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.
Project Innovation to Market Program is designed to create a sustainable innovation environment in Nigeria by integrating support systems. By working together with researchers and innovators under the auspices of an innovation consortium, it seeks to harness ideas in Nigeria.
Request for Applications
Do you have a terrific innovation that you think can disrupt the current normal, solve current societal problems, market processes efficient? Then come on board to the innovation-to-market Programme.
Project Innovation to Market supports innovations from research, and also innovations resulting from non-procedural activities.
The objective of this project is to allocate resources so that inventions, regardless of their stage, can be fostered until they are ready for the market. When everything is set, the inventor collaborates with a focused project team to design the commercialization strategies.
In order to expose innovators to training on how to build bankable firms that may attract large investments, this project will also develop a self-sustaining incubator program for innovators who wish to take their innovations to market via a startup.
Innovative ideas from Nigerian youth, women, and people with disabilities will receive special consideration (PWD).
Eligibility Requirements
Project Innovation to Market will support innovators with:
Benefits
The Innovation to Market Programme offers You Access to:
Note: The project is fully funded by the UK’s Research and Innovation Systems for Africa (RISA) and implemented by the Innovation and Technology Management Office (ITMO) of the University of Lagos.
Application Timeline
Application Deadline: March 30th, 2023
How to Apply
The GSMA AgriTech Accelerator commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), is part of the Fund for the Promotion of Innovation in Agriculture (i4Ag) and being carried out by the GSMA on behalf of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ). (more…)
FATE Foundation in partnership with Google.org has launched the Business Resilience Programme (BRP) for Women Entrepreneurs for 2023.
This initiative, which is funded by the “SSA Women Entrepreneurship Programme” of Google.org, is a component of a continent-wide initiative taking place in South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria with the goal of enhancing the digital and financial capability of female nano and microbusiness entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 55.
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An accelerator program called Target Forward Founders is available to early-stage consumer packaged goods (CPG) startups who are curious about the retail industry. Its goal is to help creators with historically limited resources become the next wave of companies that create wealth.
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Baby and Toddler, Beauty, Food and Beverage, Health and Personal Care, Household Essentials, Pets, Toys and Entertainment (more…)
