Dear Green Members,
As every week, we are thrilled to present a fresh set of funding opportunities from a diverse set of organizations, across various fields of sustainable development! Below, you will also find a comprehensive list of all currently open funding opportunities from previous editions.
New in:
Applications open for Honor Frost Foundation Medium Grant Program (see link for eligible countries)
Call for Proposals: Just Rural Transition Support Program 2025 (see link for eligible countries)
All currently open calls:
Grant-making opportunities
1. SwedBio Funding Program for CSOs, International Organisations, Institutes & Universities
SwedBio welcomes submissions of concept notes to support a limited number of strategic initiatives through their ‘Collaborative Partner Implementation Pathway’. Grouped under Themes are five different thematic focal areas, some with close interlinkages. These are Livelihood, food & health; Cities & biodiversity; Biocultural diversity; Climate change & ecosystems; and Values & governance.
Funding information: USD 10,000 to USD 100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
2. Box Impact Fund to transform Child Welfare, Crisis Response, and the Environment
They’re looking to support nonprofits with strategic technology needs, digital transformation projects, and creative solutions to enhance organizational efficiency and productivity. Projects solely funding the purchase of hardware or software will not be considered for this grant.
Funding information: Up to USD 25,000
Deadline Date: December 9, 2024
3. Call for Proposals: Pathways Communication Grants
Applications are now open for Pathways Communication Grants to support innovative ways of communicating scientific outcomes of place-based research projects on pathways for sustainability to educate and engage with non-academic audiences. The Pathways Communication Grants Program seeks to ensure that scientific contributions supporting the development of pathways for sustainability reach relevant audiences beyond the scientific community.
Funding information: Up to USD 108,000
Deadline Date: December 2, 2024
4. NEW Applications open for Honor Frost Foundation Medium Grant Program
The Honor Frost Foundation is excited to announce its Medium Grant Program to support Maritime Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Foundation’s mission is to promote the advancement and research, including publication, of maritime archaeology with particular focus on the eastern Mediterranean, specifically Lebanon, Syria, Cyprus and Egypt.
Funding information: Up to USD 70,000
Deadline Date: January 01, 2025
5. The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation Grant
The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation is seeking applications to protect the environment, improve food production, and promote public health in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East. The Foundation prefers to support projects that address under-funded issues and geographic areas.
Funding information: USD 50,000
Deadline Date: January 01, 2025
6. Crowder Messersmith Conservation Grant Program
The Nature Forward is providing Crowder Messersmith Conservation Grant Program to help small, local conservation and education projects in developing countries by providing seed money to communities and individuals whose projects have not attracted major support from other sources.
Funding information: USD 3,000
Deadline Date: January 06, 2025
7. NEW International Climate Initiative’s Small Grants Programme
The International Climate Initiative is accepting proposals for the Small Grants Programme to support small, local organisations in the implementation of their climate and biodiversity projects. The IKI Small Grants programme is a complementary instrument within the International Climate Initiative. IKI Small Grants is commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection in close cooperation with the Federal Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection.
Funding information: USD 60,000 to USD 200,000
Deadline Date: January 15, 2025
8. INTBAU Grassroots Grant Programme
The INTBAU Grassroots Grants Programme provides funding for projects that test ideas rooted in local responses to climate and context.They are looking for proposals for new or existing plans that support, advance and adapt building traditions around the world with the aim of creating better places for people to live.
Funding information: USD 5,000
Deadline Date: January 19, 2025
9. RFPs: Climate and Mental Health Fund
Applications are now open for the Wellcome Trust’s Climate and Mental Health Fund for Uncovering Mechanisms Between Heat and Mental Health. This award will fund projects to advance understanding of the biological, psychological and/or social mechanisms through which heat affects anxiety, depression and psychosis in the most impacted groups globally. Successful applications will identify relevant climate-resilient and/or mental health interventions with a realistic potential for real-world application.
Funding information: Up to USD 3,000,000
Deadline Date: January 21, 2025
10. NEW Call for Proposals: Just Rural Transition Support Program 2025
Proposals are invited to create and support a global community of practice of non-state actors to engage on issues related to sustainable agriculture and the food systems transition. This grant is a component of the FCDO’s Just Rural Transition Support program. This is a programme that will support the design and implementation of public policies and support (including through subsidy reforms) that scale sustainable agriculture approaches in developing countries.
Funding information: More than USD 1,000,000
Deadline Date: January 28, 2025
11. Call for Entries: Expense Support Grant Program
Are you a faculty member or graduate student in need of funding for your academic research? If yes, then this call is for you! Whether you need support for travel, research collaboration, journal submissions, or other eligible expenses, the program is designed to help offset the costs associated with your project. This funding opportunity is open to graduate students and faculty conducting research within the liberal tradition at an accredited college or university.
