ACT Foundation has adopted a responsive approach to grantmaking. By funding focused-interventions, they work across a broad spectrum of developmental issues clustered within our focus areas (link focus areas tab). Aspire Coronation Trust (ACT) Foundation is a grant-making nonprofit organization established in 2016 to support local, national and regional non – profit organizations working to
The Youth Fund is a new fund to support youth action around the world, where the decisions on which projects are funded are made by young people themselves. The fund is supported by the UN Major Group for Children and Youth, ActionAid Denmark, Restless Development and developed in collaboration with UNFPA. This first call for
Call for proposals are open for the African Women’s Development Fund 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence. AWDF will focus on ‘women’s mental health and wellness’ during the 2020 Sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. Women groups and organisations will be supported during the activism period to intensify education and awareness on preventing
The UNIDO Global call has the objective to identify and promote the best innovative ideas and technologies to respond to the COVID-19 emergency and its aftermath that could be successfully applied in Developing Countries (DCs). The COVID-19 pandemic will have far-reaching and long-term effects on populations and economies worldwide. Besides its immediate impact on health, the socioeconomic
One Young World, the global forum for young leaders, is establishing a fund for young leaders on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response. Around the world, One Young World Ambassadors are combatting the Coronavirus with the most innovative methods in the most challenging circumstances. By directing money to leaders on the front lines, we can
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and Standard Bank Group is calling on women fund managers across Africa to apply to join the African Women Leadership Fund initiative (AWLF), an innovative impact fund that will provide capital and expertise to successful candidates. The Economic Commission for Africa and its partners, through the African
The world has already invented products and services to end poverty, yet the best is not being distributed at mass-scale. D-Prize is funding social entrepreneurs who can design a business or NGO that solves girl’s education, agriculture, energy, global health, education, governance or infrastructure. D-Prize Challenge D-Prize expands access to poverty-alleviation interventions in the developing
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently declared COVID-19 to be a global pandemic and recommended communities take social distancing measures to prevent the spread of the virus. Globally, COVID-19 is more than a public health challenge, it has laid bare the consequences of persistent systemic inequalities and is threatening our social fabric, trust in our
Google has launched a global Journalism Emergency Relief Fund through the Google News Initiative to support small and medium-sized news organizations producing original news for local communities. The Fund’s aim is to support the production of original journalism for local communities in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Operating globally, it will provide an easily
In light of the Coronavirus pandemic and its related consequences in other sectors of various economies across the globe, CcHUB is looking to fund and provide research and design support, via their Design Lab, for COVID-19 related projects. CcHUB is Nigeria’s first open living lab and pre-incubation space designed to be a multi-functional, multi-purpose space
