Funding-Gates Foundation Invites Proposals for Round 12 of Grand Challenges Explorations; November 12, 2013

Agency

Gates Foundation

Description

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is accepting applications for Round 12 of its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative, an accelerated grant program that encourages bold approaches aimed at improving the lives of the world's poorest people. Anyone — students, scientists, entrepreneurs — with a transformative idea is invited to apply.

Initial grants of $100,000 are awarded twice a year. Successful projects are eligible to receive a follow-on grant of up to $1 million. Topics for Grand Challenges Explorations Round 12 are 1) inciting healthy behaviors; 2) new enabling tools and models supporting development of interventions for enteric dysfunction; 3) innovations in feedback and accountability systems for agricultural development; 4) One Health — bringing together human and animal health for new solutions; and 5) developing the next-generation condom.

Since its launch in 2008, the program has funded more than eight hundred and fifty grants in fifty countries. The program welcomes proposals from a broad spectrum of contributors and encourages cross-disciplinary approaches. The Gates Foundation and an independent group of reviewers will select the most innovative proposals, and grants will be awarded within approximately four months of the proposal submission deadline.

Closing Date: November 12, 2013

Link to Full Announcement

http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/rfp_item.jhtml?id=436600023