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114 opportunities on the Agriculture, Climate, Environment, Energy and Food page this cycle, 53 of them new. Read across the last several months, three currents stand out: the blue economy has surfaced as a funding category of its own; circular economy and clean manufacturing are being funded as industrial policy; and conservation and climate money is getting more locally led and more precisely targeted.
The blue economy has surfaced as a category of its own. The freshest and most distinctive signal this cycle is the ocean. What used to be scattered marine grants is now a coherent stream. Innovate UK is running two maritime programs at once, on zero-emission vessels and clean maritime demonstration; Schmidt Marine Technology Partners and the Ocean Startup Project are backing blue-tech ventures; Hatch Blue runs a Blue Revolution fund and accelerator; and MarLEN is funding zero-emission waterborne transport across a transnational consortium. On the conservation side, Save Our Seas funds shark and ray science while Bow Seat’s True Blue Fellowship builds ocean-literacy leaders. The blue economy has moved from a niche to a category funders name and resource directly.
Circular economy and clean manufacturing are being funded as industrial policy. This is no longer environmental philanthropy; it is industrial strategy. The Milken-Motsepe program is running a $2 million circular-economy prize, the New South Wales government is funding renewable and net-zero manufacturing, the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking and Eureka’s Lightweighting call are building materials and process innovation, and the Clean Energy Transition Partnership is coordinating a $91 million cross-border pool. This is the climate-aligned industrial capital we flagged in June, now concentrated in the factories, materials, and supply chains of the transition.
Conservation and climate money is getting locally led and precisely targeted. This is the locally-led community capital thread we named in June, sharpening. The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund is calling for hotspot-specific work in Madagascar and the Tropical Andes, City Bridge is funding communities leading climate and environmental justice, and Munich Re’s RISK Award backs climate resilience for informal settlements specifically. Even the largest food-security money follows the logic: the $163 million GAFSP round funds country-led proposals rather than donor-designed programs. The money is moving closer to the people and places it is meant to reach.
Total Estimated Funding Pool: ~$90 Million+ in competitive/discrete funding, alongside roughly $700M in large national and multilateral programs that sit on the page at a different scale
Open Calls: Current grant and opportunities with a deadline. Grants are listed by closing date. 88 open opportunities – 53 new!
Rolling Applications: current grant and opportunities with rolling applications (but it’s still best to submit as early as possible). 23 rolling opportunities!
Long term planning: Grants that have closed their current rounds, but are expected to open new windows. 3 long term opportunities!
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Power of Diversity Grants 2026, Crop Trust. *Closing Soon!*
The Crop Trust’s Power of Diversity Funding Facility is a EUR €2.2 million competitive grant program across six countries (Colombia, Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda) funding targeted projects strengthening the value chains of underutilized opportunity crops at the USD $100,000 to $200,000 per-grant range. The funder logic concentrates capital at country-crop-intervention combinations rather than open thematic prioritization: applicants must demonstrate a minimum of three years of in-country experience, financial eligibility requires that annual average revenue turnover from 2023 to 2025 exceeds the proposed project budget, and the five eligible intervention areas (seed system development, good agricultural practices, post-harvest and processing capacity, market access, consumer awareness) map directly to where crop diversity loss happens operationally. Proposals can cover one or multiple intervention areas, crops, or countries, but the in-country experience and financial-capacity gates are structurally enforced. No specific organization-type restriction stated; all organizations are invited to explore the project interventions. English-language portal-only submission via croptrust.notion.site/powerofdiversitygrants.
Geographies: Colombia, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia. Applicants must have minimum 3 years in-country experience in the target country.
Who can apply: Organizations of any type with minimum 3 years in-country experience. Annual average revenue turnover 2023 to 2025 must exceed proposed project budget. No nonprofit-only restriction stated.
Funding amount: USD $100,000 to $200,000 per grant. Total program envelope EUR €2.2 million (approximately USD $2.39 million).
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Agriculture & Food Systems. Focus areas: underutilized opportunity crops, seed systems, good agricultural practices, post-harvest and processing, market access, consumer awareness, crop diversity.
Deadline: July 3, 2026.
The three-year in-country experience gate is structurally enforced; organizations with strong sectoral expertise but limited time in the target country will fail at eligibility regardless of technical quality. The revenue-turnover-exceeds-budget rule excludes applicants whose project budget would dominate annual operations; smaller organizations can apply but should size projects against their financial capacity.
