Dear Green Members,
As every week, we are thrilled to present a fresh set of funding opportunities 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:
Call for Applications: Regional study on Gender Norms and Education (see link for eligible countries)
CFPs: DUT Program for Sustainable Urban Transitions (see link for eligible countries)
Global Fellowships: Frontiers in Nature Research and Conservation
All currently open calls:
Grant-making opportunities
1. 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
2. EPIC announces Air Quality Fund
The Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) is currently accepting applications for the Air Quality Fund. The mission is to confront the global energy challenge by ensuring Energy Markets provide access to reliable, affordable energy needed for growth, while limiting emissions that cause Climate Change and damages to the Environment.
Funding information: Up to USD 200,000
Deadline: Sep 10, 2024
3. NEW Call for Applications: Regional study on Gender Norms and Education
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is seeking applications from single organization or consortium to conduct research on trends around boys’ school dropout and declining enrolment across primary and junior secondary education in Tanzania and the broader East African region.
Funding information: Up to USD 140,000
Deadline: Sep 13, 2024
4. CFAs: The Exploration Fund Grant
The Explorers Club is seeking grant applications to support students and early career field scientists who are conducting fieldwork across a variety of disciplines. Provide background and state your project goals, methodologies, and intended outcomes, as well as the potential impact the project may have culturally, environmentally, or both.
Funding information: Up to USD 5,000
Deadline: Sep 13, 2024
5. Call for Proposals: Prepositioning Assistive Products for Humanitarian Emergencies
The ATscale Secretariat, hosted by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in Geneva, Switzerland, invites interested and eligible non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other non-profit organizations, as well as UN entities, to respond to a call for proposals for the grant project: ‘Prepositioning of assistive products for humanitarian emergencies’. The objective of the grant is to support the establishment of a stock of prepositioned assistive products.
Funding information: Up to USD 350,000
Deadline: Sep 13, 2024
6. Apply for Hyland R. Johns Grant Program
The Hyland R. Johns Grant Program funds longer-term research and technology transfer projects that have the potential to benefit the everyday work of arborists. Established in 1995 to honor one of the leaders in the arboriculture industry and a founder of the ISA Research Trust.
Funding information: Up to USD 25,000
Deadline: Sep 15, 2024
7. Jack Kimmel International Grant Program
The TREE Fund is seeking applications for its Jack Kimmel International Grant Program from arboriculture and urban forestry researchers all over the world. The Jack Kimmel International Grant Program, championed by the Canadian TREE Fund, honors the late Jack Kimmel who was the former Director of Parks for the City of Toronto. This grant is administered by TREE Fund, with participation from the Canadian TREE Fund in the evaluation process.
Funding information: Up to USD 10,000
Deadline: Sep 15, 2024
8. CFPs: Innovation & High Impact in addressing the most Burning Issues in Online Child Safety
Safe Online is excited to announce a new USD 5 Million Global Open Call for Proposals to continue laying the groundwork for a safe internet globally, in line with the latest data and evidence from the field, technology developments and relevant frameworks addressing digital harms to children. With this new Open Call, Safe Online will continue to invest in a ‘whole system’ approach for maximum impact by supporting the work across multiple sectors in a coordinated manner.
Funding information: Up to USD 500,000
Deadline: Sep 15, 2024
9. FIRE Free Inquiry Grant to Support Research on Free Speech
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) is thrilled to announce that they are accepting proposals for the third cycle of their Free Inquiry Grant program, supporting research that advances the understanding of free speech and academic freedom. Since its founding more than two decades ago as the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, FIRE has become the nation’s leading defender of fundamental rights on college campuses
Funding information: Up to USD 50,000
Deadline: Sep 15, 2024
10. OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Grant: Women Scientists in the Developing World
The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) invites applications for the OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Grant for Early Career Women Scientists in the Developing World. Grants are given to women scientists who have made significant contributions in the area of inclusive health, whose research is linked to SDG3 (Good health and wellbeing).
Funding information: Up to USD 5,000
Deadline: Sep 16, 2024
11. Apply for What’s Possible Fund- Children's Rights Innovation Fund
The Children's Rights Innovation Fund (CRIF), in collaboration with its donor and youth collaborators, has launched a new funding opportunity called What’s Possible. CRIF invites youth activists to apply for the What’s Possible Fund aimed at supporting young activists, community workers, and organisers across many focus areas. This fund will offer grants to directly support young activists, community workers, and organizers across many focus areas-all with the aim of providing critical direct support to advance their continued safety.
Deadline Date: September 24, 2024
12. Call for Proposals: STEG Small Research Grants
The Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG) is currently inviting applications to the eighth call for proposals for Small Research Grants (SRGs). SRGs can fund research assistance, data collection and or purchase, and potentially research stipends teaching buyouts (if sufficiently justified). Grants also support travel to field sites, even when secondary data is utilized.
