GrantStation International Insider: May 2, 2025

Application deadline: May 26, 2025
Grant amount: An award of $50,000 is made.
Description: Lead2030, an initiative of One Young World, is a prize fund for young leaders making an impact for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 6 seeks to answer the question, "How do we achieve universal access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene by 2030?" Applications may target a wide range of areas within water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) but priority is given to those that make innovative use of digital technology and AI to reach more people and enable access to WASH on a wide scale; promote good hand hygiene practices and reduce water-borne diseases; or help tackle WASH related challenges in the value chain supporting a water positive agenda (e.g. water recycling and reuse at factories). Individuals aged 18 to 30 who are affiliated with an organization (nonprofit, charity, social enterprise, business, or campaign) are eligible to apply. 

Application deadline: May 23, 2025
Grant amount: A $25,000 grand prize is awarded.
Description: The Bloomberg Green Docs competition seeks to explore the climate future with documentaries that reveal the world people are making today. The competition is open to filmmakers who have produced a short documentary that addresses the urgency of climate change. Filmmakers must submit a documentary film that is no more than ten minutes in length on a topic related to nature, global warming, the outdoors, or the environment generally. The top five entries will be shown at the Bloomberg Green Docs Film Festival. The grand prize winner will receive a cash award.

Application deadline: January 15 and July 15, annually
Description: The Allen Foundation supports efforts that benefit human nutrition in the areas of health, education, training, and research. Funding is provided for nutritional research, education and training of pregnant women and new mothers so that good nutritional habits can be formed at an early age, the training of persons to work as educators and demonstrators of good nutritional practices, the dissemination of information regarding healthful nutritional practices and habits, and in limited situations to help solve immediate emergency hunger and malnutrition problems. U.S. nonprofit organizations as well as organizations outside the U.S. with equivalent status are eligible to apply.

Application deadline: May 31, 2025
Geographic scope:  North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain
Grant amount: Awards of $2,000 USD are made. 
Description: The Inter American Press Association's Awards for Excellence in Journalism honor media and journalism professionals from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. The contest is open to content published in Spanish, English, or Portuguese between June 1, 2024, and May 31, 2025, in newspapers, weeklies, magazines, news agencies, digital media, radio, and television. Awards are made in 14 categories, most of which are endowed with a $2,000 USD first prize. 

Application deadline: July 31, 2025
Geographic scope: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
Grant amount: $5,000 to $30,000 USD for small grants and $75,000 to $200,000 USD for medium-sized projects
Description: The Call for Projects for Cultural Heritage Protection in Central Asia, an initiative of ALIPH (the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage) in partnership with the European Union, supports initiatives in Central Asia to safeguard cultural heritage in the face of climate change and disasters and in support of social inclusion and economic growth. Support will be provided for projects in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan protecting built heritage impacted by climate change and disasters, supporting heritage institutions and their collections, safeguarding and transmitting intangible heritage practices, and revitalizing and supporting traditional crafts/creative industries.

Application deadline: June 12, 2025
Geographic scope: Greece and Cyprus
Grant amount: Grants range up to 60,000 euros. (A total of 2,256,000 euros will be awarded through the two calls.)
Description: The Bodossaki Foundation aims to help create a society of equal opportunities. The Foundation is currently awarding funding to non-governmental organizations in Greece and Cyprus under the Protecting Democracy, Human Rights and the Rule of Law Through an Open Civic Space (PLATO) program. Grants will be awarded through two calls for proposals: 1) Empower Civil Society to Promote the Rule of Law, Participative Democracy and Good Governance, and to Defend Civic Space and Media Freedom; and 2) Protect and Promote Human Rights, Democracy and Equality Through Empowering Vulnerable Groups.

Application deadline: June 2, 2025
Geographic scope: Vietnam
Grant amount: Up to 60,000 euros
Description: The Project on Supporting Women-Led Green Initiatives is a component of the Women-Led Green Partnership Programme funded by the European Union Delegation and administered by Oxfam in Vietnam. The program aims to promote the role of women and girls in sustainable development, green growth, and the green transition of Vietnam. Sub-grants are awarded to Vietnamese organizations, which are experienced in development fields and legally established and operating under Vietnamese law, to implement initiatives at local levels that contribute to improving women’s role and access to decent jobs in the green transition.

Application deadline: June 30, 2025
Geographic scope: Mozambique
Grant amount: $50,000 to $250,000
Description: The Public Diplomacy Section of the U.S. Embassy in Mozambique supports programs that advance the U.S. Integrated Country Strategy for U.S Embassy Mozambique and promote shared values between the two countries. Examples of eligible programs include, but are not limited to, academic exchanges and curriculum-based programs; professional lectures, seminars, and speaker programs; performing arts workshops, joint performances, and exhibitions; and cultural conservation projects around areas of shared heritage. All programs must include an American element.

Are you curious as to how Generation Z and Millennials, also referred to as the next generation of donors, may reshape the future philanthropic landscape? If so, you might be interested in exploring a new report by Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. The Next Generation of Philanthropy takes a close look at how these two groups approach giving differently than the generations that came before them.

If you are using a search engine to look for grant opportunities in your specific mission area, pay attention to the terms you are using in your search. If you are specifically looking for "human services," you may miss out on funders that categorize that work as "social services." Try searching for different iterations of your mission focus. The GrantStation website provides a list of common search terms. And if you have a GrantStation Membership and search using our databases, we've already done the work of interpreting the variety of language funders use and streamlining it into our search system.

Webinar date: May 12, 2025, 2:00 to 2:45 PM Eastern Time
Description: Funders are increasingly moving away from deficit-based narratives that focus on problems and scarcity, instead prioritizing initiatives that highlight community strengths, resilience, and empowerment. In this TargetED session, Alice Ruhnke will provide practical guidance on crafting proposals that emphasize community assets and capabilities. You’ll learn how to shift your storytelling to highlight empowerment and resilience while maintaining a compelling case for support.

Webinar date: May 14, 2025, 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern Time
Description: Is a capital campaign in your future? In order to run a successful campaign, you should begin by exploring six vital questions designed to prepare you to raise the capital campaign funds you need. During this webinar, Kevin Wallace and Melissa Sais of CampaignCounsel.org will show how your organization can benefit by taking the right steps at the outset to prepare for your successful capital campaign.

Webinar date: May 15, 2025, 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern Time
Description: Often, the difference between a proposal getting funded or rejected is the relationships you have with your funding partners. Of course, cultivating relationships with all of your funding partners and supporters can feel daunting and can be time-consuming. So how can you consistently get the resources you need to fulfill your mission? By seeing philanthropic organizations as partners, not funders. During this webinar, Alix Rosenfeld of Elevate will lead you through the relationship-building stage of the grant cycle, including who to cultivate at philanthropic organizations and how to do it.

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