Small Grants (marine chondrichthyan species), Save Our Seas Foundation. *Closing Soon!*
Save Our Seas Foundation’s Small Grants program is funding short (up to 18 months) research, conservation, and education projects focused exclusively on marine chondrichthyan species (sharks, rays, skates, sawfishes, and chimaeras) at an average USD $5,000 per grant, with funds going directly to individual project leaders rather than through institutional intermediaries. The funder logic deliberately bypasses the institutional research model that dominates marine science philanthropy: large institution overheads are not eligible for funding, satellite tags are not supported, conference attendance is not supported, and international travel expenses are capped at 10 percent of requested budget. The program targets early-career scientists, conservationists, and educators within five years of degree completion, and explicitly promotes local projects led by local project leaders rather than international expeditions. Eligible applicants may receive a maximum of two small grants across their early career and are not eligible to apply in the year immediately following their first award. Two-stage online application: Stage I (short form) is open with a July 3 deadline; Stage II is by invitation in August 2026.
Geographies: Global. No region or country restriction stated. SOSF promotes local projects by local people; international travel expenses capped at 10 percent of budget.
Who can apply: Individual early career scientists, conservationists, and educators within 5 years of degree award. One application per cycle. Maximum two SOSF Small Grants per career; not eligible to apply in the year immediately following first award. No current SOSF grant.
Funding amount: Average USD $5,000 per grant. Project duration up to 18 months. No overhead, admin, or handling fees to institutions; funds go directly to project leaders. Personal stipend capped at 10 percent of budget. International travel capped at 10 percent of budget.
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Climate & Environment. Focus areas: chondrichthyan species (sharks, rays, skates, sawfishes, chimaeras), marine biodiversity, early-career marine science.
Deadline: July 3, 2026 at 18:00 CET (Stage I).
The chondrichthyan-species-only filter is non-waivable; marine projects on other species (cetaceans, fish, invertebrates, ecosystems) will be screened out regardless of conservation merit. The within-five-years-of-degree window is calendar-anchored to degree award date; applicants outside that window should look at SOSF Keystone or Research Project grants instead.
LACI Incubation Program – Cohort 13, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator. *New!* *Closing Soon!*
The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator opens its thirteenth incubation cohort to pre-seed and seed-stage cleantech startups building in clean energy, zero-emissions transportation, and the circular economy for sustainable cities. LACI is not writing a check so much as building a commercialization runway: six months of curriculum, a weekly Executive-in-Residence, pilot deployment support, and access to its own impact and debt funds for companies that prove out. The warrant equity stake, earned back through impact milestones, signals that LACI ties its own upside to whether founders actually scale in Southern California. The requirement for a working prototype and a real expansion strategy filters for teams past the idea stage. The strongest fits are US-based hardware and climate-tech founders ready to run pilots and grow a team in Los Angeles.
Geographies: United States.
Who can apply: US-based pre-seed to seed-stage cleantech startups with a working prototype and a Southern California expansion strategy.
Funding amount: USD 50,000 to USD 500,000 fund access (impact and debt funds), plus a 1.5 to 3 percent warrant equity stake and USD 160,000 in perks.
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Climate & Environment; SDG7, SDG9, SDG11, SDG13. Focus: cleantech commercialization.
Deadline: July 3, 2026.
LACI is backing companies that will build and hire in Southern California, not just any promising cleantech, so local roots and a pilot-ready product are what it is really buying. The warrant means it wins when you scale there. Show a concrete Southern California deployment path and a working prototype, and position yourself as a team that intends to grow where LACI can help.
Circular Economy for Sustainable Islands: Designing Regenerative Island Futures, Island Innovation. *New!* *Closing Soon!*
Island Innovation is opening full scholarships to its eight week online course on circular economy for island territories, a training program that teaches professionals to design circular systems, cut import dependence, and strengthen local economies through regenerative methods. Island Innovation works across small island developing states, and it is using this course to build a practitioner base that can carry circular thinking into real island contexts rather than treating it as abstract theory. The scholarships go to early and mid career people already working on island community projects, signaling that the program wants applied learners who will put the curriculum to work where supply chains are thin and resources stay local. The strongest fits are island practitioners ready to redesign how their communities source, use, and recover materials.
Geographies: Caribbean, Global, Oceania.
Who can apply: Early- to mid-career professionals already working on island community or sustainability projects who can apply the course in their own island context.
