Grants for African Entrepreneurs | Find Funding for Your Business & NGO

The €30,000 House of No Waste Competition (HØW) calls upon aspiring young architects, landscape architects, building and structural engineers, planners, builders, material and environmental scientists, product designers, and built environment professionals to engage in a global competition that tackles pressing issues of the circular economy, Resource Nexus and waste management in the built environment.

The €250,000 Thuthuka program supports the development and production of feature films, feature-length documentaries, and animated films with South African and Dutch content, aiming for high cinematic quality and international audience appeal.

The $1,000 Wild Wonder Micro Grant Program is now inviting creative and inspiring applications from individuals around the world who are passionate about sharing nature through the art of nature journaling.

Are you a registered NPO in the arts sector? Apply now for R250,000 funding to support projects that promote creativity, skills transfer, and community development in Nelson Mandela Bay.

The Africa Creative Market (ACM), in partnership with Ascend Studios Foundation, AWS, and Co-Creation Hub,is excited to announce the ₦10,000,000 ACM 2025 Hackathon— an innovation-driven challenge bringing together Africa’s brightest minds to solve one of the continent’s biggest creative economy challenges: music and film distribution

The £5,000 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is an annual award for unpublished short fiction administered and funded by the Commonwealth Foundation. 

The $10,000 Earth Partner Prize invites artists of all nationalities, races, genders, and faiths, aged 14 to 30, to submit work that comments on the ecological crisis.

The Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson has launched the €8,000 Self-Published PhotoBook Award, which is annually awarded to a self-published photography book released during that calendar year.

The 6th ColorPro Awards invites artists to submit work that captures the continuous movement of creativity—effortless, rhythmic, and ever in motion—carrying ideas forward with clarity and purpose.

Over $200,000 in grants for creative industries. If you’re a filmmaker, writer, photographer, artist, illustrator, or run a cultural organization, you don’t want to miss out on this funding pool.