Gates Foundation Grand Challenges

Grants supporting bold, unconventional ideas to solve the world's toughest health and development problems.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation administers Gates Foundation Grand Challenges, a foundation-funded grant program focused on Global Health. Grants supporting bold, unconventional ideas to solve the world's toughest health and development problems.

Funding is awarded on a competitive basis to organisations and individuals whose work advances the funder's mission and demonstrates measurable outcomes.

• Applicants must be a non-profit, academic institution, or civil-society organisation or independent researcher working on Global Health
• Project must fit the funder's current calls and thematic priorities
• Geographic scope: Global
• A detailed budget, workplan, and impact framework are required
• Prior track record of delivery on comparable projects is strongly preferred

• Geographic scope: Global
• Multi-year support with reporting milestones
• Technical assistance and access to the funder's partner network
• Visibility and endorsement that unlocks matched funding from other donors

Apply online: https://grandchallenges.org/