Funding amount: Full scholarship (course place, no cash award).
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Climate & Environment; SDG8, SDG11, SDG12, SDG13. Focus: island circular economy.
Deadline: July 3, 2026.
Island Innovation is growing a practitioner base that will actually use circular thinking where supply chains are thin, so it wants applied learners over curious observers. The scholarship goes to people who can name where the course will land. Point to the specific island project you are running and the material flows you intend to redesign, and frame yourself as someone ready to put the eight weeks straight to work.
Care Collective Fund Round I (plastic life cycle + maritime ecosystems), GOT BAG. *Closing Soon!*
GOT BAG’s Care Collective Fund Round I is funding fixed EUR €10,000 grants to organizations and activists working on plastic life cycle management, maritime ecosystem protection, or community care and climate resilience, with a stated preference for locally-led initiatives in the Global South, Southeast Asia, and coastal Africa, alongside Global North advocacy and research. The funder logic is climate-justice framing rather than corporate philanthropy: GOT BAG is the B Corp-certified ocean plastic backpack brand, and the call’s eligibility filters (formal bank account in the organization’s legal name, FATF-aligned sanctions screening, age 18 minimum for individual activists, English communication, exclusion of greenwashing projects, conventional businesses, political party campaigning, and religious proselytization entities) signal a fund designed to channel corporate CSR capital toward grassroots actors that mainstream foundations systematically exclude on technical eligibility grounds. The 62-point internal jury scoring rubric makes the selection criteria transparent. Application is via embedded Typeform with a project budget upload required, closes midnight CEST on July 5, 2026, and funding begins August 2026.
Geographies: Global. Preference for locally-led initiatives in the Global South, Southeast Asia, and coastal Africa. Global North advocacy and research also eligible.
Who can apply: Registered NGOs and foundations (with Gemeinwohl or tax-exempt/public interest documentation); grassroots initiatives and activists (18+ with activism track record); academic and independent research projects; social enterprises, impact start-ups, and sustainable enterprises with proven impact. Formal bank account in organization’s legal name with SWIFT/IBAN capability required. Exclusions: conventional businesses, greenwashing projects, political party campaigning, religious proselytization, environmental justice violation history.
Funding amount: Fixed EUR €10,000 per recipient (approximately USD $10,900). Disbursed in EUR via SWIFT/IBAN; currency conversion fees borne by recipient.
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Climate & Environment. Focus areas: plastic life cycle, ocean plastic pollution, maritime ecosystem protection, community care, climate resilience, climate justice.
Deadline: July 5, 2026.
The formal bank account in the organization’s legal name capable of SWIFT/IBAN transfers is a hard administrative filter; grassroots actors operating through informal financial arrangements will not pass eligibility regardless of climate-justice impact. Sanctions and AML screening is applied automatically, and entities with environmental justice violation history are screened out.
TOE Local Environment Fund, Trust for Oxfordshire’s Environment. *New!* *Closing Soon!*
The Trust for Oxfordshire’s Environment runs its Local Environment Fund to back local nature recovery led by community groups, parish councils, charities, and community interest companies across Oxfordshire. The Trust organizes its giving around three priorities, access, biodiversity, and community, signaling that it wants both restored habitats and people connected to the green spaces around them. It funds the practical work of recovery: enhancing woodlands, ponds, and meadows, opening up footpaths and circular routes, and growing the volunteer base that records local species. The tiered structure, with informal grants accepted any time and larger awards shaped through conversation, signals a funder that prefers to coach applicants rather than gatekeep them. The strongest fits are small, locally rooted Oxfordshire groups turning a concrete habitat or access idea into a deliverable project.
Geographies: United Kingdom.
Who can apply: Oxfordshire-based not-for-profits, voluntary groups, parish councils, charities, and CICs (local authorities may apply but community groups are preferred).
Funding amount: Up to $67.5K max (GBP 50,000 for impact grants; small grants up to GBP 2,500, standard GBP 2,500 to 25,000).
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Climate & Environment; SDG11, SDG13, SDG15. Focus: local nature recovery.
Deadline: July 6, 2026.
What TOE is really buying is a stronger community relationship with a specific patch of Oxfordshire, not just a restored pond. Because they coach rather than gatekeep, use that early conversation to make the human side of your project vivid: who volunteers, who visits, who records the species. Let the people around the habitat be as concrete as the habitat itself, and the fit becomes obvious.
