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Applications for the Food Business Accelerator 2025 are now open. The Food Business Accelerator (FBA) by CitySeed and Collab is a statewide accelerator for Connecticut early-stage food entrepreneurs. The aim of the Food Business Accelerator is to remove barriers to food entrepreneurship across the state of Connecticut through training, network-building, and access to resources. Apply now for this opportunity.
Date Posted: 14 Oct, 2024
Applications are open for the EJN Seed Grants 2025. EJN is offering media grants to immigrant, Black, Indigenous and people of color-serving newsrooms and media collectives in the United States and Canada to support innovative, investigative and/or enterprise reporting projects on environmental or climate change issues that call attention to topics, groups and/or locations lacking representation in mainstream media. Apply for this opportunity now!
Date Posted: 12 Oct, 2024
Applications are now open for the Transforming Nigerian Youths program. The Transforming Nigerian Youths program aims to create a network of entrepreneurial and managerial change-makers specifically youths and women across the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) sector in Nigeria. Click here to learn more about this opportunity and appy for it.
Date Posted: 11 Oct, 2024
Applications are now open for the Watson Institute Mobility Fellowship. The Mobility Fellowship is an intensive venture and leadership development program designed to empower mobility and transportation focused entrepreneurs and community leaders to elevate the mobility-based businesses they are building. Click here to learn more about this fellowship and apply for it.
Date Posted: 11 Oct, 2024
The Goethe-Institut invites Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Sub-Saharan Africa to bid for a service agreement for the design and implementation of a training programme/s for young women* and the organisation of a small-scale public event. Click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
Date Posted: 11 Oct, 2024
Applications are open for the Yves Rocher Foundation Terre De Femmes International Award 2025. Launched in 2019, the International Terre de Femmes Award is a thematic prize open to all women worldwide. It rewards on-the-ground actions carried out by a woman or a group of women within a non-profit organization. Apply now!
Date Posted: 11 Oct, 2024
The United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), a network-based organization cooperating with Shift, is accepting applications for the UNGC Business and Human Rights Accelerator Program, which aims to accelerate progress toward Human Rights 2025. Apply now!
Date Posted: 10 Oct, 2024
Applications are invited for the Action for Women's Health 2024. This initiative seeks to open access to funding streams to organizations and groups that historically have not had access to them. Apply now!
Date Posted: 10 Oct, 2024
Applications are open for the Avinya Energy Startup Challenge 2025. Avinya - the energy startup competition aims to promote Indian startups in the energy sector. The initiative aims to draw focus on innovation, socio-economic impact, sustainability, diversity, and contribution to the vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat. This opportunity is open to startups in India. Apply now!
Date Posted: 10 Oct, 2024
Applications are open for the Tech for an Equitable Future 2025. Previously known as Tech for Black Founders, this initiative was created in 2020 to address the statistic that only 1% of venture capital funds in the US went to Black founders -a figure that has since decreased to less than 0.5%. Apply now!
Date Posted: 10 Oct, 2024
Applications are open for the HFF| Food Access and Retail Expansion Fund (HFFI FARE Fund) 2024-2025. Click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
Date Posted: 10 Oct, 2024
Applications are open for the UPG Biashara Class of 2025. UPG Biashara is an initiative that supports entrepreneurs in their journey to turn ideas into businesses. This includes growing and strengthening existing enterprises. Click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
Date Posted: 10 Oct, 2024
Applications are now open for the 2025 IDC Green Tourism Incentive Programme. The Green Tourism Incentive Programme (GTIP) is a resource efficiency incentive programme of the Department of Tourism whose objective is to encourage and support private sector tourism enterprises to adopt responsible tourism practices by moving towards the sustainable management and usage of energy and water resources. Apply now!
Date Posted: 09 Oct, 2024
Applications are open for the Bank of Montreal (BMO) Fellowship 2025. The BMO Fellowship is a fully-funded venture and leadership program designed to provide comprehensive support to highly promising, diverse environmental sustainability entrepreneurs and leaders. Click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
Date Posted: 09 Oct, 2024
Applications are invited for the Jim Leech Mastercard Foundation Fellowship on Entrepreneurship 2025. The Jim Leech Mastercard Foundation Fellowship on Entrepreneurship gives African students and recent graduates the opportunity to access training, resources, financial support and a network of mentors to develop their entrepreneurial skills and start building their own venture.
Date Posted: 09 Oct, 2024
Applications are open for the Anzisha Prize Venture Building Fellowship 2025. The Anzisha Prize is a venture building fellowship program that has successfully supported and championed very young entrepreneurs for over 10 years. The fellowship is a multi-year program that celebrates and rewards business growth. Apply now!
Date Posted: 09 Oct, 2024
Are you an NGO working to promote democratic values in your region? Do you aim to strengthen civil society, advance human rights, or promote free media? The National Endowment for Democracy (NED)offers grants to support organizations like yours, working on projects that foster democracy worldwide.
Date Posted: 08 Oct, 2024
Applications are now open for the 2024 WIMBIZ Business Pitch Competition. Click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
Date Posted: 08 Oct, 2024
Applications are now open for the 2024 Sterling Bank Green Innovation Challenge. Click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
Date Posted: 08 Oct, 2024
Applications are open for the Fundación MAPFRE Social Innovation Awards 2024. The Fundación MAPFRE Social Innovation Awards were launched in 2017 with the clear goal of promoting projects capable of generating a positive impact on our environment and of being replicated in other contexts, amplifying their scope. Click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
Date Posted: 08 Oct, 2024
Here is a list of some notable entrepreneurship programs, the organizations that offer them, and what participants can achieve through each program:
1. Y Combinator (YC) Startup Accelerator
• Organization: Y Combinator
YC is one of the most prestigious startup accelerators in the world. Startups receive seed funding, mentorship, and access to a vast network of investors and successful entrepreneurs. Participants work intensively on their ideas for three months and present them to investors at Demo Day.
2. Techstars
• Organization: Techstars
Techstars provides early-stage startups with access to mentorship, funding, and a worldwide network of entrepreneurs and investors. The program offers hands-on mentorship and culminates in a demo day where startups pitch to potential investors.
3. Google for Startups Accelerator
• Organization: Google
This program supports early-stage startups through mentorship, access to Google resources, and hands-on guidance from industry experts. Participants gain the technical expertise needed to grow their businesses using Google's tools and infrastructure.
4. MIT LaunchX
• Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
This program targets high school students and focuses on building real startups from scratch. Participants learn the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, from ideation to market research and product development, while receiving mentorship from successful entrepreneurs.
5. Hult Prize
• Organization: Hult International Business School
The Hult Prize is a global competition that encourages university students to solve pressing social challenges through entrepreneurship. The winning team receives $1 million in seed capital to launch their startup.
6. Seedcamp
• Organization: Seedcamp
Seedcamp is a European seed fund and accelerator program that provides early-stage startups with mentorship, funding, and access to a global network of investors. Participants benefit from Seedcamp's support in refining their business models and scaling their startups.
7. Stanford Start Accelerator
• Organization: Stanford University
Start offers Stanford-affiliated startups access to a strong community of founders, investors, and mentors. The program supports founders with the resources they need to scale their companies, from fundraising to product development.