winners will receive USD 20,000 each
Deadline: Jan 6, 2020.Environmental Education Grants, Environmental Protection Agency (United States)
Seeks grant applications from eligible applicants to support environmental education projects that promote environmental awareness and stewardship and help provide people with the skills to take responsible actions to protect the environment. This grant program provides financial support for projects that design, demonstrate, and/or disseminate environmental education practices, methods, or techniques.
Funding Information: USD 2,000,000 – 5,000,000
Deadline: Jan 6, 2020.Call for Proposals, Grand Challenges Africa – Innovation Seed Grants
Focused on top priorities for Maternal Neonatal & Child Health in Africa – solutions to meet the Sustainable Development Goal 3 targets for maternal, neonatal and child health. The research priorities are across the spectrum of health research and in all four domains of description (epidemiology), discovery (new interventions), development (improvement of existing interventions), and delivery (implementation research, including health systems).
Funding information: will fund projects up to USD 100,000 for 2 years.
Deadline: Jan 14, 2020.Big Cats Conservations Initiative, National Geographic Society
To advance conservation efforts benefiting big cat populations, protecting and restoring them and their habitats via field-based, action-oriented, direct, and quantifiable strategic programs. To identify projects that will help reduce the decline of African big cats.
Funding information: applicants may request up to USD 100,000 to be used over 1 or 2 years
Deadline: Jan 15, 2020.Request for Proposals, National Geographic Society
Seeking proposals for the grant program entitled "Biodiversity Exploration and Discovery" to support inventories, surveys, and research expeditions in regions of the world where species discoveries are more likely to occur and where little or no information is available.
Funding information: Applicants may request up to USD 50,000, with clear budget justification for use of the grant
Deadline: Jan 15, 2020.New Call for Applications, Grant Program 2020-2021, Kubota Fund
To provide a grant for research analysts, trainees and students from developing countries who join in academic or training program(s) provided by research/educational institutes or private enterprises located in Japan. Prioritized fields: civil engineering, electrical/electronic engineering, agronomic/agricultural engineering, energy engineering, environmental science, and development economics.
Funding information: YEN 80,000 to 100,000 per month.
Deadline: Jan 17, 2020.New Request for Applications, Grant Competition, US Institute of Peace
Fund to support research that will increase the overall understanding of the complex relationships between the environment, violent conflict, and peacebuilding. Expanding knowledge about how changes in the natural environment affect the relationship between state and society, and the relationship between groups (ethnic, religious, other identities).
Funding information: seeks applications in two categories: exploratory projects with budgets between USD 75,000 - 100,000 and advanced research projects with budgets between USD 225,000 - 300,000.
Deadline: Jan 22, 2020.Environmental Curriculum Development Grants, Melinda Gray Ardia Environmental Foundation
To assist educators in the design and implementation of holistic environmental curricula.
The Foundation seeks to contribute to the development, implementation and/or field testing of environmental curricula that meet the mission, goals and requirements.
Deadline: Jan 25, 2020.New Call for Proposals: Grant Scheme for Common Cultural Heritage (EU-Turkey)
The call for proposals aims the promotion of cross-border dialogues and networking between civil society organisations (CSOs) in Turkey and the EU in the areas of culture and arts including creative sectors and cultural heritage.
Funding information: total amount EUR 3,000,000; all grants must fall between min. amount EUR 60,000 and max. amount EUR 150,000. See link for further details.
Deadline: Jan 28, 2020.Call for Proposals, African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Innovation Fund, European Union
The global objective is to unlock the inclusive innovation potential of ACP countries and support their transition into knowledge-based economies for sustainable development and poverty reduction. The specific objective is to contribute to a conducive and inclusive environment for Research and Innovation in ACP countries.
Funding information: Any grant requested must fall between a minimum amount of EUR 4,000,000 and a maximum amount of EUR 4,200,000
Deadline: Jan 29, 2019.2020 Innovation for Peace and Justice Challenge is now open for Applications
Applications are now open for "Innovation for Peace and Justice - How can displaced populations access affordable and quality services that are essential to their safety and wellbeing?" Challenge with an aim to find and support innovative solutions that will connect refugees and forcibly displaced populations with enduring and effective legal, healthcare, and education services.
