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

Explore 8 upcoming grants for young entrepreneurs—with awards ranging from $5,000 to $10,000, closing between September and October 2025.

The R100,000 EC Innovation Challenge seeks to combat unemployment and drive socio-economic growth by empowering participants to create innovative solutions to pressing societal issues.

The 10th Africa Energy Innovation Challenge AEIC organized by NEF mobilizes early-stage young energy entrepreneurs across Africa to develop a prototype/upscale a key device/equipment for social enterprise, agri-business, fintech solutions or energy management system using local resources

The $300,0000 Climate and Clean Air Coalition is requesting applications to integrate a National eCooking component to the National Clean Cooking Policy Implementation Plan and to develop funding proposals for implementing e-cooking.

Are you a Nigerian journalist passionate about making complex climate issues accessible and relevant to your community? One World Media, in partnership with Surge Africa, is thrilled to launch a new opportunity as part of The £5,000 Climate Reporting Gap Initiative.

Do you lead an Energy or Climate startup that defies conventional approaches? if yes, then they want you in their €25,000 program.

The €10,000 Startup Challenge of The Gap in Between is an international call designed to Boost entrepreneurship as a driver of social and environmental transformation.

The ₦3,000,000 programme funds youth-owned businesses through business training, seed capital, post investment support (mentoring and coaching) in the following sectors: Agriculture, Retailing, Circular Packaging, Renewable Energy, and others, aimed to empower young entrepreneurs with the strongest business cases, winning grants to fund their businesses, and thereby creating jobs in different sectors.

The RES4Africa Foundation and Strathmore University, with the Enel Foundation, have launched the Open Call for the €20,000 inaugural edition of wAtt-boost – Youth Power Start Up in Africa.

The SADC Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (SACREEE) is proud to launch the first edition of this entrepreneurship capacity-building program, dedicated to advancing the careers of women energy entrepreneurs from the SADC region.