Aspire Coronation Trust (ACT) Foundation Grant 2026 – YOA

Deadline: January 30, 2026

Applications are open for the Aspire Coronation Trust (ACT) Foundation Grant 2026. At ACT Foundation, they search to advertise broad-primarily based participation and partnership with different establishments and/or donor organizations geared toward constructing sustainable communities that present progressive options to social, financial, and environmental challenges.

They present organizations with grants to make sure sustainable motion in areas that align with their precedence focus areas. They additionally information their implementing companions by way of each step of the grant course of in order that they aren’t remoted. Their energy lies within the partnerships they create and maintain by way of grants for interventions with the potential of overturning the downward trajectory of growth on the continent.

This yr they search to prioritize scalable, excessive-influence packages that leverage neighborhood mobilization, making certain inclusion of marginalized and susceptible teams (girls, rural youth, youngsters, individuals with disabilities). They encourage collaboration and prioritize interventions that leverage expertise to realize scale, whereas demonstrating sturdy capability for sustainability and driving programs-stage change. Applicants are suggested to be intentional about together with marginalized and susceptible teams (girls, rural youth, youngsters, and individuals with disabilities).

Focus Areas

• Health: Africa faces a twin burden of illness: persistent maternal and child well being challenges alongside a rising prevalence of non-communicable ailments (NCDs). We search to concentrate on scalable interventions comparable to mass screenings and well being literacy campaigns making certain entry to look after underserved populations. These initiatives also can equip neighborhood champions, well being employees, and youth advocates to drive consciousness and affect well being-looking for behaviours. We will help interventions comparable to:
  • Maternal & Child Health: e.g neighborhood well being schooling classes and campaigns, provision of protected supply kits for pregnant girls, prevention of malaria in being pregnant and being pregnant-induced ailments.
  • Community Health Screenings: Partner with related well being establishments to run massive-scale non-communicable ailments screening campaigns and referral packages for hypertension, Hepatitis, diabetes, cancers and eye well being and so forth.
• Entrepreneurship: Africa’s youth inhabitants is booming, but unemployment stays excessive. Our technique this yr seeks to create companies, affect, mentor, and drive systemic change amongst youth-led and feminine-led companies. This strategy helps monetary literacy and innovation that uplift communities. We will help interventions comparable to:
  • Supporting younger, feminine-led entrepreneurs: Digital and vocational expertise packages tied to entrepreneurship pathways e.g. seed funding for youth-led and feminine-led social enterprises, entry-to-finance initiatives with capability constructing for sustainable development.
  • Financial Literacy Campaigns: leveraging Radio packages and social media.
  • Climate and renewable power: Training of youth/girls to run recycling companies, public-non-public partnerships for waste-to-wealth initiatives.
  • Micro-farming (Sustainable agriculture): Community-based interventions on sustainable agriculture.

Eligibility

Organizations making use of for ACT Foundation’s grant should meet the next standards:

• Work inside ACT Foundation’s focus areas of Health and Entrepreneurship.
• Be registered with the suitable authorized entity inside their respective (African) international locations for not lower than two years (24 months).
• Be legally registered as a non-revenue or social enterprise.
• Show a robust governance construction – Board of Directors or Trustees, administration group and so forth.
• Show proof of earlier/different sources of funding.
• Must present proof of matching funds for the application.
• Partnership with one other group is an added benefit.
• Have a minimal workers energy of three full-time or part-time paid Individuals.
• Be instantly accountable for the execution of the proposed intervention.
• Including marginalized and susceptible teams (girls, rural youth, youngsters, and individuals with disabilities) is an added benefit.
• Program/Initiative should be applied inside Africa.

Application

Ready to make an influence? Start your grant application in the present day. The name for functions will shut on thirtieth January 2026 11:59pm (WAT).

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For extra info, go to ACT Foundation Grant.