Nigeria Youth Futures Fund Grants 2024/2025: (Deadline 30 November, 2024)

Applications are open for the Nigeria Youth Futures Fund Grants 2024/2025. At Nigeria Youth Futures Fund, they seek to strengthen youth leadership in Nigeria through outcomes-driven policy engagements and inclusive resourcing that help youth shape the future long-term development plans of the country.

The grant making component of the NYFF is pivotal towards bridging the gap for underfunded youth activists and youth focused organizations in order to strengthen the effectiveness and impact of their work. This is quite important given that there is still a huge gap between funds available for young people and the amount of funds actually managed by them.

This includes the small (targeted at grassroots, community-based, youth-focused individuals or organizations, who have limited access to financial, human and ICT resources to support their work), development (focused on youth-led and youth-focused organizations that aim to strengthen youth inclusion) and catalyst (that aim to support the capacity and ecosystem building work of civic and innovation hubs across Nigeria) grants.

The 2025 grant cycle is open for applications from qualified individuals and organizations for the Youth Leadership Development Fund. The grant aims to strengthen, support and promote youth ecosystem building in the country and will be awarded to individuals and organizations working in line with the thematic areas of interest which includes facilitating good governance and resolving fundamental national questions.

Grant

• Small Grant – up to $1,000 for individual changemakers.
• Development Grant – up to $10,000 for grassroots organizations.
• Catalyst Grant – up to $50,000 for youth-focused hubs

Eligibility

For individuals

• Must be a young change maker aged 18 -35 years with a proven track record of solutions that addresses any thematic areas of the fund.
• Must demonstrate a good understanding and experience of youth activism, strategic planning and project management.
• Must have genuine means of identification and/or must be attached to an institution.
• Must provide two reputable referees.

For Organizations

• Must be a formally registered organization with the corporate affairs commission of Nigeria or any other state level relevant registration.
• Must be a Youth-driven civic and transformation organization working on sustainable solutions that directly addresses any of the thematic areas.
• Must provide two reputable referees.
• Unregistered organizations can form a cluster and apply through a registered organization.

Application

• Individual and Development Grant
• Catalyst Grant

For more information, visit Nigeria Youth Futures Fund Grants.