Funding Friday...
Develop Impact - Issue 138
Good morning friends!
Welcome to the first 'Funding Friday' piece for 2023. I hope you had a restful holiday break!
This week, we are sharing another nine funding opportunities to support your #tech4good work in developing and implementing technological solutions to address 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…
Open Call for Partnership – Digital and Media Literary Intervention
Tactical Tech is an international NGO that engages with citizens and civil society organizations to explore and mitigate the impacts of technology on society. They have a series of projects—The Data Detox Kit, The Glass Room, What the Future Wants, and the Digital Enquirer Kit—that aim to increase digital and media literacy among various audiences (including but not limited to: civil society, community hubs, institutes, educators, librarians, young people).
Over the course of the past decade, they have been collaborating with partners to host events, adapt materials, co-create, and translate resources (and much more!) in the frame of these projects—and now they are seeking partners again! If you apply to this call, you can include elements and goals related to one or more of these projects in your partnership idea: The Data Detox Kit, The Glass Room, What the Future Wants, and the Digital Enquirer Kit.
UNESCO Prize for Your EduTech Solution
The UNESCO ICT in Education Prize rewards individuals and organizations that are implementing outstanding edutech projects and promoting the creative use of technologies to enhance learning, teaching, and overall educational performance in the digital age. An international Jury selects two best projects annually, and each prizewinner receives US$ 25,000.
This year, the prize focuses on three keys to universal public digital education, rewarding projects that have:
made public digital learning platforms and digital content universally accessible
developed digital competencies for all teachers and learners
promoted universal connectivity in education
This is not a grant scheme to support new projects or organizations. ICT4Edu projects need to be implemented for at least one year with creative uses of technologies in education, teaching, and learning. If your project meets the criteria, please contact National Commissions for UNESCO or NGOs in official partnership with UNESCO to receive a nomination.
Call for Applications: 2023 World Heritage Residence Scholarship
The international Residence Scholarship for the World Heritage site Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland (Hälsingegårdar) was established in 2018 by the Regional Assembly in Gävleborg. The Scholarship is aimed at individuals who have an idea related to the UNESCO World Heritage list and are interested to connect the World Heritage site Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland with other World Heritage sites in an artistic, cultural, or research way.
The World Heritage Scholarship is a residency that involves:
staying and living in one or two World Heritage farms for a period of one month
a grant of ap. 4.500 euros (50.000 SEK) to carry out the idea/project in question
The scholarship is international and can be applied for by people from all over the world, such as researchers, artists, or other cultural actors.
Region Gävleborg awards the Residence Scholarship for the World Heritage site Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland to a person who has an idea related to the UNESCO World Heritage list and can connect the World Heritage site Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland to another World Heritage site in an artistic, cultural or researching way.
Nominations Open for World Food Prize
The World Food Prize is awarded for a specific, exceptionally significant, individual achievement that advances human development with a demonstrable increase in the quantity, quality, availability of, or access to food through creative interventions at any point within the full scope of the food system.
Fields of achievement include, but are not limited to: soil and land; plant and animal science; food science and technology; nutrition; rural development; marketing; food processing, packaging, and storage; water and the environment; natural resource conservation; physical infrastructure; transportation and distribution; special or extraordinary feeding programs; social organization and poverty elimination; economics and finance; policy analysis and implementation; and public advocacy.
Request for Proposals: Gender and Youth Activity (GAYA) Small Grant Program
The GAYA Small Grants Program aims to address key issues within the collection, analysis, and use of data on gender and youth within BHA’s development and emergency food security, resilience, and emergency response activities.
Development and emergency food security, resilience, and emergency response activities programs can use these Program Improvement (PIA) Award small grants to improve the collection and/or use of gender and/or youth data to design and adapt their activities. Applications will support the development, testing, packaging, and sharing of process improvements, innovations, and/or research to improve the collection and use of gender and/or youth data.
All grants will be made as sub-awards under the Save the Children US GAYA cooperative agreement with USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance and recipients will be required to follow all relevant USAID rules and regulations. These grants will be made as Fixed Amount Awards.
The Safe and Sound Cities Program (S²Cities) is an initiative proudly led by GIB, hosted by the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation, and with the support of Fondation Botnar. This global program aims to improve the safety and well-being of young people in urban environments in secondary cities in the Global South. In S²Cities, we address urban safety and security issues with and for young people(15-24 years old) in various secondary cities of the Global South. The program fosters meaningful youth participation by providing young people with a platform to reflect on their urban safety and security experiences and perceptions.
Young people are encouraged to collaborate with other urban actors(youth organizations, public sector, private sector, NGOs, academia, and others), to improve urban infrastructure and the built environment, and to achieve the program’s goal: creating safer cities for young people.S²Citiesembedstwo fundamental approaches that help implement meaningful youth participation: principles of relational wellbeing (RWB) and placemaking. Local grantees are expected to embed these approaches into their proposals.
The GSMA Innovation Fund for Anticipatory Humanitarian Action
Launched on 24th November 2022, the GSMA Innovation Fund for Anticipatory Humanitarian Action will back solutions that leverage mobile digital technology to help anticipate potential humanitarian impacts and enable effective early response. By focusing on the important theme of anticipatory action the Fund will contribute towards the minimization of humanitarian impacts and the improvement of the preparedness in the face of sudden-onset crises.
The GSMA is open to applications from non-profit organizations (including NGOs, INGOs, humanitarian agencies, and social enterprises) as well as for-profit organizations (limited to commercially viable start-ups, SMEs, and social enterprises with up to 250 employees).
Successful projects will receive a grant of between £100,000 and £250,000 to scale their innovation over a 15 to 18-month period. Applications close on 19th January 2023.
The GSMA is a member of the Risk-Informed Early Action Partnership (REAP) – a global network of stakeholders from across climate, humanitarian, and development communities. We support REAP’s aim of ensuring 1 billion people are safer from disasters by 2025.
UN Foundation - The Big Brainstorm 2023 for Young Thinkers and activists to design their future
The Big Brainstorm is an opportunity for young thinkers and activists to design their futures. Supported by the United Nations Foundation, young leaders from around the world will come together to embark on a two-week design sprint to explore, prototype, and launch initiatives to tackle some of humanity’s greatest challenges.
The theme of the 2023 Big Brainstorm is “A Year of Action for the SDGs.” The upcoming second SDG Summit is an opportunity to accelerate action to solve the world’s most urgent problems, with young people at the forefront of change.
It is also a turning point to drive collective action for both people and the planet. The most successful initiatives will be spotlighted during the SDG Summit to demonstrate that meaningful progress on the 17 Global Goals is possible.
All young changemakers who engage in the Big Brainstorm will also be members of the Engine Room to Unlock the Future – a wider space for young people to forge connections, mobilize, and drive our efforts to rejuvenate the multilateral system.
Reuters Institute Journalist Fellowship Programme 2023-2024
The Journalist Fellowship Programme at the Reuters Institute is one of the world’s leading schemes for practicing, mid-career journalists to take some time out from their day jobs to explore journalism in depth. The majority of our Journalist Fellows are fully-funded and they also receive a stipend to cover living and travel costs. They accept around 30 Journalist Fellows from around the world each year, each of whom brings fascinating insights and a wealth of experience to the institute.
Through personal research, seminars, networking events, and discussions with your peers, you will further your understanding of journalism, the news industry, and your place in it. While you are in Oxford, you will work on a project that will be of direct impact on you, your career, your newsroom, and the wider media industry, bringing in what you learn during your time in the fellowship. This is a program for working journalists and editors who will return to journalism after spending a few months with them.