Halcyon Climate Fellowship
Accepting applications from social enterprises for a fellowship offering US$ 5k stipend and US$10k AWS credits.
Location: Latin America and Caribbean
Sector: Climate Action
Stakeholders: Halcyon
Deadline: 30th May
Opportunities and updates
D-Prize Challenge
Inviting applications from early-stage social enterprises for US$20k grant funding.
Location: Low-or-middle income countries
Sector: Clean energy, WASH, tech, agriculture, health, circular economy
Stakeholders: D-Prize
Deadline: 8th June
Cartier Women’s Initiative
Welcoming applications from women social enterprises for an award offering human and social capital, and US$100k.
Location: Global
Sector: Climate Action
Stakeholders: Cartier Women’s Initiative
Deadline: 24th June
develoPPP Ventures Funding
Inviting applications from start-ups working on SDGs for funding.
Location: Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and South Africa
Sector: SDGs
Stakeholders: develoPPP Ventures
Deadline: 30th June
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: Rolling
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