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AGROHACK CHALLENGE FOR NIGERIAN AGRIPRENEURS

Application Deadline: Monday, October 7, 2024

LOCATION: Nigeria

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.

ELIGIBILITY:

Must be a female led Agric enterprise

Must be between 18 – 35 age

Must have a team (minimum of 2 )

Have an innovative or scalable business idea or model in the agricultural sector (ranging anywhere from farm to fork)

Transform a community, a nation, a region, or have a global impact

Have a minimum viable product

Have a business model with a clear customer segment

Have any market traction

BENEFIT:

Participants also stand a chance to win up to one million naira

Accelerator programme

5 days Enterprise Bootcamp

Intense mentorship from a pool of international mentors

Business support services

Access to investors

Access potential clients

New market opportunities

APPLY

OUR KIDS’ CLIMATE PARENT FELLOWSHIP: CALL FOR APPLICATION

Application Deadline: September 6, 2024, at 11:59 pm ET.

LOCATION: Multiple Regions

Across the world, parents, grandparents, and caregivers are taking climate action to protect the kids they love, children everywhere, and our shared home.

The Climate Parent Fellowship aims to support key organizers of parent-led, intergenerational, or family-focused climate engagement work across the globe.

ELIGIBILITY:

To be eligible for the Climate Parent Fellowship, you MUST:

Be at least 18 years old;

Be someone who is at the leadership level within a non-profit project or group, organization, strategy, or idea;

Be fluent or proficient in English; including: submitting a complete application in English, respecting the application form instructions;

Submit an application sharing your personal contribution to shapingthe work of your initiative (the Fellowship is NOT a grant application, and does not accept applications from organizations);

Provide clear and focused responses to all questions. Vague answers or excessive reliance on AI-generated content will result in disqualification from the selection process.

BENEFIT:

Selected Fellows will be awarded a stipend to help carry out their work for this 12-month Fellowship program.

The grants will range from $15,000 – $20,000 USD. It is important to note that Fellows will be responsible for paying national taxation after they receive the funding and that for some Fellows receiving this stipend may affect, for example, benefits they are eligible for. The stipend will be issued in four payments.

Fellows will have access to peer-to-peer learning, monthly training/discussion sessions, communications support, and some 1:1 mentoring.

APPLY