The Trevor Noah Foundation’s Khulani Nathi Innovation Fund 2025 for South African Education innovators (R3 million in funding)

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Application Deadline: 18 July 2025, 11:59 PM .

Applications are actually open for the 2025 Trevor Noah Foundation’s Khulani Nathi Innovation Fund.
Khulani Nathi — which means “we grow together” in isiXhosa — embodies our perception that true schooling transformation requires collective motion and shared progress. Just as a forest thrives when timber help one another, we consider South Africa’s schooling ecosystem will flourish after we make investments in organizations that may take root and flourish throughout the panorama, creating areas the place educators and younger folks can attain their full potential collectively.

The progrm is wanting for nonprofits in South Africa searching for funding to implement a sustainable innovation in two important areas:

Teacher Development

Empowering the educators who form our future.

Youth Opportunity Pathways

Creating significant transitions for younger folks ages 15-35.

Eligibility Requirements

Applicants should meet the next minimal necessities to take part in the Call for Khulani Nathi Innovation Fund:

• South African registered Non-profit, Public Benefit Organisations with Section 18a Status.
• Maintain good standing with SARS.
• Have a checking account in the organisation’s identify and audited monetary statements.
• Preference shall be given to organisations which have been legally registered and operational for at the very least 2 years, demonstrating organisational capability, sound governance and monetary stability.
• Organisations that focus considerably on instructor growth or youth pathways (ages 15-35).
• An established group, at the moment in early or a progress stage, with proof of idea and is searching for funding to scale or replicate the mannequin.
• Organizations making use of for the youth pathways stream should show that their proposed innovation instantly engages with youth.
• Demonstrable monitor report in one or all the following: steady studying, innovation, and sustainable impression.
• To be eligible, the applicant group should show an annual turnover of between R4.5 million and R45 million, as evidenced by their most up-to-date audited monetary statements.
• Applications should show proximate management, i.e., will need to have shut and significant connections with the communities they serve.
• Share TNF’s values and dedication to studying.
• Demonstrate a confirmed monitor report in grant implementation.
• Only proposals that meet the eligibility standards above shall be thought-about

Application Process

• Apply by beginning with the Pre-screening questionnaire on this web page.
• All potential candidates are required to finish a Pre-Screening Questionnaire earlier than finishing Concept Notes. This temporary questionnaire is designed to assist candidates decide in the event that they meet the fundamental eligibility standards and are able to proceed to the subsequent stage – submitting an idea observe.
• Applicants might submit solely ONE application.
• Only organizations that meet the minimal eligibility standards shall be anticipated to submit Concept Notes. All Concept Notes should be accomplished on the linked type offered on the finish of the evaluation.
• All Concept Notes shall be reviewed for eligibility, and following analysis by TNF, solely these shortlisted shall be invited to submit full functions.
• In order for an application to be thought-about for funding, candidates should make sure that they submit their functions on or earlier than the application’s cut-off date.

For additional data relating to the decision for functions, please ship an e mail to [email protected] with topic line: “Khulani Nathi Innovation Fund_Your Query”

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Trevor Noah Foundation’s Khulani Nathi Innovation Fund