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

The ₦50,000 Bosun Tijani Foundation Gen AI Fellowship Cohort 2 is a six-month intensive programme designed to equip young Nigerians with practical Artificial Intelligence (AI) skills.

The €50,000 General Project Funding programme supports ambitious cultural projects that promote artistic excellence, international collaboration, and cultural exchange.

Five opportunities are currently open for entrepreneurs innovating with technology. Deadlines are between July to December 2026.

The $1,000,000 Alibaba CoCreate Pitch 2026 is a global startup pitching competition designed to help product-based startups transform innovative ideas into market-ready products.

The $100,000 Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF SGP), implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), to support community-led environmental and sustainable development initiatives across Africa.

The $500 Diverse Writers Grant Program supports writers from underrepresented and underprivileged communities who are developing book-length speculative fiction manuscripts.

The $500 Diverse Worlds Grant supports writers developing unpublished, book-length speculative fiction that naturally portrays diverse worlds through compelling storytelling, rich cultural settings, and well-developed characters.

The UNHCR Innovation Accelerator supports organizations with proven innovations that improve the lives of forcibly displaced and stateless people by helping them scale beyond successful pilot projects.

The ₦1,000,000 YandyTech Innovation Fund (YIF) 2026 is now accepting applications from women-led Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) across Northern Nigeria.

The Media Defence Sub-Saharan Africa Litigation Surgery Program 2026 invites applications from lawyers who work and live in Sub-Saharan Africa to participate in an upcoming litigation surgery, a workshop focused on advancing the protection of human rights through strategic litigation.