Funding opportunities

The latest opportunities to procure funding for your project or organisation. Please make sure to read any guidance on the funder's website before applying, as location and eligibility may have changed since publication.

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Asafari Foundation Performance Excellence Grants

Performance Excellence Grants are designed to help applicants strengthen a specific function within their organisation via financial and technical support. Organisations must choose to focus on using the funding to support one of the following functions: Strengthening Governance Structure; Strengthening Human Resources Management, Staff Development, and Wellbeing; Strengthening Financial Management; Strengthening Programme Development and Management Practices; Strengthening Fundraising and Sustainability Efforts; Strengthening Research and Advocacy Management and Impact; Strengthening Communication and Digital Infrastructure; Strengthening Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning Practices; Strengthening Innovation and Exploration of Alternative Solutions . Programmes must focus on at least one of the following thematic areas: Developing Independent High-Quality Media, Strengthening Governance, Promoting Active Citizenship, Innovation, Promoting & Supporting Entrepreneurship, Education & Lifelong Learning (EdTech/TechEd), or Gender & Feminism.

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Applicant Organisations must: Be officially registered; Be one of the following: a Not-for-Profit, a Social Enterprise, or a Company with a defined social mission (and investing at least 50% of profit back into the Company). Organisations of any size are welcome to apply, however small to medium sized Organisations will be prioritised (average yearly budget up to £750,000).

Location
Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Syria
Closing date
27 Jul 2024

Tinker Foundation

The Foundation’s Institutional Grants program provides project funding to organizations working to improve the lives of Latin Americans. Letters of Inquiry are being accepted for three programme areas: Democratic Governance and Education. The Foundation funds research and advocacy, experimentation, scaling up of promising interventions, and exchange of knowledge and models with the overarching goal of contributing to large-scale change in policy and practice.

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We welcome collaboration among organizations in Latin America and prefer to fund institutions that are actively engaged with a broad array of stakeholders impacted by the identified challenge. We are unable to support certain types of activities related to legislation and lobbying. Organizations that are charitable in nature, i.e., with a United States 501(c)(3) tax status or its equivalent if located outside the U.S may apply. Organizations from Latin America do not need to have United States 501(c)(3) status.

Location
South America
Grant size
other
Closing date
25 Jul 2024

WWF Nedbank Green Trust

Projects which focus on conservation of nature and ecological processes.

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The Trust funds organizations that are developing innovative and transferable  solutions, in partnership networks, that have the potential to catalyse change in South Africa from an undesired state to a desired state as  defined by the Trust strategy. Therefore, all applicants must have a clear theory of change/ change logic for the solution proposed.

Location
South Africa
Grant size
10
Closing date
16 Jul 2024

The Steel Charitable Trust

Focus areas include Arts and Heritage, Education, Environment Health, Social or Economic Disadvantage. Applications within the Health category must have a focus on one of the following: 1) support, maintain and improve mental health in any demographic; 2) health care for older people. Applications made within the Social or Economic Disadvantage category must have a focus on one of the following: 1) Disadvantaged children; 2) Housing and homeless people.

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Charities, including CIOs, registered in any part of the UK with an annual turnover of over £50,000 may apply. Charities registered outside the UK are not eligible.

Location
UK and overseas
Grant size
10
Closing date
15 Jul 2024

Asafari Foundation Performance Excellence Grants

Performance Excellence Grants are designed to help applicants strengthen a specific function within their organisation via financial and technical support. Organisations must choose to focus on using the funding to support one of the following functions: Strengthening Governance Structure; Strengthening Human Resources Management, Staff Development, and Wellbeing; Strengthening Financial Management; Strengthening Programme Development and Management Practices; Strengthening Fundraising and Sustainability Efforts; Strengthening Research and Advocacy Management and Impact; Strengthening Communication and Digital Infrastructure; Strengthening Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning Practices; Strengthening Innovation and Exploration of Alternative Solutions . Programmes must focus on at least one of the following thematic areas: Developing Independent High-Quality Media, Strengthening Governance, Promoting Active Citizenship, Innovation, Promoting & Supporting Entrepreneurship, Education & Lifelong Learning (EdTech/TechEd), or Gender & Feminism.

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Applicant Organisations must: Be officially registered; Be one of the following: a Not-for-Profit, a Social Enterprise, or a Company with a defined social mission (and investing at least 50% of profit back into the Company). Organisations of any size are welcome to apply, however small to medium sized Organisations will be prioritised (average yearly budget up to £750,000).

Location
Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Syria
Closing date
15 May 2024

MamaCash Resilience Fund

The Resilience Fund – our largest grant making programme – aims to resource, support and connect the collective activism of women, girls, and trans and intersex people around the world. First-time annual grants are made with the intention of renewing them for multiple years, and Mama Cash typically supports partners for up to ten years.

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The Fund supports feminist groups, collectives and initiatives that are founded, led, and/or run by people who belong to the communities whose rights they seek to advance. The Fund gives priority to smaller and emerging groups that are doing critically important work but have limited access to funding. In addition to funding registered, formal organisations, we are open to funding informal or unregistered groups of activists, as well as networks or coalitions.

Location
Worldwide
Grant size
10
Closing date
17 Mar 2024

Souter Charitable Trust

Projects engaged in the relief of human suffering in all its aspects especially, but not exclusively, those with a Christian emphasis and ethos.

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UK registered charities only.

Location
UK and overseas
Closing date
07 Mar 2024

World Habitat Award

Between 8 and 12 projects that demonstrate exceptional work in providing or promoting access to adequate housing are shortlisted as finalists each year. Up to four projects are then visited by a small evaluation team before recommendations are presented to a panel of external judges, including the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT). In the final stage two projects become Gold winners.

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Anyone representing or collaborating on an innovative project in the field of housing is welcome to enter – individuals, NGOs, public institutions, private initiatives, academia, United Nations programmes, etc.

Location
Worldwide
Closing date
03 Mar 2024

Asafari Foundation Performance Excellence Grants

Performance Excellence Grants are designed to help applicants strengthen a specific function within their organisation via financial and technical support. Organisations must choose to focus on using the funding to support one of the following functions: Strengthening Governance Structure; Strengthening Human Resources Management, Staff Development, and Wellbeing; Strengthening Financial Management; Strengthening Programme Development and Management Practices; Strengthening Fundraising and Sustainability Efforts; Strengthening Research and Advocacy Management and Impact; Strengthening Communication and Digital Infrastructure; Strengthening Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning Practices; Strengthening Innovation and Exploration of Alternative Solutions . Programmes must focus on at least one of the following thematic areas: Developing Independent High-Quality Media, Strengthening Governance, Promoting Active Citizenship, Innovation, Promoting & Supporting Entrepreneurship, Education & Lifelong Learning (EdTech/TechEd), or Gender & Feminism.

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Applicant Organisations must: Be officially registered; Be one of the following: a Not-for-Profit, a Social Enterprise, or a Company with a defined social mission (and investing at least 50% of profit back into the Company). Organisations of any size are welcome to apply, however small to medium sized Organisations will be prioritised (average yearly budget up to £750,000).

Location
Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Syria
Closing date
16 Feb 2024