GrantStation International Insider: March 7, 2025

Application deadline: None
Description: The Foreign Aid Bridge Fund, created by UnlockAid and partners in response to the U.S. foreign aid freeze, provides funding to enable high-impact organizations with sustainable business models to get back to work to prevent unnecessary harm and disruption to millions of people. The Fund provides critical, short-term grant-based financing to ensure immediate impact and program continuity. Support is provided to organizations that work in fields including health, water, agriculture and food security, sanitation, climate adaptation, livelihoods and economic prosperity, education, and humanitarian response. Organizations should deliver extraordinary impact at scale and cost-effectively, have had their operations curtailed by the U.S. foreign aid freeze, work directly with communities (rather than acting as intermediaries), operate sustainable business models that are not overly-dependent on a single source of revenue, and have been previously vetted and undergone extensive due diligence by top philanthropies, funds, investors, the U.S. government, or other bilateral or multilateral funders. 

Application deadline: March 31 and August 27, 2025
Grant amount: $15,000 to $40,000 to build new complementary access solutions; $5,000 to $20,000 to expand or improve existing complementary access solutions
Description: The Internet Society supports and promotes the development of the Internet as a global technical infrastructure, a resource to enrich people’s lives, and a force for good in society. Through the Connecting the Unconnected funding program, the Society provides support to build and expand Internet infrastructure to connect people living in rural, remote, and low-income areas. This includes initiatives such as community networks, municipal networks, cooperatives, and other forms of complementary access solutions. Communities and local organizations can apply to either build a new complementary access solution to connect the unconnected, or to expand an existing one.

Application deadline: April 9, 2025
Grant amount: Two awards of $50,000 are made.
Description: The Nature Awards Inspiring Women in Science celebrate and support the achievements of women in science and those who inspire the next generation of female scientists around the world. Awards are made in two categories: 1) Scientific Achievement, recognizing early-career women researchers who have made an exceptional, demonstrable contribution to scientific discovery; and 2) Science Outreach, for initiatives that support girls or young women to engage with and study STEM subjects or to increase the retention of women in STEM careers, with a focus on providing tools to support women through their career progression in a STEM discipline. STEM includes natural sciences, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine. For the Scientific Achievement award, applicants must self-identify as women and hold a PhD degree, a medical degree, or other type of doctorate by dissertation completed within the last ten years. For the Science Outreach category, applications are accepted from organizations, departments, individuals (of any gender), or project teams.

Application deadline: May 31, August 15, and October 24, 2025
Geographic scope: Global and Switzerland
Grant amount: Grants typically range between CHF 5,000 and CHF 25,000.
Description: The Schweizerische Stiftung für Solidarität im Tourismus (SST Foundation) supports organizations, projects, and initiatives that pursue sustainable tourism development in Switzerland and worldwide. The Foundation supports projects and organizations that improve the economic, cultural, and social conditions of the population in tourist destinations; contribute to sustainable tourism development in the destinations; and contribute to improving intercultural understanding between people in tourist sending and receiving countries. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations, associations, and other legal entities.

Application deadline: The deadline for creative and critical writings, documentary film, performing arts, and visual arts is April 4, 2025. Applications for cinema, documentary photography, music, and training and regional events will be accepted from April 15 to June 13, 2025. 
Geographic scope: Arab countries
Description:  The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) strives to build a flourishing cultural and artistic scene across the Arab region that contributes to establishing open and vibrant societies. AFAC is currently accepting applications to support projects in the areas of creative and critical writings, documentary film, performing arts, and visual arts. The application period for the areas of cinema, documentary photography, music, and training and regional events will open in the spring. Applications are accepted from individuals from Arab countries (22 member states of the Arab League), regardless of their place of residence, citizenship, or ethnic and national identification. Proposals are also accepted from local, regional, and international institutions and organizations whose projects are related to arts and culture from the Arab region. These include artistic and cultural institutions, galleries, venues, and both nonprofit and for-profit entities.

