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Real grants & funding opportunities for founders — verified, not scraped junk. 28 real opportunities right now.

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Segal Family Foundation Grant

Segal Family Foundation

A trust-based philanthropic funder giving first-time and renewal grants to grassroots, African-led organizations serving youth.

📍 Sub-Saharan AfricaPaidEasy
#grant#grassroots#africa
Apply → segalfamilyfoundation.org
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Villgro Incubation Program

Villgro Innovations Foundation

India's longest-running social enterprise incubator, providing seed funding and incubation across health, agribusiness, climate action, and gender-inclusion sectors.

📍 IndiaPaidMedium
#accelerator#social-enterprise#india
Apply → villgro.org
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AirAsia Foundation Grant Programme

AirAsia Foundation

A grant program funding ASEAN-based social enterprises and community groups with a proven track record of social or environmental impact.

📍 Southeast AsiaPaidMedium
#grant#social-enterprise#asean
Apply → airasiafoundation.com
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Postcode Lotteries Green Challenge

Dutch Postcode Lottery

An annual startup competition for green innovations tackling climate change, plastic pollution, or food waste.

📍 Netherlands, Germany, UK, Norway, SwedenPaidMedium
#competition#green-tech#europe
Apply → greenchallenge.info
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UNICEF Venture Fund

UNICEF Office of Innovation

An equity-free funding vehicle for open-source, frontier-tech startups improving child health, education, and wellbeing outcomes.

📍 Global (LMIC focus)PaidMedium
#grant#frontier-tech#child-wellbeing
Apply → unicef.org
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Women Who Tech FemTech + HealthTech Grant

Women Who Tech

A global grant challenge for women-led FemTech and HealthTech startups addressing healthcare access gaps.

📍 Global (USA-based)PaidMedium
#grant#femtech#healthtech
Apply → womenwhotech.org
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Microsoft AI for Accessibility Grant

Microsoft

A twelve-month grant and support program for researchers, startups, and nonprofits building assistive technology using AI.

📍 GlobalPaidMedium
#grant#accessibility#ai
Apply → microsoft.com
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The Accessibility Fund

The Accessibility Fund

A multi-year cohort program funding small, disability-focused organizations, especially in the Global South, with unrestricted grants and a nonprofit accelerator track.

📍 Global (priority Global South)PaidMedium
#grant#disability#social-enterprise
Apply → accessibilityfund.org
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Global LEAP Solar E-Waste Challenge

Efficiency for Access Coalition

A challenge funding innovative e-waste management approaches within the off-grid solar sector in Sub-Saharan Africa.

📍 Sub-Saharan AfricaPaidMedium
#grant#e-waste#solar
Apply → efficiencyforaccess.org
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Milken-Motsepe Prize in Circular Economy

Milken Institute / Motsepe Foundation

A competition for scalable, tech-driven African businesses transforming waste into value through circular economy business models.

📍 AfricaPaidHard
#competition#circular-economy#africa
Apply → milkeninstitute.org
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Beyond the Grid Fund for Africa

Nordic Development Fund-backed initiative

A results-based financing facility funding off-grid energy access companies serving displacement-affected and underserved communities in Africa.

📍 AfricaPaidHard
#grant#energy-access#africa
Apply → beyondthegrid.africa
Echoing Green Fellowship at Echoing Green
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Echoing Green Fellowship

Echoing Green

An eighteen-month fellowship for early-stage social entrepreneurs, providing a stipend, capacity-building support, and a peer community.

📍 Global (USA-based)PaidHard
#fellowship#social-entrepreneurship#funding
Apply → echoinggreen.org
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Grand Challenges Canada Stars in Global Health

Grand Challenges Canada

A seed funding stream for bold early-stage global health innovations, part of a broader seed-to-scale funding model.

📍 Canada / Global SouthPaidMedium
#grant#global-health#innovation
Apply → grandchallenges.ca
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UNHCR Refugee-led Innovation Fund

UNHCR Innovation Service

Provides direct funding, mentoring, and expertise to organizations led by forcibly displaced and stateless people building community-based innovations.

📍 GlobalPaidMedium
#grant#refugee-led#social-enterprise
Apply → unhcr.org
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AYuTe Africa Challenge

Heifer International

A pan-African competition identifying and funding young agritech entrepreneurs building solutions for smallholder farmers, run across multiple national competitions.

