Funding Friday!
Develop Impact - Issue 114
Hello everyone!
How has your week been? It’s been a productive week for us at Glean Asia as we’ve started scaling up our team!
I am thrilled to be highlighting another eight funding opportunities for your #tech4good work to create better technology solutions for emerging communities in Southeast Asia. Good luck with your submissions!
Please let me know if you have anything you’d like to share with this community!
Enjoy reading!
Jesse
What’s funding this week…
Roddenberry Foundation Catalyst Fund 2022
The Catalyst Fund is geared towards small and/or early-stage ideas and projects that need a capital infusion to launch or prove viability. Catalyst awardees are typically piloting a program, venturing into new territory, on the cusp of launching, or pivoting in a new direction.
They are looking for:
Innovative: Approaches or strategies that innovate on existing models — What are you building on? What other solutions already exist?
Community-based: You have a deep understanding of the communities you work on behalf of — What are their needs? How are they engaged in the process? How will they be able to maintain the solution over time?
High potential for impact: A recognized issue that affects a significant percentage of people — this is relative, but we’re looking for solutions to problems that have an outsized impact.
Sustainable: Experienced team and a smart strategy for driving change — Who and what is driving the change? Why is this the right team? What makes this the right strategic bet right now?
The selection process also takes into consideration the following criteria: innovation, potential impact, eco-system, and originality.
Applications are accepted year-round.
Apply for the AirAsia Foundation Grant | AirAsia Foundation
AirAsia Foundation’s grant-making is aimed at helping social enterprises scale up as a way of empowering communities and enabling them to build sustainable livelihoods. Applicants must be registered and be based in ASEAN, and have a minimum two-year business track record. NGOs looking to diversify funding sources through social enterprise are also welcome to submit an application.
The scope of your proposal should clearly define a new initiative or expansion of an existing initiative based on a set of targets achievable within a 12-month period. This may include investment needed to develop and market new products or services, train new community members or purchase new equipment for the planned expansion. Applications must clearly explain how the investment will enable the organization to improve its income-generating capacity to fully or partially fund future activities.
Global Impact Cash Grant Program - Cisco
Cisco and the Cisco Foundation provide cash, products, and people to support organizations with scalable, replicable, and sustainable solutions that use Internet and network technology to benefit individuals and communities around the world. Each grant program has specific eligibility requirements.
They identify, incubate, and develop innovative solutions with the most impact. Global Impact Cash Grants go to nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that address a significant social problem. They are looking for programs that fit within their investment areas, serve the underserved, and leverage technology to improve the reach and efficiency of services. They accept applications year-round from eligible organizations.
South East Asia - Google for Startups Accelerator
The Google for Startups Accelerator for Southeast Asia helps startups solve specific, technical challenges with the best of Google resources - people, networks, and technologies. These offerings and their measurable impact on startups' businesses set this accelerator apart.
As part of this program, selected founders outline the top challenges facing their startups, and are then paired with relevant experts from Google and the industry to solve those challenges. Participating startups will receive mentorship and specialized support from our global mentor network, as well as access to Google's AI/ML, Cloud, Android, Play, and Web experts.
This accelerator is conducted in English and accepts applications from startups headquartered in Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Data to Safeguard Human Rights Cohort
Our 2023 Data to Safeguard Human Rights Accelerator cohort will be comprised of nonprofit organizations seeking to integrate cloud computing practices into their work on a range of human rights issues around the world. This 9-month program provides in-kind contributions of technology, mentorship, and expertise, as well as supplementary support to cover project expenses of up to $100,000.
Pulse Crops for Agricultural Diversity, Intensification & Sustainability
Options to increase the agricultural output and improve the system biodiversity of existing farmland include adding new crops into the rotation, growing more than one crop in a single year, and maintaining continuous ground cover.
Pulse crops (legume crops with edible seeds) are particularly of interest for incorporation into a cropping system due to their ability to fix nitrogen from the air and their high protein content. This type of agriculture intensification has many benefits including additional and more diverse sources of income for farmers from an alternative harvestable crop, providing an additional protein source to meet global growing demand, reducing agricultural inputs like nitrogen-based fertilizers, capturing additional carbon from the atmosphere each year, and improved soil health. Thus, Corteva is searching for innovative ideas for new pulse crops that can be incorporated into new or existing cropping systems. This is an Ideation Challenge with a guaranteed award for at least one submitted solution.
D-Prize Challenge 2022 for Aspiring Entrepreneurs The world has already invented products and services to end poverty. Yet, millions of people still don’t have access to basic poverty-fighting tools.
Can you design a new business or NGO that delivers a proven poverty intervention at scale? Submit your design for a new organization that solves one of the Distribution Challenges. They will award the most promising teams with up to $20,000 USD to launch their new organization wherever extreme poverty exists.
Kokuyo Design Award 2023 International Product Design Competition
The KOKUYO DESIGN AWARD is an international product design competition that’s all about bringing together proposals for projects the future needs and giving them form. Through the process of thinking deeply about the tools people use in their everyday work, study, and lives, the KOKUYO DESIGN AWARD 2023 is seeking entries that give form to the possibilities of design and the power of products. This year’s theme is “embrace.”