Category Archives: business funding

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM

Application Deadline: 8 February 2024

LOCATION: Belgium

This grant facility supports enabling activities and supporting services for environmental investigative journalism as a whole. It seeks to promote collective development and support services for environmental investigative journalism, by providing funding to project ideas from organisations and institutions for training and professional development programmes, i.e. skills-focused professional training or fellowship programmes targeted at enabling investigative journalists to upskill with regards to reporting on environment related issues.

ELIGIBILITY:

Any incorporated legal entity can apply. In the application it should describe its experience with investigative journalism, environmental issues, and/or the development of supporting services. The proposed project should contribute to the further development of environmental investigative journalism in Europe.

Applying entities do not necessarily need to be based in Europe. However, the proposed project should clearly advance investigative environmental journalism in Europe.

If the project is a collaboration between several organisations, one organisation should apply for the Journalismfund Europe grant. In the application form you can provide information about the partnering organisations and their role in the project.

If a grant is awarded, the applying organisation is responsible for the project and the grant towards Journalismfund Europe.

In the budget that is part of the application, only personnel costs of the applying organisation can be listed under ‘Personnel costs’. All costs of partner organisations should be listed under ‘Operating costs’.

BENEFIT:

The total available amount per call to be distributed among all supported projects will be around €115,000.

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SBN NOURISH NIGERIA CHALLENGE: NUTRIPITCH

Application Deadline: 3 December, 2023

LOCATION: Nigeria

The Scaling Up Nutrition Business Network (SBN) is hosting the 2023 Edition of SBN’s Annual pitch competition in partnership with FATE Foundation. The project is a Business Model Research project and is part of a larger program grant of EUR80m focussed on six African countries (Benin, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Uganda)

ELIGIBILITY:

Must be a Nigerian citizen (male or female).

Must be between the ages of 25 and 50 as of January 2024.

Must be the Founder, Owner manager, or CEO of a growth-stage agribusiness. venture. (Only one applicant per business will be accepted).

Should have their Agribusiness focused on Nutrition and Innovation.

Should have a good business model that focuses on reaching low-income consumers.

Should have a unique/innovative marketing strategy.

Should have a minimum of three (3) full-time highly skilled staff in a managerial capacity (excluding part-time staff and low/semi-skilled staff).

Must have their Agribusiness venture registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and be currently operating and generating income.

Must be available to participate FULL-TIME in the one-week boot camp and ALL other activities required throughout the program.

BENEFIT:

One Week Pitch Readiness Bootcamp

GAP Advisory Sessions

Growth Plan Development

Pitch Competition

CEO Fireside Chat

Series of Workshops and Masterclass Sessions (see program highlights for details on this)

4 months Hand-holding Mentorship Community.

Access to our Alumni Community post-graduation

N 10,000,000 Naira to be shared amongst winners of the Pitch Competition

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