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
Welcoming grant applications from organisations looking to create new or improved clean energy access; awards of £50k to £1.5m available.
Location: sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Indo-Pacific regions
Sector: Energy access
Stakeholders: Innovate UK
Deadline: 10th August
Accepting applications for the Innovation Expo to be organised as part of the Clean Cooking Forum 2022, set to take place October 11-13 in Accra, Ghana.
Location: Unspecified
Sector: Clean cooking
Stakeholders: Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA)
Deadline: 10th August
Welcoming applications from social enterprises looking for support with their sales pitch for a live coaching session on Wednesday, August 17th at 7pm EAT.
Location: Global
Sector: Unspecified
Stakeholders: MovingWorlds
Deadline: ASAP
Inviting applications from early-stage founders with at least 12 months of revenue traction and a funding need between 10.000 – 50.000 EUR.
Location: Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda
Sector: Unspecified
Stakeholders: Unconventional Capital
Deadline: 16th September
Aiming to help entrepreneurs find capital for their social enterprises through grant proposal writing.
Location: Africa
Sector: Unspecified
Stakeholders: Grant & Co
Deadline: Rolling
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: Rolling
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
Do you work with microfinance institutions (MFIs) to help underserved customers access beneficial products; or, are you interested in doing so in future? Come along to our webinar on 25th August, co-hosted with Power Africa, to learn best practices for making the most of these kinds of partnerships, and to hear first-hand insights and top tips from our speakers, including Power Africa and GDC member MPower.
Webinar date: 25th August, 3pm EAT
Are you a GDC member keen to provide strategic guidance to our team? Our current Advisory Council’s term is coming to an end and we are looking for 4 new GDC member representatives to join for a 2 year period.
Deadline: 18th September
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)