Funding Opportunities - April 30, 2025

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KUZANA.
• Investing in Kenyan SMEs.
• Agri-processing, manufacturing, fintech, retail, logistics.
•Eligible to businesses 3 months to 5 years old in Kenya. Monthly revenue must be Ksh300k-10m ($2k- $77k USD).
• 12 weeks of workshops.
• $10k-$100k equity investment.

The Equalizer Challenge: Scaling Women’s Health Innovations. UNFPA and MIT SOLVE.
• Scale up transformative solutions for women’s health; Empower women-led enterprises addressing critical health conditions; strengthen the women’s health innovation ecosystem.
• Eligible to Women-led orgs in UNFP programme countries; with an MVP.
• Up to $20K alongside a six-month virtual capacity development programme.
• May 4, 2025.

EVolutionS Program To support Electric Vehicle Solutions led by Startups for Component Manufacturing. Department of Science & Technology: Government of India.
• Accelerate EV component manufacturing in India.
• Startups must be registered by DPIIT; 51%+ Indian Ownership.
• 50 Startups to Receive Rs.50 lakhs in funding (~$60K).
• May 30, 2025.

Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 6. One Young World + Reckitt.
• Supporting innovations that create measurable impact by enabling access to clean water, sanitation or hygiene, and are particularly interested in innovations with a focus on children or women/girls.
• Must be founded by someone aged 18 - 30.
• $50k + 12 months of mentorship from a team of Reckitt professionals.
• May 26, 2025.

Shine India. SwissRE Foundation.
• Early-stage enterprises in India who offer innovative, market-based solutions to problems related to natural hazards, climate risk and healthcare access.
• A four-month immersive learning programme and up to INR 2m (~$23k).
• May 18, 2025.

Strengthening Conservation Efforts in Guinea and Sierra Leone. BirdLife International.
• 1.Reducing threats to Globally Threatened Species; 2. Enhancing protection and management of Key Biodiversity Areas: 3. Reducing habitat loss / improving habitat quality: 4. Improving the resilience of local communities.
• Civil Society Orgs registered in Guinea and Sierra Leone.
• $50k.
• May 15, 2025.

Rapid Response Facility.
• Funding for conservation emergencies in UNESCO natural World Heritage sites
• OECD Countries.
• Applications from NGOs or private sector organisations must include a letter of support from the relevant site management authority as part of their application.
• $40k.
• Rolling Applications.

Grants: Jjephcott Charitable Trust.
• NGO’s and (legally) charitable projects; Education; Health; Environment.
• Projects set for “pump-prime” (i.e. scale or developing new lines of work).
• £2k - £10k and, in exceptional cases only, up to £20k.
• Rolling Applications.

Intel Community Reach Program 2.0.
• Enable populations in underserved areas (and or communities) in the member states of the African Union to have access to education, including in STEM, healthcare, agriculture, environmental services, fintech solutions, or digital skills readiness; for financial, social and tech equity; using or planning to use Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially at the Edge with AI PC and/or broadband connectivity.
• Selected participants will receive technical support, capacity-building opportunities, and consultancy services, equipping them with the tools to scale their solutions and drive socio-economic impact.
• June 13, 2025.

Innovate4DigiJobs Application. Rwanda ICT Chamber and ILO.
• Support innovative solutions that enhance youth employment in Rwanda’s digital economy.
• Technical Support and Seed Funding (up to $50k).
• May 20, 2025.

Changemakers Africa by Swiss Re Foundation.
• Early stage orgs improving health outcomes or advancing climate action
• 5-month (6-8 hours per week) hands-on digital incubation program designed to help you refine your business model, receive expert mentorship, and connect with a global network of changemakers.
• $15k.
• May 28, 2025.

WTO-ITC Women Exporters in the Digital Economy (WEIDE) Fund. WTO and TIC.
• Build the long-term competitiveness and resilience of women-led micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) involved in e-commerce, online services, or other forms of digital trade as well as those ready to engage in these activities.
• Women-led businesses in the Dominican Republic, Mongolia and Nigeria.
• $30k.
• May 18, 2025.

NIKKEI ASIA AWARD. Canon.
• Any activity that promotes the transformation of Asia and supports the realization of a free and prosperous economic society from the Asian perspective based on the diverse values.
• 5m YEN (~$35k USD).
• Japanese individuals or groups with only Japanese citizens excluded.
• Must be nominated.
• June 15, 2025.

AI First Accelerator. Google.
• Ten-week equity-free accelerator program for Seed to Series A startups based in MENA and Turkey.
• Eligible participants receive up to $350k in Google Cloud credits, dedicated support from startup experts, technical training and access to key industry events.
• Deeply technical, preferably leveraging technologies like machine learning and AI; Commitment from CTO and/or AI Lead to participate and engage in required program sessions.
• June 16, 2025.

