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Update as of October 9, 2024: Please note that we are currently pausing the application intake for Proof-of-Concept funding. 1. Transition-to-Scale (TTS) Funding . TTS funding between $300,000 CAD and $1,500,000 CAD over 12-48 months will be awarded to support organizations that align with country-specific priorities along their scaling journey to …

2025年1月21日 · — Play Learn Thrive’s first funding call seeks solutions to strengthen children’s development and education in crisis settings, focusing on unserved and underserved children and caregivers— Toronto, Canada, January 21, 2025 — Grand Challenges Canada, with funding from the LEGO Foundation, is excited to announce the launch of …

The Challenge. One in seven adolescents worldwide faces mental health conditions, and suicide is the fourth leading cause of death among 15-29 year-olds.In low- and middle-income countries, up to 90% of young people’s mental health needs are unmet due to a lack of resources. Despite the growing need, national health budgets globally only allocate 2% to mental health.

The United States Agency for International Development Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA), the UK Department for International Development (DFID), and Grand Challenges Canada have launched Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge.This challenge seeks to fund and accelerate solutions that enable life-saving or life-improving assistance to reach the most ...

Transition To Scale. Through our Transition to Scale (TTS) program, GCC supports promising innovations with a proven impact that have the potential to save or improve lives.

2023年12月15日 · Toronto/Geneva, December 13, 2023 — The LEGO Foundation announced a USD $10M grant to Grand Challenges Canada to support Inclusive Learning in Crisis Settings, a new humanitarian grand challenge focused on supporting locally-led innovations for early childhood development and education in emergency settings.The announcement was made at the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, the ...

Country Innovation Platform – Ghana Pilot (June 2023) (pdf, 2.51 MB) Round 12 Stars in Global Health Request for Proposals (October 2022) (pdf, 819.05 KB) Round 11 Stars in Global Health Request for Proposals (April 2021) (pdf, 701.37 KB) Round 10 Stars in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (July 2018) (pdf, 675.21 KB) Round 9 Stars in Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health ...

Geneva, Switzerland – 6 November 2024 – The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) and Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) are proud to announce a new partnership that will focus on transforming insights from the local health community in low- and middle-income countries into actionable insights about the pressing health challenges posed by climate change. This collaboration aims […]

Annual Report 2022-23. We live in a world of e scalating challenges — global pandemics, a worsening climate crisis, deepening health inequity, and growing humanitarian crises.. Grand Challenges Canada offers an important antidote to these challenges. For the last 13 years, we have built and tested our innovation platform, learning how to make real progress in addressing critical global ...