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CRF USA provides affordable financing for community development projects including small businesses, affordable housing, childcare, and healthcare in underserved communities.

Celebrates collegiate inventors solving real-world problems through invention. Prizes awarded for inventions improving healthcare, education, the environment, and more.

Supports organizations working to transform broken economic and social systems. Focus on emerging technology's impact on democratic institutions, digital identity, financial access, and property rights.

Supports innovative financial mechanisms to protect nature at scale. Funds projects developing nature bonds, conservation easements, payment for ecosystem services, and other market-based conservation approaches.

The Community Advantage loan program expands access to capital for small businesses in underserved markets. Mission-based lenders provide loans to businesses that may not qualify for traditional financing.

Rotary Global Grants fund activities in Rotary's areas of focus: peace and conflict prevention, disease prevention, water and sanitation, maternal and child health, and economic development.

Postgraduate scholarships for students from select developing countries to pursue higher education abroad. Awards cover full study costs and are provided as a grant/loan combination.

Funds women-led organizations worldwide working to advance the rights and well-being of women and girls. Priority given to grassroots organizations with limited access to other funding sources.

Supports rural housing organizations tackling housing challenges in underserved rural communities through technical assistance, training, and capacity building.

Annual competition honoring the most exciting and innovative digital media creations across diverse technology categories. Winners receive recognition, brand amplification, and cash prizes.

MIT Solve challenges innovators to propose tech-based solutions to address global development challenges. Winners receive prizes, MIT resources, network access, and potential follow-on funding.

SOLVE for Tomorrow challenges middle and high school students to use STEM knowledge to improve their communities. Teams compete for technology prizes and national recognition.

KAKENHI grants support scientific research of all categories and levels. Funds basic research to advance scientific knowledge and develop talent across Japanese research institutions.

GIF invests in social innovations tackling poverty and promoting sustainable development. The fund uses a staged model to back innovations from pilot to scale, with support across multiple rounds.

The DoD STTR program bridges the gap between basic research at research institutions and commercialization of resulting innovations. Requires formal collaboration between small business and research institution.

NEA Grants for Organizations support exemplary projects that connect Americans with great art. Funding supports creation, engagement, learning, and livability through the arts.

Mozilla Awards support builders and advocates working for a healthier internet. Covers open-source projects, internet health research, ethical AI, digital rights, and more.

Supports data-driven, precision approaches to preventing and controlling infectious diseases in low and middle income countries. Focuses on scalable systems and digital health tools.

Supports nonprofits using artificial intelligence and data science to address humanity's greatest challenges including health, climate, food security, and economic inclusion.

Supports art and culture initiatives that advance open society values, freedom of expression, human rights, and democratic governance around the world.

Supports innovative approaches to K-12 and higher education that improve learning outcomes, especially for underserved students. Emphasis on technology-enabled personalized learning.

The Bezos Earth Fund commits $10 billion to fight climate change and protect nature. Grants support science, technology, policy, and direct action to accelerate the transition to net zero.

Supporting small and diverse business owners in communities across America. Grant includes mentorship from established business leaders and exposure through Rockstar brand channels.

ARPA-E advances high-potential, high-impact energy technologies that are too early for private-sector investment. Projects focus on transformational changes in how Americans generate, store, and use energy.

Supports early-stage startups developing solutions to global economic and social challenges. Provides not just funding but access to OECD's global policy network and research resources.

DIV funds breakthrough solutions to the world's toughest development challenges. Through a staged, evidence-based model, DIV identifies and scales transformative innovations.

Carnegie supports education reform efforts focused on improving student achievement, particularly in mathematics and literacy. Emphasis on evidence-based interventions and systemic change.

Competitive grants to innovative early-stage projects addressing development challenges in low and middle-income countries. Focuses on scalable solutions with demonstrated proof of concept.

CZI Science supports scientific research that will accelerate progress toward curing, preventing, or managing all diseases by the end of this century, with a focus on collaborative approaches.

The Knight Arts Challenge funds the best ideas for building community through the arts. Grants support projects that engage residents, reflect local character, and strengthen communities in Knight cities.

Supports temporary public art projects in American cities to spur creative placemaking and community activation. Projects must demonstrate broad public engagement and civic value.

ARC Discovery Projects support fundamental and applied research by Australian researchers and their international collaborators. Any field of research from basic science to social sciences and humanities.

Google.org Impact Challenge funds bold nonprofits and social enterprises using technology to address humanity's greatest challenges. Selected organizations receive funding, mentorship, and support from Google employees.

BUILD (Building Institutions and Networks) is a multi-year, flexible funding strategy to strengthen the organizational capacity, networks, and leadership of organizations advancing social justice.

USDA Rural Business Development Grants support targeted technical assistance, training, and other activities leading to the development or expansion of small and emerging private businesses in rural areas.

The CMF fosters, develops, finances, and promotes the production of Canadian television content and digital media content through funding and industry development initiatives.

Ashoka identifies and supports the world's leading social entrepreneurs, those with innovative solutions to social problems and the potential to change patterns across society.

Recognizes social entrepreneurs who have developed proven solutions to critical problems and are ready to scale their impact. Awardees join a global community of change-makers.

Supports nonprofits working to make food more accessible, affordable, and nutritious for all Americans while advancing sustainable agricultural and food systems practices.

The EIC Accelerator supports individual SMEs and startups to develop and scale up ground-breaking innovations with the potential to create new markets or disrupt existing ones at the European and global level.

Supports community-based organizations working to address environmental and public health challenges in underserved communities through collaborative, problem-solving approaches.

Echoing Green Fellows are early-stage social innovators who have identified a new solution to a significant social challenge. Fellowship includes funding, leadership development, and a powerful alumni network.

The R01 is NIH's most commonly used grant program supporting health-related research that investigates specified hypotheses, employs defined methods, and produces tangible outcomes and products.

Supports brilliant young scholars committed to applying their expertise to benefit society. Fellows receive funding, mentorship, and access to a global network of exceptional talent.

Grand Challenges Explorations supports unconventional and innovative global health and development research. The initiative seeks bold ideas and encourages researchers from all disciplines to apply.

The Fulbright Program offers grants for individually designed study, research, or teaching projects in over 140 countries. The program facilitates cultural exchange and mutual understanding between the U.S. and other nations.

EIC Pathfinder supports visionary, high-risk collaborative research for advanced technology breakthroughs. Teams explore radically new technology foundations with the potential to lead to paradigm shifts.

NSF SBIR Phase I grants support small businesses to conduct research and development on innovative technological ideas with potential for commercialization. Awardees explore the technical merit and feasibility of their innovation.

Sloan Research Fellowships support the work of outstanding early-career researchers in chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, neuroscience, and physics.

Supports world-class researchers and innovators with the potential to become leaders in their fields. Fellows tackle ambitious and challenging research projects across disciplines.

The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.

ERC Advanced Grants support exceptional established research leaders who want to pursue ambitious, ground-breaking research projects in any field. No restrictions on topic or approach.

Wellcome Research Awards support exceptional science with the potential to improve human and animal health. Awards support established researchers as they make bold and creative contributions to discovery science.