Canada Environmental Science Opportunity (multi-stream), Environment and Climate Change Canada. *Closing Soon!*
Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Canada Environmental Science Opportunity is a multi-stream research funding call organized around three streams and 11 thematic areas spanning climate science, cryosphere and freshwater, air quality, ecological risk assessment, AI for hydro-meteorological services, nature-based climate solutions, species at risk, coastal and arctic ecosystems, GHG and air pollutant trend analysis, net-zero technology pathways, and emissions measurement-monitoring-reporting-verification. The funder logic deliberately distributes capital across science capacity-building (Streams 1 and 2 to academic and Indigenous and NGO institutions at CAD $100,000 to $250,000 per year over 3 to 5 years per theme) and applied net-zero analysis (Stream 3 to not-for-profit organizations only, requiring CAD $500,000 to $2 million over a maximum of five years). Indigenous organizations, governments, boards, commissions, associations, and authorities are explicitly named eligible across multiple themes, indicating that this is reconciliation-aligned science funding, not just academic research. All funded projects must begin in fiscal year April 2026 to March 2027. For-profit organizations are not eligible. Applications through the Grants and Contributions Enterprise Management System.
Geographies: Canada. All applicants must be Canadian organizations. Indigenous organizations explicitly eligible.
Who can apply: Eligibility varies by stream/theme. Theme 1A: post-secondary academic institutions and regional climate consortia. Theme 1B/1D: post-secondary academic institutions only. Themes 1C, 2A, 2C: post-secondary academic, Canadian NGOs, Indigenous organizations. Theme 2B: post-secondary academic, not-for-profit, Indigenous organizations. Streams 3A/3B/3C: Canadian not-for-profit only. For-profit organizations not eligible for any stream. Individuals not eligible.
Funding amount: Highly variable by stream and theme. Stream 1: up to CAD $100,000 to $250,000 per year for 3 to 5 years. Stream 2: up to CAD $100,000 per year for 3 years. Stream 3: CAD $500,000 to $2 million over maximum 5 years (approximately USD $370,000 to $1.47 million). Total per-project max ~ CAD $2 million (Stream 3). All amounts in CAD.
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Climate & Environment. Three streams, 11 themes: climate science, cryosphere, freshwater, air quality, ecological risk assessment, AI for hydro-meteorological services, nature-based solutions, species at risk, coastal and arctic ecosystems, GHG and air pollutant trends, net-zero technology pathways, emissions MRV.
Deadline: July 7, 2026 at 15:00 Eastern Time via GCEMS.
Eligible applicant types vary significantly across the 11 themes; applicants should consult the specific Applicant Guide for each theme rather than assuming uniform NGO or university eligibility. Stream 3 (net-zero analysis) is restricted to Canadian not-for-profit organizations specifically; applicants should match entity type to the correct stream before drafting.
CEPF Call for Large Grants: Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands (MADIO), Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF). *Closing Soon!*
The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) is funding civil society organizations to improve the conservation status of Madagascar’s threatened tree species. The call runs through the Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands hotspot program but is deliberately narrowed to tree species: applicants must tie their work to taxonomically verified threatened tree species listed in the MADIO Ecosystem Profile, not generic biodiversity or forest cover. Implementation must occur inside Madagascar, with the Franklinia Foundation operating as CEPF’s regional implementation team.
Geographies: Madagascar (MADIO hotspot)
Who can apply: NGOs, community groups, universities, and private companies
Funding amount: USD $50,000 to $200,000 per grant
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Climate & Environment. Focus areas: biodiversity conservation, threatened tree species, civil society, Madagascar, MADIO hotspot.
Deadline: July 7, 2026 (LOI due 11:59pm Eastern; late submissions not accepted)
The Franklinia alignment makes tree species the unit of account, not hectares or livelihoods. Name your target species and their threat status in the first lines of the LOI; landscape and community outcomes read as supporting evidence here, not headline objectives.
New National Forest – North and Midlands (Delivery Partner), Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra). *New!* *Closing Soon!*
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is opening its competition for a delivery partner to create England’s third new national forest, across the North or Midlands. Defra wants one lead organization to work with the National Forest Company to shape and then deliver a forest of 200 to 600 square miles, following the earlier Western Forest. What the department is backing is landscape-scale transformation: woodland creation, wildlife habitat recovery, and green space placed where deprivation and poor health outcomes overlap most. The two-stage process weighs solvency, planning expertise, and a track record of woodland delivery at scale, signaling that Defra wants a partner who can convene communities and attract private investment, not only plant trees. The strongest fits are established environmental and land-management bodies with proven landscape-scale delivery.
