The project should have a strong core mission, address a regional challenge, and be collaborative in nature

Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia

To cover a range of strategies, from intervening directly in local food production and expanding access to fresh food for Black communities, to providing technical assistance and capacity-building support to Black farmers, to engaging in local and national advocacy efforts for Black farmer debt relief.

US

The foundations covers ecological damage research, restoration pilot projects, and environmental education. The foundations makes grants worldwide for democracy, human rights, and economic development.

France, West Africa, World

Distribution of anti-poverty tools to farmers, allowing them to produce more.

World

A partnership between UK institutions and research projects in African countries. Relevant areas: agrifood, sustainability (circular economy, green energy)

UK, Africa

The foundation makes grants in the following categories: food & agriculture, forests & land use, governance & diplomacy, carbon dioxide removal, cooling, industry, power, sustainable finance, transportation

World

For CO2 reduction solutions. Funding sectors include: Carbon sinks, clean energy, finance, social & cultural pathways, transport

World

Education program covers projects only in the US. Civil Society is for regional and global-level organizations working to protect the space for civic engagement, enhance community philanthropy development and increase access to justice in communities around the world.

US & World

For climate solutions. Entrepreneurial, tech-focused, innovative; new use of training and skills. Potential for significant impact.

UK & Global South

National Environment Research Council tracks funds climate research and solutions development

UK

For innovative approaches or add value to existing initiatives or upscale them, project must have a financial exit strategy (private funding as an enterprise or publicly funded initiative)

World

To finance transition to a carbon neutral society, to mitigate the negative effects of climate change for people, the environment and the economy, and to promote a society that is more resilient and better prepared for future global changes and to protect the most vulnerable in particular.

World

To safeguard our forests, repair damaged soils, connect people with nature, support universal access to clean energy and help make financial investments better benefit nature and our society.

World

The foundation offers exploratory, multi-year grants, and has a flow fund. It support grantees working towards collective liberation at local, national, and global levels. It supports work in areas of: climate justice, movement building, culture change, and philantrophic agitation.

US

Grassroots Fund grantees tackle the toughest environmental problems facing their communities from toxic pollution, urban sprawl, sustainable agriculture, and climate advocacy, to the environmental degradation of our rivers and wild places and the health of our communities.

California, US

The foundation funds focused, high-impact projects with a clear beginning, end and exit strategy, run by small organizations. Preference is given to concrete projects that cover more than one of our key areas of focus: health, education, community development, and environmental stewardship.

Africa & Middle East

Through Wildseeds Grants, we resource movement organizers by investing in solutions that support the development of their ideas, amplification of their messages, and their long-term movement infrastructure.

US

The fund helps members from minority populations enter and grow in the sustainable food sector.

US

A large funder who collaborates with smaller funders, funds, and other non-profits to support addressing challenges through innovative approaches, promote development, and focus on previously excluded communities.

Central & South America

CS Fund’s grantmaking is grounded in traditional agricultural knowledge and agroecological practices, and focuses on three cornerstones of agrobiodiversity and food system resilience. Seeds - Preserving native and traditional seeds. Soils - Building healthy and fertile soils. Pollinators - Protecting and restoring the populations and diversity of native pollinators.

Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Hondura, Nicaragua, and Panama, as well as countries and territories of the Caribbean Sea; Midwestern United States, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guine, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo

Trustees favour work such as small business support and training, and microfinance in both urban and rural settings. Applications in support of initiatives that are building sustainable futures in the semi arid areas of Africa are especially welcome.

Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Sudan and South Sudan

For life-changing social innovation at the grassroots. We introduce visionary leaders of small charities to the right networks, grant funding and support.

UK charities with world reach

We support projects working toward agricultural sustainability in developing countries that suffer from the impact of population growth and climate change, poor technology, and policy and management issues. These projects help smallholder farmers with crop management, storage, timely market information, mobile phone-based training services, savings and loan programs, and resource acquisition.

US non-profits operating in Latin America, Africa, South Asia

Fund work in the following areas: environmental education, restoring nature, circular economy, recreation in nature. They give funds in the the following ways: regenerative investment and reciprocal gift. The foundation prioritizes funding projects that are sustainable, scalable, and address both symptoms and root causes. Emphasizing measurable impact, collaboration, and partnership, it recognizes the interconnectedness of human and environmental well-being. The foundation's approach incorporates local communities into project design and implementation, ensuring cultural relevance and responsiveness to community needs.

World

Applications for funding are evaluated based on six criteria: institutional capacity, originality of the approach and solution, proximity of the charity to the cause, focus on the root cause, scalability of the approach and level of potential social impact.

Turkey, UK

Building strong communities and an understanding of how to engage with intended beneficiaries.

UK charities with world reach

The foundation focuses on conservation activities. The foundation funds the following areas: advocacy & policy change, business & natural world, awareness & behavioral change, frontline community engagement, specifies at risk, landscape level conservation, data collection & analysis.

UK & World

For impactful environmental work focused on communities at the front of the crisis

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

To support organizations that are working to solve pressing environmental, human services and other issues.

US non-profits with global operations

The Prize will be awarded to: game-changing answer to a clearly identified need; demonstrated potential to develop an actionable pilot or prototype, for benefit of many people with clearly articulated theory of change.

US

For projects that help globally particularly in the areas of the disparity of opportunities and wealth and the unsustainable use of the world’s natural resources.

Developing countries