Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: grant opportunities

Grant Opportunities
The Grand Challenges family of initiatives fosters innovation to solve key health and development problems. See below for Grand Challenges grant opportunities.

Putting Women and Girls at the Center of Development
Putting Women and Girls at the Center of Development

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Initiative: Grand Challenges

Application Deadline:
Open for submission November 4, 2014; application deadline January 13, 2015

Description:
This new Grand Challenge, launched by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, focuses on how to effectively reach and empower the most vulnerable women and girls to improve health and development – including economic – outcomes as well as gender equality.

Creating and Measuring Integrated Solutions for Healthy Birth, Growth, and Development
Creating and Measuring Integrated Solutions for Healthy Birth, Growth, and Development

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Initiative: Grand Challenges

Application Deadline:
Open for submission November 4, 2014; application deadline January 13, 2015

Description:
This new Grand Challenge, launched by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, focuses on new measurement tools and new combinations of approaches to ensure all children thrive – that they not only survive, but also have the chance to live healthy productive lives.

New Interventions for Global Health
New Interventions for Global Health

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Initiative: Grand Challenges

Application Deadline:
Open for submission November 4, 2014; application deadline January 13, 2015

Description:
This new Grand Challenge, launched by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, focuses on innovative concepts for vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics with the potential to be translated into safe, effective, affordable, and widely utilized interventions to protect against the acquisition, progression, or transmission of infectious diseases, or to provide a cure for infectious diseases, in resource‐limited settings.

Fighting Ebola
Fighting Ebola

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Initiative: Grand Challenges for Development

Application Deadline:
To be announced

Description:
This challenge seeks new, practical, and cost-effective solutions to improve Personal Protective Equipment and infection treatment and control that can be rapidly deployed to help health care workers provide better care and transform our ability to address Ebola.

Making All Voices Count

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Initiative: Grand Challenges for Development

Application Deadline:
October 15, 2014 at 23:59 GMT

Description:
This program seeks innovative ideas to boost citizen engagement and government responsiveness in key areas: legislative openness (inclusive and participatory lawmaking), sub-national governance, gender equality, and building resilience and response to humanitarian crisis.

Surveillance Tools, Diagnostics and an Artificial Diet to Support New Approaches to Vector Control

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Initiative: Grand Challenges Explorations