New in:
Call for Proposals: Update the ICAT Policy Assessment Guides and Renewable Energy Guide (see link for eligible countries)
Call for Proposals: Social Science Research on Solar Radiation Modification (see link for eligible countries)
Open call for the Industrial Decarbonization Innovation Challenge
Call for Ideas: Tackling Climate and Sustainable Development Challenges (see link for eligible countries)
All currently open calls:
Grant-making opportunities
1. Call for Applications: Transforming Child Welfare, Crisis Response, and the Environment
Box is excited to announce a grant opportunity for organizations working in crisis response, child welfare, and the environment. For environmental protection, Box is looking for digital transformation leading to planet-saving outcomes covering areas such as environmental protection, energy conservation, renewable energy, nature conservation, and biodiversity. Application examples include projects like improving environmental research or calculating your impact from going paperless.
Funding information: USD 10,000 to USD 100,000
Deadline: Nov 8, 2023
2. Call for Applications: EJ4Climate Grant Program for Community-based Organizations
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is excited to announce that the third cycle of the USD 2 million Environmental Justice for Climate (EJ4Climate) Grant Program is now open for applications for projects on “Community empowerment strategies to improve resilience to extreme weather events in urban settings”.
Funding information: USD 100,000 to USD 500,000
Deadline: Nov 9, 2023
3. Call for Applications: Coral Accelerator Program
The Coral Research & Development Accelerator Platform (CORDAP) is seeking applications to propose ideas and concepts that will accelerate international research and development to supply the technologies and innovations required to secure a future for corals. The Coral Accelerator Program (CAP) will fund international collaborative teams with impactful ideas in coral conservation and restoration. Awards will span across the full range of novel early-phase projects through to final proof-of-concept development and testing.
Funding information: More than USD 1 million
Deadline: Nov 10, 2023
4. Call for Applications: Advancing the Disinfection of Wet Weather‐Driven Sewer Overflows
The Water Research Foundation (WRF) is inviting applications for best practices and case studies under Advancing the Disinfection of Wet Weather‐Driven Sewer Overflows Project. One of the project’s objectives is to improve receiving water quality by fostering widespread adoption of disinfection practices and technologies, when needed, at strategic locations throughout sewersheds and at potential peak wet‐weather flow management points within water resource recovery facilities (WRRFs) and stormwater treatment systems.
Funding information: USD 100,000 to USD 500,000
Deadline: Nov 14, 2023
5. Submit Proposals: Ozone Nanobubbles (NBs) Technologies for Water Treatment
Proposals are now being accepted for the Ozone Nanobubbles (NBs) Technologies for Water Treatment Project, funded by the Water Research Foundation (WRF). The overall objective of this project is to assess and evaluate the potential application of ozone nanobubbles (NBs) for water treatment. The specific objectives of this study include the examination on the behavior and performance of ozone NBs with the preferred ozone dissolution technique.
Funding information: USD 100,000 to USD 500,000
Deadline: Nov 14, 2023
6. Request for Proposals: Climate‐Resilient Water Infrastructure and Supporting Strategies
Applicants are now being invited to submit project proposals for Making the Case for Climate‐Resilient Water Infrastructure and Supporting Strategies. This project is co-funded by the Water Research Foundation (WRF) and Water Utility Climate Alliance (WUCA) as part of WRF’s Emerging Opportunities Program. Climate adaptation/resilience is one challenge within a complicated web of regulatory compliance, environmental stewardship, affordability, and asset management challenges facing water utilities today.
Funding information: USD 10,000 to USD 100,000
Deadline: Nov 14, 2023
7. Applications open for Green Screen Catalyst Fund (see link for eligible countries)
Green Screen Coalition has launched the Catalyst Fund to support the burgeoning ecosystem of actors working on the intersection of digital rights and climate justice to build cross-territorial strategies and weave thematic threads across movements. The goal of the Fund is to bring a diversity of voices into the local and global debates and enact change in terms of policy, research and community building.
Funding information: USD 10,000 to USD 100,000
Deadline: Nov 15, 2023
8. Grants to support Wildlife Research, Habitat Monitoring & Environmental Conservation
Wildlife Acoustics is offering a grant program to support the advancement of wildlife research, habitat monitoring, and environmental conservation. The quarterly grant program provides scientists with bioacoustics research tools to further their study of bats, birds, amphibians, and other vocal wildlife.
