Deji Alli Young Talent Award
Accepting applications from 18–35-year-old Nigerian entrepreneurs for ₦12M funding.
Location: Nigeria
Sector: Unspecified
Stakeholders: DAAYTA
Deadline: 14th January
Opportunities and updates
IKI Small Grants
Inviting applications from organisations for funding between €60k and €200k.
Location: Global
Sector: Climate action, local adaptation, forests and biodiversity.
Stakeholders: GIZ
Deadline: 15th January
Global Innovation Fund
Accepting applications from innovators with scalable solutions to pressing development challenges for funding between $230k – $2.3 m.
Location: Global
Sector: Clean energy, climate action and innovation
Stakeholders: GIF
Deadline: 15th January
Catalyzing Women’s Entrepreneurship Across Africa and India Survey
Requesting women founders to complete this survey to gain insights into how you are currently supported and how that support can be optimised or expanded to better meet your needs.
Location: Africa and Asia
Sector: Clean Unspecified
Stakeholders: NYU Graduate School of Public Service
Deadline: 17th January
Contracts for Clean Energy Innovations
Welcoming applications from clean energy demonstrators for a competition and funding between £200k and £800k.
Location: Tanzania
Sector: Clean energy
Stakeholders: British High Commission in Tanzania
Deadline: 17th January
IEC Global Impact Fund
Accepting applications from SME-led projects working on electric cooking for funding.
Location: Asia
Sector: Clean cooking
Stakeholders: IEC
Deadline: 17th January
SEforALL Energy Heroes Awards
Welcoming applications for remarkable clean energy champions for an award.
Location: Africa, Asia, Pacific, Latin America, Caribbean, Middle East, North Africa
Sector: Clean energy
Stakeholders: SEforALL
Deadline: 17th January
Milkywire Climate Transformation Fund
Inviting applications from innovative companies for funding between $150k – $300k.
Location: Global
Sector: Clean cooking, agriculture, forest preservation
Stakeholders: Milkywire
Deadline: 19th January
The Rallying Cry Activator Program
Welcoming applications from entrepreneurs driving transformative climate solutions for funding between $250k and $3M.
Location: East and Southern Africa
Sector: Climate action, gender
Stakeholders: CGEF
Deadline: 20th January
TEA Gender Inclusion Bootcamp
Welcoming applications from clean energy companies seeking to advance gender-inclusive practices within their operations and TA.
Location: Unspecified
Sector: Clean Energy, Gender
Stakeholders: Value for Women and TEA
Deadline: 21st January
SheSustains Accelerator and Grants
Inviting applications from women-led enterprises to receive tailored support, mentorship, access to industry networks and resources, and funding opportunities.
Location: Nigeria
Sector: Clean energy, cimate action, sustainability
Stakeholders: Climate Gender Equity Fund
Deadline: 24th January
USAID Power Africa PUE Grants
Inviting applications from companies seeking to scale up the sale of Productive Use of Energy (PUE) products.
Location: East and Central Africa
Sector:Clean energy – PUE products
Stakeholders: USAID
Deadline: 24th January
GET.invest Finance Access Advisory Support
Accepting applications from clean energy companies for finance access advisory support.
Location: Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific
Sector: Clean energy
Stakeholders: GET.invest
Deadline: 28th January
Ashoka The Power of Local Challenge
Inviting applications from SMEs for a challenge and up to $60k cash prize.
Location: Latin America, East Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa, and East Asia
Sector: Unspecified
Stakeholders: Ashoka
Deadline: 29th January
PREO PUE Grants
Inviting applications from energy companies seeking to pilot innovative productive use of energy (PUE) products for grants of up to €300k. Apply by 31st January.
Location: Africa and Pacific
Sector: Clean energy – PUE products
Stakeholders: PREO
Deadline: 31st January
Power Africa Energy Talent Development
Accepting applications from companies who want to build the capacity of local institutions and individuals through training, workshops, or other capacity-building interventions to close the energy poverty gap.
Location: West Africa
Sector: Clean energy
Stakeholders: Power Africa
Deadline: 31st January
Acumen East Africa Fellowship
Welcoming applications from social entrepreneurs with a commitment to solving problems of poverty for a transformative fellowship, mentorship, and early-stage funding.
Location: East AFrica
Sector: All
Stakeholders: Acumen
Deadline: 7th February
Bayer Foundation Women Entrepreneurs Award
Inviting applications from women-led social enterprises for an accelerator programme offering a €25k prize, networking, and more.
Location: Asia Pacific, Latin America, Africa, Middle East
Sector: Health, clean cooking, agribusiness, food
Stakeholders: Bayer Foundation
Deadline: 18th February
AU-EU Youth Action Lab Entrepreneurship Grants
Accepting applications from social enterprises passionate about empowering young people economically for grants between €30k – €50k.
