Grant Opportunities from the Gates Foundation

Grant applications are still being accepted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the following Grand Challenges and Grand Challenges Explorations initiatives. The Grand Challenges family of initiatives fosters innovation to solve key global health and development problems. The application deadline is April 22, 2020.

• Accelerating Discovery for Non-Hormonal Contraceptives (Grand Challenges, see blog).
• Improving Access to and Use of Safe and Appropriate Cesarean Section (Grand Challenges)
• Innovations in Materials Science for a Transformative Menstrual Health and Hygiene Product (Grand Challenges Explorations)
• Innovations for Improving the Impact of Health Campaigns (Grand Challenges Explorations)

Perspective on COVID-19

Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. To best achieve this mission across the Grand Challenges family of initiatives, we will be exploring with existing and new grantees – where relevant and on a case-by-case basis – finding opportunities to balance longstanding needs in global health and development with new needs from the perspective of COVID-19. And we acknowledge that especially in such cases, this can require providing additional flexibility to our grantees and other partners.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed funding to the global response to COVID-19. To learn more about the foundation’s broader work and how the COVID-19 pandemic is being addressed across the foundation, please visit the foundation’s website and also sign-up for The Optimist newsletter.

Grant Opportunities from our Partners

• European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP): Seven calls for proposals with different deadlines, including one call for COVID-19 research in sub-Saharan Africa (deadline April 17, 2020)
• Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group: Call for proposals for innovation around preparedness and response to COVID-19 (deadline June 1, 2020)

Great Ideas Come from Everywhere

We invite you to read summaries of the grants funded to date across the Grand Challenges family of initiatives and to explore an interactive world map of projects across the global Grand Challenges funding partner network. We look forward to receiving innovative ideas from around the world. If you have a great idea, please apply. If you know someone else who has a great idea, please forward this message so they can apply and sign up for email updates with the latest opportunities.