Funding Opportunities Archive

Omidyar Network's Reporters in Residence (Summer 2025)

• Deadline: May 30, 2025
• https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/omidyarnetwork/jobs/6848749

Call for applications: School on Platform Governance

• Association for Progressive Communications and Open Net Korea
• Deadline: May 25, 2025
• https://www.apc.org/en/news/call-applications-school-platform-governance

Tactical Tech's Training on “AI for Non-profit Newsrooms” (Europe-based)

• Deadline: May 25, 2025
• https://exposingtheinvisible.org/en/news/ai-training-berlin

The Sustain Fund is Open For Applications

• Black Feminist Fund
• Deadline: May 24, 2025
• https://blackfeministfund.org/grantmaking/

Effects of the Usage of Digital Technology on Brain Development, Social Behaviours and Mental Health in Children and Young People

• The Huo Family Foundation
• Deadline: May 23, 2025
• https://huofamilyfoundation.org/our-grants/funding-opportunities

Feminist Batti Jalao

• Deadline: May 20, 2025
• https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdajG-ceq_UsnBlYpbQeKLR5Z9iSwWZIxTzWFjbRY2sJXqKOA/viewform

Call for Proposals for Projects Looking at Power Dynamics in the SWANA Digital Sphere

• The Arab Reform Initiative and Mozilla Tech
• Deadline: May 20, 2025
• https://www.arab-reform.net/job/power-dynamics-in-the-swana-digital-sphere/

4D Award Digital Rights by Design: Grants for Democratic Digitalisation Projects

• Deadline: May 18, 2025
• https://4d.cat/en/award/

Grants for Democratic Digitalisation Projects

• Deadline: May 18, 2025
• https://4d.cat/en/award

Applied Research on the Relationship Between Responsible Technology Practices and Financial Performance

• Ford Foundation and Omidyar Network
• Deadline: May 16, 2025
• https://www.fordfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Ford-ON-RFP-April-2025-Tech-Capital-Markets.pdf

Eisner Fellowship: USA Leaders in Intergenerational Activism

• Deadline: May 16, 2025
• https://eisnerfoundation.org/the-eisner-prize-fellowship-program/

Call for Papers to Support Research that Deepens our Collective Understanding of Digital Financial Inclusion

• Deadline to submit abstracts: May 15, 2025
• https://submit.interledger.org/submit/5f500d14-8563-4d7c-87a5-d9f1e11d75d0/2025-interledger-foundation-call-for-paper

Equity-Free Funding Opportunity for Fem Tech Solutions 

• UNICEF Venture Fund
• Deadline: May 8, 2025
• https://www.unicef.org/innovation/FemTechCall

Regional Partnership Fund for the SWANA Region 2025

• Deadline: May 7, 2025
• https://www.digitaldefenders.org/regional-partnership-fund-for-the-swana-region-2025-now-open-for-applications/

Sustainable Protection Fund

• Digital Defenders Partnership (DDP)
• Deadline: May 7, 2025
• https://www.digitaldefenders.org/sustainable-protection-fund-open-call-for-applications-from-swana

Internet Society's Peering Fellowship

• Deadline: May 2, 2025
• https://www.internetsociety.org/fellowships/peering/

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society Fellowship

• Deadline: April 30, 2025
• https://cyber.harvard.edu/getinvolved/fellowships/2526Fellows

Open Society Foundation's Transformative Peace in Africa

• Deadline: April 30, 2025
• First register here: https://grantsmithportal.screenstepslive.com/a/1899218-how-to-create-a-new-account-on-the-grant-portal
• Once registered, fill out this form with your organization’s registered name: https://forms.office.com/e/s0Ts3M8KQv

Sub-Saharan Africa Digital Democracy Hackathon

• Deadline: April 30, 2025
• https://hackathon.magambanetwork.com/

Tech + Policy Course Scholarship

• FOSS United
• Deadline: April 20, 2025
• https://forum.fossunited.org/t/technology-policy-course-scholarship-for-foss-devs/1220/43

2025 MIT Solve' Global Economic Prosperity Challenge

• Deadline: April 17, 2025
• https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/2025-global-economic-prosperity-challenge

VinFuture Prize

• VinFuture Foundation
• Deadline: April 17, 2025
• https://vinfutureprize.org/vinfuture-prize-nomination/

2025 MIT Solve' Global Economic Prosperity Challenge

• Deadline to apply: April 17, 2025
• https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/2025-global-economic-prosperity-challenge

Environmental Justice in Tech Fellowship

• The Rooted Futures Lab launched
• Rolling application until April 15, 2025
• https://www.rootedfutureslab.io/ejit-fellowship

