Opportunities and updates

Funding, competitions and TA

Together Women Rise

Welcomes funding applications from organisations that empower and support women and girls in low-income and marginalised communities.

Location: Global

Sector: Women and Girls

Stakeholders: Together Women Rise

Deadline: 5th June

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Aqua for All Call for Proposals

Accepting submissions from scalable, sustainable and impact-driven water & sanitation enterprises in Ethiopia.

Location: Ethiopia

Sector: Water and Sanitation

Stakeholders: Aqua for All

Deadline: 14th June

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Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards

Recognise and fund women impact entrepreneurs leveraging business as a force for good

Location: Global

Sector: Women Entrepreneurs

Stakeholders: Cartier Women’s Initiative

Deadline: 16th June

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Digital Energy Challenge

Invites applications from projects offering digital solutions that expand energy access offering €827k.

Location: African Countries

Sector: Unspecified

Stakeholders: Digital Energy

Deadline: 17th June

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Watson Institute Flagship Fellowship

Accepting applications from impact entrepreneurs for their leadership development programme.

Location: Global

Sector: Leadership development 

Stakeholders: Watson Institute

Deadline: 28th June

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1 Million AfCFTA Impact Hub Funding

Inviting applications from women, youth and PwD-led SMEs, offering impact investment readiness and catalytic funding of over US$100k.

Location: Africa

Sector: Women, youth and PwD-led

Stakeholders: 1 Million AfCFTA Impact Hub

Deadline: Rolling

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CLASP’s Productive Use Financing Facility

Providing procurement subsidies and enterprise development grants (EDGs) to accelerate the sale of productive use equipment (PUE) in sub-Saharan Africa.

Location: Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria

Sector: Energy access, productive use

Stakeholders: CLASP

Deadline: N/A

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Clean Cooking Venture Community

Accepting applications from entrepreneurs and business leaders in the clean cooking sector for a Clean Cooking Venture Community for networking, resource sharing and more.

Location: Global

Sector: Clean cooking

Stakeholders: Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA)

Deadline: Rolling

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Bettervest Energy Efficiency Loan

Welcoming applications from companies working on SDG 7 or 13 for a loan volume of at least €200K.

Location: Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Singapore

Sector: Energy and climate action

Stakeholders: Bettervest

Deadline: Rolling

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Open Investment Fund

Welcoming applications from women-led businesses in Africa with an annual turnover of more than $25K to grow their business sustainably and up to $100K investment fund.

Location: Africa

Sector: Energy

Stakeholders: CSI Energy Group

Deadline: Rolling

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Spark+ Africa Fund

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

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Transform support hub

Welcoming applications to this on-demand, free accelerator programme for social enterprises.

 

Location: Global

Sector: Unspecified

Stakeholders: TRANSFORM

Deadline: Rolling

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LendHer Capital Pre-Screening Questionnaire 

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

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Bridge loans for impact

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

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S-GRID program

Welcoming applications from social enterprises keen to access coaching and partner with corporations.

Location: Global

Sector: Not specified

Stakeholders: MovingWorlds

Deadline: Rolling

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