Manifest Climate — Fifty Years

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What is Manifest Climate Grants? 


Manifest Climate Grants is a fast grants program that awards $25K - $100K to scientists to accelerate their most ambitious bio x climate ideas.

  • The application is max 2 pages

  • You get a decision within 21 days

  • No IP is taken

Are you an academic scientist working on a bio x climate solution? Apply for a Fifty Years Manifest Climate grant!

The application period is from August 1st to Sep 10th, 11:59 pm (PT). Apply here!

The next big climate tech solution could be trapped in your lab.


Right now, researchers are developing innovative solutions to tackle the climate crisis. But few make it out of the lab. Often, after the basic science is done, there’s just a little more work – prototyping, techno economic-modeling, real-world testing – to show the science has commercial potential. But almost no one funds such work!

We cannot afford potential solutions to sit idle in labs. That’s why we created Manifest Climate – to bring breakthrough climate science from the lab to the benefit of all. We’ll take the learnings and hope to increase the scale of this funding in future rounds.

Biology has the scale and speed to solve the climate crisis.


Biology is an undervalued tool that could reverse climate change.

  1. Billions of years of optimization. Life has evolved sophisticated machinery to thrive in every corner of the globe – from volcanoes, to deep sea vents, and arctic tundras. In no other field can we leverage billions of years of evolution.

  2. Atomic precision. DNA encodes the blueprint for machinery that operates with single-atom-scale precision, rivaling our most advanced nanotechnology.

  3. Scale. We’re already harnessing living machines at staggering scale – from modifying rice plants to become flood resistant, to optimizing laundry detergent to kill bacteria at lower temperatures, to engineering microbes to produce biodegradable plastics.


Today we can understand and engineer living things in greater depth than ever before. Our best chance at preserving life on Earth is to empower scientists to co-create with Nature. 

Who’s behind Manifest Climate Grants?


Manifest Grants is a Fifty Years initiative. Manifest Climate Round 1 is supported by Fifty Years, EQT Foundation, Automattic, and Wave Foundation.

We’re inspired by our friends at Impetus and Fast Grants who pioneered the ‘fast grants’ model.

Fifty Years Manifest Grants is established as a separate non-profit entity under the fiscal sponsorship of the Open Collective Foundation.

 
 
 
 
 

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