Deadline: Jan 31, 2020.New Grants, Van Tienhoven Foundation (see list of countries)
Aims to promote the protection, conservation, and sustainable use of ecosystems and it's living organisms, where ever these are threatened or under pressure outside the Netherlands. Project priorities should focus on: threatened species and ecosystems and/or key biodiversity areas; countering human-induced causes for these threats; practicality and hands-on; initiated, owned and supported by local stakeholders; able to raise awareness.
Funding information: maximum requested budget of EUR 10,000 euro from the foundation and a total project budget of no more than EUR 50,000
Deadline: Jan 31, 2020.Aboriginal Land Clean-up and Prevention Program (ALCUP), NSW Environment Protection Authority
This program aims to protect and enhance land that is culturally significant to Aboriginal people. It seeks to provide support to Local Aboriginal Land Councils (LALCs) to manage illegal dumping on private land owned by Aboriginal communities.
Range: AUS 10,000 – 75,000
Deadline: This program is open on an ongoing basis until 30 September 2019 or until funds are exhausted.New Endangered Animal Species small grants project, Fondation Ensemble
Contributes to protecting one or more threatened animal species according to the IUCN classification (‘Critically Endangered’ or ‘Endangered’). Project is participatory and partnership-based: designed and implemented in conjunction with the relevant populations and with recognized local and/or international partners, and fosters capacity building.
Funding information: request should not exceed EUR 8,000 and should not exceed 50% of the total project budget.
Deadline: Feb 1, 2020.Call for Proposals to Save Endangered Flora and Fauna, Prince Bernhard Nature Fund
To support small, local initiatives worldwide towards the conservation of endangered species (flora & fauna), or other initiatives that promote conservation and wise use of nature and our natural resources base. Preferential support for projects in developing countries, with special focus on tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Range: Up to USD/EUR 20,000
Deadline: Feb 1, 2020.Small Grants Program, Clif Bar Family Foundation (United States)
Supports innovative small and mid-sized groups working to strengthen their food system and communities, enhance public health, and safeguard environment and natural resources.
Deadline: Feb 1, 2020.Civic Engagement and Environmental Impact Grants to improve the Quality of Life in Communities
First Solar Corporate Charitable Fund announced a Civic Engagement and Environmental Impact Grants Program to improve the quality of life in communities around the world. Emphasis is placed on programs that support the First Solar Corporate giving values which include: focusing on “green” education initiatives, access to clean energy and water in underserved areas, and the development of innovative and sustainable technologies.
Funding Information: grant requests must be for projects or services that cost or exceed USD 10,000.
Deadline: Feb 1, 2020.Professional Development Grants Program, World Wild Fund (see list of countries)
Provide support for mid-career conservationists to pursue short-term, non-degree training to upgrade their knowledge and skills. These trainings can include short courses, certificate trainings, or conferences among other training opportunities. PDGs support training-related costs, including registration fees and tuition, meals and accommodations, books and materials, international travel, visa fees, and local transportation.
Funding information: applicants can request up to USD 6,500
Deadline: Feb 1, 2020.New Call for Inquiry Forms, 2020 Grant Program, Motorola Solutions Foundation
This year the foundation will focus its giving in three key areas: STEM education, specifically focused on technology and engineering; public safety education; and blended public safety and technology, and engineering education programs.
Funding information: grant max. request USD 50,000
Deadline: Feb 3, 2020.Call for Proposals, ARCHIPELAGO (see list of African and European countries)
4-year European programme, funded by the EU in the framework of the EU Emergency Trust Fund (EUTF) for Africa. Its main objectives are to improve the employability of young people through targeted technical and vocational education and training (TVET) measures and to support the growth of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs).
Funding information: The overall indicative amount made available is EUR 4,500,000. Min. amount EUR 400,000 and max. amount EUR 500,000.
Deadline: Feb 6, 2020.Secondary Agriculture Education Challenge Grant Program, US Department of Agriculture – National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Seeks to promote and strengthen secondary education and two-year postsecondary education in the food, agriculture, natural resources and human (FANH) sciences in order to help ensure the existence of a workforce in the US that's qualified to serve the FANH sciences system; and encourage more young Americans to pursue and complete a baccalaureate or higher degree in the FANH sciences.
