Global Health: April 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:
2025 Global Health Challenge, MIT SOLVE. *Closing soon!*
MIT Solve seeks exceptional solutions that leverage technology to increase access to good health and healthcare with a particular interest for 2025 in solutions that; 1. Ensure health-related data is collected ethically and effectively and that AI and other insights are accurate, targeted, and actionable in the real world, 2. Increase capacity and resilience of health systems, including workforce, supply chains, and other infrastructure, 3. Increase access to and quality of health services for all communities. Each Solver team receives $10,000 in unrestricted funding from Solve, an additional grant from Johnson & Johnson Foundation, and access to additional financing in the form of grants and investments, this includes access to a pool of +$1.5M in prize funding at selection and additional funding opportunities throughout the program and after.
Geographies: Global.
Who can apply: Applicants welcome from all organizations from any stages (concept, prototype, pilot, growth and scale).
Funding amount: $10,000 - $150,000.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Health, AI, innovation.
Deadline: April 17, 2025.
The Trinity Challenge: Community Access to Effective Antibiotics, MIT SOLVE. *Closing this month!*
Seeking innovative, low-cost data and technology solutions in LMICs to improve antibiotic stock control and reduce the sale and use of substandard and falsified oral antibiotics. The use and/or generation of community-level data should be integral to solutions. Solutions may relate to human and/or animal health and can respond to either issue of stock control or substandard and falsified oral antibiotics, or both. Solutions might respond to this Challenge by, for example leveraging citizen-related data, applying technology to improve the tracking of antibiotics along the journey from manufacture to patient, tracking community demand, and reporting on shortages and/or predicting stockout, innovation in data capture and/or data analysis relating to stock control or substandard and falsified antibiotics, developing (or updating) more accurate estimates of the prevalence of substandard and falsified antibiotics in a specific community or in a specific part of the supply chain, developing new or improved ways to authenticate antibiotics at the point of sale, developing technology to monitor the effect of climate factors on antibiotic quality, or applying existing technology from other sectors to this issue.
Geographies: Interventions must be in LMICs. Applicants from all over the world are encouraged to apply. This Challenge particularly encourages solutions from teams based in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and multi-disciplinary teams.
Who can apply: A wide range of applicants, solutions proposed must be at least proof of concept phase.
Funding amount: A prize fund of up to £1,000,000 will be awarded, with an aim to award a grand prize of £500,000 in each category of the Challenge (Stock Control and Substandard and Falsified Antibiotics).
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Health, antibiotic resistance.
Deadline: April 24, 2025.
CapitaLand Community Resilience Initiative, AVPN. *New!*
The CapitaLand Community Resilience Initiative is a SGD 3 million initiative, supported by AVPN, dedicated to strengthening community resilience across Asia. Focusing on education, health, and well-being, the initiative is designed to support vulnerable groups, especially children and youth in the priority countries. By focusing on children and youth, the CapitaLand Community Resilience Initiative aims to equip this group with the skills, knowledge and support systems needed to thrive in the face of adversity, driving economic growth and strengthening their resilience to ensure a stronger, more adaptive and equitable future. The Initiative is committed to supporting solutions that build social capital and resilience in local communities and encourage eligible non-profits that work in the following impact areas focusing on children and youth (up to the age of 21 years) to apply: education, skills development, physical health, mental health and well-being support.
Geographies: China, India, Singapore and Vietnam.
Who can apply: Non-profits operating in at least one of the priority countries.
Funding amount: A total of S$3 million SGD in grants will be disbursed to awardee organizations by the end of 2025.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Physical health, mental health and well-being support
Deadline: April 25, 2025.
Call for Innovative WASH Solutions, UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub. *New!* *Closing this month!*
Is looking for proven innovative WASH solutions with potential for accelerated scale.
This Call for Applications is intended for solutions that address systemic problems for WASH. They are seeking a diverse range of innovative solutions, including but not limited to programmatic models, private sector approaches, public sector strategies, and other relevant models.
The WASH Innovation Hub is seeking proven solutions addressing one or both of the following innovation challenges: 1: Strengthening supportive environments for WASH SMEs, 2. Enhancing climate-sensitive data and integration into WASH programming.
Geographies: UNICEF program countries.
Who can apply: Any for profit or non-profit that is a legally registered entity such as a university spin-off, NGO, UN organization or Government agency.
Funding amount: Grant of up to USD $150,000 USD in flexible funds to support evidence generation, feasibility studies, and market understanding and assessments.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: WASH, health, water.
Deadline: April 30, 2025.
Learn more and apply here.
Climate Impacts Awards: Unlocking Urgent Climate Action by Making the Health Effects of Climate Change Visible, Wellcome. *Closing this month!*
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