Geographies: United Kingdom (North or Midlands of England).
Who can apply: Registered public, charitable or private organisations outside central government, applying alone or as a consortium with proven landscape-scale delivery.
Funding amount: up to USD 9.53M (GBP 7,500,000) over five years.
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Climate & Environment; SDG3, SDG11, SDG13, SDG15. Focus: landscape-scale woodland.
Deadline: July 7, 2026.
Defra is choosing a convener as much as a planter: it wants a partner who can rally communities, navigate planning, and pull in private finance over a generation. Present yourself less as a woodland contractor and more as the institution that can hold a landscape-scale programme together, and let your solvency and track record of delivery at scale do the reassuring.
Future Farm Lab: Call to Enhance and Scale a 3D Digital Learning Platform for Regenerative Agriculture, EIT Food. *New!* *Closing Soon!*
EIT Food is looking for one organization to take an existing 3D digital learning platform for regenerative agriculture and grow it into a lasting European resource. The Knowledge and Innovation Community wants the selected partner to deepen the content, building modules on soil health, biodiversity, and water resilience, and to make the experience immersive through systems-based simulations rather than static coursework. EIT Food is backing the move from a working prototype toward something embedded in vocational, higher, and professional training across the agrifood sector. By requiring a commercialization strategy and rising revenue targets, the call is signaling that it wants a platform that survives past the grant. The strongest fits are established edtech and immersive learning teams with deep regenerative agriculture knowledge and a credible path to financial sustainability.
Geographies: Europe.
Who can apply: EU or Horizon-associated legal entities at least five years old with existing digital learning infrastructure and a valid PIC number, applying as a single beneficiary.
Funding amount: USD 399,600 (EUR 370,000), minimum 10 percent co-funding required.
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Agriculture & Food Systems; SDG2, SDG4, SDG13, SDG15. Focus: regenerative agriculture edtech.
Deadline: July 7, 2026.
EIT Food wants a platform that outlives the grant, so financial sustainability is the real test here, not just good content. The rising revenue targets tell you it is buying a business as much as a learning tool. Lead with your commercialization plan and your existing reach into vocational and professional training, and treat the regenerative agriculture modules as the anchor of a product that can stand on its own.
GreenGrid Growth Box Open Call – Scaling Green Innovation with Industry, Green Grid Europe (Eurocluster for Renewable Energy Growth). *New!* *Closing Soon!*
Green Grid Europe, an EU funded cluster for renewable energy growth, has opened its GreenGrid Growth Box call for small and medium enterprises with proven energy and cleantech solutions. The cluster uses cascade funding to push mature technologies, roughly TRL 5 to 8, through real validation rather than more early research, pairing each selected company with an industry challenge owner such as a transmission or distribution operator. The predefined challenges, from battery storage and rooftop solar to district heating demand response and smart building integration, map where Europe most needs its grid to bend and absorb renewables. Requiring co-financing and a named operator partner signals that the cluster wants deployable products and committed teams. The strongest fits are growth-stage SMEs with a working solution and a willing host operator.
Geographies: Europe.
Who can apply: EU or Single Market Programme SMEs registered at least a year with one closed financial year and a solution mature enough for real-environment validation.
Funding amount: USD 54,000 (EUR 50,000) lump sum per SME, from a USD 1,080,000 envelope across ten companies.
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Energy; SDG7, SDG9, SDG13. Focus: grid-ready renewable tech.
Deadline: July 7, 2026.
This call is buying validation, not invention, so the cluster wants technologies ready to prove themselves inside a real grid operator’s environment. The required challenge-owner partner is the whole point: it signals a team already close to deployment. Line up your transmission or distribution operator early, map your solution to one named challenge, and present yourself as deployable rather than promising.