Global Forest Watch Small Grants Fund. WRI.
• Build the capacity of civil society and CLOS (nonprofit only) to use GFW tools and data to reduce illegal or unplanned deforestation; Advocacy, Forest Monitoring and Enforcement, Journalism and Storytelling, Stakeholder Engagement and Capacity Building, Informing Land Use Management and/or Policy.
• Africa: Cameroon, DRC, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Madagascar. Republic of Congo, Uganda.
• ~12 projects up to $40k each.
• May 9, 2025.

RESILAO: Strengthening the Resilience of West African Coastlines. PRCM and FFEM.
• Conservation and restoration of coastal ecosystems; Development of sustainable value chains based on ecosystem services; Innovative solutions to enhance the resilience of coastal areas and communities.
• Mauritania, Senegal, Cabo Verde, Guinea.
• 40 initiatives for up to €100k each.
• May 16, 2025.

Cartier Women's Initiative Regional Awards.
• Women-owned and women-led impact-driven businesses; between 1 and 6 years old; should not have raised more than US$2 million in dilutive or potentially dilutive funding.
• Top three impact businesses from each of the nine regions: Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, Europe, Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, Anglophone and Lusophone Africa, Middle East and North Africa, East Asia, South Asia and Central Asia, Oceania.
• Fellowship + up to $100k grant.
• Separate program/award for SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PIONEER theme.
• June 24, 2025.

Futuremakers Women in Tech (WiT) Uganda Program. Standard Chartered Foundation.
• Equipping women-led businesses with investment readiness training and technical assistance.
• Eligible to small scale tech oriented businesses registered and operating in Uganda with at least one female co-founder actively involved full-time, employment fewer than 10 people, and have an annual turnover of less than USD 100k.
• $10k.
• May 30, 2025.

UNICEF StartUp Lab Accelerator Programme.
• 6 month tech accelerator program.
• Eligible to startups working to advance the Sustainable Development Goals for children and young people across several sectors, including education, health and nutrition, Water Sanitation and hygiene, and child protection in Ghana.
• Health, Education, Urban Services, WASH, Climate Action, Child Protection, Finance, Agriculture, Blockchain, AI/ML, and Cybersecurity.
• 3 startups from the 25 accepted in the program will receive GHS 150k ($10k USD).
• May 15, 2025.

Cervical Cancer Grants Program. TogetHER For Health.
• Highly targeted grants for organizations working to address demand and supply constraints related to vaccination, screening, and preventive treatment for HPV and cervical cancer in low- or middle-income countries (LMICs).
• Track 1 aims to improve demand-side interventions to increase uptake of all cervical cancer prevention services. Track 2 aims to support supply-side interventions to accelerate adoption of improved technologies in cervical cancer prevention.
• Eligible to programs implemented in countries classified as low or middle-income countries. For-profit entities are not eligible to apply.
• $30k for each track (2 Tracks).
• May 30, 2025.

Startup Battlefield 200. TechCrunch.
• Pitch competition for tech startups.
• Eligible to early tech start up from any country, any industry, solving any problem.
• $100k equity-free prize.
• June 9, 2025.

Neptune Awards 2025. Ocean Exchange.
• Awarding startups that advance our understanding of the ocean and help minimize our impact on these resources.
• Themes are broad based and cover all maritime, blue economy, ocean environmental, and coastal resiliency topics, as well as data gathering and analysis.
• Global.
• $100k.
• June 6, 2025.

Baker Hughes Energy Ideas Generation Program.
• Projects that operate in the Clean Energy and Industrial Technologies sectors.
• 16 week program; $35k grant.
• June 30, 2025.

Elsevier-ISES Renewable Transformation Challenge.
• Organizations who can demonstrate that they have established successful projects, innovative technologies, financing schemes, policy initiatives, or renewable energy programs, or from institutions that have undertaken research and analyses and identified solutions that demonstrate how this goal is being met. The Challenge can include either supply side (energy generation for end-use energy consumption) or demand side (including energy efficiency) programs.
• $20k.
• April 30, 2025.

Call For Expressions Of Interest For Water Supply And Sanitation Activities: Tanzania. UN-Habitat.
• Extend water supply systems to serve at least three poor and peri-urban communities/suburbs: Kalalangabo, Kazegunga, Msanga, and Msimba: Connect improved disability-friendly pit latrines in Kasulu (Kalema Inclusive School) with water supply and construct a 5,000-liter water storage tank; Connect Kamara Health Center in Kigoma Ujiji with water supply by constructing an elevated structure and supplying a 5,000-liter water storage tank; Capacity building for 10 CBWSOs (5 in Kasulu DC, 5 in Kigoma DC) and Kasulu WSSA, including procurement of water flow meters and laptops; Construct improved pit latrines in 10 selected schools in Uvinza District Council; Establish School WASH (SWASH) clubs in each school where improved pit latrines will be constructed.
• Up to $104k.
• May 15, 2025.

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