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Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research

Funds doctoral dissertation fieldwork advancing anthropological knowledge, across any subfield or world region.

📍 International (US-based foundation)PaidMedium
#grant#anthropology#fieldwork
Apply → wennergren.org
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Early Career

Genetics Society of America DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development

Genetics Society of America

Provides funding for early-career geneticists to attend a conference or training course.

📍 International (US-based society)PaidEasy
#grant#genetics#professional-development
Apply → genetics-gsa.org
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Early Career

BES Early Career Project Grant

British Ecological Society

Larger project grants supporting outstanding early-career ecologists.

📍 International (UK-based)PaidHard
#grant#ecology#early-career
Apply → britishecologicalsociety.org
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Early Career

BES Small Research Grant

British Ecological Society

Funds innovative ecological science projects lasting up to twelve months.

📍 International (UK-based)PaidMedium
#grant#ecology#early-career
Apply → britishecologicalsociety.org
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Early Career

Explorers Club Exploration Fund Grant

The Explorers Club

Funds fieldwork for graduate and postgraduate students and early-career field scientists across disciplines including botany, earth sciences, marine research, and paleontology.

📍 InternationalPaidMedium
#grant#fieldwork#exploration
Apply → explorers.org
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Student

Mineralogical Society of America Grant for Research in Crystallography

Mineralogical Society of America

Funds research in mineralogical crystallography, the Edward H. Kraus Fund.

📍 InternationalPaidMedium
#grant#crystallography#mineralogy
Apply → msaweb.org
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Student

GSA Graduate Student Research Grant

Geological Society of America

Provides partial support for master's or doctoral thesis research in the geological sciences.

📍 North/Central AmericaPaidEasy
#grant#geology#graduate-research
Apply → geosociety.org
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Student

BSA Graduate Student Research Award

Botanical Society of America

Supports graduate student research proposals across botanical sciences, open to students worldwide, not limited to the US.

📍 International (US-based society)PaidEasy
#grant#botany#graduate-research
Apply → awards.botany.org
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General

Kari Howard Fund for Narrative Journalism

International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF)

Funds the development of long-form narrative journalism pieces, honoring former Los Angeles Times editor Kari Howard.

📍 GlobalPaidMedium
#grant#journalism#narrative
Apply → iwmf.org
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Early Career

Points North Fellowship

Points North Institute

Supports early-to-mid-career nonfiction filmmakers, including an unrestricted grant for a feature documentary in post-production.

📍 United States (international projects)PaidHard
#fellowship#documentary#film
Apply → pointsnorthinstitute.org
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Early Career

AXS Film Fund

AXS Film Fund

Supports documentary and nonfiction media creators with disabilities and from underserved communities.

📍 United States (international applicants)PaidMedium
#grant#documentary#disability
Apply → www2.fundsforngos.org
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Early Career

Diversify Photo Eyewitness Photojournalism Grant

Diversify Photo & Pulitzer Center

Supports projects by independent photojournalists from backgrounds historically underrepresented in global media.

📍 GlobalPaidMedium
#grant#photojournalism#diversity
Apply → pulitzercenter.org
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General

Fund for Investigative Journalism Seed and Regular Grants

Fund for Investigative Journalism

Small grants for preliminary and full investigative reporting projects across print, online, broadcast, books, documentaries, and podcasts.

📍 United States (international applicants accepted)PaidMedium
#grant#investigative-journalism#global
Apply → fij.org
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Early Career

Earth Journalism Network Biodiversity Story Grant

Internews (Earth Journalism Network)

Story grants expanding the quality and quantity of biodiversity journalism coverage worldwide.

📍 GlobalPaidEasy
#grant#journalism#biodiversity
Apply → earthjournalism.net
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Journalismfund Europe Environmental Journalism Grant

Journalismfund Europe

Supports cross-border investigative journalism projects on environmental issues across Europe.

📍 EuropePaidMedium
#grant#journalism#environment
Apply → journalismfund.eu
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Founder

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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Founder

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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Founder

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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Founder

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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Founder

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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Founder

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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Founder

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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Founder

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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Founder

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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Founder

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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Founder

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
Founder

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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Founder

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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Founder

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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Founder

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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