Location: 12 African countries
Sector: Youth empowerment
Stakeholders: European Union
Deadline: 19th February
O’Shaughnessy Ventures Fellowship and Grants
Inviting applications from individuals whose work positively impacts the world for a fellowship and grants of up to $100k.
Location: Global
Sector: Tech innovations, art, culture, research
Stakeholders: O’Shaughnessy Ventures
Deadline: 28th February
P4G Partnership Fund
Accepting concept notes for high-impact partnerships implementing innovative business models to accelerate achievement of the SDGs.
Location: Colombia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, and Vietnam
Sector: WASH, energy access
Stakeholders: P4G
Deadline: 7th March
West Africa Clean Cooking Fund
Accepting applications from registered NGOs and local organisations with strong financial stability and proven experience in community outreach or clean energy projects for funding.
Location: West Africa
Sector: Clean Cooking
Stakeholders: Worthington Companies Foundation
Deadline: 31st December
UNEP Certificate Course on Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience
Accepting applications from professionals seeking to learn more about nature-based solutions for a course.
Location: Global
Sector: Clean Cooking
Stakeholders: UNEP
Deadline: Rolling
Clean Cooking Venture Community
Accepting applications from entrepreneurs and business leaders in the clean cooking sector for a Clean Cooking Venture Community for networking, resource sharing and more.
Location: Global
Sector: Clean cooking
Stakeholders: Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA)
Deadline: Rolling
USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures
Inviting applications from creative solutions that demonstrate rigorous evidence of impact, cost-effectiveness, and a viable pathway to scale and sustainability, for grant funding of up to $5 million.
Location: USAID’s countries of operation
Sector: Unspecified
Stakeholders: USAID
Deadline:Rolling
Bettervest Energy Efficiency Loan
Welcoming applications from companies working on SDG 7 or 13 for a loan volume of at least €200K.
Location: Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Singapore
Sector: Energy and climate action
Stakeholders: Bettervest
Deadline: Rolling
Wajenzi Investment Fund
Accepting applications from start-ups and SMEs to raise between €50K to €250K in equity finance from the Diaspora, EU citizens and Financial institutions, to build their businesses.
Location: Africa
Sector: Unspecified
Stakeholders: Wajenzi
Deadline: Rolling
Open Investment Fund
Welcoming applications from women-led businesses in Africa with an annual turnover of more than $25K to grow their business sustainably and up to $100K investment fund.
Location: Africa
Sector: Energy
Stakeholders: CSI Energy Group
Deadline: Rolling
Social Entrepreneurship and Inclusion Programme
Actively seeking to fund social enterprises working on innovative solutions for a better world.
Location: Global
Sector: Unspecified
Stakeholders: DOEN Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
Supporting Early-Stage Local Entrepreneurs (SESLE) Program
Accepting applications from early-stage, locally owned, renewable energy companies for a pilot program on a new financing facility.
Location: Africa
Sector: Energy
Stakeholders: IKEA Foundation, CLASP and Charm Impact
Deadline: Rolling
Spark+ Africa Fund
Actively seeking to invest debt and mezzanine capital in leading companies throughout the clean cooking value chain, including cooking fuels, biofuels, electric appliances, and efficient biomass stoves.
Location: Africa
Sector: Improved cooking
Stakeholders: Spark+
Deadline: Rolling
Transform support hub
Welcoming applications to this on-demand, free accelerator programme for social enterprises.
Location: Global
Sector: Unspecified
Stakeholders: TRANSFORM
Deadline: Rolling
LendHer Capital Pre-Screening Questionnaire
Looking for women-led businesses working in non-tech enabled sectors (such as personal care and hygiene), who would benefit from debt investment and business advisory.
Location: Kenya
Sector: Non-tech enabled
Stakeholders: LendHer Capital
Deadline: Rolling
AirAsia Foundation Grant Application
Aiming to help social enterprises scale up, as a way of empowering communities and enabling them to build sustainable livelihoods.
Location: ASEAN
Sector: Unspecified
Stakeholders: AirAsia Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
Energy Access Relief Fund
Providing loans starting at $50k to viable energy access companies facing liquidity challenges due to COVID-19.
Location: Africa and Asia
Sector: Energy access
Stakeholders: SIMA and 16 partners
Deadline: Rolling
Innovation Fund
Supporting the development of innovative approaches to solving a challenge faced by people living on less than US$5 a day e.g. a new business model, technology, or new ways of delivering products.
Location: Global
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: Global Innovation Fund
Deadline: Rolling
Scaling innovative business models funding
Supporting early-stage companies with high developmental impact to scale up.
Location: Africa and India
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: DEG
Deadline: Rolling
Bridge loans for impact
Helping companies that have been hit by unexpected obstacles to keep on track with impact aims.
Location: Global
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: Open Road Alliance
Deadline: Rolling
S-GRID program
Welcoming applications from social enterprises keen to access coaching and partner with corporations.
Location: Global
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: MovingWorlds