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Updated · impactfunding.substack.com · Aug 3
August Roundup Lists 138 New Funding Opportunities Across 7 Sectors
Updated
Updated · impactfunding.substack.com · Aug 3

August Roundup Lists 138 New Funding Opportunities Across 7 Sectors

1 articles · Updated · impactfunding.substack.com · Aug 3

Summary

  • A new August funding roundup added 138 opportunities, bringing the tracked total to 494 worldwide for non-profits, social enterprises and other purpose-driven groups.
  • Seven sections organize the new calls, led by Education, Human Rights & Inclusion with 36 additions, Agriculture, Climate, Environment, Energy & Food with 25, and both Global Health & WASH and Innovation, Research & Smart Cities with 24 each.
  • The roundup says funders are increasingly replacing one-off grants with performance-linked, blended, revolving and cascade finance, citing examples from Kenya Climate Ventures, Convergence, the EU and the Fund for Innovation in Development.
  • It also highlights two cross-sector shifts: sport and physical activity are being funded as health interventions, and climate goals are increasingly embedded inside health, gender and urban programs rather than separated into standalone climate budgets.
  • Featured calls range from Nexa climate-health grants of $250,000 to $2 million and adidas Foundation’s €6 million sport-recovery program to UNICEF, Gates Foundation and ADB opportunities, underscoring a broad tilt toward scalable, outcome-driven funding.

Insights

As climate funding infiltrates health and gender budgets, which critical grassroots projects will be left behind?
Why are global funders suddenly abandoning traditional philanthropy for strict, outcome-based investments this August?
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