Application deadline: None for expressions of interest
Geographic scope: Europe
Description:  The Guerrilla Foundation supports activists and politicized grassroots movements working towards bringing about major systemic change across Europe and does NOT support NGOs or any kind of service provision. The Foundation strives to move resources to structurally under-supported and under-resourced regions and groups that challenge colonialism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and imperialism and that are building life-affirming alternatives that actively challenge or work to replace the current system of extractive capitalism. Areas of interest include disability justice, racial justice and decolonization, trans rights, sex workers rights, intersectional urban commons, class struggles, workers issues, criminal justice reform, intersectional resistance to the far-right, and groups who work beyond the boundaries of traditional activism. Support is provided to grassroots and movement organizations with budgets under €150,000 based in Europe.

Application deadline: April 6, 2025
Geographic scope: Latin America and the Caribbean
Description: The Fondation Franklinia (Franklinia Foundation), a Swiss private foundation, provides grants to support the preservation of threatened tree species throughout the world and improve their conservation status. The current call for proposals focuses on in situ conservation of globally threatened tree species in Latin America and the Caribbean which are listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened species. When possible, projects should support the implementation of existing threatened tree species conservation action plans, forest landscape conservation and restoration strategies, relevant Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund recommendations, or conservation actions in key biodiversity areas where tree species have been identified as trigger species. Any organization with well-established expertise and efficiency in plant conservation can apply.

Application deadline: April 30, 2025
Geographic scope: Global
Grant amount: One award of $30,000 is made. 
Description: The UNESCO-Greece Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes, awarded every two years, aims to reward outstanding examples of action to safeguard and enhance the world's cultural landscapes. Cultural landscapes are defined as the combined works of nature and people and embody a long-lasting, profound, and intimate relationship between people and their natural environment. Whether in urban or rural settings, they are all the fruits of diverse interactions between people and nature, and thus serve as a living testimony to the evolution of societies in relation to their habitat. Those eligible for the Prize include individuals, institutions, other entities, communities, or non-governmental organizations (in official partnerships with UNESCO or not). 

Application deadline: April 2, 2025
Geographic scope: Afghanistan
Grant amount: CAD$2,000,000 to CAD$10,000,000
Description: Global Affairs Canada has issued a call for concept notes targeting health, education, and women’s and girls’ rights and empowerment in Afghanistan. The call will fund projects that support the delivery of basic needs services to Afghans, especially women and girls, in one or more of the following three programming areas: 1) quality, accessible, gender-responsive health services for the most marginalized (including women and girls in all their diversity, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, older persons, and other marginalized groups); 2) demand-driven skills training, particularly for women and girls in all their diversity, in areas such as literacy and numeracy, digital skills, life skills, business skills, and other relevant technical and vocational skill areas; and 3) inclusive services that protect and advance the rights and empowerment of all Afghans, with a focus on gender, ethnic and religious minorities, underserviced populations including those impacted by disability, and support to women-led groups.

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Webinar date: March 11, 2025, 2:00 to 3:00 PM Eastern Time
Description: The proposed federal grant freeze is creating significant financial uncertainty for nonprofits. While the future remains unclear, now is the time to take proactive steps to protect your organization’s financial health and sustainability. Join Alice Ruhnke of GrantStation for this free 60-minute webinar to explore strategies for mitigating risk, securing funding, and adapting to this evolving landscape.

Webinar date: March 18, 2025, 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern Time
Description: Many nonprofits struggle to engage donors effectively because one-size-fits-all messaging often fails to connect with different donor segments. This can lead to disengagement and low retention. Without a clear strategy to understand donor motivations and cultivate relationships with funders, you may miss valuable funding opportunities. In this webinar, Sarah Barton will guide you through strategies to refine your communications, ensuring they resonate with individuals, businesses, and grant funders. You'll see how to build lasting connections that drive sustainable support for your organization.

Webinar date: March 20, 2025, 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern Time
Description: A well-designed strategic plan provides a clear direction for your nonprofit to grow, which can lead to long-term sustainability. During this webinar, Mindy Muller of Community Development Professionals will provide a step-by-step guide on how you can develop a strategic plan for your organization. You’ll review key concepts such as external/internal vision, mission, and core values and discover how those concepts set the foundation for identifying your activities for the next three to five years.

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