Funding Friday...
Develop Impact - Issue 119
Happy Friday, everyone!
I hope you've had a great week. We are sharing eight more funding opportunities with you today to support your #tech4good work in developing and implementing technological solutions to address critical challenges and help build a more sustainable and inclusive world.
As always, 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…
2022 Foundational Integrity Research Request for Proposals ($1,000,000 USD in funding)
In this request for proposals (RFP), Meta is offering awards to global social science researchers interested in exploring integrity issues related to social communication technologies. They will provide a total of $1,000,000 USD in funding for research proposals that aim to enrich their understanding of challenges related to integrity issues on social media and social technology platforms.
The goal for these awards is to support the growth of scientific knowledge in these spaces and to contribute to a shared understanding across the broader scientific community and the technology industry on how social technology companies can better address integrity issues on their platforms. Research is not restricted to focusing on Meta apps and technologies.
Aurora Tech Award: A $30,000 Prize for Women Founders
The Aurora Tech Award is an annual prize for women founders of IT startups whose projects have had the most profound impact on world development. Their goal is to support women in the field of advanced technologies, especially women entrepreneurs.
Any woman founder or co-founder of a company that was created within the last five years can be nominated for the award. The key product of the nominee’s company must be based on information technologies. The nominee must hold a C-level position in the company at the time the application is submitted.
BNEF Pioneers Program 2023 – Addressing Net-Zero Challenges
The BNEF Pioneers program has identified a group of game-changing technologies or innovations annually – each with the potential to accelerate global decarbonization and halt climate change. Pioneers can be innovators serving the energy, transport, materials, manufacturing, consumer, and agriculture sectors, or providers of solutions and technologies that help increase understanding of the climate, scale up carbon capture, utilization, and storage, and promote climate adaption.
In 2023, the program will focus on three global net-zero challenges and will award the Pioneers prize to innovators with scalable, impactful, and equitable solutions to these challenges.
BNEF will also select one or more wildcard winners, unrelated to the chosen challenges. These wildcard applicants can address any issue that helps the world address climate change, and they encourage submissions for all climate-tech solutions that lie outside of the three challenges.
SUSI for Secondary Educators in the Philippines
The Study of the U.S. Institutes for Secondary Educators provides three multinational groups of experienced secondary school educators (including teachers, administrators, teacher trainers, curriculum developers, textbook writers, government education officials, and others) with a deeper understanding of U.S. society, education, and culture.
Three institutes will provide content and materials for participants to develop high school-level curricula about the United States. Two of the Institutes, tailored for secondary school teachers, will focus on content and materials about the United States rather than teaching methods and pedagogy. The third Institute is for experienced administrators, including teacher trainers, curriculum developers, textbook writers, and government education officials.
The Institutes will take place at various academic institutions throughout the United States over five weeks beginning in June 2023. Each Institute includes a four-week academic residency component and a one-week integrated study tour to another region of the United States.
Spencer Foundation: $50,000 Small Research Grants on Education
The Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. They accept applications three times per year.
This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. The goal of this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious, and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.
Google for Startups Accelerator Program: Circular Economy
Google for Startups Accelerator: Circular Economy is a 10-week virtual accelerator program for Seed to Series A technology startups and non-profit organizations based in North America and the Asia Pacific. The accelerator is designed to bring the best of Google's programs, products, people, networks, and technology to those working towards a waste-free world.
In addition to mentorship and project support on technical subjects like artificial intelligence and machine learning, geospatial, and Google Cloud, the Accelerator will focus on product design, customer acquisition, leadership development, expert-led circular economy deep dives, workshops, cutting-edge research, and leadership development.
Each cohort will comprise 10-15 organizations using technology to tackle circular economy challenges. These challenges include reuse, refill, recycling, composting, fashion, food, safe and circular materials, and the built environment.
Wege Prize 2023: Participants contend for $65,000 (USD) in total Cash Prizes
Wege Prize is an annual competition that ignites game-changing solutions for the future by inspiring college/university students around the world to collaborate across institutional, disciplinary, and cultural boundaries to redesign the way economies work.
Participants contend for $65,000 (USD) in total cash prizes, all while learning—and helping to show the world—what the future of problem-solving looks like.
Small Grants Competition to support Innovative Initiatives in Southeast Asia
The Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Seeds for the Future Program is a small grants competition to support innovative initiatives in Southeast Asia. It provides funding for the region’s most promising young leaders to carry out projects that improve their communities, countries, and the region across the program themes of Civic Engagement, Economic Empowerment and Social Entrepreneurship, Education, and Environmental Issues.
The program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and is funded through a grant from the U.S. Mission to ASEAN.