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- ClosedAcademia$2,000 - $10,000
RestorLife NGO Award 2026
The RestorLife Awards 2026, presented by Restor, Ma Earth, and the G20 Global Land Initiative, celebrates the incredible efforts of local communities and NGOs worldwide who are protecting nature, restoring biodiversity, and building sustainable livelihoods. These awards exist to recognize, support, and amplify the stories of those making a real difference on the ground. This year, the awards will run a global call for applications, open from May 7 – 31, 2026, inviting non-profit organizations actively restoring and protecting nature. From all applicants, the evaluation committee will select 6 - 10 finalists across 6 regions (see below), each receiving between $2,000 and $15,000 in match funding from Ma Earth to help scale and amplify their restoration projects.
Other Benefits:
- Cash Award
- Travel
- Accommodation
- +1
Deadline: May 31, 2026
- ClosedCreative$10,000
The Female Voices Short Film Fund 2025
The Female Voices Short Film Fund 2025 is an international film grant established by First Flights, a UK-based platform dedicated to supporting underrepresented filmmakers. The fund aims to help female-identifying filmmakers create a short film that serves as a proof of concept for their first or second feature film. The selected filmmaker receives funding, mentorship, and access to industry opportunities, including a potential development deal with one of the UK's leading independent production companies, Goldfinch.
Other Benefits:
- Mentorship
- Production Funding
- Project Support
- +2
Deadline: Jun 30, 2026
- ClosedCreativeUp to AUD $75,000
Music Australia Export Development Fund: International Performance and Touring Activity
The Music Australia Export Development Fund supports Australian contemporary music artists and businesses seeking to expand into international markets through live performances and touring. The program provides matched funding to help artists undertake international tours, festival appearances, and showcase performances that build sustainable global careers and audiences.
Other Benefits:
- Grant
Deadline: Jul 7, 2026
- ClosedBuilder$20,000
Afreximbank CANEX Entrepreneurship Program 2026
The CANEX Entrepreneurship Program is an initiative of Afreximbank aimed at supporting African businesses in the creative and cultural industries. The program identifies promising entrepreneurs and provides grant funding, mentorship, technical assistance, networking opportunities, and access to investors. Winners also participate in the CANEX WKND event, which brings together leading African creatives and business leaders.
Other Benefits:
- Mentorship
- Cash Award
- Investor access
- +2
Deadline: Jul 15, 2026
- ClosedCreativeAmount varies
Goethe: Zentrum Kampala’s Open Call for Proposals
The Goethe-Zentrum Kampala Open Call for Proposals is an ongoing cultural funding initiative designed to support artists and creative organizations working in Uganda. Unlike programs with rigid themes and fixed grant sizes, this call provides flexible support to projects that demonstrate creativity, innovation, and meaningful contributions to the country's arts ecosystem. Open to disciplines ranging from literature and fashion to film and theatre, the program prioritizes projects that expand artistic practice, encourage experimentation, and strengthen Uganda's cultural landscape. Funding amounts are determined according to project needs rather than predetermined limits.
Other Benefits:
- Production Funding
- Production Expenses
- Grant
Deadline: Jul 20, 2026
- ClosedCreativeAmount varies
The Creative Fund
The Creative Fund is a new initiative supporting Nigerian creative-sector organizations that need technical expertise to deliver innovative projects. Rather than providing unrestricted grants, it finances clearly defined technical gaps, such as hiring specialists, implementing digital tools, or improving production capacity. The programme also encourages knowledge transfer by requiring a "give-back" commitment that benefits the wider creative ecosystem.
Other Benefits:
- Technical Support
- Project Support
- Grant
Deadline: Jul 30, 2026
- ClosedBuilder£25,000 - £50,000
Advanced Connectivity Technologies: New Innovators 2026
The Advanced Connectivity Technologies: New Innovators competition supports UK micro and small businesses developing innovative products and services in advanced connectivity technologies. The programme aims to help businesses create affordable, adoptable, and investable innovations with commercial potential.
