1. Global Forest Watch Small Grants Fund Program 2025 (see link for eligible countries) The Global Forest Watch Small Grants Fund seeks to strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations to reduce illegal or unplanned deforestation and sustainably manage forests by incorporating GFW into forest monitoring strategies. Funding information: USD 10,000 to 100,000 Deadline Date: May 09, 2025
2. Open Call: Knowledge for Great Green Wall Action Advocacy Projects (see link for eligible countries) The Knowledge for Action - Great Green Wall (KFAW) Program is inviting civil society and engaged stakeholders from 18 eligible countries to submit their advocacy projects that will promote critical policy changes, promote effective regulations, and improve practices that promote environmental management and land restoration. Funding information: USD 10,000 to 100,000 Deadline Date: May 18, 2025
The EIC Pathfinder Open supports projects in any field of science, technology, or application without predefined thematic priorities. The overall objective of the EIC Pathfinder for advanced research is to develop the scientific basis to underpin breakthrough technologies. It provides support for the earliest stages of scientific, technological, or deep-tech research and development.
The People's Trust for Endangered Species is seeking applications for its Conservation Insight Grant Program to generate scientific evidence that will facilitate the conservation of a species. Funding information: USD 10,000 to 100,000
The Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson is seeking applications for its Martine Franck Curatorial Research Grant to help researchers and curators develop a research and exhibition project. Funding information: USD 1000 to 10,000 Deadline Date: May 31, 2025
6. Toyota Foundation: Application for the 2025 International Grant Program is now open (see link for eligible countries)
The grant program focuses on deepening mutual understanding and knowledge-sharing among people on the ground in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia who are finding solutions to shared issues. Through promoting direct interaction among key players, the grant program aims to
survey and analyze situations in target countries, obtain new perspectives, and expand the potential of future generations.
Funding information: USD 10,000 to 100,000
Deadline date: May 31, 2025
7. Call for Proposals: FAPESP Grant for International Researchers
The São Paulo Research Foundation is pleased to invite applications for its Investigator Grant for International Researchers to boost the scientific and technological leadership of São Paulo in multiple areas of knowledge.
Funding information: USD 100,000 to 500,000
Deadline Date: June 03, 2025
8. Funding available to protect Environment, improve Food Production, and promote Public Health (see link for eligible countries)
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. Funding information: USD 10,000 to 100,000 Deadline Date: June 15, 2025
9. CFPs: GenScript Life Science Research Grant Program The GenScript Life Science Research Grant Program is a new initiative dedicated to supporting breakthroughs in life science research areas. Funding information: USD 10,000 to 100,000 Deadline Date: June 15, 2025
10. Call for Applications: Zayed Sustainability Prize Applications are now open for the Zayed Sustainability Prize that recognizes and rewards small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), nonprofit organizations (NPOs), and global high schools with impactful, innovative and inspiring sustainable solutions. Funding information: USD500,000 to 1 million Deadline Date: June 23, 2025
11. Call for Proposals: Swiss Research Foundation Grant Program The Swiss Research Foundation for Electricity and Mobile Communication is inviting proposals to support innovative research on EMF-technologies and associated electromagnetic fields focusing on short, medium and long-term impacts on health, society and environment. Funding information: Not available Deadline Date: June 30, 2025
12. NEW The Leakey Foundation announces Research Grant Program The Leakey Foundation has announced its Research Grant Program to support both PhD dissertation research and post-PhD research across multiple disciplines related to human origins, evolution, and behavior. Funding information: USD 10,000 to 100,000
Deadline Date: July 15, 2025
13. Apply for Wellcome Career Development Award Scheme The Wellcome Trust is thrilled to seek applications for its Career Development Award Scheme to provide funding for mid-career researchers from any discipline who have the potential to be international research leaders. They will develop their research capabilities, drive innovative programmes of work and deliver significant shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing. Funding information: USD 100,000 to 500,000 Deadline Date: July 24, 2025
14. Open Call: John Templeton Foundation Grant Program The John Templeton Foundation is requesting applications for its grant program to support interdisciplinary research and catalyzes conversations that inspire awe and wonder. Funding information: Not available Deadline Date: August 15, 2025
15. RFAs: Challenge Programme – Harnessing biology for Climate-resilient and Healthy Soils (see link for eligible countries) The Novo Nordisk Foundation is requesting applications for its Challenge Programme titled "Harnessing biology for Climate-resilient and Healthy Soils" to prevent further soil degradation and enable the regeneration of healthy soils as a vital natural resource by deepening the fundamental understanding of how biological factors influence and interact with physicochemical and other properties of soil. Funding information: More than USD 1 million Deadline Date: October 08, 2025
16. Apply for NEF Research Grant Program
The Nagao Natural Environment Foundation is seeking applications for its Research Grant Program to support academic and scientific research aimed at understanding nature, ecosystems, and biodiversity and contributing to conservation actions based on scientific data in developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Funding information: USD 1000 to 10,000 Deadline Date: October 14, 2025
17. Submissions open for City Climate Finance Gap Fund 2025
The Gap Fund provides a range of technical assistance and capacity building to support climate-smart planning and investment in cities in developing and emerging countries.
