Global Innovation Exchange

A global development technology platform for innovation, funding and insights. It helps to scale the most promising global development innovations by utilizing its ever-growing database of information which serves as a reliable fundraising resource for social entrepreneurs in low-and-middle-income countries.

Grand Challenges

A group of initiatives fostering innovation to solve global health and development issues. Applications for global grant opportunities

WFP Innovation Accelerator

Finds, supports and scales transformative solutions that work to end global hunger. Provides entrepreneurs, start-ups and NGOs with the tools and mentorship to develop their ideas into realities.

Mindset PCS

Mindset PCS researches, pilots and scales innovation solutions to help those affected by crisis and inequality across the world, while promoting people-centred solutions to international organisations and companies. In addition to this, they provide updated information on external funding opportunities for start-ups and NGOs in the development sector.

Donor Tracker

Tracks projects and developments inititives funding globally, supporting evidence based advocacy for global development.

Development Innovation Ventures USAID

DIV is USAID's innovation scheme which provides funding on a rolling basis to new innovative solutions that respond to the pressing development challenges faced by people globally.

Wellcome Trust

Funding support for scientists, researchers, innovators and more to mobilize innovative ideas into solutions relating to urgent health challenges.

Coordination SUD

A fund that supports projects and services through the donation of solar modules/ systems, focusing on green education.

ICT Works

Funding opportunities for innovation for development projects, focused in the developing world.

Israel Innnovation Authority

The Israel Innovation Authority works to provide a variety of practical tools and funding platforms, with the aim of addressing the changing needs of the local and international innovation ecosystems. This includes early stage entrepreneurs, established businesses or academic groups who want to transfer their ideas to the global market.

UNICEF Innovation Fund

The Innovation Fund provides funding to technological solutions aimed at helping those facing global development challenges, through aiding business growth and product development. Startups also gain access to the Venture team's tech expertise and networks in order to grow their solution into a bigger project.

The Global Innovation Fund

A non-profit innovation fund headquartered in London that invests in the development, rigorous testing, and scaling of innovations targeted at improving the lives of the world’s poorest people.

Bond Funding

Bond strengthen and champion a dynamic network of diverse civil society organisations to help eradicate global poverty, inequality and injustice. 

Roddenberry Catalyst Fund

The catalyst fund offers donations ranging from $2500 to $15000 to anyone who has an early stage idea/ project that addresses an substantial global challenge

Elhra

A global charity that finds solutions to humanitarian issues through R&D. This is partly achieved through the provision of funding opportunities for innovation projects.

Humanitarian Grand Challenge

Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge will engage the private sector in an effort to find innovative and revolutionary ideas and solutions to address some of the challenges encountered by vulnerable people in the face of conflict.

Transform Fund

Innovative ideas transformed into actual development solutions, through the provision of seed money and the funding of the commercialisation of the technology, as required by innovators and start-ups. This initiative is powered by the Islamic Development Bank in an effort to use innovation to make a difference in the world.