Other Benefits:
- Grant
Deadline: Aug 5, 2026
- ClosedBuilder$20,000 - $200,000
Supercell Developer Grants Program
The Supercell Developer Grants Program is a new equity-free funding initiative designed to support promising African game development studios. The programme provides financial support to help studios build, launch, and scale original games without giving up equity. Beyond funding, selected studios gain exposure to Supercell's expertise and ecosystem
Other Benefits:
- Equity-free grant funding
- Product development
- Grant
- +1
Deadline: Aug 9, 2026
- ClosedBuilder£10M
Innovate UK: Next Wave: Breakthrough Wave 1
The Next Wave: Breakthrough Wave 1 competition provides funding for ambitious industrial research projects that can accelerate innovation in the UK's Createch sector. It is aimed at UK-registered businesses developing commercially viable technologies and products with strong growth potential.
Other Benefits:
- Grant
Deadline: Aug 11, 2026
- ClosedCreativeAmount varies
Connections Through Culture Grants
Connections Through Culture (CTC) supports collaborative artistic projects between the UK and eligible partner countries. Grants are available for artists, creative organisations, festivals, biennials, architects, designers, and cultural professionals working together on cross-cultural projects.
Other Benefits:
- Artist Development
- Production Expenses
- Project Support
- +1
Deadline: Aug 12, 2026
- ClosedBuilder€10,000 - €50,000
Open Call: Fresh Perspectives 2026
The Fresh Perspectives Open Call funds cross-sector collaborations that use design, architecture, and digital culture to address societal challenges such as climate change, migration, housing, inequality, and social cohesion.
Other Benefits:
- Funding
Deadline: Aug 25, 2026
- ClosedBuilder$50,000
Guinean Forests of West Africa Biodiversity Hotspot: Small Grants 2026
This call provides small grants to organisations working to conserve biodiversity in the Guinean Forests of West Africa Biodiversity Hotspot. The current call is specifically seeking Letters of Inquiry from NGOs, community groups, private enterprises, independent public institutions and other civil-society organisations working on eligible biodiversity priorities. Nigeria is explicitly included among the eligible countries
Other Benefits:
- Grant
Deadline: Aug 31, 2026
- ClosedBuilder$100,000
UNICEF Venture Fund 2026
The UNICEF Venture Fund invests in early-stage, open-source technology startups that improve the lives of children and young people. The Fund supports companies developing frontier technologies with the potential to create large-scale social impact. Priority areas include artificial intelligence, blockchain, data science, drones, digital public goods, assistive technologies, and climate resilience
Other Benefits:
- Mentorship
- Partnerships
- Global Recognition
- +1
Deadline: Aug 31, 2026
- ClosedBuilder€30,000
K4GGWA Innovation Facility: Sustainable Tools for Land Preparation and Soil Health
The K4GGWA Innovation Facility is seeking practical innovations that can improve land restoration, soil health and resilience across the Great Green Wall region. This particular call focuses on tools, implements, machines and technologies that make land preparation, planting, soil improvement, water harvesting, erosion control and vegetation restoration more effective and affordable. The programme is particularly interested in solutions that can be locally manufactured, maintained and scaled. ([landscapealliance.org](https://www.landscapealliance.org/k4ggwa/innovation-facility/sustainable-tools-for-land-preparation-and-soil-health/))
Other Benefits:
- Grant
- Technical Support
- Mentorship
Deadline: Aug 31, 2026
- ClosedCreative£5,000
Hugo Burge Foundation: Creative Individuals Fund 2026
The Creative Individuals Fund supports individual artists and creative practitioners across the United Kingdom who are developing artistic projects or advancing their creative practice. The fund is open across all creative disciplines and is intended to help artists bring new ideas and projects to life
Other Benefits:
- Grant
- Artist Development
Deadline: Aug 31, 2026
- ClosedBuilderCHF5,000
Researcher-Sciencepreneur Collaboration Grant 2026
The Researcher–Sciencepreneur Collaboration Grant supports collaborations between Swiss researchers and African researchers or science-based entrepreneurs to develop innovations with a credible path toward real-world impact. Projects can focus on activities such as prototyping, co-design, market discovery and pilot testing. The programme is designed to bridge academic research and entrepreneurship and help science-based ventures move closer to implementation and commercialisation. ([research.swiss](https://research.swiss/researcher-sciencepreneur-collaborationgrant-rscg-2026/?utmsource=chatgpt.com))
Other Benefits:
- Research Support
Deadline: Aug 31, 2026
- ClosedBuilder£50,000 - £250,000
Commercialising Knowledge Assets Fund (CKAF): Autumn 2026
The Commercialising Knowledge Assets Fund (CKAF) supports eligible UK public sector research organisations in moving research discoveries and public-sector knowledge assets toward commercial readiness. The programme helps transform innovative research into products, services, and economic impact.
