Human Rights Grants and Funding for Local Organizations

Human Rights Grants and Funding for Local Organizations is sponsored by Not specified (listed on Advance Africa). This funding supports local organizations working on human rights. Colombian human rights organizations are a strong fit for this opportunity.

A free member network for NGOs to join and connect with lawyers and law firms who provide pro bono legal support. They work globally and have a big focus on human rights, and have previously supported work on ending child marriage in the U.S. Bessy Ferrera Emergency Fund | Ongoing This fund was set up by Hivos with the support of private donors in honour of LGBTQIA+ activist and human rights defender Bessy Ferrera.

The fund supports LGBTQIA+ activists at risk that need acute and quick support. AmplifyChange is a grantmaking institution which invests in organisations from the Global South working on issues related to SRHR. On 22 nd November they opened a new call for proposals for their Strengthening Grant , which is offering up to $200,000 across a 2-3 year period.

Applications are now open for the 10,000 Women Growth Fellowship. This opportunity will include an intensive program of events held over three days, followed by a four-month mentoring program, for 10,000 Women graduates from all over the world.

L’Oréal Fund for Women | Ongoing The L’Oréal Fund for Women focuses on supporting women and girls’ empowerment, particularly by supporting projects in favour of social and professional integration and improving access to education.

The Lifeline Embattled CSO Assistance Fund provides emergency financial assistance to civil society organisations (CSOs) under threat or attack and rapid response advocacy and resiliency grants to support CSOs in responding to broader threats against civic space.

Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights | Ongoing Provides flexible and responsive support to women’s and trans* human rights defenders who face immediate threats and supports advocacy when unanticipated opportunities emerge.

Abilis Foundation | Ongoing The Abilis Foundation funds projects that are planned and implemented by persons with disabilities to advance their human rights and participation, with a focus on women and girls with disabilities in Africa and Asia.

Pulitzer Center’s Gender Equality Grants Program | Ongoing The programme is designed to help journalists take to a new level the reporting on issues related to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.

Frontline AIDS Rapid Response Fund | Ongoing Grants of up to $15,000 USD are available to organisations led by and serving marginalised communities affected by HIV to respond to external threats to their HIV-related human rights work. Wallace Global Fund | Ongoing The Fund supports organisations working to promote democracy, human rights, public health, and a sustainable planet.

Proposals can be for either core or project-specific support. The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation | Ongoing The foundation helps strengthen the capacity of organisations and coalitions in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Their focus areas include family planning and reproductive health.

Global Fund for Women | Ongoing Their grant making centres historically marginalised communities and those most impacted by gender injustice. All organisations must submit an organisational profile online. Kanthari Fellowship | Ongoing Kanthari’s twelve-month programme will help participants develop all necessary skills to succeed as social change-makers so they can start and run own NGO’s, social enterprises or social ventures.

Close the Gap provides high-quality refurbished IT equipment for social and educational projects in low- and middle-income countries all around the world (mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa). Purposeful – With and For Girls Fund | Ongoing The DWF Foundation supports registered NGOs working on homelessness, health and wellbeing, employability, education and environment and sustainability. Only select countries can apply.

Fund for Innovation in Development (FID) | Ongoing FID is a new initiative to support innovation that contributes to reducing global poverty and inequality. It specifically encourages applications from the priority countries for French aid .

Outright Action International LGBTIQ Emergency Fund | Ongoing The grants can be used for any emergency that has occurred as a result of the COVID-19 health crisis by organisations working directly with and for the LGBTIQ community.

Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa | Ongoing The initiative aims to support and amplify the voices of pro-democracy organisations and individuals in the region and to strengthen their capacity to hold their governments accountable. Firelight supports organisations that are working with their own communities to build potentially scalable solutions to the challenges faced by children and youth in eastern and southern Africa.

Noel Buxton Trust Grant | Ongoing Trustees tend to offer grants to smaller, grass-roots organisations with a focus on economic development. Priority countries are Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Sudan and South Sudan. 2022 ACT Foundation Grant | Ongoing The Foundation supports local, national and regional non-profit organisations working to address challenges across the African continent.

The next round of grants will open on 11th October. U.S. Embassy in Chad | Ongoing The grants help organisations create tangible benefits such as increasing or sustaining the number of jobs in a community, improving income levels, and addressing social development needs.

Techsoup West Africa | Ongoing Techsoup West Africa offers non-profits in ECOWAS countries as well as Cameroon and Tchad access to technology products up to 95% less than the market value or free of charge.

Africa Philanthropy Network Catalytic Grants 2021 | Ongoing Grants supporting initiatives that showcase African philanthropy models, including community-led development initiatives and those aimed towards gender equality and social inclusion. Supporting established, independent institutions, in particular schools, hospitals and health centres. Grants are distributed between Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi.

African Women’s Development Fund | Ongoing Funds projects that address the needs of and involve the women and communities most affected by inequality and injustice in the leadership and implementation of projects.

Open Society Foundations Initiative for Eastern Africa (OSIEA) | Ongoing Aims to support and amplify the voices of pro-democracy organisations and individuals in the region and to strengthen their capacity to hold their governments accountable. Urgent Action Fund Africa | Ongoing Provides financial support for strategic interventions that take advantage of opportunities to advance women’s human rights.

The Segal Family Foundation – Multiple countries| Ongoing The Foundation partners with organisations improving and cultivating ‘healthy, productive and empathetic youth’. Focus areas are adolescent sexual and reproductive health, and improving access to quality education and increasing youth employment.

Rapid Response Funding for Women in South Africa | Ongoing This funding has a special emphasis on mitigating the effect of COVID on women’s rights. Amounts range from R20,000 to R50,000. Grants are available for a period of three months to one year.

