Global Health & WASH: May 2025 Funding Opportunities
Latest funding opportunities for social enterprises and non-profits in the global health sectors- includes research and innovation grants as well as service delivery.
The grants are organized into three categories:
Open Calls: Current grant and opportunities with a deadline. Grants are listed by closing date.
Rolling Applications: current grant and opportunities with rolling applications (but it’s still best to submit as early as possible).
Long term planning: Grants that have closed their current rounds, but are expected to open new windows.
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Open Calls:
Emerging Leader Award, The Mark Foundation. *New!* *Closing soon!*
The Mark Foundation Emerging Leader Awards support innovative cancer research from the next generation of leaders. These grants are awarded to outstanding early career investigators to support high-impact, high-risk projects that are distinct from their current research portfolio.
Geographies: US and Canada.
Who can apply: MD, PhD, or equivalent is required, applicants must be three to eight years from the start of an independent faculty appointment and must be employed by a U.S. or Canadian non-profit academic institution.
Funding amount: Grant of USD $250,000 per year for three years, totaling $750,000.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Health, cancer research.
Deadline: May 5, 2025 (LOI).
Improving Climate and Health Policy-making through Applied Systems Thinking, The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research. *Closing soon!*
The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research is inviting proposals with the objective to apply participatory systems thinking methods to improve national climate and health policy processes. This call seeks to support a total of two research teams across selected countries to apply underused systems thinking methods to enhance national planning and decision-making in climate and health policy processes. Proposals should include applying systems mapping and analysis, conducting structured participatory workshops, engaging in Alliance learning activities, demonstrate pathways toward policy impact.
Geographies: Islamic Republic of Iran, Mozambique, Nepal and Uganda.
Who can apply: The Principal Investigator must be a researcher or policy maker based at a university, government agency or registered nongovernmental organization (NGO) working on health policy or climate policy research.
Funding amount: Grant of up to USD $80,000 each to two research teams.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Health, systems change, policy, research.
Deadline: May 5, 2025.
The Lighthouse Fund, AVPN. *Closing soon!*
The fund seeks to support organizations developing innovative solutions to address climate and health challenges in Asia. Specifically, they encourage organizations that work in the following impact areas within the climate x health nexus to apply: surveillance and management of climate-sensitive infectious diseases (CSID), and solutions to reduce heat stress and innovations in stable products.
Geographies: Asia.
Who can apply: Local and International Non-profit organizations and social enterprises, this includes: charitable nonprofits, public interest organizations, social enterprises, civic institutions, municipalities, labor unions, professional bodies, and associations working on innovative solutions at the intersection of climate and health in Asia.
Funding amount: US $50,000 - US $200,000.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Health, public health, climate.
Deadline: May 9, 2025.
The General Grant Program, Coverys Community Healthcare Foundation. *Closing soon!*
CCHF is seeking grant requests from organizations pursuing projects that advance one or more of the following: 1. Programs and initiatives to improve patient care and patient safety; 2. Programs and initiatives that promote healthy lifestyles; and 3. Support of Individuals and organizations who provide health care services. The Foundation has a strong preference to fund innovative projects that support healthcare in the communities served by Coverys policyholders. This preference extends to projects that show evidence of meeting or delivering one or more of the following: a new health need, an improvement in the quality of health care, and/or reduced health costs with better patient outcomes, and supporting underserved communities and patient populations through programs that focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
Geographies: USA.
Who can apply: For-profit and non-profit.
Funding amount: Grant size undisclosed. Total funding around $3 million a year.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Health, research.
Deadline: May 14, 2025.
