Social Justice Grant Opportunities
October 2024
Due October 8, 2024
Grants and legal support to assist in human and civil rights cases and impact litigation in pursuit of environmental justice, aiming to help people or communities who are affected by environmental harm or who lack access to basic environmental needs.
Geographic focus: Global
Due October 11, 2024
Up to $20,000 - Financial support for both outreach activities and infrastructure development to enable organizations in regions and communities currently underrepresented in the global open science infrastructure landscape to benefit from DataCite infrastructure services. The Global Access Fund was established to enable communities worldwide to make their research outputs discoverable.
Geographic focus: Global
Due October 13, 2024 (early submission; regular deadline Nov. 3)
Up to $20,000 - Seeding new organizations distributing proven poverty solutions, all aiming to scale. Startup grants to entrepreneurs launching new organizations. Funds for social impact for-profit ventures, NGOs, and charities. Supporting organizations in any low-or-middle income country where extreme poverty still exists.
Geographic focus: Global
The Fund for Southern Communities
Due October 15, 2024
Up to $1,000 - $5,000 - The Fund invites applications from organizations: fighting discrimination based on race, sex, age, religion, economic status, sexual orientation, ethnic background, or physical and mental disabilities; struggling for the rights of workers; promoting self-determination in low-income and disenfranchised communities; protecting the environment; promoting and/or creating non-traditional arts and media; promoting peace.
Geographic focus: United States: Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina
International Center for Journalists
Due October 16, 2024
Up to $20,000 for experienced professionals to submit ideas, concepts or vision statements for news publishers to leverage new technologies and novel approaches to more effectively reach audiences most vulnerable to disinformation.
Geographic focus: Global
UNESCO: Protecting Environmental Journalists
Due October 18, 2024
Up to $50,000 - UNESCO invites not-for-profit organizations to submit proposals aimed at enhancing the legal protection of journalists covering the environment and reducing impunity for crimes against them. Supporting programs that work to bolster journalists’ legal protection and promote media freedom through relevant investigative journalism or strategic litigation.
Geographic focus: Global
Edital INW 2025 voltado para Organizações da Sociedade Civil
Due October 20, 2024
Up to R$ 60,000 - Aiming to promote social justice and increase the productive inclusion of Brazilian youth, the Nelson Wilians Institute (INW) announces the INW 2025 Call for Proposals, directed at Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) throughout Brazil. Additionally, applications will be open from October 1 to 20, 2024, offering a unique opportunity for projects focused on social and productive inclusion.
Geographic focus: Global
Due October 21, 2024
Up to $10,000 for grassroots activist projects in the US. Priority to groups with small budgets and little access to more mainstream funding. Ending border and the criminalization of immigrants; redefining systems of policing and criminal justice; confronting institutionalized violence against racial, ethnic, gender-based, and LGBTQ communities; putting an end to economic exploitation, class stratification, systemic poverty; stopping stop the war machine, ending state sponsored terrorism, and exposing the dangers of nuclear power.
Geographic focus: United States
Due October 26, 2024
Up to 30,000 per year for two years to to facilitate constructive engagement between civil society and decision-makers, including civil society participation in policy development and implementation. Focus on health justice, freedom of expression and climate justice.
Geographic focus: Commonwealth Member States globally
Open call for Civil Society Organizations in Burundi
Due October 30, 2024
Amount not specified. Civil Society Organizations to improve access to justice services and rights for vulnerable detainees, through the provision legal and psychological support services and capacity building
Geographic focus: Burundi
Local Transformation Projects – Nigeria
Due October 31, 2024
Up to 500,000 CZK - Czech Republic perceives the need to help the development of civil society and thus contribute to the spread of democracy, the rule of law and the protection of human rights. In this context, the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Nigeria is launching a call for proposals for Local Transformation Projects in its countries of competence.
Geographic focus: Burundi
Applications open until October 2024
Grants to further social and environmental justice. Support for local leadership and grassroots organizing of groups carrying out activities that build support and collective action to address impacts of inequity and injustice in their communities. Organizations with budgets over $350,000 are ineligible to apply.
