Giving Joy Grants 2025 for Women-led Initiatives – YOA

Deadline: September 30, 2025

Applications are open for the Giving Joy Grants 2025 for Women-led Initiatives. Giving Joy awards one-time, micro grants to girls-led initiatives—giving girls entrepreneurs crucial sources to start out companies, purchase expertise, maintain operations or enhance their concepts worldwide.

The advantages of those micro-grants cascade by means of communities. They strengthen expertise, develop entry to sources, create jobs and earnings. grant actions translate into elevated alternatives and providers for everybody touched by the recipient’s endeavor. In 2023, they proudly awarded a file 13 grants to people and organizations throughout 12 nations. The 13 grants instantly benefited as much as 380 girls, offering them with important enterprise expertise and data about girls’s well being and rights.

Grant

• Grants are as much as $500.00 (5 hundred) USD. The award quantity might be decided by Giving Joy based mostly on proposed actions and availability of funding.

Eligibility

• Open to girls ages 18 and above.
• Women from the next areas and nations in Asia, Oceania, and the Caribbean are eligible to apply.
• You can suggest actions in any discipline, commerce, occupation, or craft. However, your corporation/group/concept should concentrate on girls, ladies and/or households. And all actions have to be LEGAL!
• Grant functions are accepted in any language that may be translated with Google translate.

Evaluation Criteria

They rating your application based mostly on the next 4 standards:

• The diploma of alignment with Giving Joy Mission.
• Your proposed grant actions are progressive, inventive and can have a optimistic affect on girls, their households and communities.
• The efficient use of grant funding for your proposed actions.
• The grant affect is clearly outlined, nicely articulated, and measurable.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Giving Joy Grants.