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

Microsoft AI for Accessibility Grant

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

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

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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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Breakthrough Energy Fellows – Southeast Asia

Breakthrough Energy / Temasek / Enterprise Singapore

A regional hub supporting early-stage climate-tech entrepreneurs developing technology capable of cutting emissions at scale.

📍 Singapore / Southeast AsiaPaidHard

#fellowship#climate-tech#startup

Apply → breakthroughenergy.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

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Foster Care to Success Scholarship

Foster Care to Success

Supports students who aged out of foster care or were orphaned by age 18 to pursue postsecondary study.

📍 United StatesPaidEasy

#scholarship#foster-care#usa

Apply → fc2success.org

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Ascend Educational Fund Scholarship

Ascend Educational Fund

Scholarships for first- and second-generation immigrant students, including undocumented students, graduating from New York City high schools.

📍 New York City, USAPaidMedium

#scholarship#immigrant#nyc

Apply → ascendfund.org

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DREAM.US Opportunity Scholarship

The Dream.US

A large scholarship fund helping DACA, undocumented, and Temporary Protected Status students complete bachelor's degrees.

📍 United StatesPaidMedium

#scholarship#undocumented#immigration

Apply → thedream.us

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Change & Impact Scholarship

Change & Impact Inc.

A full four-year scholarship covering tuition, room and board, and books, plus therapy and internship support for students who stutter.

📍 United StatesPaidMedium

#scholarship#disability#stuttering

Apply → changeandimpactinc.org

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Krishnan and Yegneswaran Family College Scholarship

National Stuttering Association

A scholarship for college students who stutter, tied to the National Stuttering Association's mission and community involvement.

📍 United StatesPaidEasy

#scholarship#disability#stuttering

Apply → westutter.org

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Sertoma Scholarship for the Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Sertoma International

Financial assistance for college-bound students with clinically significant bilateral hearing loss, awarded through local Sertoma clubs.

📍 United StatesPaidEasy

#scholarship#disability#hearing-loss

Apply → sertoma.org

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AISES Scholarships (OASIS)

American Indian Science and Engineering Society

The largest scholarship provider to Indigenous STEM students in North America, matching students to multiple funded awards through a single application system.

📍 United States / CanadaPaidEasy

#scholarship#indigenous#stem

Apply → aises.org

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