Funding information: Not available Deadline date: Ongoing
18. Reece Foundation Grant Program Applications are now open for the Reece Foundation Grant Program to support locally led initiatives that help communities in Australia and overseas with access to clean water, sanitation, or food security through irrigation. Funding Information: USD 10,000 to 100,000
Deadline Date: Ongoing
19. 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
20. 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
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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
24. 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
25. 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
26. 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
27. 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
28. Call for Applications, Daily Grant Program, The Pollination Project Microgrants 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
29. 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
30. 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
31. 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
32. 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: The total value of support cannot exceed USD 50,000. Average support amounts are between USD 5,000 and USD 25,000. Deadline: Ongoing
33. 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
34. 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
35. 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
Fellowships and Other Opportunities
1. Request for Applications: Biomanufacturing Fellowship Programme The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention is requesting applications for its Biomanufacturing Fellowship Programme designed to create competence specializations in biomanufacturing and provide the hands-on training necessary to produce best-in-class workforce and leaders in the biomanufacturing industry in Africa. Deadline Date: May 30, 2025
2. Request for Applications: William P. Fuller Fellowship in Peacebuilding (see link for eligible countries) The Asia Foundation has launched its Fuller Fellowship in Peacebuilding to emphasize network building between fellows and the global peacebuilding community to support and elevate their work and professional development. Deadline Date: June 01, 2025
3. RFAs: Japan Foundation Indo-Pacific Partnership Research Fellowship Program (see link for eligible countries) The Japan Foundation is pleased to announce its Indo-Pacific Partnership Research Fellowship Program with the purpose of building partnerships and intellectual networks in the Indo-Pacific region.The program aims to encourage a new generation of researchers, experts, and practitioners who share the same concerns to build a new platform for intellectual cooperation, and to support the formulation of new policy proposals, visions, and initiatives from the Indo-Pacific region with a long-term, future-oriented perspective to contribute to resolving the issues. Deadline Date: June 16, 2025
4. Request for Proposals: Green Fellows Program 2025 Applicants are now invited to submit applications for the Green Fellows Program to recognize and support individuals committed to addressing global sustainability challenges. By participating in their conference series, engaging with experts, and actively contributing to community-driven sustainability initiatives, fellows gain valuable knowledge, expand their networks, enhance their research skills, and create meaningful impacts within their communities. Deadline Date: June 30, 2025
5. NEW CRP Applications for Fellowships Program Applications are now invited from research scientists working in agriculture, forestry or fisheries who would like to conduct research projects abroad, in another member country of the Co-operative Research Programme from 6 to 26 weeks. Deadline Date: September 10, 2025
6. NEW Call for Submissions: Canon Foundation Research Fellowships (see link for eligible countries) The Canon Foundation in Europe grants up to 15 Fellowships to highly qualified European and Japanese researchers. European Fellows are expected to pursue a period of research in Japan whereas Japanese Fellows are expected to do their research in Europe. Canon Fellows from Europe are free to choose their host institutes and hosts in Japan. The same freedom is given to Japanese
Canon Fellows coming to Europe. Canon Foundation Research Fellowships may be applied for when an agreement on co-operation and on a research plan has been reached between the guest researcher and the proposed host institution. Deadline Date: September 15, 2025
