Funding Friday!
Tech for Good - Issue 87
Happy Friday!
I hope your week was fantastic! As many of us are looking and the closing few weeks of the year and trying to build our funding pipelines for 2022, I’m happy to share a few new funding activities I’ve found this week.
If you have a grant call, or funding activity you’d like me to share, please make sure to send an email to: jesse@glean.net.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Jesse
What’s funding this week…
Gender Lens Investment Pay for Results Fund
Part of ANDE’s Gender Equality Initiative, the Gender Lens Investment Pay for Results Fund aims to use grant capital to test models for increasing investment into women-led SGBs in developing economies.
ANDE requests concept notes for grants of $20,000-$50,000 to support investors seeking to increase the gender impact of their portfolio. These grants are intended to cover costs associated with developing the systems and processes necessary to take a gender lens approach to investment. The grants will go directly to investors and will use a “pay for results” structure in which the grant payment will be contingent upon completed investments with a clear path to gender impact.
Annual Program Statement (APS) Digital Innovation and Information Fund
Innovations for Social Accountability in Cambodia (ISAC) is a five-year project supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from October 2019 to September 2024 and implemented by FHI 360, a non-profit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally-driven solutions. The Digital Innovation and Information Fund, in accordance with the third objective of the ISAC project, is seeking to support CSOs, community-based organizations (CBOs), and/or private companies to design and implement new or existing ICT-enabled projects/activities/technological solutions.
RFP: Funding Available for Solutions that Address Gender Inequity in AI Technology
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), through Digital Frontiers, is launching a challenge leading to one or more grants for innovative approaches to help identify and address actual and potential gender biases in AI systems relevant in global development contexts. USAID seeks to support approaches to increase the prevention, identification, transparency, monitoring and accountability of AI systems so that their outputs do not produce gender-inequitable results. Approaches may or may not be technology-based. Digital Frontiers anticipates disbursing up to five grants using a total of $375,000 in award funding.
UNESCO Prize for the Use of ICT in Education 2021
Nominations are invited for the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICT in Education 2021. The 2021 edition of the Prize will award projects that have built and implemented technology-enabled public learning systems and programs that effectively ensured the continuity and quality of learning for all.
WHO Health for All Film Festival
Films are a powerful way to raise awareness, improve understanding and encourage action so that this festival aims to contribute to health promotion and education about health. The WHO Health for All Film Festival invites independent filmmakers, production companies, public institutions, NGOs, communities, students, and film schools from around the world to submit their original short films on health. The festival's aim is to recruit a new generation of film and video innovators to champion and promote global health issues.