Funding information: USD 10,000 to USD 100,000
Deadline: Nov 15, 2023
9. New Call for Proposals: Update the ICAT Policy Assessment Guides and Renewable Energy Guide (see link for eligible countries)
The Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT), managed by UNOPS on behalf of the Donor Steering Committee (DSC), has announced a call for proposals to improve the introductory guide for the ICAT Series of Policy Assessment Guides and update Renewable Energy Guide. The ICAT series of 10 policy assessment guides provide a stepwise and integrated approach for estimating the greenhouse gas, sustainable development and transformational impacts of countries’ climate policies and actions.
Funding information: USD 100,000 to USD 500,000
Deadline Date: Nov 16, 2023
10. Request for Proposals: Developing a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Library for Unit Processes
The Water Research Foundation (WRF) is requesting proposals for the development of a greenhouse gas emissions library for unit processes by water utilities and decentralized systems. One of the project’s objectives is to develop a standardized approach for the water sector to determine baseline greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions according to common unit processes and evaluate the impact of process/operational changes to their systems.
Funding information: USD 100,000 to USD 500,000
Deadline: Nov 21, 2023
11. Request for Proposals: Integrating Energy Data into Water Utility Operations
The Water Research Foundation (WRF) has announced a request for proposals for "Integrating Energy Data into Water Utility Operations: Energy Management Challenges and Best Practices". Many water utilities (drinking water, wastewater, distribution systems, collection systems) have goals to reduce energy consumption, become energy neutral, or even become net energy producers. Proposals should include how big data can help reduce energy consumption.
Funding information: USD 100,000 to USD 500,000
Deadline: Nov 21, 2023
The Water Research Foundation (WRF) is requesting proposals for maximizing the value of natural assets and green infrastructure at the watershed scale project. The research team will conduct one webcast hosted by WRF and collaborating organizations on the overall findings of this project. The research team is encouraged to submit one open access peer-reviewed journal paper after the completion of the project. In addition, the research team should consider additional outreach activities, such as presenting project findings at conferences.
Funding information: USD 100,000 to USD 500,000
Deadline: Nov 21, 2023
The Water Research Foundation (WRF) is requesting proposals for integrating nature-based solutions and gray infrastructure to optimize treatment performance projects. A project objective includes assessing water quality performance capabilities of mixed treatment trains using existing datasets, published literature values, and/or advanced tools such as simulation models.
Funding information: USD 100,000 to USD 500,000
Deadline: Nov 21, 2023
14. Request for Proposals: Unlocking the Advantages of Internally Stored Carbon for Nutrient Removal
The Water Research Foundation (WRF) is requesting proposals for unlocking the advantages of internally stored carbon for nutrient removal projects. A project objective includes identifying knowledge gaps and advancing fundamental scientific knowledge related to biological nutrient removal (BNR) driven by internally stored carbon.
Funding information: USD 100,000 to USD 500,000
Deadline: Nov 21, 2023
15. Call for Proposals: Evaluation & Demonstration of Biotechnological Tools & Methods
Submissions are now open for the Evaluation and Demonstration of Biotechnological Tools and Methods for Improving Biofiltration Operation and Optimization Project, funded by the Water Research Foundation (WRF) as part of WRF's Research Priority Program. The specific objectives are related to evaluating effects of microbial community structure, function, and population dynamics on biofilter operation and optimization using biotechnological tools and methods, and to recommend the most suitable tools and methods for biofiltration optimization for water utilities, among other objectives.
Funding information: USD 100,000 to USD 500,000
Deadline: Nov 21, 2023
16. Call for Validation of an Integrated Framework of Wastewater & Stormwater Treatment Options of CECs
The Water Research Foundation (WRF) is pleased to announce an open call for the Validation of an Integrated Framework of Wastewater & Stormwater Treatment Options of CECs Project. Research is needed to demonstrate/validate an integrated framework of wastewater treatment, as well as stormwater (and other non-point sources) treatment of CECs. Utilities, regulators, and policymakers need quantitative information to help develop policies that support the best and most cost-effective solutions for CECs. A fully developed stakeholder driven, multi-decision criteria analysis, ensuring triple bottom line guidance to utilities, will improve water sector knowledge on cost-effective approaches to managing multiple CECs in all water types.
Funding information: USD 100,000 to USD 500,000
Deadline: Nov 21, 2023
17. 2024 ClimateScience Olympiad Student
Are you ready to step into the shoes of world leaders? Apply now for the 2024 ClimateScience Olympiad, a student competition to find solutions to climate change. ClimateScience Olympiad 2024 winners will receive a cash prize or a sponsored trip to Australia during the UN Climate Summit, COP29.
