Indigenous Peoples worldwide continue to lead powerful advocacy for rights, recognition, and inclusion. This fund ensures that representatives can participate meaningfully in two key United Nations processes in 2027: the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (New York, 10–21 May) and the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Geneva, 12–16 July). Selected participants […]
Youth-Led Innovation for Global Impact
Young founders are reshaping the future with bold solutions to today’s most urgent challenges — from empowering entrepreneurs and SMEs with digital tools, to closing systemic health gaps for women and marginalized groups, to helping vulnerable communities adapt to climate change. This challenge is designed to spotlight and support those ventures, ensuring that youth-led innovation […]
Transforming Research for DIPG/DMG
Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) and Diffuse Midline Glioma (DMG) remain among the most urgent challenges in pediatric oncology. This grant program is designed to support innovative research approaches that can fundamentally change how these tumors are understood, detected, or treated. Proposals may come from individual investigators or collaborative, multi-institutional teams, with a designated Principal […]
Preserving Knowledge, Empowering Communities
Across the world, archives hold invaluable records of culture, history, and knowledge — yet many remain at risk of being lost or inaccessible. This grant supports projects that safeguard and share these materials, ensuring they remain a living resource for future generations. Funding is available for activities such as cataloguing, digitisation, relocation to archives, and […]
Building Africa’s Climate AI Future
Climate change is one of Africa’s greatest challenges, threatening progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet artificial intelligence offers powerful opportunities to strengthen resilience — if innovations can overcome barriers to adoption, implementation, and scale. The RICH Hub is designed to unlock that potential by supporting a pipeline of African climate AI solutions. Through its […]
Advancing Research Toward a Cure for DIPG/DMG
Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) and Diffuse Midline Glioma (DMG) remain among the most devastating pediatric brain tumors, with urgent need for deeper understanding and new treatment pathways. This grant program supports early-career investigators committed to tackling these challenges through innovative, evidence-based research. Funding provides up to $400,000 over three years (maximum $135,000 in any […]
Financing Clean Energy Ventures Led by Women
Charm Impact is offering debt facilities to female-led and female-owned businesses in Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda that are driving innovation in solar, clean cooking, mini-grids, productive energy use, and e-mobility. This financing call is designed to help post-revenue companies scale their impact while maintaining financial sustainability. Eligible businesses must have at least two years of […]
AI for Inclusive Cities
Nearly half the world’s population now lives in cities, where access to health, work, safety, and civic participation defines opportunity. This initiative supports bold projects that harness artificial intelligence to improve public services for vulnerable and underserved communities — aiming to reach up to 100 million urban residents worldwide. Applicants can apply through two tracks: […]
Seed Funding for Transformative Change
Across conservation, food, and health, small beginnings can spark systemic impact. This foundation provides catalytic support for projects that build local capacity, advance applied research, and pilot innovative approaches with the potential to influence policy, strengthen communities, and drive replication. Priority is given to initiatives that protect biodiversity, mitigate climate change, promote sustainable agriculture, improve […]
Celebrating Innovation for Human Development
From poverty alleviation to clean energy, from gender equality to climate action — transformative projects are reshaping lives and advancing the Sustainable Development Goals. This global prize shines a spotlight on those groundbreaking efforts, recognizing initiatives that deliver measurable improvements for disadvantaged communities, especially women and children. Each year, the award highlights a different theme, […]
