Deadline: Feb 24, 2025 Donor: Providus Bank Grant Type: Events Grant Size: Not Available Countries/Regions: Nigeria Area: Businesses, Companies and Enterprises, Entrepreneurship, Community Development, Sustainable Development, Women & Gender Calling on all women entrepreneurs to apply for the ProvidusBank SHETHRIVES Program, an SME Program designed specifically for women in business. For more information, visit https://reg.smetoolkit.ng/program-apply/providus-bank-shethrives-program Premium Link: https://grants.fundsforngospremium.com/opportunity/op/request-for-applications-providus-bank-shethrives-program-nigeria Read more

Deadline: Feb 11, 2025 Donor: Structural Transformation and Economic Growth Grant Type: Grant Area: Researchers, Women and Girls, Research, Women & Gender The STEG and the G²LM|LIC Programme are excited to announce that both programmes now invite submissions of Expressions of Interest (EOI) for a joint call for research proposals. For more information, visit https://steg.cepr.org/call-for-proposals/stegg2lmlic-call-expressions-interest-womens-work-markets-21st-century Premium Link: https://grants.fundsforngospremium.com/opportunity/op/call-for-eois-womens-work-in-markets-of-the-21st-century-2025 Read more

Deadline: Mar 06, 2025 Donor: International University of Monaco (IUM) Grant Type: Awards, Prizes and Challenges Grant Size: $1000 to $10,000 Countries/Regions: All Countries Area: Business & Industry, Entrepreneurship, Ocean Conservation, Youth & Adolescents Submissions are now open for the Monaco Ocean Protection Challenge, an international business plan pitching competition for students and fresh graduate, showcasing new business concepts with a measurable positive environmental impact on the ocean. For more information, visit https://www.monaco-opc.com/ Premium Link: https://grants.fundsforngospremium.com/opportunity/op/monaco-ocean-protection-challenge-2025 Read more

What are the meanings of magic? Depending on who is doing the labelling, the term “magic” has marked out and stigmatized “false” religion from “true,” women’s from men’s practices, the traditions of rural and poor people from those of rich city dwellers, the “primitive” from the “modern,” the colonized from the colonizer, the “West” from the “Rest,” and so on. Even as “magic” is claimed or reclaimed by some people or groups (modern Pagan Witches, for example, or some spiritual feminists), its use by theorists inside and outside the academy as an attributive category of disdain or condemnation remains unavoidable.  Despite all this baggage, the hope that "magic" remains a useful umbrella category under which to shelter interesting interdisciplinary conversations lies the heart of MRW's mission statement: we are “a rigorously peer-reviewed scholarly journal, drawing from a broad spectrum of perspectives, methods, and disciplines, offering the widest possible geographical scope and chronological range, from prehistory to the modern era and from every inhabited continent.” For the 20th-anniversary issue of Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft (Spring 2026), we would like to put this vision to the test: How (and whether) is the category “magic” useful in your own scholarly research or teaching? Why might we keep using the term, why might we want to reject it, and might its ongoing contestation and critique serve as a goad (or a hindrance) to trans-disciplinary scholarship and understanding? What does “magic” mean in your field, in your scholarship, for your informants or interlocutors, in your conversations? We are looking for short discussion contributions, no longer than 3000 words (including all citations and other apparatus), about the usefulness or otherwise of the category in your scholarship. We want to hear from senior scholars and from up-and-coming scholars, from scholars in fields where the term “magic” seems unproblematic and from scholars in fields where it is studiously avoided or ostentatiously rejected. Perspectives we would welcome include (among many others): Africana Studies Anthropology Art History Caribbean Studies Cultural Studies Decolonial Theory Ethnobotany Folklore Gender / Women's Studies Geography History History of Medicine Indigenous Studies Medieval Studies Pagan Studies Philosophy Queer Theory Religious Studies Science and Technology Studies Tantra Studies Transhumanism Studies Statements of interest due May 1 2025. These should include:  A very short abstract (50-100 words) A brief self-positioning (discipline or field, geographic/chronological range, topic, other information you find relevant). Using myself as an example:I am a white cis male religionist studying witches and witch trials in early modern Poland, with a focus on questions of gender, popular religion, spells and charms, and the politics of memory.  Contact Information Michael Ostling, ASU Contact Email: michael.ostling@asu.edu Read more

Deadline: Jan 31, 2025 Donor: Society for Conservation Biology Grant Type: Events Grant Size: Not Available Countries/Regions: All Countries Area: Arts & Culture, Innovation, Research, Science The Society for Conservation Biology with its Conservation Letters Cover Contest invites all SCB members and friends to participate in a friendly competition for a new cover image for the journal. For more information, visit https://conbio.org/publications/scb-news-blog/showcase-your-talent-conservation-letters-cover-contest Premium Link: https://grants.fundsforngospremium.com/opportunity/op/showcase-your-talent-conservation-letters-cover-contest-2025 Read more

