10 Funding Opportunities Fellowships and Call for Applications 2025 (Deadline: January to March)

Discover a curated list of 22 funding opportunities designed to support professionals and organizations in diverse fields. Whether you’re seeking grants for education, innovation, advocacy, or community development, this compilation offers a wide range of options to help you achieve your goals. Explore these opportunities and take a step closer to making a meaningful impact in your sector.

1. Mastercard Foundation & University of Cambridge Climate Resilience and Sustainability Research Fund 2025. 

The Fund aims to catalyse new and strengthen existing collaborations between researchers in Africa and Cambridge and support high quality training activities. The focus of the scheme is research on climate resilience and sustainability.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 21

2. MEST Africa-Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship 2025 ($600,000 Equity Free Funding).

MEST Africa in partnership with Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship is a pioneering initiative aimed at revolutionizing the educational landscape in Ghana through technology-driven solutions. This accelerator program seeks to empower visionary EdTech companies by providing them with the resources, mentorship, and support needed to accelerate their growth and impact.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 21

3.  Liveability Challenge 2025. ($2 million in funding)

Global temperatures are reaching dangerously new highs year after year, with the first half of 2024 witnessing unprecedented heat and the hottest months ever recorded. Achieving the climate targets – set under the Paris Agreement in 2015 – has never been more urgent, as societies and ecosystems face escalating threats from rising heat, extreme weather events and ecological  deterioration.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 9

4. NTEEP 5.0 Entrepreneurship Empowerment Program 2025 for African Startups. 

Empowering African Startups for Success NTEEP (Nomfro Technologies’ Entrepreneurship Empowerment Project) is back with its highly anticipated fifth edition, offering a golden opportunity for 500 startups to join a thriving community of entrepreneurs.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 30

5. Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme 2025 for African Entrepreneurs ($5,000 seed funding and more)

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF)-Africa’s leading philanthropy focused on empowering African entrepreneurs -is looking for the most innovative business ideas across the African continent.
Click here for to apply | Deadline: March 1

6. Africa Health Collaborative Research Fund 2025. 

The key aim of the Health Collaborative Research Fund 2025 is to encourage and provide initial support for the development/expansion of high-quality research activities for Early Career Researchers (ECR) enabling principal investigators to subsequently apply for funding to support the next phase of their joint research that will result in greater impact.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 19

7. WHO Incentive Grants for Young Researchers from LMICs 2025. 

The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Noncommunicable Disease Platform, in collaboration with the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, and the World Medical Association, is pleased to invite proposals from individual researchers who are enrolled in accredited academic institutions and conduct research projects as part of their graduate degree requirements.
Click here to apply |Deadline: January 31

8. Jerome Foundation New York City Film Production Grant 2025 (Up to $30,000)

 Powered every two years, Jerome Foundation’s NYC Film Production Grant provides New York City – based early career film directors production grants for short or long – form film projects in the ever – expanding creative genres of experimental, narrative, animation, or documentary genres or in any hybrid combination of these forms.
Click here to apply | Deadline: April 3

9. Northwestern University Racial Equity & Community Partnership Grants Program 2025 (up to $75,000)

The Racial Equity & Community Partnership Grants program is led by the Office of Neighborhood and Community Relations. A committee of University administrators and academics, along with community representatives, serves as advisors to the program. Beginning in 2020, Northwestern committed more than $500,000 annually to advance racial equity in their home communities of Evanston and Chicago.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 24

10. Green Money Project for Nigerian Youth in Agribusiness 2025.

Join this transformative journey and be part of the initiative that will shape the future of agriculture in Nigeria.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Unspecified