Funding information: estimated total USD 800,000; award ceiling USD 300,000; award floor USD 50,000
Deadline: Feb 6, 2020.New Call for Proposals, Civil Society Organizations as Actors of Governance and Development work in the field, European Commission (South Africa)
The specific objective is to increase the participation of South African CSOs in tackling climate change: mitigating greenhouse gases emissions and adapting to its adverse effects. It intends to tackle climate change while enhancing gender equality and participation of youth and encourages innovative partnerships with the double objective of leaving no-one behind and leveraging the strengths of different stakeholders.
Funding information: overall amount EUR 3,998,003.70; any grant requested must fall between min. amount EUR 300,000 and max. amount EUR 700,000
Deadline: Feb 10, 2020.New Call for Proposals, VIVA Girls Initiative, MADRE
First cycle of its initiative to support the leadership, power, creativity, and organizing of girls around the world. Individual or group must plan to implement, or is currently implementing work that aims to: build a just peace (preventing, surviving, and recovering from war); advance climate justice (including advocating for just economic and environmental policies); end gender-based violence (including protections for women, girls, and LGBTIQ people).
Funding information: USD 100 to 20,000. Financial support that can be used for general support and/or projects, to be used over a period of 12 months.
Deadline: Feb 10, 2020.Request for Proposals, OPTions Initiative (see list of low- and middle-income countries)
The goal of the Options for Pregnancy Termination Innovation Initiative is to support access to safe abortion. It seeks innovative and transformative approaches that put women and girls in control of where, when and how they terminate their pregnancy. The focus is to support the development and testing of: 1) new approaches to increasing early access to existing abortion products/services, 2) next generation methods of pregnancy termination.
Funding information: seed grants of up to CAD 250,000 over 18 to 24 months.
Deadline: Feb 11, 2020.Seed Funding for Cooperation Projects in the Baltic Sea Region
The Swedish Institute seeks to strengthen Sweden’s relations and develop cooperation with the countries around the Baltic Sea and in their immediate area. The project activities that the Swedish Institute supports via ‘seed funding’ must be clearly linked to one or more of the challenges identified in the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea region. Projects including countries in the EU Eastern Partnership must also relate to it.
Funding Information: A project can apply for SEK 100,000 to SEK 500,000.
Deadline: Feb 12, 2020.Youth Grants, Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation (United States)
Looking for the best ideas from young people about how they can help end childhood hunger in their communities. Supporting youth leaders ages 5-25 to turn their ideas into action and make an impact on the issue of childhood hunger on Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) – April 17-19, 2020 – and beyond.
Funding information: grants up to USD 1,200
Deadline: Feb 16, 2020.2020 Call for Proposals on "Promotion of Family Farming" in West Africa
The Fondation de France and the French Committee for International Solidarity (CFSI) has announced a 2020 Call for Projects "Promotion of Family Farming in West Africa" to promote local initiatives to increase access to food through viable and sustainable West African family farming, to share the gains on a larger scale and to contribute documentation of the sustainability of this agricultural model that is likely to challenge decision-makers to take these issues into account in public policies.
Funding Information: short-term projects (one-year duration) – EUR 10,000 to EUR 15,000; multi-year projects (3 years maximum) - maximum amount of EUR 50,000
Deadline: Feb 24, 2020.New Small Grants Program, Mérieux Foundation (list of countries in link)
Contributes towards financing projects that aim to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases. The projects including mothers and children as beneficiaries will be given priority.
Funding information: selected projects will receive financial support of up to EUR 5,000
Deadline: Mar 1, 2020.Small Research Grants, Spencer Foundation
Program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. Goal is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.
Funding information: proposed budgets are limited to USD 50,000
Deadline: Mar 3, 2020.Small Grants, International Climate Initiative (IKI) (see list of countries)
To provide support to the implementation of both the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in implementing the Paris Agreement as well as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in addressing the global loss of biodiversity (Aichi Targets and the goals of the future post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework).
Funding information: up to EUR 100,000. Exceeding amounts not considered.
Deadline: Mar 5, 2020.Travel Grants Program, Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture
To reinforce efforts and resources in the promotion of inclusive and sustainable agricultural and rural development (ISARD) toward food security and poverty alleviation in the region.
Funding information: up to a maximum of US 1,200 to each qualified agriculture and agriculture-related professionals and social scientists including graduate students in SE Asia.