Funding information: USD 1,000 to USD 10,000
Deadline: Nov 24, 2023
18. Call for Applications, Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Grant 2023
To provide small grants to aspiring PhD students at the dissertation level to support the research they are undertaking for their project in the major fields of the social sciences.
Funding information: each grant is worth a total of USD 10,000; USD 7,500 is awarded initially and USD 2,500 upon completion of the project.
Deadline: Dec 1, 2023
19. New Call for Proposals: Social Science Research on Solar Radiation Modification (see link for eligible countries)
The Degrees Initiative is offering grants to researchers in the Global South to study the social and political dimensions of solar radiation modification (SRM) geo engineering. SRM is a controversial proposal for reducing some of the impacts of climate change by reflecting a small fraction of sunlight away from the Earth. It is the first fund aimed entirely at researchers in developing countries and emerging economies to study SRM’s social and political dimensions. It supports work across social science disciplines, including anthropology, economics, ethics, geography, law, political science, psychology, risk science, and sociology.
Funding information: USD 10,000 to USD 100,000
Deadline: Dec 13, 2023
20. Call for Proposals: Human Security Awareness and Usage Program, United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security (see link for eligible countries)
Promotes integrated and targeted responses that cut across sectors, are grounded in local realities, address the root causes of vulnerabilities, build resilience, and adopt multi-stakeholder partnerships to fully realize the transformative promise of the 2030 Agenda.
Funding information: for programs that aim to extend awareness and usage of the human security approach (Window II), the seed funding from the UNTFHS should not exceed USD 300,000
Deadline: Dec 15, 2023
21. New Applications open for ITTF Foundation’s Dream Building Fund
The ITTF Foundation is inviting applications for the Dream Building Fund (DBF) to support initiatives that solve societal issues within their communities by providing financial and knowledge support for change-makers who bring local solutions to humanity's most pressing problems aligning with UN SDGs through table tennis.
Funding information: USD 10,000 to USD 100,000
Deadline Date: Dec 17, 2023
22. Call for Applications: Conservation, Food and Health Foundation (see link for eligible countries)
To protect the environment, improve food production, and promote public health in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Funding information: There is no minimum or maximum grant size. It is anticipated that most grants will fall in the USD 25,000-50,000 per year range.
Deadline: Jan 1, 2024
23. Call for Submissions: Science, Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships Program
The United States Government, as represented by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Innovation, Technology, and Research (ITR) Hub, invites applications for the Science, Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships in Higher Education program. USAID and its partners have been working to tackle the world’s toughest development challenges for more than 50 years. Their mission is to partner to end extreme poverty and promote resilient, democratic societies while advancing our security and prosperity.
Deadline: March 4, 2024
24. Call for Applications, Human Health Grants, Ekhaga Foundation
To promote human health by working for the development of improved food, natural medicines and healing methods, as well as supporting research for a healthier way of life, which can have a disease-preventing effect.
Funding information: no maximum ceiling for the amount of funds that can be applied for. The foundation's annual distribution framework in recent years has been in the range of SEK 10-20 million. Usually there are about 10 projects that receive funds.
Deadline: May 20, 2024
25. Call for Applications: Time Land Purchase Grant Program
Are you a conservation NGO looking to protect biodiversity in your area? This is My Earth (TiME) is excited to offer grants to help local organizations purchase and protect land for the benefit of all species, now and in the future. TiME’s Grant Program offers funding for the purchase of land that will be permanently protected, owned, and managed by local partner organizations. To be eligible for the program, the land should be of significant importance for biodiversity conservation and under the threat of destruction or degradation. This unique opportunity is open to conservation organizations worldwide that wish to purchase biodiverse lands for their long-term protection.
Funding information: USD 10,000 to USD 100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
26. 2023 OpenAI Cybersecurity Grant Program
The goal is to work with defenders across the globe to change the power dynamics of cybersecurity through the application of AI and the coordination of like-minded individuals working for collective safety.
Funding information: will grant in increments of USD 10,000 from a fund of USD $1M, in the form of API credits, direct funding and/or equivalents.
Deadline: Ongoing
27. Call for Proposals: Innovating for Climate Resilience Fund
The Global Innovation Fund (GIF) has launched its Innovating for Climate Resilience fund in partnership with the Adaptation Research Alliance and the Global Resilience Partnership, with seed funding from the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office. The Innovating for Climate Resilience fund invests, through grant, equity, and debt instruments, in innovations with the potential to scale and support the world’s poorest to build resilience and adaptation.