Geographic focus: United States
Upcoming & Ongoing
Yale’s Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship
Due November 8, 2024
The Yale Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship offers an opportunity for 16 young climate and clean energy practitioners from across the Global South to broaden their technical skills, deepen their professional networks, and exchange views with top global clean energy and climate change leaders.
Geographic focus: Global South
Australia Programa de Ayuda Directa
Due November 11, 2024
From AUD 5,000 - 20,000 - The Direct Aid Program (DAP) is part of the Australian Government's global social development assistance program. DAP was created with the purpose of providing funding directly to communities for activities aimed at sustainable development.
Geographic focus: Mexico & Guatemala
Requests for Proposals - WAM Foundation
Due November 22, 2024
From $50,000 to $1,000,000 - In this round, WAM Foundation solicits proposals in the following priority areas which we believe to be underfunded: road safety, nutrition and mental health. Click for more information and to submit a proposal. WAM Foundation supports highly cost-effective research and programs which reduce suffering in developing countries. Click for more information and to submit a proposal.
Geographic focus: Global (Researchers, institutes, non-governmental organizations, or government entities)
Due December 1, 2024 (quarterly deadlines)
$5,000 to $50,000 for individuals or organisations focused on food-system transformation, and looking to implement specific interventions.
Geographic focus: Germany, Netherlands, Czechia, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Belgium, Nigeria, Malaysia, and the United States.
Due December 2, 2024
$10,000 to $50,000 for trans-led organizations worldwide working to benefit the trans community and contributing to trans movement building. Supports groups with annual budgets under $100,000.
Geographic focus: Global
Due December 3, 2024
From $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 - Open call launched Pivotal that will fund organizations around the world that are improving women's mental and pyshcial health. Each awardee will recieve flexible funding between $1M to $5M. Eligible organizations serve women and have a record of improving women's mental health or psychical health. They should center equity in their approach and be poised to scale their work to strengthen the health of more women.
Geographic focus: Global
Open Call Request for Concept Notes for Innovation Grants
Due December 6, 2024
up to 500,000 GBP - The What Works II Programme seeks to expand the global knowledge and evidence base on what works to prevent VAWG and how to achieve this at scale through support for innovation, research and evaluation. It also aims to support women’s rights organisations (WROs) as essential actors in VAWG prevention ecosystem and improve access to funding to uphold the rights, agency and voices of women and girls in all their diversities.
Geographic focus: Global South
Open Call Request for Concept Notes for Innovation Grants
Due December 9, 2024
From $10,000 - $40,000 - The impact of community-based organizations working to improve the lives of people living with type 1 diabetes. Opportunities for collaboration between community-based organizations. Learning on needs, challenges, and opportunities to better support the type 1 diabetes community in the future. Non-governmental organization or charitable entity with confirmation of relevant status in its country or has a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor.
Geographic focus: Low and Middle Income Countries
Locally Led Humanitarian Assistance Prize Competition
Due December 11, 2024
From $150,000 - $250,000 - Local leadership is a critical component of effective and sustainable humanitarian assistance. Efforts to prevent, prepare for, and respond to crises, and to build future resilience must account for the unique needs of the affected groups and be based on local voices. Local leadership in policy-making, planning and design, implementation, coordination, and learning is critical to ensuring that approaches in humanitarian response reflect the context, are appropriate and sustainable, and are targeted and reach the most vulnerable.
Geographic focus: DRC, Guatemal, Haiti, Iraq, Mali, and Ukraine
Due January 15, 2025
Involving youth civil service organizations in democracy. Up to $30,000 for national and transnational projects in support of youth civic engagement and participation in the political decision-making processes across the Sub-Saharan Countries.
Geographic focus: Global South and Sub-Saharan Africa
Climate Justice Impact Fund for Africa
Open applications
2024 Call for Proposals: up to 15,000 EUR per year, renewable. Accelerating the launch and scale up of high impact, market ready blended climate finance structures in developing economies in Africa. Supports robust engagement of communities at the frontline of the climate crisis together with governmental and private sector partners in collectively developing scaling up solutions. Result-oriented, sustainability-focused, and cost-effective concept ideas are highly encouraged.
Geographic focus: Africa
Open applications
Recoverable grants averaging $20,000 for legal services by nonprofits, private attorneys, and small law firms who seek to confront social, economic, and environmental injustice
Geographic focus: United States