Firelight supports organisations that are working with their own communities to build potentially scalable solutions to the challenges faced by children and youth in eastern and southern Africa. Noel Buxton Trust Grant | Ongoing Trustees tend to offer grants to smaller, grass-roots organisations with a focus on economic development. Priority countries are Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Sudan and South Sudan.

US Embassy in Chad | Ongoing The grants help organisations create tangible benefits such as increasing or sustaining the number of jobs in a community, improving income levels, and addressing social development needs. Techsoup West Africa | Ongoing Techsoup West Africa offers non-profits in ECOWAS countries as well as Cameroon and Tchad access to technology products up to 95% less than the market value or free of charge.

Supporting established, independent institutions, in particular schools, hospitals and health centres. Grants are distributed between Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi. Right Sharing of World Resources Grant Program – Kenya & Sierra Leone | Ongoing Provides grants for women in these areas to begin small income-generating businesses so that they may help themselves and their families out of poverty.

India Open Grants Fund | Ongoing This fund assists NGOs to design and develop programmes which assist at-risk communities to build on their strengths and help them deal with the critical factors that make them vulnerable. Rural Women New Zealand | Ongoing The Adverse Events and Relief Fund is available to individuals, communities and groups, with a particular emphasis on rural women and children.

The fund provides financial assistance to persons or groups, where there is an identified urgent need due to a declared adverse event such as drought, fires, floods or earthquakes. AirAsia Foundation | Ongoing 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 welcomed to submit an application. Journalism Fund | Ongoing This grant programme aims to enable independent journalistic investigations into the exploitation of Asian victims of human trafficking and forced labour in Europe.

Dubai Cares works in partnership with UN aid agencies and international and local NGOs to implement education programs targeting children and young adults. Right Sharing of World Resources Grant Program – India | Ongoing Provides grants for women in India to begin small income-generating businesses so that they may help themselves and their families out of poverty.

Paul Hamlyn Foundation – India | Ongoing The fund aims to support vulnerable communities in priority areas in India. Share and Care Foundation Grant Program in India | Ongoing The Grant Program is now open to create opportunities for women and children with low income by partnering with communities, philanthropists, and local charitable organisations.

Urgent Action Fund Asia & Pacific | Ongoing A rapid response and feminist fund that mobilises and distributes resources to women and non-binary human rights defenders, activists, and their movements in the region to continue their work.

The Old Dart Foundation | Ongoing The Old Dart Foundation is a private grant-making organisation working to tackle poverty in Chile, Papua New Guinea, Peru, and the Philippines with a focus on women, children, and young people.

Europe, MENA and North America Journalism Fund | Ongoing This grant programme aims to enable independent journalistic investigations into the exploitation of Asian victims of human trafficking and forced labour in Europe.

International Women’s Media Foundation – United States | Ongoing The IWMF Fund for Indigenous Journalists: Reporting on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit, Transgender People (MMIWG2T) opportunity supports the production of ambitious reporting that opens up underreported aspects of the issue of Missing & Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP).

Return to Play Fund (RTPF) – United States | Ongoing RTPF will support community sport organisations that are dedicated to getting young people of colour moving again and providing them with guidance and opportunities to grow and succeed.

Doria Feminist Fund | Ongoing The Doria Feminist Fund seeks to create a feminist ecosystem where the new generation of feminist movement in the MENA region has access to more and better funding and resources. Women’s Empowerment International | Ongoing WEI accepts letters of inquiry for women-focused poverty-alleviation projects on an ongoing basis. Funding partners must be US 501(c)(3) non-profit organisations.

Latin America and the Caribbean UN Women Spotlight Initiative – Trinidad and Tobago | Ongoing UN Women is offering a small grant to engage in social accountability for legislation and the conduct of service providers to specific at-risk groups, to scale up services and programmes, to increase and enhance coordinated advocacy, and to strengthen institutional capacity related to Family Violence and Ending Violence Against Women and Girls.

The Old Dart Foundation | Ongoing The Old Dart Foundation is a private grant-making organisation working to tackle poverty in Chile, Papua New Guinea, Peru, and the Philippines with a focus on women, children and young people.

Urgent Action Fund Latin America | Ongoing A regional feminist fund for Latin America and the Spanish speaking Caribbean, which contributes to the sustainability and strengthening of activists and their movements, with quick and agile support.

UN Women – Caribbean | Ongoing UN Women is offering a small grant to expand the technical substantive capacity of civil society organisations on ending violence against women and girls in the Caribbean Region.

Gender and Diversity Knowledge Initiative | Ongoing GDLab is seeking research proposals that advance the knowledge of all types of existing inequalities between men and women in the region, as well as those faced by other at-risk groups.

USAID – Peru and South America | 30 September 2023 This initiative is designed to increase sustainability and impact in the areas of Regional Environmental and Sustainable Growth; Socio-economic Integration of Migrants; and Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment, and Climate Change.

UN Women Spotlight Initiative – Trinidad and Tobago | Ongoing UN Women is offering a small grant to engage in social accountability for legislation and the conduct of service providers to specific at-risk groups, to scale up services and programmes, to increase and enhance coordinated advocacy, and to strengthen institutional capacity related to Family Violence and Ending Violence Against Women and Girls.

The Old Dart Foundation | Ongoing The Old Dart Foundation is a private grant-making organisation working to tackle poverty in Chile, Papua New Guinea, Peru, and the Philippines with a focus on women, children and young people.

Urgent Action Fund Latin America | Ongoing A regional feminist fund for Latin America and the Spanish speaking Caribbean, which contributes to the sustainability and strengthening of activists and their movements, with quick and agile support. Click here to find more opportunities of funding