Funding information: More than USD 1 million
Deadline: Ongoing
28. Rapid Ocean Conservation Grants Program
The Waitt Foundation is seeking applications for its Rapid Ocean Conservation (ROC) Grants Program. ROC Grants provide small grants with a quick turnaround time for solutions to emerging conservation issues and ocean protection. This complements the Waitt Foundation’s existing major grants program and is responsive to conservation opportunities, supports higher-risk ideas at a low financial cost, and engages with small, local NGOs on a global scale.
Funding information: USD 10,000 to USD 100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
29. Call for Grant Proposals, ICNL (see link for eligible countries)
The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) is pleased to invite proposals for grants as part of its ongoing project to safeguard civic freedoms and address democratic backsliding that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Funding information: USD 10,000 to USD 100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
30. Call for Proposals, Best Practice Pandemic Governance and Civic Society Collaboration (see link for eligible countries)
The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) seeks individuals or organizations to conduct research assessing for examples of pandemic governance best practices with respect to civic freedoms and civil society collaboration.
Funding information: USD 10,000 to USD 100,000 Deadline: Ongoing
31. Global Impact Cash Grant Program for NGOs and NPOs (see link for eligible countries)
Cisco welcomes applications for Global Impact Cash Grants from community partners around the world who share their vision and offer an innovative approach to a critical social challenge.
Funding information: USD 10,000 to USD 100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
32. Catalyst Fund, Roddenberry Foundation (see link for eligible countries)
The Roddenberry Foundation is accepting applications for its Catalyst Fund from anyone, anywhere in the world who has an early-stage idea.
Funding information: USD 10,000 to USD 100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
33. Climate Innovation Fund, Microsoft (see link for eligible countries)
Funding information: Microsoft is pleased to announce an open call for the Climate Innovation Fund to accelerate technology development and deployment of new climate innovations through equity and debt capital.
Deadline: Ongoing
34. Call for Proposals, Social Science Research Council (see link for eligible countries)
A call for proposals for The Mercury Project, a $10M+ research consortium investigating the impacts of health misinformation and evaluating interventions to prevent its spread in the United States, Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Deadline: Ongoing
35. Call for Applications, Daily Grant Program, The Pollination Project
Micro grants 365 days a year to grassroots global change agents who seek to spread compassion in their communities and in the world for the benefit of all. To contribute to the creation of a more just, sustainable, and compassionate world for all.
Funding information: total cost for the immediate project for which you are requesting funding from TPP must be less than USD 40,000
Deadline: Ongoing
36. Expedition Grants, Explorers Club and Discovery, Inc.
To foster scientific understanding for the betterment of humanity and all life on Earth and beyond, including our commitment to mitigate climate change, prevent the extinction of species and cultures, and ensure the health of our lands, oceans and all that inhabit them.
Funding information: grants generally range from USD 25,000 to USD 40,000.
Deadline: Ongoing
37. Call for Applications, Fund for International Development, OPEC (see link for eligible countries)
To provide financial assistance to developing countries, particularly low-income countries, in support of their economic and social development efforts.
Funding information: amounts of up to USD 100,000, OPEC Fund's contribution to a stand-alone project should not exceed 50% of the total cost of the said project
Deadline: Ongoing
38. Internet Freedom Fund, Open Technology Fund (see link for eligible countries)
To support projects and people working on open and accessible technology-focused projects that promote human rights, Internet freedom, open societies.
Funding information: Minimum of USD 10,000 and maximum of 900,000 for a year-long contract. Note, however, that OTF’s target support ceiling is USD 300,000; most supported efforts receive between USD 50,000 and 200,000.
Deadline: Ongoing
39. Rapid Response Fund, Open Technology Fund
Aims to facilitate the digital emergency response community to resolve threats in a timely and comprehensive manner for individuals, communities, and organizations whose free expression has recently been repressed.
Funding information: total value of support cannot exceed USD 50,000. Average support amounts are between USD 5,000 and USD 25,000.
Deadline: Ongoing
40. Grant Program, Fund for Innovation in Development
A new initiative to support innovation that contributes to reducing global poverty and inequality. Through flexible grant funding, FID enables innovators and researchers to test new ideas, build rigorous evidence of what works, and scale the highest-impact and most cost- effective solutions.
Deadline: Ongoing
41. 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 to USD 15,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
Fellowships and other opportunities
1. Bayer Digital Campus Challenge 2023
Are you a student with a passion for digital innovation and a drive to make a difference in health care or agriculture? Submit your ideas leveraging the power of disruptive technologies to address some of the major challenges facing humanity: A growing and aging world population and the increasing strain on nature’s ecosystems.