Funding information: USD 10,000 to USD 25,000
Deadline Date: September 30, 2024
13. Applications open for Stephenson Advancement Grant
Applications are now open for Stephenson Explorers Advancement Grant to support exploration and field research for marine exploration and conservation projects. The Philip Stephenson Foundation promotes marine exploration, protection, and conservation projects focused on adding value to people’s lives and the health of the environment.
Funding information: Up to USD 50,000
Deadline: Oct 4, 2024
14. Fjallraven Field Grant Program
The Explorers Club and Swedish-based outdoor gear and clothing company, Fjällräven, have partnered to create a grant program to promote excellence in field exploration through scientific research. This grant award supports exploration and research to better understand the environment, a changing climate, and the interconnectivity of wildlife and civilizations around the planet.
Funding information: Up to USD 100,000
Deadline: Oct 4, 2024
15. Open Call for Rolex Club Grants Program
The Explorers Club is pleased to announce an open call for the Rolex Explorers Club Grants program. The Rolex Explorers Club Grants send extraordinary young explorers into the field and promote the significant role that exploration plays in addressing cutting-edge scientific questions, understanding the environment and the world they live in, and learning more about the history to protect the future.
Funding information: Up to USD 10,000
Deadline: Oct 4, 2024
16. Ignacio H. de Larramendi Research Grants
The Fundación MAPFRE is pleased to announce the Ignacio H. de Larramendi Research Grants to promote projects carried out by individual researchers or research teams and whose object of study is related to health promotion or insurance and social protection.
Funding information: Up to USD 280,000
Deadline: Oct 7, 2024
17. World Childhood Foundation Grant Program
The World Childhood Foundation is inviting applications for its grant program to inspire, promote and develop solutions to end sexual abuse and exploitation against children. Project periods start from July 1 or January 1. The first grant period is maximum 12 months, with possibilities to apply for continuation and extend the project period up to a maximum of six years
Deadline: Oct 15, 2024
18. Request for Applications: Darwin Initiative Innovation Grants
The Darwin Initiative Innovation invites applications to evaluate a novel approach that, if proven by evaluation activities, could scale to deliver results for biodiversity conservation and multidimensional poverty reduction. Projects should last for between 1 to 2 years maximum, starting on or after 1 April 2025.
Funding information: USD 15,000 to USD 250,000
Deadline: Oct 21, 2024
19. Applications open for USAID Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) Program
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is inviting applications for the Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) program. Through a year-round grant competition, Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) sources proposals for innovations that address international development challenges and improve the lives of people living in poverty in developing countries around the world. DIV provides tiered funding to pilot, test, and transition to scale (i.e., grow to reach the highest number of beneficiaries possible) those innovations that demonstrate evidence of impact, cost-effectiveness, and the potential to scale.
Funding information: More than USD 1 million
Deadline Date: Oct 31, 2024
20. Call for Proposals: Eurofins Foundation Project Grant 2024
The Eurofins Foundation is seeking applications for grant opportunity for projects that contribute to global health and safety and protecting the environment. The objective of the Eurofins Foundation are to support initiatives, across different fields, which share these same goals. The foundation supports initiatives aiming at protecting the environment, improving nutrition and health, helping nonprofits and social businesses working in the fields of environment or health protection and nutrition improvement, promoting inclusion, diversity and equality and all levels of society
Deadline Date: October 31, 2024
21. NEW CFPs: DUT Program for Sustainable Urban Transitions
The Driving Urban Transitions is accepting grant proposals to support transnational research and/or innovation projects addressing urban challenges to help cities in their transition towards a more sustainable economy and functioning. The program focus on urban areas, in the context of achieving climate neutral and sustainable cities projects are expected to be focused on urban areas (including peri-urban areas) and their issues and challenges. Where appropriate, they may also consider the effects and impact on other territories like rural areas or consider urban-rural relationships.
Funding information: More than USD 1,000,000
Deadline Date: November 14, 2024
22. Pairi Daiza Foundation Grant for Biodiversity and Conservation Research
The Pairi Daiza Foundation was created from the desire to draw attention to the value of biodiversity, to create a stronger bond with nature, and to create a lasting commitment to its conservation. Pairi Daiza Foundation provides opportunities to Researchers via project funding or sampling agreements. Pairi Daiza Park belongs to the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) and the Pairi Daiza Foundation is a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Funding information: USD 2,500
Deadline Date: November 15, 2024
23. 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
24. NEW 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
25. 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
26. 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
27. 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
28. 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
29. 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
30. 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
31. 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
32. 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
33. 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
34. 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
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