Welcoming applications from aspiring start ups and entrepreneurs who want to transform nascent ideas into real world ventures. On completion of the course, participants also get the chance to win an all-expenses paid trip to Silicon Valley.
Location: Africa
Sector: Unspecified
Stakeholders: Wadhwani Foundation
Deadline: ASAP
Welcoming applications from entrepreneurs, for a six month business support programme.
Location: Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia and Ghana
Sector: Agri, energy access, WASH and retail/e-commerce
Stakeholders: GrowthAfrica
Deadline: ASAP
Calling for investor-ready women-founded scale-ups looking to raise $250k+, to showcase to Africa-focussed investors.
Location: Africa
Sector: Unspecified
Stakeholders: VC4A
Deadline: 27th May
Welcoming applications from social enterprises working to address challenges faced by children, with a particular focus on achieving SDG6: clean water, sanitation and hygiene for all. Winners will receive grant funding and accelerator support.
Location: East Asia and the Pacific
Sector: WASH
Stakeholders: Duke University and UNICEF
Deadline: 29th May
Seeking impact-driven entrepreneurs for this intensive business support programme. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis and international applications are advised to apply early.
Location: Global
Sector: Unspecified
Stakeholders: Watson Institute
Deadline: 1st June
A range of challenges open to early-stage or new enterprises whose focus is enabling underserved people to access essential products and services.
Location: Global
Sector: Agriculture, Energy access, Water
Stakeholders: D-Prize
Deadline: 5th June (early submission: 15th May)
Welcoming proposals to its new financing programme, which supports access to and scale-up of higher tier clean cooking solutions. The process is divided into a pre-qualification stage and a final application stage.
Location: DRC, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Sector: Improved cooking
Stakeholders: NEFCO
Deadline: 21st June (pre-qualification stage)
Accepting applications from social entrepreneurs working on women’s empowerment, climate resilience, or both; and who are seeking investment to grow.
Location: Global
Sector: Unspecified
Stakeholders: Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Deadline: 30th June (for Sept – April 2023 cohort)
Seeking applications from social entrepreneurs working to improve access to clean water for communities around the world. Selected companies receive grant funding, networking and more.
Location: Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Asia Pacific
Sector: Water, health, agriculture
Stakeholders: Bayer and Get in the Ring
Deadline: 1st July
Actively seeking to fund social enterprises working on innovative solutions for a better world.
Location: Global
Sector: Unspecified
Stakeholders: DOEN Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
Actively seeking to invest debt and mezzanine capital in leading companies throughout the clean cooking value chain, including cooking fuels, biofuels, electric appliances, and efficient biomass stoves.
Location: Africa
Sector: Improved cooking
Stakeholders: Spark+
Deadline: Rolling
Welcoming applications to this on-demand, free accelerator programme for social enterprises.
Location: Global
Sector: Unspecified
Stakeholders: TRANSFORM
Deadline: Rolling
Looking for women-led businesses working in non-tech enabled sectors (such as personal care and hygiene), who would benefit from debt investment and business advisory.
Location: Kenya
Sector: Non-tech enabled
Stakeholders: LendHer Capital
Deadline: Rolling
Bolstering early growth-stage small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in sub-Saharan Africa.
Location: sub-Saharan Africa
Sector: Agriculture, food security, healthcare, education, and WASH
Stakeholders: USADF and DFC
Deadline: Rolling
Aiming to help social enterprises scale up, as a way of empowering communities and enabling them to build sustainable livelihoods.
Location: ASEAN
Sector: Unspecified
Stakeholders: AirAsia Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
Accepting concept notes for high-impact partnerships implementing innovative business models to accelerate achievement of the SDGs.
Location: Bangladesh, Colombia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, South Africa and Vietnam
Sector: WASH, energy access
Stakeholders: P4G
Deadline: Rolling
Offering a rigorous business mentoring programme for social businesses offering an innovative service, product or operational model that are keen to scale.
Location: Global
Sector: Unspecified
Stakeholders: Marico Innovation Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
Welcoming applications from organisations whose innovations cover at least one of five priority areas: mechanisation, digitalisation, energy access, agriculture research and private sector.
Location: Global
Sector: Agriculture, energy access
Stakeholders: GIZ
Deadline: Rolling
Providing loans starting at $50k to viable energy access companies facing liquidity challenges due to COVID-19.
Location: Africa and Asia
Sector: Energy access
Stakeholders: SIMA and 16 partners
Deadline: Rolling
Supporting the development of innovative approaches to solving a challenge faced by people living on less than US$5 a day e.g. a new business model, technology, or new ways of delivering products.
Location: Global
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: Global Innovation Fund
Deadline: Rolling
Supporting early-stage companies with high developmental impact to scale up.
Location: Africa and India
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: DEG
Deadline: Rolling
Helping companies that have been hit by unexpected obstacles to keep on track with impact aims.
Location: Global
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: Open Road Alliance
Deadline: Rolling
Helping enterprises bring to life solutions to the world’s most intractable development challenges.
Location: Global
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: USAID
Deadline: Rolling
Welcoming applications from social enterprises keen to access coaching and partner with corporations.
Location: Global
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: MovingWorlds
Building on the success of our 2021 Investor Forum, this year’s event will bring together key stakeholders to build understanding of the LMD capital continuum and design solutions to plug the gaps in the continuum; particularly for smaller, earlier-stage companies. The event is invite-only, and is open only to investors and donors interested in LMD as well as GDC members. If you are a funder interested in attending, get in touch with the GDC team.
Event: 22nd June (online)
Join us to dig into what it takes to sell PUE products, such as solar water pumps, egg incubators and sewing machines, and to hear lessons learned from GDC members’ own experiences; including from Solar Sister’s recent pilot in Tanzania, which tested the sale of products such as solar-powered hair clippers and fishing lights.
Webinar: 9th June, 1.30pm BST
GDC members are invited to register to be able to leave suggestions and reviews (your account will provide access to member-only resources in the future)