Tree Production Capital Grant Round 5, UK Forestry Commission. *Closing Soon!*
The Forestry Commission’s Tree Production Capital Grant Round 5 is funding UK-based tree nurseries and seed suppliers to invest in projects that improve, expand, automate, or mechanise their operations, with up to 50 percent cost reimbursement per eligible item, minimum GBP £5,000 grant (minimum project cost GBP £10,000), and maximum GBP £175,000 grant. The funder logic concentrates capital at the domestic tree-supply infrastructure that England’s legally binding 16.5 percent tree-and-woodland-cover target by 2050 actually depends on: nurseries propagating UK-grown trees, seed suppliers, amenity and fruit and nut tree producers, rootstock producers, community and charity and public-sector nurseries, and new entrants from horticulture with prior commercial plant or seed experience. Christmas trees are excluded from supported production, and imported plants grown on must disclose the source. The remaining 50 percent of costs cannot be sourced from another DEFRA-funded grant. Funded activities must complete by 27 March 2028 covering financial years 2026-27 and 2027-28; grant paid in arrears by BACS within 22 working days of claim approval.
Geographies: Applies to England (UK-based applicants supplying or planning to supply trees or tree seed to England).
Who can apply: UK-based organizations that supply or plan to supply trees or tree seed to England, with prior commercial sale or non-profit supply experience. Eligible types: forest nurseries, amenity/fruit/nut tree producers, tree rootstock producers, tree seed suppliers, community/charity/public-sector tree nurseries, new entrants from horticulture with prior plant/seed sales. One application per organization per round. Forestry England and Forest Research excluded.
Funding amount: Up to 50 percent of investment costs per eligible item. Minimum GBP £5,000 grant (minimum project cost GBP £10,000). Maximum GBP £175,000 grant (approximately USD $221,500). Remaining 50 percent cannot be sourced from another DEFRA-funded grant. Paid in arrears by BACS within 22 working days of claim approval.
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Climate & Environment. Focus areas: domestic tree supply chain, nursery productivity, tree production capital, England woodland cover targets.
Deadline: July 8, 2026 at 11:55 PM by email to tpcg@forestrycommission.gov.uk.
Ineligible cost categories are unusually broad: retrospective work, maintenance, staff training, administration or project management, trees and plants and seeds themselves, consumables, software subscriptions, hire purchase or leased items, and land purchase are all excluded. Applicants should build budgets around eligible capital items (equipment, machinery, building materials, installation) rather than operating costs.
ODEON Open Call – Funding for Innovative, Data-Driven Energy Services and Applications, ODEON Project. *New!* *Closing Soon!*
The ODEON Project, a European Union initiative under Horizon Europe, has opened its first call for small and medium enterprises building innovative, data-driven energy services on the project’s federated Cloud-Edge Data and Intelligence Service Platform. ODEON is using third-party funding to grow an open ecosystem around that platform, inviting outside teams to extend it rather than building every service in-house. It wants to back software ventures that turn shared energy data and edge AI into working tools for grid operators, energy communities, and prosumers across Europe. By framing the work as thirteen defined challenges, single-entity applications, and validation at real pilot sites, ODEON is signaling that it values near-market solutions proven with actual end users, not prototypes. The strongest fits are energy-focused software SMEs ready to integrate and validate quickly.
Geographies: Europe (EU Member States and Horizon Europe Associated Countries).
Who can apply: Single SMEs and startups registered in an EU or Associated Country, unlinked to ODEON consortium partners.
Funding amount: up to USD 64.8K per project (EUR 60,000, 100% lump sum); USD 1.30M pool (EUR 1,200,000).
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Energy; SDG7, SDG9, SDG11, SDG13. Focus: data-driven energy services.
Deadline: July 9, 2026.
ODEON is growing an ecosystem around its own platform, so it rewards teams ready to integrate and validate fast at real pilot sites, not polish a standalone prototype. Map your service to one of the thirteen defined challenges and name the grid operators, energy communities, or prosumers who will actually use it, and let that near-market readiness carry your pitch.
Good Food Makers 2026 (open innovation accelerator), Barilla Group + Almacube. *Closing Soon!*
Barilla Group’s Good Food Makers, in partnership with Italian open innovation hub Almacube, is an open innovation accelerator that co-develops technologies and solutions with startups inside Barilla’s real industrial environments, with the 2026 edition (the eighth) returning to a Barilla-led format after a broader 2025 ecosystem edition. The funder logic is corporate R&D integration rather than philanthropy or grant-making: no cash, prize, or monetary award is structured into the program, and the value to selected participants is the eight-week co-development residency at Barilla headquarters in Parma, Italy, with access to operational data, industrial use cases, and direct collaboration with Barilla professional teams. Three focus areas anchor the 2026 call: smart onboarding and learning platforms for technical workforce training, ready-to-use meal solutions aligned with evolving consumer eating habits, and snack and mini-meal concepts focused on emotional well-being and cognitive performance. The commercial deployment pathway is real (prior editions scaled solutions to 400 million-plus units), but no compensation structure is disclosed publicly. Since 2019, the program has engaged 1,100-plus startups from 50-plus countries.