Deadline: Mar 7, 2020.Agriculture Innovation Center Grant Program, USDA (United States)
Seeking applications to provide grants for “Agriculture Innovation Centers” that will provide technical assistance to agricultural producers to market value-added agricultural products.
Funding information: estimated USD 3,500,000; ceiling USD 1,000,000; floor USD 500,000.
Deadline: March 20, 2020.Grant Program, Mazda Foundation (New Zealand)
Will consider awarding grants to programmes promoting: the maintenance and improvement of the natural environment; the advancement of culture and education to achieve excellence at all levels; young people through advancement of education and employment skills development; the arts to educate and expose the public on NZ culture.
Deadline: Mar 31, 2020.Recovery of Species on the Brink of Extinction, National Geographic Society
To support priorities of IUCN SSC Species Conservation Plans as well as conservation actions that are endorsed by the relevant IUCN SSC Species Specialist Group. The goal is to halt biodiversity decline by implementing conservation plans for species and groups of species.
Funding information: requests should be less than USD 30,000, but can be up to USD 50,000
Deadline: Apr 10, 2020.Patagonia: Corporate Grants Program in the United States
Accepting applications for its Corporate Grants Program to fund environmental work that takes place within the United States and is either national in scope or not located near one of their U.S. retail stores. The Corporate Grants Program supports small grassroots activist organizations with provocative direct-action agendas, working strategically on multipronged campaigns to preserve and protect their environment.
Funding Information: The funding range for a corporate grant is typically between USD 10,000 and USD 20,000, depending on the specific needs of the project.
Deadline: Apr 30, 2020.Academic Scholarship – Women In STEM, ABC Humane Wildlife Control & Prevention, Inc.
To increase the number of women studying and influencing the future of science, including technology, engineering, and math. Essay Prompt: Why are you passionate about science, technology, engineering, or math, and how will your pursuit of these fields help preserve biodiversity, improve the health of our planet, or alleviate human suffering?
Funding information: One (1) award of USD 1,000 will be granted to the top essay submitted, and up to nine other students may receive awards for their submissions.
Deadline: Jul 1, 2020.U.S. Embassy Port of Spain Public Affairs Section (PAS) Annual Program
Public Affairs Office in the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy Port of Spain of the U.S. Department of State announced an open competition for assistance awards through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). The purpose of funding projects is to further contributions to economic growth and the development of human and government capacity in Trinidad and Tobago, while developing people-to-people, institutional, and economic ties between the US and Trinidad and Tobago.
Award information: may range from a minimum of USD 500 to a maximum of USD 20,000.
Deadline: Sep 30, 2020.Global Water Futures – Affiliate Projects
The goal of the program is to deliver risk management solutions - informed by leading-edge water science and supported by innovative decision-making tools - to manage water futures in Canada and other cold regions where global warming is changing landscapes, ecosystems, and the water environment.
Deadline: There is no associated closing date with applications.Global Innovation Fund (GIF)
This program seeks to invest in social innovations that aim to improve the lives and opportunities of millions of people in the developing world. Open to funding innovations in any sector as long as they can demonstrate their innovation improves the lives of those living on less than USD 5 PPP per day.
Range: USD 50,000 – 15,000,000
Deadline: Program is open on an ongoing basis.
Fellowships and other opportunities
U.S. Embassy in Lebanon launches 2020 SUSI for Student Leaders Women’s Leadership program
U.S. Embassy in Beirut announces the 2020 Study of the United States Institutes (SUSI) for Student Leaders Women’s Leadership program. Women’s Leadership Program is an intensive short-term academic program whose purpose is to provide groups of undergraduate students with a deeper understanding of the United States, while simultaneously enhancing their leadership skills. The five-week program will consist of a balanced series of seminar discussions, readings, group presentations, and lectures.
Deadline: Jan 6, 2020.SDGs & Her Competition for Women-led Micro and Small Enterprises
The World Bank Group in partnership with Wharton School's Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research, UN Development Programme (UNDP) and UN Women has announced SDGs & Her Competition, which is an online competition for women entrepreneurs to showcase how they are supporting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through their business operations.
Deadline: Jan 10, 2020.Young Scientists Summer Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
The annual 3-month (YSSP) program offers research opportunities to talented young researchers whose interests correspond with the institute’s ongoing research on issues of global environmental, economic, and social change.
