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Opportunity Fund for Lead Poisoning Prevention
https://www.pureearth.org/pure-earth-announces-opportunity-fund-for-lead-poisoning-prevention/
Overview
| Donor: | Pure Earth |
| Application procedure: | Online Application |
| Donor base: | United States |
| Reference number: | - |
| Eligible applicants: | Non-Profit Organisation |
| Deadline: | 01.09.2026 |
Financial details
| Grant size: | Small - up to $100,000 |
| Minimum grant size: | 10.000$ |
| Total available budget: | - |
| Funding type: | Grants |
| Maximum grant size: | 100.000$ |
| Funding ratio: | up to 100% |
Sectors
- Capacity Building
- Health
- Research, Technology & Innovation
Project Locations
Africa
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe
America
Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela
Asia
Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen
Description
1) Objective
Pure Earth has launched a new Opportunity Fund to support strategic, short-term projects targeting lead poisoning in low- and middle-income countries. The fund will expand on the work of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Lead Poisoning Prevention Initiative, a partnership between Pure Earth and five other implementing partners (CDC Foundation, LEEP, Resolve to Save Lives, Vital Strategies, and the World Health Organization). This groundbreaking initiative will combat lead poisoning worldwide, targeting the highest-need countries in Asia, Africa, and South America.
LEEP’s Fund will focus on activities associated with reducing lead exposure from paint and lead chromates, as well as research to design, test, and evaluate practical and scalable solutions to reduce lead exposure from any source. Vital Strategies’ Fund is intended to promote creative public health responses to the complex challenges of addressing lead exposure. Priority will be given to proposals that advance public health systems engagement, build public health surveillance capacity or systems, and formulate policies that address key gaps in public health systems’ response to lead.
2) Eligibility
Eligible applicants include legally registered NGOs, CSOs, universities, or other types of non-profit entities, with a preference for organizations based in the country/region where the activities will take place.
3) Location
The fund prioritizes geographies in low-and middle-income countries. Eligible projects will focus on activities associated with lead exposure source assessment and mitigation activities for various sources, not including paint.
4) Budget
Grants ranging from USD $10,000 to $100,000 will be awarded over a 12-month period for projects and proposals.
5) Application
Applications will be screened for meeting basic requirements, and then will be asked to submit a full proposal to be reviewed by a Project Review Committee. Proposals will be reviewed quarterly and are due December 1st, 2026, March 1st, 2026, June 1st, 2026, and September 1st, 2026.