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Global AgriFood TechPreneur Programme

The Global AgriFood TechPreneur Programme from IntelliDigest is an opportunity for young graduates to address food system challenges in their home countries.

Applications to participate are due by February 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM GMT.

Program Benefits

All qualified applicants will have :

The top 10 proposals will present their projects on World Soil Day and International Day of Banks

Proposal

Proposals should focus on challenges related to issues such as:

  • Improving food production and distribution
  • Ending hunger
  • Ending obesity and malnutrition
  • Preventing food waste

Applicants are encouraged to refer to the Food Industry Sustainability Index while developing their proposals.

There is an option to attach a business plan and/or YouTube link to the application, but these are not required.

ProLiteracy National Book Fund

The ProLiteracy National Book Fund provides print materials to literacy programs in the United States. Awards are typically $500 – $2,000, but materials must be purchased through New Readers Press.

Applications will be accepted February 1 – March 15, 2025. There is a required 20% match for non-ProLiteracy members.

Eligibility

This grant is open to organizations that:

  • Have a clearly defined need that this award will meet
  • Will use awarded materials to work with students in a literacy program and/or literacy staff, instructors, or volunteers
  • Have not received a National Book Fund grant in the last two years

Just One More Foundation

The Just One More Foundation supports individuals who have faced serious obstacles and organizations who provide services to them. Their focus areas are Mental Health, Drug Misuse, Health Challenges, and Education.

Applications will open January 1 and be due by March 31, 2025.

Eligibility

This grant is open to nonprofit organizations and individuals who have developed a constructive plan for overcoming their obstacles.

The Foundation prefers to provide tuition-based grants to individuals.

Core Values

The Foundation’s grantmaking is based on their core values:

  • Hope
  • Compassion
  • Humility
  • Hard work
  • Perseverance
  • Accountability
  • Effectiveness

The Jim Henson Foundation: Artist Grants

Artist Grants from The Jim Henson Foundation support the development of innovative new works of puppet theater. Applicants may apply for a Workshop, Production, or Family Grant.

Letters of Intent for the 2025 grant cycle were due by March 4, 2024. For those invited to submit, full applications were due by September 9, 2024. We expect a similar timeline for the 2026 grant cycle.

Eligibility

Applicant

This grant is open to:

  • 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations
  • Individual artists with a nonprofit fiscal partner

Work

Proposed work must:

  • Be new and original
  • Be full length
  • Feature puppetry as a major portion of the production

The Foundation defines a puppet as, “an object that is given the appearance of life through direct or indirect manipulation by the human hand.”

Grant Types

Workshop Grants

Workshop grants of $3,000 are available to develop and workshop a new piece of puppet theater.

Production Grants

Production grants of $7,000 are available for the presentation of a new piece of puppet theater within a year of receving the funds. Winners of Workshop grants may subsequently apply for a Production grant, but a previous grant is not required.

Family Grants

Grants of $4,000 are available for the development of a new piece of puppet theater specifically for children, families, and/or teenagers. The new production must premeire within a year of receiving the funds.

Wildseeds Grants

The Wildseeds Grants program supports projects to enact transformative food and farm systems change in the United States. This must include the institutional racism embedded within those systems and the work to advance racial equity and justice.

Awards are typically $20,000 – $50,000 over a one-year term. Information about the 2025 grant cycle will be announced early in the new year. In 2024 grants opened on February 1st and closed on March 15th.

Eligibility

This grant is open to:

  • 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations
  • Tribal governments
  • Organizations with a fiscal sponsor

Applicants must also have an annual revenue of less than $3 million dollars or an average annual revenue of less than $3 million over the last 3 years.

Focus Areas

All projects must be focused on one or more of these priorities.

  • Cultural Organizing
  • Inclusive Economic Models & Community-Controlled Systems
  • Reclaiming Democracy
  • Promoting Indigenous and Ancestral Foodways and Agricultural Practices

Funding Limitations

Grant funds may not be used for:

  • Academic research
  • Endowments
  • Discretionary or emergency requests
  • Litigation or legal expenses.

Unity For Humanity Grant

The Unity for Humanity Grant is an international funding opportunity for charitable projects created with an RT3D platform (Unity, Unreal, Quill, etc.). Projects must also align with at least one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

A total of $500,000 in grant funding will be awarded with one grant specifically for a student project. Applications for up to $100,000 are due by February 7, 2025 at 11:59 PM PT.

Eligibility

This grant is open to:

  • Nonprofit organizations
  • Organizations with a fiscal sponsor. Applicants without a nonprofit sponsor will have potential partners recommended to them.