Funding information: Up to USD 5,000
Deadline: Ongoing
13. Open Call for Smurfit Kappa Foundation Grant Program (see link for eligible countries)
If you support projects that positively impact the lives of underprivileged people in the communities where Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG) has a presence, then apply for the Smurfit Kappa Foundation Grant Program. Projects must be focused on several areas, such as sustainability and support at least one SDG.
Funding information: USD 10,000 to USD 100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
14. Call for Applications: Global Impact Cash Grant Program for NGOs & NPOs
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, like climate impact and regeneration. They support programs that foster bold climate solutions as well as community education and activation.
Funding information: USD 10,000 to USD 100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
15. Open call for Amphibian Survival Alliance’s Emergency Grants Program
The Amphibian Survival Alliance (ASA) has announced the Emergency Grants Program to provide rapid financial support for urgent conservation actions that prevent the imminent extinction of threatened amphibian species or populations.
Funding information: USD 10,000 to USD 100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
16. Applications open for Lush Charity Pot Grant
Applicants are now encouraged to submit applications for the Lush Charity Pot Grant to groups working in the areas of Animal Protection, Environment and Human Rights (incl. social justice, peace & equality)
Funding information: USD 10,000 to USD 100,000
Deadline: Ongoing
17. 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
18. 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
19. 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
20. Global Impact Cash Grant Program for NGOs and NPOs
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
21. Catalyst Fund, Roddenberry Foundation
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
22. Climate Innovation Fund, Microsoft
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
23. 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
24. 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
25. Call for Applications, Fund for International Development, OPEC
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
26. Internet Freedom Fund, Open Technology Fund
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
27. 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
28. 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
29. 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.
Funding information: USD 50,000 to USD 15,000,000
Deadline: Ongoing
Fellowships and other opportunities
1. NEW Accountable Adaptation Fellowship Program
The Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN) and University College London (UCL) are seeking applications for its Accountable Adaptation Fellowship Program. Researchers will design and implement projects with overall responsibility for the research and grant management with the support of an academic mentor. ARIN and UCL will provide ongoing support, opportunities for networking and an in-person write shop to develop a publication. The projects will explore specific examples of improving accountability for adaptation in Africa.
Deadline Date: January 01, 2025
2. International Climate Protection Fellowship Program
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation invites you to apply for an International Climate Protection Fellowship. The Humboldt Foundation aims to achieve a good balance between genders and a high level of diversity among its fellows in all areas. They therefore expressly invite female prospective leaders and members of underrepresented groups to apply. They award up to 15 International Climate Protection Fellowships to prospective leaders working practically and up to five to postdocs each year. The fellowships are funded through the International Climate Initiative.
Deadline Date: February 01, 2025
3. Entries open for WWF Food Systems Fellowship
The WWF’s Russell E. Train Education for Nature Program (EFN) invites applications from aspiring and experienced researchers, practitioners, and leaders to pursue graduate-level studies (master’s and PhD) geared towards research that cultivates a better understanding of the place-based nature of food systems and transformation. There is substantial evidence at the global scale of the urgent need for food system transformation, but less attention has been paid to how transformations toward more healthy and sustainable food systems might play out at the national level.
Deadline Date: December 18, 2024
4. Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity
Looking for Fellows who are bold and ready to challenge power; who see the bigger picture of how inequalities are playing out; who are imaginative and daring in the way they envision solutions; who bring care and collaboration into their practice; who recognise the significance of lived experience of inequality, whose own lived experience informs their practice; and who focus not on advancing their careers, but on their commitment to changing the world through collective and collaborative approaches.
Deadline Date: January 10, 2025
5. Kinship Conservation Fellowship Program 2025
Applications are now open for Kinship Conservation Fellowship to support conservation practitioners across the globe. The program is designed to advance your career and equip you with new skills, insights, and analytical tools to accelerate the projects you lead at home.The month-long, in-residence Fellowship focuses on market-based solutions in conservation and cultivates your leadership skills in the sector. Through interactive discussions, systems-thinking exercises, and peer-learning sessions, Fellows engage with stories and innovative solutions to overcome complex challenges that they can apply to their own work.
Deadline Date: January 12, 2025
6. Kleinhans Fellowship Program
Applications are now open for Kleinhans Fellowship Program for research that is oriented toward solving real-world problems. Researchers of any nationality or residence are eligible for the Kleinhans Fellowship; however, the research itself must be conducted in Latin America. Applicants must have a master’s degree in forestry, ecology, botany, environmental science or an appropriate related field. Doctoral candidates or post-doctoral researchers are preferred, although applicants may substitute relevant experience for higher-level degrees.