Zayed Sustainability Prize
Zayed Sustainability Prize (United Arab Emirates)
An annual global prize, in its 18th year, awarding across six categories — Health, Food, Energy, Water, Climate Action and Global High Schools — to enterprises, nonprofit organisations and schools delivering transformative sustainability solutions. The Health and Climate Action categories reach the same terrain as social work's environmental justice and community health work, and the award functions as implementation and scaling money for the winning organisation rather than as a personal honorarium, which is what makes it usable by a community organisation working with a researcher.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)Page states 'an increased prize fund of US $7.2 million' across all six categories but does not publish the per-category award value, so per-award minimum and maximum are left null rather than dividing the pool.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, JunNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Annual cycle. The published 2027 cycle opened January 2026 and closed June 2026, with shortlist August 2026, finalists September 2026 and the awards ceremony January 2027. The next cycle's opening and closing dates are not yet published, so no future deadline is recorded; the January-to-June window
- Who can apply
- Community organisation
- Eligibility
- The applicant must be an enterprise, a nonprofit organisation or a school — a university cannot enter as itself, so a social work researcher's route is to support an eligible nonprofit or social enterprise partner's submission and to be funded through that organisation's award for evaluation and evidence work. Submissions are worldwide; the page does not state organisation size limits or geographic restrictions, so check the category rules before applying.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- sustainability · health access · climate action · social enterprise · schools
- Apply at
- https://www.zayedsustainabilityprize.com/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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- Open Grant Applications (West Hawaiʻi Fund, Holomua Marine Pāpio Grants, Lānaʻi Community Benefit Fund)Hawaiʻi Community FoundationAmount not published · Several times a year · Mar, May, Jul, Aug, Nov