Can you design a new business or NGO that delivers a proven poverty intervention at scale? Submit your design for a new organization that solves one of our Distribution Challenges below. D-Prize challenge will award the most promising teams with up to $20,000 USD to launch their new organization wherever extreme poverty exists.
D-Prize seeds new ventures that distribute proven poverty interventions. The world has already invented products and services to end poverty. (more…)
Lead2030 Challenge for SDG 6 has been announced by One Young World and is sponsored by Reckitt, to support innovations that create measurable impact by enabling access to clean water, sanitation or hygiene, and are particularly interested in innovations with a focus on children or women/girls.
The focus of this Lead2030 Challenge is not limited to providing equitable basic sanitation and hygiene facilities but to also creating a sustainable ecosystem that ensures, year after year, continuous development and increasing awareness. Reckitt believes social business has a powerful role to play in solving the world’s greatest problems, where investment lives over and over again through income generating models that make solutions truly sustainable and long term. Through this, Reckitt wants to work as a catalyst, supporting pioneering solutions to scale. (more…)
AGRA has launched a call for applications for the 2023 Women Agripreneurs of the Year Awards (WAYA) that recognize African female agripreneurs demonstrating remarkable Innovation and business excellence in agricultural value chains.
The winning agripreneurs, who will be unveiled during the 2023 AGRF Summit, will receive a total of $85,000 in grant funding. (more…)
The Heritage Management Organization is launching a new call for concept notes for small grants ($5000-$50000) for organizations, groups, and individuals working with heritage in Africa.
The grants are part of our Heritage Management Project – Africa (HerMaP-Africa) which is funded by the Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place program. They will fund projects that focus on the protection of and/or promotion of local heritage for socio-economic development in the continent. (more…)
The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) has announced the establishment of an innovation prize for entrepreneurs, innovators, and technopreneurs.
The programme is expected to catalyze the growth and development of the Nigerian technology ecosystem by identifying budding technopreneurs, enhancing their capabilities, and providing a platform to showcase and scale their digital solutions on a global scale. (more…)
Impact Amplifier is seeking applications for its Africa Online Safety Fund.
Almost 520 million Africans, or 40% of the population, now have access to the internet, a sharp rise from just ten years ago. The potential for the internet economy to contribute roughly $180 billion to Africa’s economy by 2025 is only one of the several new opportunities this has created for socioeconomic growth. (more…)
Application is now open for 2023 Prize Competition for Africa’s Business Heroes. The competition, now in its fifth year, is an exceptional chance for African company owners to showcase their abilities and have a greater positive impact on the community through their enterprises.
The fifth annual edition of the “Africa’s Business Heroes” (ABH) Prize Competition, a charitable project supported by the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Charity, has begun accepting applications from aspiring entrepreneurs in Africa. (more…)
Roddenberry Catalyst Fund is awarded to early-stage ideas and projects that have the potential to radically reframe existing problems, surface untapped innovations, and disrupt how and by whom we make the world a better place.
The Roddenberry Catalyst Fund awards grants of $2,500 to $15,000 to anyone, wherever in the globe, who has an early-stage concept or project that tackles urgent global concerns.
The Roddenberry Prize is an invitation to challenge the status quo, to catalyze new ways of thinking, and to imagine a better future. It is an opportunity to envision a world that is more equitable and prosperous in which all of us – regardless of our background – can thrive. (more…)
Applications are now being accepted for the most recent Google for Startups Black Founders Fund in Africa through March 26. (23:59 GMT) Apply below and learn more. Founders will receive up to $150k in equity-free funding, up to another $200k in Cloud Credits, and access to the best of Google—people, product, and best practices.