Deadline: Jan 11, 2020.2020 Kingship Conservation Fellowship
Using a case study methodology, Fellows identify new solutions to real life conservation challenges. Over the course of the month, Fellows attend dynamic sessions, participate in collaborative and independent projects, and attend field trips.
Deadline: Jan 12, 2020.Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellows Program (United States)
Fellows spend five months with community-based organizations throughout the United States. In mid-February fellows return to Washington for a second placement with organizations and government agencies focused on national anti-hunger and anti-poverty policy.
Award: Typically receive financial packages in the range of USD 38,000 to USD 43,000.
Deadline: Jan 13, 2020.Rethink Plastics Challenge (list of eligible countries)To reduce or eliminate the production of single-use plastic and plastic waste in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Inter-American Development Bank is seeking innovative solutions.
Award: USD 60,000 in cash prizes, with a top prize of USD 30,000. The winning submissions could be considered for a pilot project financed by the IDB Group up to USD 250,000 subject to due diligence and internal approvals.
Deadline: Jan 14, 2020.PhD Workshop, Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS)
IIHS Bengaluru City Campus, Jan 13 -15, 2019
The workshop is designed to provide a platform for early and mid to late stage PhD students from across a wide range of disciplinary mix to explore in-depth, and further fine-tune, their work over an intensive three-day period.2020 Dorothy Marchus Senesh Fellowship, International Peace Research Association (IPRA) Foundation
Fellowship in Peace and Development Studies for Women (Global South). This fellowship is not for research purposes and proposals.
Award: two women receive school expenses in the amount of USD 5,000 p/year for 2 years.
Deadline: Jan 15, 2020.Sustainable Investing Challenge, Kellogg-Morgan Stanley
Harnesses capital markets and student creativity to create positive impact in a world of perpetual resource scarcity and continued population growth. Invites teams of graduate students from around the world to develop and pitch creative financial approaches to tackle pressing social and environmental challenges.
Funding information: USD 15,000 in prizes will be awarded to the winning teams. Overall first place: USD 10,000; overall runner-up USD 5,000.
Deadline: Jan 17, 2020.2020 (YSI) Southeast Asia Innovation Programme
Programme to bring together South east Asian Youth to innovate for sustainable development. Focuses on shaping applicants into an innovator, and enables them to work in strong teams or individually to create lasting solutions to Southeast Asia’s pressing Energy, Food & Circular Economy problems.
Benefits: fully funded 5-month innovation programme, including: teammates, practical learning opportunities, trip to Singapore, and up to USD 5,000.
Deadline: Jan 18, 2020.Europeans for Peace Program, Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” (EVZ) (Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Israel and Germany)
Wants to get young people interested and invested in moral courage and social commitment. Doing joint project work, young people address diversity, respect and social cohesion.
Benefits: Travel expenses, accommodation and board costs, fees, presentation materials
Deadline: Jan 20, 2020.Opportunity for Leaders working on Climate Change and Sustainability Engagement within the NGOs
Are you curious and part of an NGO covering sustainability and climate topics? Are you looking for new and insightful approaches to boost the impact of your work and accelerate change in sustainable behaviours that really matter? If yes, then apply for the Second Round of "The Academy of Change".
Deadline: Jan 24, 2020Economic Opportunity Challenge (United States)
Aims to build a more vibrant economic ecosystem by scaling an impactful, evidence-based solution that sustainably creates economic opportunity for low-income families. Public competition launched with the support of Lever for Change, it is looking for proven, data-driven solutions ready to serve as a model for communities across the United States.
Deadline: Jan 28, 2020.International Youth Fellow, Aga Khan Foundation Canada
9-month professional development program for Canadians seeking hands-on experience in international development. Includes three streams: International Development Management (IDM) and International Microfinance and Microenterprise (IMM).
Award: most of the costs associated with living and working overseas are covered. Successful candidates required to make a one-time contribution of USD 1000 towards costs.
Deadline: Jan 31, 2020.ReNature Training Course, University of Trento
February 5-7, 2020
Nature-based Solutions in Urban Planning. The course, organized by the ReNature project, will upskill participants in: understanding the ecological foundations of NbS, assessing their impacts on ecosystem services and their socio-economic implications, identifying planning barriers and opportunities, applying key principles for NbS design.Call for Applications, Digital Innovation Accelerator
Participants begin by submitting their digital innovation solutions for Gender Equality, EduTech as well as Environmental Climate Action-related topics. 45 short-listed teams will participate in the 6-month Digital Innovation Accelerator program where they will – among others – receive capacity-building support; refine their business models and pitch strategy; optimize their SDG impacts, and work on their investment readiness.
