Funding Friday...
Develop Impact - Issue 113
Happy Friday!
I hope your week is going well! We are back again with eight new funding opportunities for all your innovative and #tech4good work in Southeast Asia.
This week I was contacted by Matt Ward of 4WARD.VC, he’s put together an excellent database over 500 climate investors and incubators. If you’re working in the climate space and looking for funding, this is work: https://4ward.vc/VCdatabase
As always please let me know if you have anything you’d like to share with this community!
Have a great weekend!
Jesse
What’s funding this week…
Fred Morgan Kirby Prize for Scaling Social Impact
The Fred Morgan Kirby Prize for Scaling Social Impact (F. M. Kirby Impact Prize) is an annual global prize of $100,000 USD in unrestricted funds that amplifies and accelerates the work of enterprises working to scale their impact on social or environmental problems around the world.
VentureWell E-Team Program
The E-Team Program, part of the VentureWell Accelerator, supports student ventures as you embark down the path you’re likely to take as an innovator and entrepreneur. We help you advance your invention through a powerful mix of up to $25,000 in grant funding, entrepreneurship training, mentorship by dedicated staff, national recognition, and networking with peers and industry experts.
Facebook Community Accelerator
Advance your leadership skills and utilize Facebook tools to deepen your community’s impact. Receive grant money to help fund work that advances your community’s goals. This year we look forward to awarding up to $40,000.00 (USD) per community through our Grant Management Partner GlobalGiving.
Open17 Challenge on Climate Justice
Are you passionate about Climate Justice and have a project or an idea for a solution that supports individuals and communities’ preparedness for Climate Change? Then pitch your idea, prototype, or project that tackles specific Climate Justice challenges using crowdsourcing solutions.
The Open17 Challenge is open to any individual anywhere in the world. Applicants must be 16 or older. Applications must be in English, and participants should have a good command of written and spoken English.
Future of Government Awards
Digital solutions are transforming lives and livelihoods – and catalysing the reach, role, and successful impact of government. The inaugural Future of Government Awards seeks to champion public sector contributions that are driving this global digital development and positive change.
Showcasing open-source solutions is key to inspiring a cascade of best practices across the world. Reusing open source is also an important step towards enabling governments to share in digital success, recognizing that no country or region has a monopoly on good ideas.
Independent Media Response Fund
The Check Global Independent Media Response Fund is designed to respond to the hyperlocal needs of media practitioners, independent media newsrooms, fact-checking groups, citizen journalism projects, human rights defenders, researchers and technology and digital literacy advocates in North-Africa Western-Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Asia-Pacific region.
The fund is making available micro-grants of up to $5,000 for individuals, and up to $15,000 for collectives and organizations.
2022 Ocean Exchange Awards
Welcome to the Ocean Exchange’s search for Solutions Inspiring Action. These are innovative, proactive and globally scalable Solutions with working prototypes that can leap across industries, economies and cultures– innovations that generate economic growth and increased productivity, while reducing the use of nature’s resources and waste.
Johnson & Johnson: The WiSTEM2D Scholars Award Program
The Johnson & Johnson Scholars Award Program aims to fuel development of female STEM2D leaders and feed the STEM2D talent pipeline by awarding and sponsoring women at critical points in their careers, in each of the STEM2D disciplines: Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Manufacturing and Design.