📍 Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Malawi, UgandaPaidMedium
#competition#agritech#africa
Apply → ayute.africa
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Cartier Women's Initiative Regional Award

Cartier Women's Initiative

A global award for women-led impact businesses, providing cash grants plus a leadership program across nine world regions.

📍 Global (Switzerland-based)PaidHard
#award#women-entrepreneurs#funding
Apply → cartierwomensinitiative.com
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Alfanar Venture Philanthropy

Alfanar

The first venture philanthropy organization in the Arab world, providing multi-year grants plus a dedicated portfolio manager to growth-stage social enterprises.

📍 Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, PalestinePaidHard
#grant#social-enterprise#mena
Apply → alfanar.org
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NESsT Latin America Accelerator Programme

NESsT / IKEA Social Entrepreneurship

A three-year tailored accelerator for social enterprises in Chile and Colombia providing capital and business support benefiting marginalized groups.

📍 Chile / ColombiaPaidHard
#accelerator#social-enterprise#latin-america
Apply → ikeasocialentrepreneurship.org
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Imagine H2O Pilot Fund

Imagine H2O

Provides recoverable grants and impact-linked loans helping water-technology startups pilot solutions with early adopters worldwide.

📍 GlobalPaidMedium
#grant#water-tech#startup
Apply → imagineh2o.org
Africa's Business Heroes Prize Competition at Jack Ma Foundation
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Africa's Business Heroes Prize Competition

Jack Ma Foundation

A pan-African entrepreneurship competition recognizing outstanding African founders across sectors, with a substantial cash prize pool and mentorship from global business leaders.

📍 Africa (all countries)PaidHard
#competition#africa#entrepreneurship
Apply → africabusinessheroes.org
Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme at Tony Elumelu Foundation
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Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme

Tony Elumelu Foundation

A pan-African entrepreneurship program providing seed capital, mentorship, and business training to early-stage African founders across every sector and all 54 countries.

📍 Africa (all 54 countries)PaidMedium
#accelerator#africa#entrepreneurship
Apply → tonyelumelufoundation.org
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Visa Everywhere Initiative

Visa

A global startup competition supporting founders building innovative payment and commerce technologies, with cash prizes and mentorship from Visa's innovation team.

📍 Global (regional heats)PaidMedium
#competition#fintech#startup
Apply → visaeverywhereinitiative.com
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Youth Co:Lab National Innovation Challenge

UNDP / Citi Foundation

A regional startup idea challenge for young people building solutions to social problems such as education access, care work, and disability inclusion, with seed funding for finalists.

📍 Asia-Pacific regionPaidMedium
#competition#social-enterprise#youth
Apply → youthcolab.org
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We Empower UN SDG Challenge

UN Women

A challenge recognizing women-led businesses that advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals through their core commercial operations, with a cash grant opportunity for finalists.

📍 Global (regional finalists)PaidMedium
#challenge#women-entrepreneurs#sdgs
Apply → weempowerprogram.org
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Biomimicry Institute Ray of Hope Accelerator

Biomimicry Institute

A six-month accelerator for early-stage startups building nature-inspired solutions to environmental challenges, pairing founders with biomimicry experts and seed funding.

📍 Global (remote cohort)PaidMedium
#accelerator#climate#biomimicry
Apply → rayofhope.bio
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D-Prize

D-Prize

A competition funding entrepreneurs to distribute proven poverty interventions — like clean water, basic health products, or educational materials — into new communities.

📍 Global (online application)PaidMedium
#grant#poverty#social-enterprise
Apply → dprize.org
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MIT Solve Global Challenges

MIT Solve

An open innovation platform that runs annual challenges (health, climate, economic prosperity, learning) and connects selected Solver teams with funding, mentorship, and MIT's network.

📍 Global (online application)PaidMedium
#competition#social-impact#funding
Apply → solve.mit.edu
Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge at Hello Tomorrow
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Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge

Hello Tomorrow

A global deep-tech startup competition connecting founders working on hard-science solutions (energy, biotech, materials, etc.) with investors, corporates, and a large cash prize pool.

📍 Global (finals in Paris)PaidHard
#competition#deep-tech#startup
Apply → hello-tomorrow.org
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