Geographies: Global. Prior editions drew applicants from 50+ countries. Physical co-development at Barilla headquarters in Parma, Italy.
Who can apply: Startups and innovative companies globally with technologies relevant to one or more of three 2026 focus areas. Must commit to eight-week co-development program in Parma, Italy. No mention of nonprofit, NGO, academic, or government eligibility.
Funding amount: No cash grant, prize, or monetary award. Eight-week residency at Barilla Parma with access to operational data, industrial use cases, Barilla professional team collaboration, and proof-of-concept development. Commercial deployment pathway possible but no compensation structure disclosed.
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Agriculture & Food Systems. Focus areas: technical workforce training platforms, ready-to-use meals, snacks for emotional well-being and cognitive performance, food technology, industrial co-development.
Deadline: July 10, 2026.
This is corporate open innovation, not a grant program; selected startups should treat the eight-week Parma residency as paid corporate-R&D collaboration rather than philanthropic support, and align expectations accordingly. The 2026 reversion to a Barilla-led format (after the broader 2025 edition) means supply chain partner involvement is not part of this round.
Roy A. Hunt Foundation: Environment + Community Farming 2026, Roy A. Hunt Foundation. *Closing Soon!*
The Roy A. Hunt Foundation’s Environment Initiative funds US organizations working at multi-state, national, or systems level on three priorities: climate and energy, toxics and waste, and clean water. The foundation’s stated preferences run through systems change and policy levers, not direct service or local watershed work. Alongside Environment grants, the parallel Community Farming stream funds agricultural projects within a limited geography tied to the foundation’s Pittsburgh-region roots.
Geographies: United States (Environment: multi-state or national; Farming: primarily US)
Who can apply: US 501(c)(3) nonprofits or fiscal-sponsored organizations; community-led groups preferred for Farming
Funding amount: USD $25K to $75K (Environment); USD $15K to $30K (Community Farming)
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Climate & Environment; Agriculture & Food Systems. Focus areas: climate and energy systems change, toxics, clean water, community farming, US.
Deadline: July 10, 2026 (LOI window; invited full proposals follow within ~45 days)
The no-local-watersheds, no-land-trusts screen is a scope filter: Hunt funds the rule-changers, not the place-keepers. Position your work by the system it shifts, multi-state or national, even if your pilot evidence is local.
One Health in Agrifood Systems Recognition for Good Practices and Innovations, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). *New!* *Closing Soon!*
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations invites submissions for its One Health in Agrifood Systems recognition, honoring already implemented practices and innovations that link human, animal, plant, and environmental health across food systems. FAO is using the recognition to surface field-tested solutions in sustainable livestock transformation, animal welfare, antimicrobial resistance, and food security, and carry them onto a global stage at its conference in Rome. It seeks work with measurable results at scale, not promising ideas, and weighs inclusivity by asking how women, youth, Indigenous Peoples, and small-scale producers shaped or benefited from the approach, signaling that whose knowledge counts matters as much as technical merit. The strongest fits are research institutions, civil society groups, and private sector organizations with proven, replicable One Health innovations.
Geographies: Global.
Who can apply: Institutions, international and regional organizations, academic and research entities, civil society groups, and private sector organizations with an implemented One Health agrifood innovation (not individuals or FAO staff).
Funding amount: Not disclosed (recognition and a global platform at FAO’s Rome conference; travel costs not covered).
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Agriculture & Food Systems; SDG2, SDG3, SDG12, SDG15. Focus: One Health agrifood solutions.
Deadline: July 10, 2026.
This is a recognition, so what FAO is really buying is a story it can put on a Rome stage: proof that connecting human, animal, plant, and environmental health works in the field. Two things carry equal weight, measurable results and whose knowledge shaped the work. Show real numbers, then show how women, youth, and Indigenous and small-scale producers helped build it. Let that shared authorship shine through.