RADIAN 2.0, Elton John AIDS Foundation. *Extended deadline!* *Closing soon!*
The RADIAN Initiative seeks to meaningfully address new HIV infections and deaths from AIDS-related illnesses in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA). RADIAN focuses on action, investment, and resources to improve the quality of life, prevention, and care for people at risk of or living with HIV in the region. The Foundation is inviting Concept Notes for ambitious but realistic, sustainable, evidence-informed solutions responding to the overall Goal of the Equity Challenge Fund, Strategic Objective 2 and at least one other Strategic Objective of the RADIAN 2.0 program: Deliver high-quality community-based services to address the unmet HIV-related needs of neglected KPs and PLHIV; Address structural drivers of the HIV epidemic to improve the quality of life of KPs and PLHIV and ultimately improve HIV-related health outcomes; Strengthen health systems to sustainably improve care for KPs and PLHIV; Strengthen community systems to deliver community-led care effectively and increase access to sustainable funding.
Geographies: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
Who can apply: They encourage Concept Notes and Applications from non-profit, academic and research organizations. They will consider Concept Notes and Applications from commercial entities if their participation is justified and there is no profit included into the project budget. Ineligible entities include individuals and government entities. Government entities may be consortium members.
Funding amount: Grants range $350,000 - $500,000
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Global health, HIV/AIDS.
Deadline: May 19, 2025.
Supportive Technologies for the Scaling of Manufactured Islet Replacement Therapies, Breakthrough T1D. *New!* *Closing this month!*
The goal of this funding opportunity is to improve the efficiency of scaling protocols for manufactured islet cell therapies for type 1 diabetes (T1D) via development of supportive technologies tackling one or more of the barriers associated with implementation and expansion of next-generation beta cell replacement therapies. Breakthrough T1D is soliciting Letters of Intent (LOI) from investigators in academic and industry settings aiming to develop supportive technologies tackling one or more of the barriers associated with adoption of next-generation beta cell replacement therapies and enable the scaling of islet cell therapies for expanded patient populations. Prioritization will be given to projects developing good manufacturing practice (GMP) compatible technologies with a clear plan toward implementation in current workflows. Examples of topics pertinent to this call include but are not limited to: Validation of novel differentiation processes resulting in shorter timelines to insulin producing cells, Development of innovative culture systems for scalable production capacity of pluripotent cell differentiation (e.g., automation), Cell culture processes and technologies that reduce the cost of goods for generating insulin-producing cells, Demonstration of cryoprotective storage solutions for manufactured islets that preserve cell viability and glucose responsive insulin secretion, Identification and validation of critical quality attributes at early stages of differentiation that can predict a successful manufactured run or the applicability of a given protocol to a new cell source.
Geographies: Global.
Who can apply: Applications may be submitted by domestic and foreign non-profit organization, public and private, such as universities, colleges, hospitals and laboratories, units of state and local governments and eligible agencies of the federal government, for-profit entities, or industry collaborations with academia. Applicants must hold an M.D., D.M.D., D.V.M., Ph.D., or equivalent and have a faculty position or equivalent at a college, university, medical school, or other research facility.
Funding amount: Grant of up to USD $600,000 for two years.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Health, research.
Deadline: May 28, 2025 (for LOI).
Learn more and apply here.
Cervical Cancer Grants Program, TogetHER for Health. *New!* *Closing this month!*
TogetHER’s Cervical Cancer Grants Program provides highly targeted grants for organizations working to address demand and supply constraints related to vaccination, screening, and preventive treatment for HPV and cervical cancer. Interventions supported by this program should be catalytic, improving the lives of program beneficiaries and triggering health system-wide improvements (e.g., policy change, regulatory approval, development of effective tools and strategies) to support cervical cancer elimination efforts. For the 2025-2026 cycle, the Cervical Cancer Grants Program will offer grants to improve both demand and supply of cervical cancer prevention services. Applicants will be required to submit their applications to either of the two tracks: Track 1 aims to improve demand-side interventions to increase uptake of all cervical cancer prevention services. Track 2 aims to support supply-side interventions to accelerate adoption of improved technologies in cervical cancer prevention.
Geographies: LMIC’s.
Who can apply: Non-profits.
Funding amount: Grant of up to USD $30,000 for each track.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Health, gender, women’s health, HPV.
Deadline: May 30, 2025.
Learn more and apply here.
3rd Call for Proposals (3rd CfP), The Pandemic Fund.
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