Funding opportunties
At the Permaculture Network we host a list of funding opportunities. Those opportunities can be filtered, commented on and recommended to others.
The list below is based on Colab's Funding Opportunities Database (raw data). Read about Colab's Funding Opportunities and the services they offer.
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| Title | Description | Funding amount | Recommend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Innovate for Impact Challenge by The World Food Prize Foundation and America’s Cultivation Corridor | For agricultural technology start ups in pre-series A stage with a validated concept that demonstrate innovation, market potential, and alignment with sustainability goals. | 5.000 | |
| SARE: Northeast sustainable agriculture, research, and education | Northeast SARE offers seven grant programs to support sustainable agriculture in the Northeastern U.S. Farmer Grants help commercial farmers test new ideas, while Partnership Grants fund… | ||
| AgVentures Farm Grant Program | Two grants are available. Farmer Grant is for independent family farms with an established farm operation who would like to improve their operations. Community Grant is for local non-profit community… | 8.000€ Euro | |
| Tides Foundation | For social justice work. Previosuly funded work included: climate justice, racial equity, reproductive freedom, democracy, and more. Grants are offered as: donor-advised funds, collective action… | ||
| Audacious Project | For bod visions in any sector. For innovative and original ideas. | ||
| The European Space Agency | ESA offers funding and support to businesses from any sector who intend to use space (satellite navigation, earth observation, satellite telecommunication, space weather, space technologies) to… | 60 | |
| Plymouth Octopus. Pop Collectives | The grant is awarded by collective members for collective members. 1-year membership is required. Contributions in a form of time, expertise, venue are required. For projects with social or… | 5.000 | |
| City of Melbourne | The city government offers grants to small businesses and social enterprises for capital improvements and expansion. Grants are also offered for running events. | 10.000 | |
| Government of South Australia. Office for Small & Family business | The funder supports businesses and non-profits in adopting alternative energy solutions, energy-savings and sustainable practices. They support small business owners and women starting businesses.… | ||
| Global Eco Village Network. Hildur Jackson Award | For projects that align with Global Eco Village Network values. Selection criteria: innovation, impact, and appeal to a wide audience. Four areas of regeneration are covered: social, cultural,… | 3.000 | |
| Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation | For marketable post-prototype technologies or approaches that have an exponentially beneficial social or environmental impact. | 100.000 | |
| Fondation SUEZ | Supports concrete actions to sustainably develop access to essential services (water, sanitation and waste) for underprivileged populations in developing countries. The foundation releases tenders… | ||
| Horizon Europe Soil Mission | The funding topics are: living labs set-up; soil biodiversity; innovative monitoring approaches; soil health for pollinators. | ||
| Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable Environment Challenge | To supports activities designed to address gender-based violence in an environmental context. The work covered includes producing knowledge and recommendations on interventions. | 100.000 | |
| Prototype Fund | Funding is provided for open source technologies for data security and software infrastructure. | 95.000 | |
| Famigro Award | The award is given out every year to rural entrepreneurs in Europe between the ages of 18 and 40. The focus is on the contribution to the countryside while respecting the environment and showing… | 5.000 | |
| PRIMA Program. Food sector | Developing cost-effective and sustainable technologies adapted to Mediterranean Food Systems to decrease food loss and waste. | 1€ Euro | |
| Formas Foundation | the purpose of the call is to bring together researchers and community to design and implement solutions for a sustainable society. Proposed project sectors are: sustainable spatial planning, food,… | ||
| King Baudouin Foundation | The Foundation's programs focus on addressing social issues, health, heritage, local and international philanthropy, education, democracy, and environmental challenges by promoting social… | ||
| Healthy Municipal Soils | For projects that are creating collective spaces of constructive dialogue on soil health and soil quality threats, both inside and outside the consortium, which should adopt participatory governance… | 30.000€ Euro | |
| Regenerative Agriculture Foundation | Using regenerative agriculture as a vehicle to advance goals in climate, public health, racial equity, and rural economic development. | ||
| Stiftung Merctor Schweiz | The funder makes grants in the following categories: democracy, diversity, climate, digitization, education, civil society, art & culture, development. | 5.000 | |
| European Cooperation in Science and Technology | Helps connect research initiatives across Europe and beyond and enable researchers and innovators to grow their ideas in any science and technology field by sharing them with their peers. COST… | 150.000 | |
| Segal Family Foundation | Segal Family Foundation supports community-based organizations with the localized knowledge needed to create sustainable change in their communities in Africa. The foundation supports organizations… | ||
| Climate Transformation Fund | Milkywire focuses on carbon removal and supports tech as well as nature-based solutions. Nature-based solutions fall into 2 categories: protection & restoration. In the 2 categories the funder… | 150.000 | |
| European Cultural Foundation. Democracy Resilience. | Promoting just trasition to environmental sustainability through a cultural angle by: raising awareness, reinforcing democratic decision-making, designing creating solutions, cooperation between… | 3.000 | |
| Mozilla Technology Fund | For open source projects with a focus on AI and environmental justice. They seek projects to expose or mitigate AI's climate impacts, conduct environmental assessments, build Grassroots AI… | 50.000 | |
| Green Valley Award | For circular economy start-ups that leverage digital technology for recycling and waste prevention. | 25.000 | |
| UK Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions | The grant is for groups working in Brazilian rainforest to secure land rights, protect the environment and build local capacity. Partnership with indigenous populations is required. | 500.000 | |
| Frederick Mulder Foundation | The foundation supports three areas of climate change work: work which seeks to direct financial flows away from the problem (fossil fuels) and into the solutions (renewables and energy efficiency);… | 5.000 | |
| Omidyar Network | Supports ventures that support more inclusive and equitable societies. supports work in the following categories: responsible technology, reimagining capitalism, building culture of belonging. | ||
| Laudes Foundation | The work of the foundation addresses inequality and climate breakdown. Funded sectors: fashion, built environment, finance. | 50.000 | |
| iF Design | The Social Impact Prize is awarded to projects that align with UN Sustainable Goals 1-15. The evaluation criteria includes: problem-solving, upholding moral & ethical standards, solidarity,… | 20.000 |