Award: 12 winning teams of the competition stage will receive tailored support packages equivalent to EUR 15,000 each
Deadline: Feb 3, 2020.Call for Applications, 2020 Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH)
An innovative multi-partner blended training program for young, promising and emerging health policy & systems researchers, decision makers and other health system actors with an interest to become influential global health voices and/or local change makers. EV4GH coaches “Emerging Voices” to participate actively in international conferences where global health issues are addressed and to raise their voice in scientific and policy debates.
Deadline: Feb 6, 2020.Soros Equality Fellowship, Open Society Foundation
To support emerging mid-career professionals who will become long-term innovative leaders impacting racial justice. The aim is to incubate new ideas, promote risk-taking, and develop different ways of thinking that challenge and expand our existing assumptions.
Award information: USD 100,000 to support the production of an innovative racial justice project over the course of 18 months.
Deadline: Feb 13, 2020.FAMAE: Food for Good Challenge to Develop Innovative and Concrete Solution
The FAMAE is seeking applications for the Food for Good Challenge to develop an innovative and concrete solution from field to fork to deliver fair, sustainable & healthy food, for everybody, everywhere. The goal of the FAMAE endowment fund is to seek pragmatic, efficient, durable, universal and money-saving solutions to make life easier for urban citizens while reducing their environmental footprint.
Award information: Funding will be at least EUR 15,000 per category and may reach nearly EUR 2,000,000.
Deadline: Feb 14, 2020International Climate Protection Fellowship, Humboldt Foundation (list of countries)
Enables prospective leaders in academia and industry to implement a research-based proposal in the field of climate protection or climate-related resource conservation during a one-year stay in Germany.
Deadline: March 1, 2020.Teach for India Fellowship Program
Opportunity for students and professionals with a Bachelor’s degree serve as full-time teachers to children from low-income communities in some of the nation’s most under-resourced schools.
Award information: salary of Rs 20,412 per month, housing allowance ranging from Rs 5,300 to 10,000 (depending on city and if required to relocate), and allowance for school supplies.
Deadline: March 1, 2020.New International Training Programme (ITP), Sida (Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia)
Seeking collaborative organizations active in urban water and sanitation, ready to engage in processes for change and invest in employees as potential change agents.
Award information: benefits for participants – increased knowledge of methods/tools for sustainable urban water and sanitation services/systems; increased capacity to initiate and drive organizational change processes; shared experiences from colleagues; extended professional network. Benefits for organizations - professional support for more sustainable and inclusive water/sanitation services; educated and encouraged staff; collaboration opportunities with various organizations, experts and agencies.
Deadline: Mar 13, 2020.Tech Fellowship, Global Forest Watch
Seeking forest protection advocates who are passionate about using technology for forest monitoring from a variety of sectors including: science, journalism, law enforcement, advocacy and conservation. Fellowship program is one-year long and offers opportunities for skill-building, networking and mentorship. Program includes participation in a four-day tech camp and the 2019 GFW Summit in Washington, D.C. Fellows will receive a stipend and access to funds for related activities.
Deadline: The call for applications opens on February 15, 2019 and will be reviewed on a rolling basis. The Fellowship will run from June 2019 through May 2020.Call for Female Applicants: AIMS-Canada Research Chairs in Climate Change Science, International Development Research Centre, Canada and Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
Each Chair will be provided up to USD 970,000 over a four-year period and tasked with executing a world-class research program able to contribute significantly towards building both the human capital and the scientific knowledgebase required to solve important climate change-related problems in Africa and beyond.
The application process will remain open until suitable candidates are identified.Scholarship for Displaced Students, Columbia University
Supports displaced students from anywhere in the world who are unable to complete their higher education. These students will receive full tuition, housing, and living assistance while pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees across all 18 Columbia schools and affiliates. Scholarship aims to shift the global dialogue surrounding displaced persons, from one that views them as a burden to one that recognizes them as vital contributors to global innovation and prosperity.