Funding: up to EUR 7,500. Timing: rapid-response applications for urgent protection needs. Eligible: human rights defenders and organizations facing a current security risk linked to peaceful human-rights work.

Funding: up to USD 500. Deadline: rolling / ongoing. Geography: global. Eligible: volunteer-led individuals, groups and startup nonprofits that meet the programme’s small-budget and no-paid-staff rules.

Funding: USD 1–50,000, typically USD 5,000–25,000. Deadline: rolling. Duration: generally up to six months. Best fit: urgent digital-security or internet-freedom emergencies affecting journalists, defenders, NGOs or activists.

Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Grants are open on a rolling basis to staff and freelance journalists worldwide for ambitious, underreported stories.

Draper Richards Kaplan accepts applications year-round and can provide up to USD 300,000 in unrestricted grant funding or investment capital over three years.

Cisco accepts Global Impact Cash Grant concept notes year-round from eligible nonprofits and NGOs. First-time grant recipients may request up to USD 100,000.

The National Endowment for Democracy accepts grant proposals from eligible nongovernmental organizations working on nonpartisan democracy, civil society, human rights and independent media projects.

The British Council is offering up to two Assessment Research Awards of up to GBP 2,500 each for eligible PhD and EdD researchers in language testing and assessment.

The British Council is offering one ELLA Research Grant of up to GBP 70,000 for longitudinal research on AI in language learning and assessment. Deadline: 2 October 2026.

The Horowitz Foundation is accepting 2027 grant applications from eligible PhD and DrPH candidates worldwide for social-policy research. Grants are worth USD 10,000.