Other Benefits:
- Grant
Deadline: Sep 1, 2026
- ClosedCreative$10,000
Ripples Center for Data and Investigative Journalism Africa Fund
The RCDIJ Africa Fund is a grant program established by the Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative Journalism (RCDIJ), a Nigerian non-profit organization founded by Ripples Nigeria. The fund supports small- to medium-scale data-driven and investigative journalism projects that promote accountability, transparency, and social change across Africa. The fund aims to strengthen investigative journalism by providing financial support and editorial guidance to journalists working on stories of public interest. Successful projects are published through Ripples Nigeria with full editorial support.
Other Benefits:
- Living Expenses
- Production Funding
- Cash Award
- +2
Deadline: Sep 1, 2026
- ClosedBuilderAmount varies
Epic MegaGrants: Cycle 2 (2026)
Epic MegaGrants is an equity-free funding program supporting creators, indie developers, startups, and innovators using Unreal Engine or creating open-source tools that benefit the real-time 3D ecosystem. It supports projects in games, film, animation, virtual production, architecture, simulation, education, and immersive experiences
Other Benefits:
- Equity-free grant funding
- Technical Support
- Mentorship
- +1
Deadline: Sep 4, 2026
- ClosedBuilder$2,000 - $4,000
Pulitzer Center Global South Civil Society Microgrants 2026
The microgrant supports grassroots organisations, youth movements, community educators and civil-society groups in the Global South developing projects that use Pulitzer Center-supported journalism to strengthen civic engagement and public understanding of climate and environmental issues.
Other Benefits:
- Grant
Deadline: Sep 6, 2026
- ClosedBuilderAmount varies
Eurostars Call 11: International R&D Projects 2026
Eurostars funds international collaborative research and innovation projects led by innovative SMEs. The programme supports the development of new products, processes, and services through partnerships between businesses, universities, and research organisations across participating countries.
Other Benefits:
- Collaborations
- Funding
Deadline: Sep 10, 2026
- ClosedCreative€15,000 - €1.5M
Fondazione Prada Film Fund: Development & Post-production 2026
The Fondazione Prada Film Fund is an annual funding programme supporting independent feature films with strong artistic, intellectual and cultural value. The 2026 call supports projects at the development, production and post-production stages, with €1.5 million in total funding available for up to 14 projects. There are no restrictions based on geography, genre, theme or language.
Other Benefits:
- Funding
- Technical Support
Deadline: Sep 10, 2026
- ClosedCreativeUp to £25,000
Learning Through Making Fund
The Learning Through Making Fund supports UK-based visual arts organisations that want to increase opportunities for hands-on creative practice through art education. The programme encourages projects that explore materials, experimentation, collaboration, and creative learning. Funding is intended for organisations looking to pilot new approaches, improve access to making activities, or integrate material exploration into existing educational programmes
Other Benefits:
- Workshops and Masterclasses
- Transportation
- Artist Development
- +3
Deadline: Sep 11, 2026
- ClosedBuilder€4,000 - €10,000
Tara’s Circle 2026 for Women Entrepreneurs
Tara’s Circle 2026 is an international programme supporting women-led, early-stage projects that create social, environmental and/or economic impact. The 2026 edition provides funding, strategic mentorship, international visibility and access to a global network. It is open to women founders and co-founders worldwide.
Other Benefits:
- Cash Award
- Global Recognition
- Training
Deadline: Sep 15, 2026
- ClosedBuilder£20,000,000
DRIVE35 Innovation Fund: Collaborate Round 3
The DRIVE35 Innovation Fund supports collaborative research and development projects that accelerate the transition to zero-emission vehicles and strengthen the UK's automotive innovation ecosystem. Projects should focus on developing commercially viable technologies with significant economic impact.
Other Benefits:
- Collaborations
- Partnerships
Deadline: Sep 16, 2026
- ClosedCreativeUp to $4,000
Africa No Filter: Voices for Climate Justice 2026
A 12-month storytelling initiative supporting African storytellers who can create compelling narratives around climate justice. Selected participants receive training, mentorship, content amplification and grants to develop stories exploring the relationship between climate change, debt, gender, fossil fuels and African communities.
