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Visit funder's website →The Google. org Impact Challenge: AI for Science is a 30 million US dollar global open call providing funding, tools and technical expertise to researchers and organisations using AI to accelerate scientific breakthroughs. Grants run from 500,000 dollars to over 3 million dollars, and selected organisations also join a six-month Google.
org Accelerator offering pro bono technical support from Google experts plus Google Cloud credits. Applications closed on 1 May 2026. Two focus areas are in scope: AI for health and life sciences, and AI for climate resilience and environmental science.
Eligible applicants are nonprofits, social enterprises and academic and research institutions, which makes this unusually open to university-led work compared with most corporate philanthropy in the AI space. This challenge is distinct from Google.
org's Impact Challenge: AI for Government Innovation, which ran on a separate track with an earlier April 2026 deadline and a different brief, and the two should not be conflated when tracking Google. org's AI grantmaking. The substantive signal in the design is that Google.
org is buying scientific outcomes rather than AI capability: the two named domains are application areas, not methods, and the Accelerator structure indicates the funder expects grantees to need engineering support to get AI methods into working scientific practice. Groups with strong science and weak ML engineering are the intended recipients. Anyone tracking this fund should watch for a successor round, since Google.
org has run Impact Challenges on a repeating basis.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Open globally to nonprofit organisations, social enterprises, and academic and research institutions submitting scientific projects. Proposals must fall within one of two focus areas: AI for health and life sciences, or AI for climate resilience and environmental science. Grants range from 500,000 US dollars to over 3 million dollars, drawn from a 30 million dollar global fund, and selected organisations additionally participate in a six-month Google.org Accelerator providing pro bono technical assistance from Google experts and Google Cloud credits. Applications for this round closed on 1 May 2026 and the application portal is no longer accepting submissions. Given the 500,000 dollar floor, applicants should be organisations capable of absorbing and accounting for awards at that scale, with the institutional infrastructure for a multi-year AI research program; smaller projects are not a fit for this instrument. Applicants should verify whether a successor round has opened at google.org/impact-challenges before planning, and should note that the separate Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Government Innovation is a different call with a different deadline, scope and eligible applicant pool. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows grants range from 500,000 to over 3 million US dollars per recipient from a 30 million dollar global fund, so amount_min is 500,000 and amount_max is 3,000,000. With a 30 million dollar pool and awards at that scale, the arithmetic implies roughly 10 to 25 grantees worldwide, which makes this one of the most concentrated AI-for-science funds currently operating and correspondingly competitive. The cash is only part of the package: selected organisations enter a six-month Google.org Accelerator providing pro bono technical expertise from Google engineers and Google Cloud credits. For a research group whose bottleneck is engineering capacity rather than scientific direction, that in-kind component is frequently worth more than an equivalent amount of unrestricted cash, and proposals that articulate a specific technical bottleneck the Accelerator would clear are better positioned than those treating it as a bonus. The 500,000 dollar floor is the number to plan against: this fund does not make small awards, and a proposal scoped below that floor signals a project that should be applying elsewhere. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
The published deadline was May 1, 2026, which has passed. Check the official notice for any future application windows before investing time in a proposal.
Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science for AI-Accelerated Breakthroughs in Health, Life Sciences, Climate Resilience and Environmental Science is funded by Google.org. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
Start from the official opportunity page linked in this listing — it carries the sponsor's submission instructions.
The LinkedIn Future of Work Fund 2026 is a global philanthropic grant initiative that doubled its commitment to $3 million for 2026 to help nonprofit organizations prepare young people for a rapidly changing labor market shaped by artificial intelligence. Building on the inaugural 2025 round, the fund provides unrestricted grants of $200,000-$300,000 to organizations demonstrating clear approaches to AI literacy and digital skills training, career pathways using AI-enabled tools, and workforce adaptability programs. The fund prioritizes organizations serving young adults aged 18-24 facing structural barriers to employment, with geographic focus on France, Germany, India, United Kingdom, and United States. Selected organizations receive monetary grants plus strategic assistance from LinkedIn's workforce development ecosystem. Applications are reviewed by LinkedIn's Social Impact team along with an external panel of workforce development and AI experts.
The Alibaba Cloud AI Catalyst Program supports AI-focused startups and global AI firms with comprehensive resources including up to $120,000 in lifetime cloud credits, 2 billion free Model Studio tokens for access to Alibaba's generative AI platform, 1:1 Office Hours with AI experts covering products, solutions, and infrastructure, POC coupons, and invitations to Alibaba Cloud events worldwide. The program is designed to help AI startups accelerate their growth with technical, educational, and networking resources. Applications are reviewed within 4-5 business days, and successful applicants are notified via email. The program provides access to Alibaba Cloud's GPU infrastructure including H100s in the Singapore region, making it particularly attractive for APAC-focused AI startups. The promotion period runs from April 1, 2025 through March 31, 2026.
The 2026 Orange Social Venture Prize (OSVP) is an annual competition recognizing innovative solutions that address real community needs using AI, data, or cybersecurity technologies in Africa and the Middle East. The prize supports young entrepreneurs whose startups demonstrate tangible social and environmental benefits through digital innovation. The competition operates through a two-stage process: national selection in each of the 17 participating countries where Orange operates, followed by an international round for top prizes. Beyond financial awards (€25,000 first prize, €15,000 second, €10,000 third, plus a €20,000 Women's Prize), recipients gain significant visibility, networking opportunities with the Orange ecosystem, and mentorship to help scale their ventures. Projects are reviewed by Orange employees via the Orange Engage for Change internal platform. This is one of the few major competitions specifically targeting AI and data-driven social ventures in Africa and the Middle East.
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