Funded by the Government of Canada and other partners, Grand Challenges Canada is dedicated to supporting Bold Ideas with Big Impact®.

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 …

Jan 21, 2025 · — 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 …

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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 ...

Jan 15, 2025 · The Lancet Commentary Highlights Global Climate and Health Survey to Address Urgent Health Impacts of Climate Crisis Toronto, Canada, January 22, 2025 – A newly published comment* in The Lancet Global Health, titled The climate crisis and human health: identifying grand challenges through participatory research, emphasizes the urgent need for innovative, community-driven solutions to address ...

Global Health is a priority for Grand Challenges Canada because we believe improving and ensuring equal access to health for all people worldwide will improve and save lives, and transform communities. Our focus is to empower innovators who are closest to the world’s health challenges because they ...

Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, with support from Grand Challenges Canada, have launched Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge.

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 […]