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Remote Grants & Funding Opportunities

Real remote grants & funding opportunities — verified, not scraped junk. 22 real opportunities right now.

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Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists

International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF)

An eight-year annual grant fund supporting women and nonbinary journalists' reporting projects worldwide.

📍 GlobalPaidMedium
#grant#journalism#women
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General

Kari Howard Fund for Narrative Journalism

International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF)

Funds the development of long-form narrative journalism pieces, honoring former Los Angeles Times editor Kari Howard.

📍 GlobalPaidMedium
#grant#journalism#narrative
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Early Career

Diversify Photo Eyewitness Photojournalism Grant

Diversify Photo & Pulitzer Center

Supports projects by independent photojournalists from backgrounds historically underrepresented in global media.

📍 GlobalPaidMedium
#grant#photojournalism#diversity
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Early Career

Earth Journalism Network Biodiversity Story Grant

Internews (Earth Journalism Network)

Story grants expanding the quality and quantity of biodiversity journalism coverage worldwide.

📍 GlobalPaidEasy
#grant#journalism#biodiversity
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Founder

UNICEF Venture Fund

UNICEF Office of Innovation

An equity-free funding vehicle for open-source, frontier-tech startups improving child health, education, and wellbeing outcomes.

📍 Global (LMIC focus)PaidMedium
#grant#frontier-tech#child-wellbeing
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Founder

Microsoft AI for Accessibility Grant

Microsoft

A twelve-month grant and support program for researchers, startups, and nonprofits building assistive technology using AI.

📍 GlobalPaidMedium
#grant#accessibility#ai
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Founder

The Accessibility Fund

The Accessibility Fund

A multi-year cohort program funding small, disability-focused organizations, especially in the Global South, with unrestricted grants and a nonprofit accelerator track.

📍 Global (priority Global South)PaidMedium
#grant#disability#social-enterprise
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Founder

UNHCR Refugee-led Innovation Fund

UNHCR Innovation Service

Provides direct funding, mentoring, and expertise to organizations led by forcibly displaced and stateless people building community-based innovations.

📍 GlobalPaidMedium
#grant#refugee-led#social-enterprise
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Founder

Imagine H2O Pilot Fund

Imagine H2O

Provides recoverable grants and impact-linked loans helping water-technology startups pilot solutions with early adopters worldwide.

📍 GlobalPaidMedium
#grant#water-tech#startup
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Early Career

Miles Morland Writing Scholarship

Miles Morland Foundation

A six-month scholarship supporting African writers to complete a book-length work of fiction or non-fiction, with a stipend covering living costs during the writing period.

📍 Any location (remote writing period)PaidMedium
#grant#africa#writing
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Founder

MIT Solve Financial Inclusion Challenge

MIT Solve

A challenge for solutions expanding financial access to excluded individuals and small enterprises, with winners receiving funding and MIT Solve's mentorship network.

📍 Global (online application)PaidMedium
#competition#fintech#financial-inclusion
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Founder

Visa Everywhere Initiative

Visa

A global startup competition supporting founders building innovative payment and commerce technologies, with cash prizes and mentorship from Visa's innovation team.

📍 Global (regional heats)PaidMedium
#competition#fintech#startup
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Founder

MIT Solve The Care Economy Challenge

MIT Solve

A challenge specifically for technology-enabled solutions to childcare, eldercare, and disability-support gaps, funded through MIT Solve's broader innovation network.

📍 Global (online application)PaidMedium
#competition#social-impact#care-economy
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Student

Rise Global Winners Program (Rhodes Trust / Schmidt Futures)

Schmidt Futures / Rhodes Trust

A continuation track for RISE-recognized teenagers, offering ongoing mentorship, funding for independent projects, and access to a lifelong support network.

📍 Global (online application)PaidMedium
#fellowship#funding#mentorship
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Founder

We Empower UN SDG Challenge

UN Women

A challenge recognizing women-led businesses that advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals through their core commercial operations, with a cash grant opportunity for finalists.

📍 Global (regional finalists)PaidMedium
#challenge#women-entrepreneurs#sdgs
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General

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Distinguished Scholars Award

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

A substantial multi-year research award funding scholars and institutions studying the causes, manifestations, and control of violence.

📍 Global (remote application)PaidHard
#grant#research#social-science
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Early Career

International Women's Media Foundation Fund for Women Journalists

International Women's Media Foundation

A grant supporting women journalists' reporting projects or professional development, particularly those covering underreported stories of global importance.

📍 Global (remote application)PaidMedium
#grant#journalism#women
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Student

Non-Trivial Fellowship

Non-Trivial

An online fellowship supporting ambitious teenagers and young adults to pursue independent research, policy, or entrepreneurial projects with direct funding and mentorship.

📍 Remote (online)PaidMedium
#fellowship#youth#research
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Early Career

UNEP Young Champions of the Earth

United Nations Environment Programme

UNEP's flagship award for environmental entrepreneurship, recognizing young innovators whose ventures address pressing ecological challenges with seed funding and mentorship.

📍 Global (regional finalists)PaidHard
#award#environment#entrepreneurship
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Founder

Biomimicry Institute Ray of Hope Accelerator

Biomimicry Institute

A six-month accelerator for early-stage startups building nature-inspired solutions to environmental challenges, pairing founders with biomimicry experts and seed funding.

📍 Global (remote cohort)PaidMedium
#accelerator#climate#biomimicry
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Founder

D-Prize

D-Prize

A competition funding entrepreneurs to distribute proven poverty interventions — like clean water, basic health products, or educational materials — into new communities.

📍 Global (online application)PaidMedium
#grant#poverty#social-enterprise
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Founder

MIT Solve Global Challenges

MIT Solve

An open innovation platform that runs annual challenges (health, climate, economic prosperity, learning) and connects selected Solver teams with funding, mentorship, and MIT's network.

📍 Global (online application)PaidMedium
#competition#social-impact#funding
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