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The Mastercard Foundation is a registered Canadian charity and one of the largest foundations in the world. It works with visionary organizations to advance education and financial inclusion to enable young people in Africa and Indigenous youth in Canada to access dignified and fulfilling work.
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Mastercard Foundation has opened applications for full scholarships for online master's degrees for Fall 2025-26 at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
Date Posted: 30 Nov, 2024
Applications for full scholarship for on-campus master's (thesis and non-thesis tracks) and PhD degrees for Fall 2025-26 are now open. The deadline for application is on March 13, 2025.
Date Posted: 30 Nov, 2024
Applications for the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at CMU-Africa 2024/2025 are now open. The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program was established at CMU-Africa in 2016. The program provides generous financial, social, and academic support for students whose talent and promise exceed their financial resources.
Date Posted: 14 Nov, 2024
Applications are open for the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at the University of Oxford 2025. The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at the University of Oxford supports passionate, locally rooted and globally minded African young people to undertake graduate studies at the University of Oxford.
Date Posted: 14 Nov, 2024
Applications are open for the Mastercard Foundation BRIDGE-in-Agriculture Program 2025. This programme is open to entrepreneurs in Ghana. Click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
Date Posted: 04 Nov, 2024
Applications are open for the Mastercard Foundation Agribusiness Challenge Fund 2024-2025. The Mastercard Foundation Fund for Resilience and Prosperity has launched an Agribusiness Challenge Fund, calling for proposals from SMEs in the agriculture sector that can create work opportunities at scale for young women and men, young persons with disabilities, and refugee youth.
Date Posted: 31 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 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 Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at McGill University 2025/2026. The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at McGill University is open to talented leaders and changemakers at the graduate (master's) level, from across Sub-Saharan Africa who aspire t o improve and transform nutrition, public health, public policy, and sustainable agriculture sectors across Africa.
Date Posted: 27 Sep, 2024
Applications are open for the the Mastercard Foundation Scholarships at the Sciences Po Summer School. Scholarships for the Sciences Po Summer School are awarded in collaboration with a network of partner institutions authorized to nominate candidates. These scholarships are reserved for Scholars from the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program network who want to attend a four-week in-person programme.
Date Posted: 26 Sep, 2024
Applications are now open for the Mastercard Foundation fully-funded scholarship program for graduate study at Sciences Po. For its second strategic phase (2024 – 2034), the goal of the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at Sciences Po is to support 1,450 students and young professionals who demonstrate academic excellence, strong leadership potential and a commitment to achieving change in Africa, but who face significant financial barriers to higher education. Apply now!
Date Posted: 26 Sep, 2024
Applications are now open for the 2025/2026 University of Cambridge Mastercard Foundation Scholars Programme. Click here to learn more about this fully-funded opportunity and apppy for it.
Date Posted: 25 Sep, 2024
Applications are open for the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at the University of Toronto 2025/2026. The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at the University of Toronto (U of T) is a fully funded scholarship program for graduate studies at Canada's leading institution of learning, discovery, and knowledge creation. U of T is proud to be one of the world's top research- intensive universities, driven to invent and innovate.
Date Posted: 25 Sep, 2024
Applications are now open for the 2025 University of British Columbia Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program. The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at UBC will provide 351 academically talented young people from Sub-Saharan Africa with access to quality and relevant university education at UBC. A
Date Posted: 30 Aug, 2024
Applications are now open for the Mastercard Foundation Fund for Alumni Start-ups in Transition (FAST) Program. The FAST program will support and empower the next generation of entrepreneurs by providing up to $15,000 in support for each venture.
Date Posted: 14 Aug, 2024