Deadline: Mar 31, 2025 Donor: Molecular Diversity Preservation International Sustainability Foundation Grant Type: Awards, Prizes and Challenges Grant Size: $10,000 to $100,000 Countries/Regions: All Countries Area: Community Development, Economic Development, Education, Environment, Academicians, Researchers, Research, Sustainable Development The World Sustainability Award is presented by the Molecular Diversity Preservation International Sustainability Foundation to individuals that have made significant contributions to scholarly research on sustainability. For more information, visit https://mdpi-foundation.org/award Premium Link: https://grants.fundsforngospremium.com/opportunity/op/entries-open-for-world-sustainability-award Read more

Deadline: May 01, 2025 Donor: World Food Prize Foundation Grant Type: Awards, Prizes and Challenges Grant Size: Not Available Countries/Regions: All Countries Area: Agriculture Food & Nutrition, Food Safety, Nutrition, Rural Development, Infrastructure, Economic Development, Conservation, Environment, Natural Resources, Health, Academicians, Entrepreneurs, Leaders, Marketing, Hunger, Poverty Alleviation, Science, Transportation, Water Nominations are now open for the World Food Prize which is awarded for a specific, exceptionally significant, individual achievement that advances human development with a demonstrable increase in the quantity, quality, availability of or access to food through creative interventions at any point within the full scope of the food system. For more information, visit https://www.worldfoodprize.org/index.cfm?nodeID=87515&audienceID=1 Premium Link: https://grants.fundsforngospremium.com/opportunity/op/nominations-open-for-world-food-prize Read more

Deadline: Mar 03, 2025 Donor: Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) Grant Type: Grant Grant Size: $500,000 to $1 million Area: Capacity Building, Sanitation The Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) funds projects that improve sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) capacity in developing countries to facilitate safe trade. For more information, visit https://standardsfacility.org/project/apply Premium Link: https://grants.fundsforngospremium.com/opportunity/op/applications-open-for-stdf-project-grants Read more

Deadline: Mar 03, 2025 Donor: Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) Grant Type: Grant Area: Sanitation The Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) provides Project Preparation Grants (PPGs) to help developing countries overcome constraints faced in the articulation of their SPS needs into project proposals that could be funded by the STDF or other donors. For more information, visit https://standardsfacility.org/project/apply Premium Link: https://grants.fundsforngospremium.com/opportunity/op/apply-now-stdf-project-preparation-grants-program Read more

Deadline: Jan 31, 2025 Donor: Lagos State Science Research and Innovation Council (LASRIC) Grant Type: Awards, Prizes and Challenges Grant Size: Not Available Countries/Regions: Nigeria Area: Agriculture Food & Nutrition, Startups, Community Development, Learning, Natural Resources, Recycling, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Innovation, Technology, Sustainable Development Are you a visionary innovator or startup ready to redefine the future? The Lagos State Science Research and Innovation Council (LASRIC) calls on bold thinkers and trailblazers to apply for funding and support under its 2024 Innovation Initiative. For more information, visit https://lasric.lagosstate.gov.ng/apply Premium Link: https://grants.fundsforngospremium.com/opportunity/op/Apply-Now-lasric-innovation-challenge-nigeria Read more

Deadline: Mar 31, 2025 Donor: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo Grant Type: Grant Grant Size: $10,000 to $100,000 Countries/Regions: Brazil, South Africa Area: Research Submissions of applications for the FAPESP/NRF Regular Research Grant Program are now open. For more information, visit https://fapesp.br/17288/fapesp-nrf-chamada-de-propostas-conjuntas-2024 Premium Link: https://grants.fundsforngospremium.com/opportunity/op/cfas-fapespnrf-regular-research-grant-program-2025-south-africa-and-brazil Read more

Deadline: Mar 31, 2025 Donor: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo Grant Type: Grant Grant Size: $10,000 to $100,000 Countries/Regions: Brazil, South Africa Area: Research, Sustainable Development The Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo is seeking applications for its FAPESP-NRF: Joint Call for Proposals - Seedcorn Funding Program. For more information, visit https://fapesp.br/17289/fapesp-nrf-chamada-de-propostas-conjuntas-seedcorn-fund-2024 Premium Link: https://grants.fundsforngospremium.com/opportunity/op/call-for-proposals-fapespnrf-seedcorn-funding-program-2025-south-africa-and-brazil Read more