Grants for African Entrepreneurs | Find Funding for Your Business & NGO

The $50,000 Focused Projects Grant for Junior Investigators is designed to support early career researchers developing expertise in sleep and circadian science.

The AI x Media Literacy Dialogue Fund supports African innovators, educators, media practitioners, researchers, and community organisers working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, digital literacy, and media education.

The Human Rights Scholarship Program provides financial support to domestic and international students beginning graduate research degrees focused on human rights research. 

The $10,000 Nature Awards AI for Discovery is inviting applications from research groups using artificial intelligence and machine intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery and solve major global challenges

The $1,000,000 Wellcome Prize for Mental Health Science champions new interventions that can transform the lives of people affected by anxiety, depression, and psychosis.

The $300,0000 Global Citizen Waislitz Awards aim to support individuals and organisations making measurable efforts to end extreme poverty and create sustainable impact in communities worldwide.

The Wildlife Acoustics Grant Program is an international funding initiative designed to support wildlife monitoring, ecological research, and conservation science through access to specialized acoustic recording technology and software.

The $5,000 challenge invites developers, data scientists, AI researchers, machine learning engineers, and language technology innovators to build AI models capable of answering health-related questions in low-resource African languages.

Explore seven unique upcoming opportunities for researchers in various sectors. Deadlines are between May and August 2026

The £1,500 Global South Fellowship Program 2026 supports early-career researchers from Global South universities through international research collaboration and academic exchange.