Deadline: Nov 5, 2023
2. Open call for FOODITY Programme to create Sustainable Food Systems (see link for eligible countries)
Do you have the next big digital idea to empower citizens to make healthier food choices and create more sustainable food systems? Apply for the chance to join the FOODITY programme, get funded up and receive training and support to develop your solution! FOODITY is running a pilot development programme for creating 6 data-driven solutions to drive innovation in food and nutrition while putting the power of personal data use back into the hands of citizens. The selected innovators will learn how to properly use this data architecture through training and mentoring, as well as deepen their understanding of the ethics of data management, among other technical topics.
Funding information: USD 100,000 to USD 500,000
Deadline: Nov 8, 2023
3. Call for Applications: Pure Ocean Challenges
Applications are now open for the Pure Ocean Challenges to support innovative applied research projects around the world, thus contributing to the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems and biodiversity. (Based on the United Nation's 10 Ocean Decade Challenges)
Funding information: USD 10,000 to USD 100,000
Deadline: Nov 15, 2023
4. New Open call for the Industrial Decarbonization Innovation Challenge
The Centrepolis Accelerator is excited to announce the launch of the Industrial Decarbonization Innovation Challenge. The challenge will connect industrial decarbonization technologies with some of the leading industrial companies and investors in the world. The goal is to globally crowdsource those who are the best in industrial decarbonization technologies and connect them with their industrial corporate sponsors to accelerate their emission reduction goals and industrial decarbonization programs.
Funding information: USD 100,000 to USD 500,000
Deadline Date: Nov 30, 2023
5. Open Call for Indigenous Youth Changemakers Fellowship (see link for eligible countries)
The Cultural Survival is inviting applications for the Indigenous Youth Fellowship Project to support young Indigenous leaders aged 17-28 in creating and disseminating knowledge through creative forms and critical thinking. It is an opportunity to develop capacities in Indigenous rights, Indigenous languages, cultures, and traditional knowledge in regards to climate mitigation and natural resource exploitation. Fellows work to represent the voices of their communities and bring awareness of local issues to global conversations through their proposed projects while strengthening their cultural identities and leadership.
Funding information: USD 1,000 to USD 10,000
Deadline: Nov 30, 2023
6. Siemens Innovation Ecosystem’s Tech for Sustainability Campaign 2024
The Tech for Sustainability Campaign is a global initiative for students, researchers, startups and innovative individuals to leverage technology to solve real-world sustainability challenges.
Funding information: USD 10,000 to USD 100,000
Deadline: Dec 5, 2023
7. Open Call for World Wildlife Fund’s Food Systems Fellowship Program 2024 (see link for eligible countries)
The World Wildlife Fund is accepting applications for the Food Systems Fellowship to support outstanding masters or doctoral students to develop evidence-based, innovative, and interdisciplinary research on food systems at the national level to catalyze the process of generating an improved understanding of the country-specific nature of food systems and transformation. Fellows will also have an opportunity to join the expansive global community of EFN alumni to enable knowledge exchange and collective success.
Funding information: USD 10,000 to USD 100,000
Deadline: Dec 18, 2023
8. Submissions Open: University Faculty Fellowship Program (see link for eligible countries)
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has launched the Current and Aspiring University Faculty Fellowship to improve the capacity of local and regional faculty to activate the training of current and future conservation leaders, leading to more equitable and accessible conservation science capacity, education, and leadership for the benefit of people and nature.
Funding information: USD 10,000 to USD 100,000
Deadline: December 18, 2023
9. New Call for Ideas: Tackling Climate and Sustainable Development Challenges (see link for eligible countries)
The Lab is looking for innovative finance solutions that can unlock investment to tackle some of the most difficult climate and sustainable development challenges and investment opportunities for a net zero economy. Proposed sustainable finance vehicles should offer returns for private investors, create jobs and other local economic benefits, sustain biodiversity, improve climate resilience and/or decrease emissions. In 2024, the Lab will develop a record ten climate finance ideas from five regional programs and four thematic streams.
Deadline: Dec 27, 2023
10. Call for Applications: International Climate Protection Fellowship (see link for eligible countries)
Are you working academically or practically in climate protection or climate-relevant resource conservation in your home country – a non-European developing or transition country? If yes, then Alexander von Humboldt Foundation invites you to apply for an International Climate Protection Fellowship. The Foundation will award up to 15 International Climate Protection Fellowships to prospective leaders and up to five to postdoctoral researchers, which are funded through the International Climate Initiative.
Funding information: USD 1,000 to USD 10,000
Deadline: Feb 1, 2024