I AM Nala Fellowship

• Nala Feminist Collective
• Deadline: April 14, 2025
• https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeiBRoptpbn7Td_pDcxg5FKajxOs7a6tG7JDqmiyuAuxFGj_w/viewform

Navigating Digital Power in Asia

• Common Edge Asia
• Deadline: April 14, 2025
• https://www.commonedge.asia/digitalpower/

2025 Mid-Career Fellowship Application

• Internet Society
• Deadline: April 11, 2025
• https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/566ae57b98cc48c58e05d3327c970360

Short Innovation Projects 2025

• EIT Culture & Creativity
• Deadline: April 11, 2025
• https://eit-culture-creativity.eu/short-innovation-projects-2025/

Metascience & AI Postdoctoral Fellowship

• Deadline: April 10, 2025
• https://sloan.org/programs/digital-technology/aipostdoc-rfp

Compute for Climate Fellowship 2025

• Deadline: April 6, 2025
• https://ircai.org/ircai-and-aws-climate-fellowship/

Summer 2025 U.S. Public Policy Fellowship

• Google Public Policy Fellowship
• Deadline: April 4, 2025
• https://www.google.com/policyfellowship/usa/faq/

AI at Work: Field Experiments on the Workforce Effects of New AI Tools

• Deadline: April 1, 2025
• https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai-at-work/

NGI Zero Commons Fund

• Reclaim the Public Nature of the Internet
• Deadline: April 1, 2025
• https://nlnet.nl/commonsfund/

Mama Cash's Resilience Fund

• Deadline: March 31, 2025
• https://www.mamacash.org/funds/resilience-fund/

Data Governance in Africa Research Fund

• Initial application account registration: March 11, 2025
• Deadline: March 31, 2025
• https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1trBdzuGlDyss6ikyY-mjCLSoUTplda08

The GSMA Innovation Fund for Impactful AI

• Registration and eligibility forms deadline: March 12, 2025
• Deadline for submitting pitches: March 19, 2025
• https://www.gsma.com/solutions-and-impact/connectivity-for-good/mobile-for-development/gsma-innovation-fund/the-gsma-innovation-fund-for-impactful-ai

Call for Proposals: We Rise Campaign

• Deadline: March 11, 2025
• https://www.civicus.org/index.php/engage-and-act/campaign-with-us/werise-campaign-call-for-proposals

Enabling Women’s Access to Employment Opportunities in STEM, Digital & Clean Energy Sectors (Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra)

• Deadline: March 10, 2025
• https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/programme-implementation/2025/02/unw-ap-ind-cfp-2025-003-enabling-womens-access-to-decent-and-safe-employment-opportunities-in-stem-digital-and-clean-energy-sectors-with-a-focus-on-the-states-of-madhya-pradesh-gujarat-and-maharashtra

Storytelling Data Fellowship

• Equal Measures 2030
• Deadline: March 9, 2025
• https://equalmeasures2030.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Storytelling-with-Data-Fellowship-PDF.pdf

Cross-Border Media Literacy Projects

• Deadline: March 6, 2025
• https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/funding/call-proposals-cross-border-media-literacy-projects

The Sepal Fund

• The Calyx Institute
• Deadline: March 3, 2025
• https://calyxinstitute.org/projects/the-sepal-fund

Strengthening Independent Public Interest Journalism in Europe

• Civitates
• Deadline: March 2, 2025
• https://civitates-eu.org/funding-opportunity/call-for-proposals-strengthening-independent-public-interest-journalism-in-europe/

Tony Elumelu Foundation Applications for the 2025 Entrepreneurship Programms

• Deadline to apply: March 1, 2025
• https://www.tefconnect.com/

UN Democracy Fund

• Deadline to apply: February 28, 2025
• https://www.un.org/democracyfund/apply-for-funding

Information Controls Fellowship Program

• Open Technology Fund
• Deadline: February 28, 2025
• https://www.opentech.fund/fellowships/icfp/

OSV Fellowships & Grants 2025

• Deadline: February 28, 2025
• https://forms.osv.llc/fellowships2025

Tarbell Fellowship for AI Reporting

• Tarbell Center for AI Journalism
• Deadline: February 28, 2025
• https://www.tarbellfellowship.org/programme

The Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy

• The New School
• Deadline: February 28, 2025
• https://platform.coop/blog/open-call-for-applications-for-the-2025-2026-icde-fellowship-program/

O’Shaughnessy Fellowships & Grants

• Deadline: February 28, 2025
• https://forms.osv.llc/fellowships2025