Presenting you here a roadmap to funding opportunities for literacy programs at the global, regional, country, and local levels across the world.
Spencer Foundation
The Spencer Foundation invests in education research that cultivates learning and transforms lives. The Spencer Foundation has been a leading funder of education research since 1971 and is the only national foundation focused exclusively on supporting education research.
Jacobs Foundation
The Jacobs Foundation invests in the future of children so that they are given the education and learning opportunities they need to thrive.
Zawadi Africa Education Fund
The Zawadi Africa Education Fund is a program designed to provide scholarships to academically gifted girls from disadvantaged backgrounds from Africa to pursue higher education in the U.S.A, Uganda, Ghana, South Africa and Kenya.
Global Fund for Children
Global Fund for Children (GFC) invests in community-based organizations around the world to help children and youth reach their full potential and advance their rights.
OPEC Fund for International Development
The OPEC Fund’s work is people-centered, focusing on projects that meet basic needs – such as food, energy, clean water and sanitation, healthcare and education – with the aim of encouraging self-reliance and inspiring hope for the future.
The Center for Learning Innovations and Customized Knowledge Solutions (CLICKS)
The Center for Learning Innovations and Customized Knowledge Solutions (CLICKS) has been established in response to the significant growth of higher education within the region and the increasing focus of educational institutions to drive academic excellence while remaining competitive through offering creative, customized and on-demand knowledge solutions.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to promote the development of people and organisations, through art, science, education and charity, for a more equitable and sustainable society.
Thomas Wall Trust
Thomas Wall II created his Trust in 1920 for the “encouragement and assistance of educational work and social service”.
Save Our Seas Foundation
The Save Our Seas Foundation funds and supports research, conservation and education projects worldwide, focusing primarily on charismatic threatened wildlife and their habitats.
Connellan Airways Trust
Connellan Airways Trust is a non-profit organisation ensuring that outback people, especially the younger ones, who often miss out on vital education, health, and social opportunities due to extreme distances and the resulting financial burden of access, have opportunities to thrive irrespective of where they live.
Chrysalis Trust
The Chrysalis Trust to Provide access to shelter, education, healthcare and water. The Chrysalis Trust was established in 2009 and makes grants to UK registered charities and other organisations that carry out charitable activities providing public benefit.
Share and Care Foundation
Share and Care Foundation believes it is their social responsibility to work towards creating a more equal world, where everyone has access to Gender Equality, Healthcare, and Education.
Brady Education Foundation
The Brady Education Foundation seeks to close the educational opportunity gaps associated with race, ethnicity, and family income.
Sparkplug Foundation
The Sparkplug Foundation is a family foundation, funded and administered in the US. They are guided by community voices, and prioritize grassroots organizing and innovation as the key for creating change.
AFS Intercultural Programs
AFS Intercultural Programs is a global not-for-profit Network that provides intercultural learning opportunities to help people develop the knowledge, skills and understanding needed to create a more just and peaceful world.
Zero Project
The Zero Project’s approach is research-driven and aims to identify, curate, and share inclusive solutions, as intended and encouraged by Article 32 of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
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