Funding Opportunities

Stay updated here for the latest funding opportunities related to human trafficking research around the world.

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National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Fund

Application Deadline: April 29, 2025

Each year, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) makes more than 2,000 grants to support the projects of nongovernmental groups abroad who are working to advance democratic goals and strengthen democratic institutions in more than 100 countries. NED encourages applications from organizations working in diverse environments including newly established democracies, semi-authoritarian countries, highly repressive societies and countries undergoing democratic transitions.

National Human Trafficking Hotline

Application Deadline: May 1, 2025 (Forecasted)

The National Human Trafficking Hotline (NHTH) is a national toll-free hotline that operates 24 hours a day, every day of the year via telephone, text, and chat, to assist adults and minors who have experienced a severe form of human trafficking as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. The objectives of the NHTH include: Operate the NHTH’s telephone, text, chat, and website via a coordinated national communications system available 24 hours a day. Provide timely information and service referrals to victims of human trafficking using a trauma-informed, person-centered, culturally responsive, and linguistically appropriate approach. Notify law enforcement agencies of potential cases of human trafficking, where appropriate; and Establish and maintain a comprehensive online directory of community-based service providers in communities across the United States. Develop trusted relationships to identify, update, and maintain comprehensive internal and online referral directories.

Street Outreach Program

Application Deadline: May 1, 2025 (Forecasted)

The Street Outreach Program (SOP) provides street-based services to runaway, homeless, and street youth who have been subjected to or are at risk of being subjected to sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, and severe forms of human trafficking in persons. These services, targeted in areas where street youth congregate, are designed to assist such youth in making healthy choices and providing them access to shelter as well as basic needs, including food, hygiene packages and information on a range of available services.

Research Opportunities in Crisis Response Services for Suicide Prevention

Application Deadline: June 2, 2025

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) encourages research examining the effectiveness and implementation of crisis response services, approaches to improve the quality and outcomes of services, and the impact of state and local policy on implementation and outcomes.

Safe Communities Program Grant

Application Deadline: September 22, 2025 (Forecasted)

Established in 1967, The Miami Foundation is the foundation for people who are passionate about Miami. The Miami Foundation is focused on building a stronger Miami forever. The Safe Communities Program strives to ensure safety and opportunity for all Greater Miami residents. We do this by investing in education and economic mobility, health services to overcome substance dependence, and collective action to improve community safety. The Fund is particularly focused on supporting survivors of human trafficking, gun violence, and other crimes as well as people who were previously involved in the justice system.

ECMC Foundation

Rolling Deadline

We make grants and investments that fit within one of our three strategic priorities, and we are particularly interested in those proposals that focus on implementing systemic reforms to improve postsecondary outcomes for students from underserved backgrounds.

If you believe you have a project which fits within an existing initiative and you meet one of our three strategic priorities, please use the process outlined below to apply. Staff will determine, based on the submitted letter of inquiry, whether a request fits with an existing initiative or falls under our strategically responsive grantmaking.

Edge Fund

Rolling Deadline

Edge Fund began from the ground up as a participatory grantmaking fund in 2012. The people who set it up had experience as activists or funders, and many as both. If community organising and community development could involve the people affected by decisions, then why couldn’t funding happen the same way? The capitalist system and the culture surrounding it creates winners and losers. It’s time for the voices of those who have been oppressed and marginalised. If we continue to leave decisions about funding to those who hold the wealth and power, real system change will not occur.

Human Trafficking Foundation’s Trafficking Emergency Support Fund

Rolling Deadline

The Human Trafficking Foundation’s (HTF) Trafficking Emergency Support Fund is available to help victims of human trafficking and modern slavery with small one-off grants to meet their immediate needs when no other sources of funding are available. HTF is not in a position to administer the distribution and spending of the grant, and therefore works with organisations providing other forms of support and advice to survivors who apply on their behalf. We are unable to make grants directly to survivors. We ask that the support worker complete the Application Form and, if granted, the funding will be transferred to the support organisation’s bank account to then be administered. Please provide details of what effort has been made to secure funding from other sources.

Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre’s Commissioned Research

Rolling Deadline

Commissioned Research projects are funded where we need to respond quickly to an urgent need to fill an evidence gap and do so through a short project, working closely with a small number of researchers, rather than going through a call for funding applications process. The Modern Slavery PEC will approach researchers from our databases directly when looking to commission work, so that we can start projects and deliver research quickly to meet specific policy or operational needs.

National Lottery Heritage Grants

Rolling Deadline

National Lottery Heritage Grants is our funding programme for all types of heritage projects in the UK. They fund projects that value, care for and sustain heritage for everyone across the UK, now and in the future. Heritage can mean different things to different people. It can be anything from the past that you value and want to pass on to future generations. This could include nature and habitats, historic buildings and environments, or cultures, traditions and people’s memories.

The Tony Robbins Foundation

Rolling Deadline

Dedicated to meeting challenges within the global community, creating solutions and taking action, The Tony Robbins Foundation provides monetary donations to various organizations around the world. Funding requests are evaluated on an ongoing basis. We look for organizations that align with our mission to empower individuals and organizations to make a significant difference in the quality of life of those often forgotten.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Rolling Deadline

We accept applications at any time. There are no deadlines or specific grantmaking cycles.

To help you get to know us better, we recommend our Who We Are and Priorities pages to give you sense of our mission, history and grantmaking priorities. We also encourage you to visit our DNA page, which details how the foundation’s commitments to advancing racial equity and racial healing, to developing leaders and to authentically engaging communities are part of everything we do, and everything we fund.

The information on the tabs that follow will help you know what to expect as you apply for a grant. We are always looking for creative ideas from organizations seeking to create lasting, transformational change for children.

If you know of any funding opportunities, please email them to gahtscholars@gmail.com.