- Melton Foundation Global Solvers Accelerator 2025
Each year, a cohort of 20 project leaders connect hearts, hands and minds to unpack and refine their projects, tap into their collective leadership, and ignite transformative change in their communities and towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Click here to apply | Deadline: December 15
- IOM Innovation Facility – Fostering Transformative Solutions 2024
Launched in 2024, the IOM Innovation Facility creates an enabling environment to collaborate, ideate and develop innovative solutions that can transform the way we address migration challenges.
Click here to apply | Deadline: October 25
- Ennovate Ventures TheNextFund for Disruptive Companies East Africa 2024 (Up to $100,000)
TheNextFund is a bespoke venture capital-ready programme that is investing in the most promising tech and tech-enabled startups across East Africa.The hybrid-curated programme offers personalised venture building and investment-readiness technical assistance to high-growth startups, with the potential to become category kings and yield high returns for investors. The programme is betting on founders that believe they are crazy enough to change the world, as Ennovate Ventures is crazy enough to join you on the mission of building incredible solutions for Africa’s market.
Click here to apply | Deadline: October 13
- DataCite Global Access Fund (GAF) 2024
The Global Access Fund (GAF) was established to enable communities worldwide to make their research outputs discoverable. It will provide financial support for both outreach activities and infrastructure development to enable organizations in regions and communities currently underrepresented in the global open science infrastructure landscape to benefit from DataCite infrastructure services. The GAF is part of the DataCite Global Access Program (GAP) made possible by grant 2022-316573 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Click here to apply | Deadline: October 11
- Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF) National Anti-Racism Fund 2024/2025
Since its launch in 2022, the National Anti-Racism Fund has awarded nearly $8 million to over 400 organizations across Canada. In this upcoming round of funding, they will provide $2 million in grant funding towards anti-racism projects in Canada.
Click here to apply | Deadline: October 31
- AAUW International Project Grants 2024/2025
The International Project Grants support community-based initiatives that advance gender equity for women and girls and that are led by American Association of University Women (AAUW) International Fellowship Alumnae.
Click here to apply | Deadline: November 15
- My 500K Agribusiness Idea Competition 2024
The 500k Agribusiness. Idea Competition aims to motivate young entrepreneurs to turn their agribusiness ideas into comprehensive business plans and scale them into thriving ventures, regardless of their initial size.
Click here to apply | Deadline: October 12
- Women Digital Entrepreneurship Program (WDEP) 6.0!
The Women Digital Entrepreneurship Program (WDEP) is targeted towards existing and aspiring female entrepreneurs interested in learning and opportunities to grow an online business. The program objectives include, but are not limited to, encouraging more women to start an online business, promoting women’s entrepreneurship, closing the digital gender gap, and improving the economic outcomes of women.
Click here to apply | Deadline: October 14
- Cherie Blair Foundation Mentoring Women in Business Programme 2025
The flagship Mentoring Women in Business programme matches women entrepreneurs in low and middle income countries with experienced, dedicated professional mentors anywhere in the world. For one year, you will be paired with a mentor who will help you achieve your business goals, and build your wealth, stability and security.
Click here to apply | Deadline: October 11
- Entrepreneurship for All (Efor All) Virtual Business Accelerator Program 2024
Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll), a nonprofit with a proven track record of helping underrepresented individuals successfully start a business, is running a no-cost, 12-week virtual business accelerator program for individuals residing in Texas.
Click here to apply | Deadline: October 24
- The McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism – Fall 2024
The Harold W. McGraw Jr. Center for Business Journalism provides experienced journalists with grants up to $15,000 and the editorial support needed to produce deeply reported enterprise and investigative stories that delve into critical economic, financial or business issues across a wide array of subjects.
Click here to apply | Deadline: October 6
- Global Business Coalition for Education Youth Skills and Employment Accelerator 2025 for Nonprofits in the U.S.
The Youth Skills and Employment Accelerator helps nonprofits working with young people from underserved communities to connect with other organizations, businesses and funders to improve young people’s skills and employment prospects.
Click here to apply | Deadline: November 15
- Reckitt Access Accelerator 2024
The program is delivered by Reckitt, the consumer health, hygiene and nutrition company, home to so of the world’s best-known brands such as Dettol and Durex, in partnership with Yunus Social Business (YSB), an organization co-founded by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus with expertise in social enterprise accelerators.
Click here to apply | Deadline: October 6
- United Nations Development Programme Timbuktoo GreenTech Hub in Kenya 2024/2025
Are you a visionary Green Tech entrepreneur with a groundbreaking business solution or innovation to transform green and climate sector in Africa and committed to leveraging technology to contribute towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Do you have an impact driven, financially sound and scalable solution with clear growth strategy to solve Africa’s energy challenges?
Click here to apply | Deadline: October 20
- AgroHack Challenge 2024 for Young Agripreneurs in Nigeria (Win up to N1,000,000)
AgroHack Challenge is seeking innovative ideas across the agriculture industry’s value chain. These ideas will be accelerated to create new opportunities for many young Nigerians. The key objective of the AgroHack Challenge is to harness innovative solutions that will enhance rapid growth in the agriculture food sector and increase output and profitability for farmers, create new jobs and increase food security in Nigeria.
Click here to apply | Deadline: October 7
- Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) Africa Challenge 2024
As MEST continues to deepen her influence on Africa’s tech landscape, the MEST Africa Challenge (MAC) remains Africa’s premier pitch competition for Africa’s emerging tech entrepreneurs, bringing together relevant stakeholders all across the continent and globe to learn more about the happenings on the tech scene.
Click here to apply | Deadline: October 4
- Wege Prize 2025 (Up to $65,000)
Wege Prize, organized by Kendall College of Art and Design’s Wege Center for Sustainable Design with support from the Wee Foundation, is an annual competition that ignites game-changing solutions for the future by inspiring college/university students around the world to collaborate across institutional, disciplinary, and cultural boundaries to redesign the way economies work.
Click here to apply | Deadline: October 6
- Forge Prize 2025 for Architects in the U.S ($10,000)
This competition, established by The American Institute of Steel Construction in 2018, recognizes visionary emerging architects, architecture faculty, and graduate students for design concepts that embrace innovations in steel as a primary structural component.
Click here to apply | Deadline: November 22
- Climate Symposium at HBS Startup Pitch Competition 2024 ($20,000 prize)
The Climate Symposium at HBS Startup Pitch Competition 2024 offer you the chance to accelerate your journey. Select startups will receive exclusive coaching from Harvard Business School students, invaluable networking opportunities with climate-focused investors, and the opportunity to pitch your solution in our finals competition.
Click here to apply | Deadline: October 15
- Unlock Your Business Potential With The Women Digital Entrepreneurship Program (WDEP) 6.0! (Lagos and Asaba Residents Only)
The Women Digital Entrepreneurship Program (WDEP) is targeted towards existing and aspiring female entrepreneurs interested in learning and opportunities to grow an online business. The program objectives include, but are not limited to, encouraging more women to start an online business, promoting women’s entrepreneurship, closing the digital gender gap, and improving the economic outcomes of women.
Click here to apply | Deadline: October 14
- Advance Your Entrepreneurship Skills with the PowerUp Program!
PowerUp Program 5.0. The PowerUp Program, sponsored by Access and fully implemented by NerdzFactory Foundation, is a comprehensive training platform focused on job creation and entrepreneurship. It provides young Nigerians with hands-on business skills, offering a unique blend of masterclasses, practical training, and opportunities to pitch business ideas.
Click here to apply | Deadline: October 14
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