Energy Tech Accelerator: Compute-Energy Nexus Cohort 2026-2027, mHUB Innovation Center. *Closing Soon!*
The mHUB Energy Tech Accelerator’s Compute-Energy Nexus Cohort is an equity investment program (not a grant) funding early-stage hardtech startups developing solutions at the intersection of data center efficiency, grid resilience, energy infrastructure, and sustainable power systems, with a USD $200,000 package (USD $100,000 cash, USD $30,000 cash reimbursement for product development, USD $70,000 in-kind services) in exchange for 6.5 percent equity. The funder logic is corporate-pilot pipeline development: selected startups gain direct access to corporate partners Equinix Foundation, Generac, HPE Foundation, Marmon, and Salesforce for piloting and follow-on investment, and approximately 30 percent of fund capital is reserved for follow-on rounds in select portfolio companies. The 6-month immersive phase is followed by 18 months of continued mHUB membership, and selected startups gain access to USD $6 million of equipment and software across 11 prototyping labs at the Chicago Innovation Center. The 12 specific thematic areas (smart grids, cooling for AI compute, long-duration storage, advanced materials, decarbonization, energy quality, infrastructure resiliency, on-site generation, adaptive reuse and modular data centers, embodied carbon, compute load forecasting) define eligible scope.
Geographies: Program physically based in Chicago, Illinois. No explicit applicant nationality restriction; in-person Chicago participation required.
Who can apply: Early-stage hardtech startups (primarily for-profit) developing solutions at the compute-energy nexus across 12 thematic areas. Applicants must accept equity investment terms (6.5 percent equity for USD $200K package). Chicago in-person participation required.
Funding amount: USD $200,000 package: USD $100,000 cash, USD $30,000 cash reimbursement for product development, USD $70,000 in-kind services. Exchanged for 6.5 percent equity stake. Plus access to USD $6 million of equipment and software across 11 prototyping labs. Approximately 30 percent of fund capital reserved for follow-on investments.
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Energy; Climate & Environment; Innovation & Technology. Focus areas: data center efficiency, grid resilience, energy infrastructure, sustainable power, cooling for AI compute, long-duration storage, embodied carbon, modular data centers, semiconductor efficiency.
Deadline: July 13, 2026 (full application after short intake form).
This is an equity investment, not a grant; applicants unwilling to give up 6.5 percent of equity should look elsewhere. The Chicago in-person 6-month immersive phase is a hard structural requirement; founders unable to relocate cannot participate. The compute-energy nexus framing favors startups whose energy work directly serves AI and data center loads.
Holohil Grant Program (HGP), Holohil Systems Ltd. *Closing Soon!*
Holohil Systems Ltd. seeks to accelerate wildlife conservation research by removing equipment barriers that often limit critical field studies. The company funds in-kind donations of specialized radio transmitters to support scientists and conservation professionals studying animal movement, behavior, and habitat use across the globe. Holohil prioritizes projects targeting underrepresented or endangered species, recognizing that these vulnerable populations require urgent research attention to inform effective protection strategies. The program supports studies with strong scientific merit while emphasizing conservation value and public engagement components that can translate research findings into broader awareness and action. By providing essential telemetry equipment, Holohil enables researchers to gather vital data on species ranging from bats and raptors to reptiles and amphibians. The company extends its impact through a transmitter refurbishment initiative, accepting donated used equipment to redistribute to additional conservation projects.
Geographies: Global. All countries – no geographic restriction, confirmed recipients from Colombia, Cameroon, Philippines, Brazil, India, Australia, Costa Rica, Chile, Madagascar, Cambodia, Fiji, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Argentina, Guatemala, USA, Canada, Mauritius, Tunisia, Honduras, Mexico, and others. (Preference noted for remote/isolated locations and areas of minimal current research).
Who can apply: Open to anybody – scientists and non-scientists, conservation professionals and researchers from anywhere in the world.
Funding amount: Holohil transmitters valued at up to CAD$2,500.00 per quarter; all shipping charges paid by Holohil (importation duties and taxes are receiver’s responsibility). Multiple applicants may receive partial awards if individual project needs are below the full CAD$2,500 threshold. Since inception, more than $100,000 in transmitters has been awarded.
Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Climate & Environment; Focus areas: radio telemetry; wildlife tracking; endangered species; conservation research; bat research; raptor research; herpetology; in-kind grant; biodiversity; animal movement ecology; SDGs: 15; 14; 4
Deadline: July 15, 2026.
No organizational affiliation required and open to non-scientists – rare for equipment grants at this technical level, but applications over 500 words or one page are auto-rejected, so brevity is a hard gate.
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