Funding Friday...
Develop Impact - Issue 120
Hello friends!
It’s Friday! I hope you have some fun plans for the weekend. It’s been a busy week for us at Glean Asia. We did a live Q&A a few days ago with LendForGood, an impact-loan platform. The discussion was about our journey, winning projects, delivering impactful technology projects, crowdlending, and more. You can find the recorded version here. If you have any interest in supporting our work through an impact loan, please visit our LendForGood page here.
This week, we are sharing nine more funding opportunities with you to support your #tech4good work in developing and implementing technological solutions to address critical challenges and help build a more sustainable and inclusive world.
Please let me know if you have anything you’d like to share with this community, I would love to hear from you!
Enjoy reading!
Jesse
What’s funding this week…
Apply Now to be a 2023 Dalai Lama Fellow
Dalai Lama Fellows, founded in 2010 with the inspiration and encouragement of the 14th Dalai Lama, is reimagining leadership by cultivating and supporting an international movement of young social innovators to meet global challenges in locally adapted ways as they promote their planet’s flourishing.
They award year-long fellowships to innovators who are working on social change projects in local communities to address one or more of the following areas: Health and Well-being, Education and Youth Development, Social Justice, Environment, Cultural Understanding, and Contemplation. The program is non-sectarian and inclusive of all backgrounds.
United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security: Call for Proposals 2022
For the 2022 Call for Proposals, the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security (UNTFHS) is accepting proposals for human security awareness and usage programs only. The UNTFHS will focus the 2022 Call for Proposals on programs to extend awareness of the human security approach and its usage at all levels.
For these programs, the total contribution from the UNTFHS should not exceed US$300,000 for a period of 12-18 months.
STOP Spillover Media Grants 2022
EJN is offering organizational grants to media organizations, including traditional news media, broadcast media, development media, new media, and independent media to support capacity-building activities for media and journalists related to understanding and preventing zoonotic viral spillover.
They are accepting applications from the following countries only: Liberia, Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire, Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
SDG Innovation Accelerator for Young Professionals: Empowering the Next Generation of Innovators
The SDG Innovation Accelerator for Young Professionals is an opportunity for participating companies of the UN Global Compact to empower young talent within their organizations to collaborate and accelerate business innovation towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This nine-month program activates future business leaders and changemakers to develop and drive innovative solutions through new technologies, initiatives, and business models and delivers on their company’s sustainability objectives.
The program connects entry- to mid-level managers – aged 35 and younger – across diverse business units to generate bold yet viable solutions that can have a positive impact on the company and the SDGs.
Join the Hack for Earth Youth Hackathon at COP27 to create real Solutions to Climate Change
The Hack for Earth is excited to host a global online youth hackathon at COP27 to create real solutions to climate change. The Hack for Earth is excited to host a global online youth hackathon at COP27 to create real solutions to climate change.
Winners present their solution directly to world leaders at the United Nations climate conference COP27 in Egypt and join the Build for Earth acceleration program designed to make your solution a reality. Competing teams from all over the world spend 3 days creating solutions and making an implementation plan.
Humanitarian Impact and Resilience Challenge
This challenge is a global call for commercially viable and scalable private/public-driven efforts that benefit the recovery of local communities that are at heightened risk or have suffered from conflict, natural disasters, and forced displacement.
An initiative led by the Humanitarian and Resilience Investing (HRI) Initiative, funded by IKEA Foundation, and supported by Deloitte, British International Investment (BII), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Vital Capital, the World Bank Group, and the World Food Programme (WFP).
Apply Now: $100,000 for Digital Solutions to the Global Food Crisis
The WFP Innovation Challenge is looking for low and high-tech solutions including mobile technology, artificial intelligence, big data, robotics, and blockchain, in new business models to end hunger. This Challenge is specifically looking for:
Innovative solutions to mitigate the rising cost of inputs and food.
Innovative solutions to strengthen productivity and outcomes along food value chains.
Innovative solutions to build resilient communities through livelihood creation and youth engagement.
Selected projects will be able to apply for the WFP Sprint Programme, a six-month acceleration program providing up to US$ 100,000 in equity-free funding, mentorship, and access to WFP’s global network of partners and field operations across more than 120countries and territories.
IDEA App Cambodia EIP is an Enterprise Incubation Program initiated by Khmer Enterprise in partnership with UNIDO Cambodia through the implementation of a UN joint program on the “Decent Employment for Youth in Cambodia” funded by the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC).
IDEA App Cambodia EIP is an incubation program that falls under the big umbrella of the IDEA App Programs, created and developed by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and Bridge for Billions across 9 other countries.
Together with Khmer Enterprises, they announce the IDEA APP Cambodia Enterprise Incubation Program, with an aim to make entrepreneurial education accessible to Cambodian startups and SMEs in order to create employment and ensure sustainable economic growth in the country. This program will recruit 30 early-stage enterprises developing business ideas in the following sectors: Tourism or Services, Agriculture, Light Manufacturing, and Information & Communications Technology (ICT).
DeCoSEAS Southeast Asia Visiting Fellowship in Europe 2023
Decolonising Southeast Asian Sound Archives (DeCoSEAS) invites up to four visiting fellows from Southeast Asia for a three-month stay in 2023 to work with one or more Southeast Asian collections within audio-visual archives located in Europe.
To be eligible, applicants should:
Be passionate about sound recordings and enthusiastic about delving deeper into colonial archives
Be a national of Southeast Asia
Be an early or mid-career artist, curator, activist, scholar, or other stakeholders of the sound archives
Have good communication skills in English
Have linguistic and cultural familiarity with the Southeast Asian sound recordings
Fellows will be hosted at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands.
Fellows will receive a stipend of 2,000 EUR monthly for a maximum of three months. The stipend is intended to cover the fellow’s accommodation, local commute, and daily living expenses throughout their fellowship stay.