Other Benefits:
- Funding
- Mentorship
- Training
- +1
Deadline: Sep 25, 2026
- 2w leftCreative$1,500
Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition (OVAC): Creative Projects Grant
The Creative Projects Grant supports visual artists in creating new work for public presentation. Funding can be used for exhibitions, installations, public art, video art, performance art, curatorial projects, and art writing. Projects must take place after the grant is awarded and within one year of receiving funding.
Other Benefits:
- Community Engagement
- Exhibition Support
- Project Support
- +1
Deadline: Oct 15, 2026
- 4w leftBuilder€50,000
NGI Mobifree Open Call #7
NGI Mobifree Open Call 7 provides funding to developers, startups, SMEs, researchers, universities, and nonprofit organizations building open-source mobile technologies that improve privacy, security, interoperability, and digital freedom. The programme supports innovative projects that contribute to an open internet ecosystem.
Other Benefits:
- Project Support
- Mentorship
- Collaborations
Deadline: Oct 30, 2026
- 5w leftCreative€120,000
Creatives For Our Future 2026
Creatives For Our Future is a global education and grant programme supporting emerging creatives who use their creative practice to develop solutions aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The programme supports young creatives working across areas such as fashion, design, art, architecture and engineering, combining financial support with education, mentorship and access to an international creative network. The fifth edition opens for applications on 9 September 2026.
Other Benefits:
- Grant
- Mentorship
- Workshops and Masterclasses
- +1
Deadline: Nov 9, 2026
- 6w leftCreative$10,000
Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund 2026
The Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund commissions creators to produce creative projects, tutorials, workshops, and community-focused content. The programme supports visual artists, photographers, designers, filmmakers, illustrators, and other creative professionals.
Other Benefits:
- Mentorship
- Creative workspace
Deadline: Nov 15, 2026
- 7w leftCreativeAmount varies
Canva Innovation Grant 2026
The Canva Innovation Grant supports nonprofit organizations and social-impact teams using design and visual storytelling to create positive change. The programme provides funding and design resources to help organizations expand their impact.
Other Benefits:
- Grant
- Mentorship
Deadline: Nov 20, 2026
- 8w leftCreative$500 - $3,000
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
The Emergency Grants programme provides urgent, project-based funding to contemporary and experimental artists who have a sudden opportunity to present completed work publicly or who face unexpected/unbudgeted expenses for a project close to completion. Support is available for visual and performing artists and poets, with projects taking place in the U.S. or abroad
Other Benefits:
- Airfare
- Accommodation
- Artist Development
Deadline: Dec 1, 2026
- 12w leftCreativeAmount varies
Canva Create Grants Program 2026
The Canva Create Grants Program supports designers, educators, nonprofits, and community creators developing creative projects that promote accessibility, education, and social impact using Canva's platform.
Other Benefits:
- Grant
- Mentorship
- Project Support
Deadline: Dec 30, 2026
- 13w leftCreative$50,000
Pollock: Krasner Foundation Grant
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation provides unrestricted grants to exceptional professional visual artists to support the continued development of their artistic practice. Funding can be used for materials, studio expenses, exhibitions, professional opportunities and other needs that allow artists to meaningfully pursue their work. The programme supports artists internationally.
Other Benefits:
- Exhibition Support
- Residency
Deadline: Dec 31, 2026
- 15w leftCreative€10,000 - €50,000
IDFA Bertha Fund
The IDFA Bertha Fund (IBF) is a funding program of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) dedicated to strengthening independent, author-driven documentary filmmaking in regions where access to film financing and distribution is limited. Established in 1998, the fund supports emerging and established filmmakers creating bold, artistic, and socially relevant documentaries.
Other Benefits:
- Production Funding
- Grant
Deadline: Jan 15, 2027
- 21w leftBuilder$5,000
Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme 2027
The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme (TEF) is the flagship initiative of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, designed to identify, train, mentor, and fund African entrepreneurs with scalable business ideas or early-stage businesses. Founded in 2010, the programme aims to catalyze economic growth and job creation across Africa through the philosophy of Africapitalism.
Other Benefits:
- Seed Capital
- Training
- Mentorship
- +1
Deadline: Mar 1, 2027
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