7 Competitions and Grant Opportunities for Non-Profits and Professionals Across Various Sectors 2025: (Deadline Ongoing)

Are you a changemaker, nonprofit leader, or professional looking for funding or visibility to scale your impact? We’ve curated a powerful list of 20 current competitions and grant opportunities tailored for individuals and organizations across diverse sectors. Whether you’re driving community development, innovation, education, gender equality, or sustainability, there’s something here for you.

1. D-Prize Global Competition 2025 for Entrepreneurs. 

They award startup grants of up to $20,000 to entrepreneurs launching new organizations. They believe the world needs more social impact organizations, and they seed for-profit ventures, NGOs, and charities. They support organizations in any low-or-middle income country where extreme poverty still exists.
Click here to apply | Deadline: June 8

2. Fifteen Percent Pledge Al Illumination Grant 2025.

The Al Illumination Grant is a program designed to educate Black-owned businesses on how Al can be a game-changing tool for growth and innovation. Al can seem intimidating, but these dynamic webinars will break it down and empower you to embrace this powerful technology with confidence.
Click here to apply | Deadline: May 2

3. IBRO Neuroscience Training Grants 2025. 

Specialized teaching and hands-on training experiences are crucial for the career development of neuroscience researchers. The IBRO Neuroscience Training Grants are designed to support these essential opportunities, covering costs directly associated with the attendance of a neuroscience training course, such as course fees, travel and accommodation.
Click here to apply | Deadline: May 31

4. ACU Higher Education & the SDGs Network Grants 2025.

Higher Education and the SDs Network Grants fund collaborative work around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Open to professional and academic staff at ACU member universities, the grants focus on the priority themes of the ACU Higher Education and the SDGs Network.
Click here to apply : Deadline: June 3

5. Amazon Literary Partnership Grant 2025. 

With the goal of helping writers tell their stories and find their readers, the Amazon Literary Partnership supports nonprofit literary organizations that empower writers to create, publish, learn, teach, experiment, and thrive. They provide grant funding to innovative groups that amplify diverse voices and strive not only for a lasting impact on writers’ lives but on the broader literary and publishing communities.
Click here to apply | Deadline : May 18

6. Kozik Environmental Justice Reporting Grants 2025.

The National Press Foundation and the National Press Club Journalism Institute will jointly award grants to U.S.-based journalists who plan to cover environmental justice.
Click here to apply | Deadline :May 27

7. Intel Community Reach Program 2025. 

Intel is making a call for proposals for projects that can enable populations in underserved areas (and or communities) in the member states of the African Union to have access to education, including in STEM, healthcare, agriculture, environmental services, fintech solutions, or digital skills readiness; for financial, social and tech equity; using or planning to use Artificial Intelligence (Al), especially at the Edge with Al PC and/or broadband connectivity. You will have the opportunity to get their technical, capacity-building, and consultancy support for your respective project.
Click here to apply | Deadline: June 13, 2025