Applications may come from any country that does not have U.S. sanctions against it. These countries are:

  • The Crimea Region of Ukraine
  • Cuba
  • Iran
  • North Korea
  • Sudan
  • Syria*

*Subject to change due to new Syrian government

Project Medium

Applicant projects may use one or more of these mediums:

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  • AI
  • AR
  • Film
  • Game – Mobile
  • Game – Console
  • Game – PC
  • Interactive Design
  • Music
  • Robotics
  • Theatre, Live immersive experience
  • Visual art, Installation
  • VR
  • Mixed Reality
  • Other

Application Requirements

Applications must include:

  • An accessible link to a project sample, trailer, or walk through. These do not have to be in English, but must include English subtitles
  • An accessible link to a project pitch deck

Applications must be submitted in English.

Trans Justice Funding Project

The Trans Justice Funding Project supports grassroots, trans justice groups in the United States and its territories. Grants are unrestricted because TJFP believes that organizations can best decide themselves how to spend funds.

Applications open annually in late December and are due by February 15th at midnight PT.

Eligibility

Applicants do not have to have a nonprofit designation from the IRS. However they must:

  • Be run by and for trans people
  • Center the leadership of trans people and their experiences of intersecting oppression with racism, economic injustice, transmisogyny, ableism, immigration, incarceration, etc.
  • Be meeting the needs of their local community while seeing themselves as a part of a larger trans-led fight for equity and justice
  • Have a total annual budget of less than $250,000


Arthur N. Rupe Foundation

The Arthur N. Rupe Foundation supports projects in the U.S. focused on Caregiving, Debate, and Public Policy.

Letters of Inquiry are accepted on an ongoing basis and reviewed regularly. The grant committee may then request additional information or invite the applicant to submit a full application. Applications will be reviewed at Board meetings to be held in March, June, and October of 2025.

Funding Areas

Caregiving

The Dorothy Rupe Caregivier Program provides funding to respite programs and training and educational resources for family, professional, and volunteer caregivers providing at-home care for individuals with dementia.

Debate

The Foundation supports non-partisan efforts to promote civil and reasoned public debate. Debates should be accessible to general audiences to educate on all sides of an issue and create a more informed electorate.

Public Policy

The Foundation supports public policy research and public interest law firms defending core Constitutional principles.

Funding Limitations

The Foundation prefers to fund specific projects over general operating expenses. Grant funds may not be used:

  • Fundraising events
  • Conferences
  • Endowments
  • Capital campaigns

Albertine Translation Fund

The Albertine Translation Fund supports translators and American publishers of English translations of French texts. Awards are $2,000 for publishing costs and up to $5,000 for 50% of translation costs. Two awardees, one for fiction and one for nonfiction, will be chosen annually to receive an additional $5,000 for translation.

Applications are due by February 6, 2025.

Eligibility

Applicant

This funding opportunity is open to:

  • Authors
  • Agents
  • Translators
  • French and American publishers

Work

The work submitted must:

  • Be an unpublished translation
  • Have been published in France within the last 10 years
  • Have the Acquisition of Rights contract fully executed or in negotiations

Submission

In addition to the application form and supporting documents, applicants must also provide two physical copies of the original book in French and a PDF version.

Physical copies should be sent to:

Books & Ideas Department
Albertine Translation
Cultural Services of the French Embassy / Villa Albertine
972 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10075, USA

PDFs should be sent to translation@villa-albertine.org.

Review Criteria

Applications will be reviewed based on:

  • Quality of the original book and its importance in the contemporary French and francophone intellectual and literary landscape
  • Quality of the translation
  • Promotional and marketing plan
  • Potential and relevance for the American market

New Earth Foundation

The New Earth Foundation provides grant funding to US-based organizations working around the world to create a brighter future.

Letters of Inquiry are due annually by February 1st and July 1st.

Eligibility

This grant is open to:

  • 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations
  • Organizations with a 501(c)3 fiscal sponsor

Smaller, newer organizations will receive priority consideration.

Vision and Mission

All applications must meet the Foundation’s Vision and Mission.

Vision – “assisting to create an enhanced worldwide awareness, manifesting as universal peace and respect for all forms of life, the responsible use of Earth’s resources in sustainable ways, and a common realization that all is interconnected and One.”

Mission – “peace and delight to fund innovative, humanitarian projects according to the vision of New Earth Foundation, from community efforts that create models of social sustainability, to educational innovations that prepare youth to be future socially responsible leaders; from strategies that offer economic advances, to environmental initiatives that curb pollution and save the planet’s precious resources and earth’s natural biosphere.”

Funding Criteria

Applications must also:

  • Outline one specific project with clearly defined goals, an implementation plan, and expected results
  • Indicate who will benefit and how
  • Endeavor to involve the target population in the planning process
  • Include plans for replication
  • Contain an evaluation process
  • Seek community involvement and/or collaboration with other organizations
  • Be cost-effective with a realistic budget
  • Have a plan for acquiring future funding from other sources

Funding Limitations

The Foundation does not fund:

  • General operating expenses
  • Real estate, repairs, maintenance, building or renovation
  • Mainstream social services
  • Standard after-school programs, summer camps, or gardening programs