Hivos East Africa is organizing the Africa Content Creators’ Summit on the rise of a new generation of content makers and their role in propelling alternative spaces that bolster free expression. The summit will take place on 4-5 December 2018 in Nairobi. While the role of critical voices in the shrinking civic space continues to grow
Jesse Lutabingwa, Associate Vice Chancellor of International Education and Development at Appalachian State University, has written over 300 international project proposals and earned over $5 million in grants. He says even excellent projects need help from outside supporters. These are his tips on how to meet and work with partners and funders for your next
This year, HER Voice Fund is giving USD 2000 grants for activities meant to influence policy processes in 13 African countries. Funds address financial access barriers limiting community-based organizations working on adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) to add a voice to policy processes. HER Voice Fund HER Voice is the result of various consultations with
To address the challenge of Business, Technical, Vocational Education and Training (BTVET) financing, Enabel is piloting a Skills Development Fund (SDF) in Albertine & Rwenzori, Northern Uganda, and Karamoja region. While World Bank through Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU) is supporting a Skills Development Facility countrywide. This Call for Proposals for the Skills Development Fund
Y Combinator wants to lure more companies into the funnel for its accelerator while democratizing free access to startup knowledge. This is your chance to learn how to start a startup through the YC Startup School. The YC Startup School Recently, Y Combinator announced that their third year of the YC Startup School program will begin August 27, offering
The Pitch with Purpose Global Competition is a pitch contest celebrating and rewarding diverse founders who have committed their companies to social good. Launched in 2016, Pitch with Purpose was the first-ever pitch competition centered around solutions to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This year’s Pitch with Purpose competition has been launched
Getty Images partnered with Women Photograph to promote gender diversity within professional photojournalism and elevate the work and the voices of female visual journalists. Through funding and mentorship, this $10,000 grant will support an ongoing documentary project from a professional photojournalist who has demonstrated a long-term commitment to their story. Additional consideration will be given
Applications have opened for the second edition of the Cape Town-based Injini Edtech incubator, the first programme dedicated to learning startups on the African continent. Injini took in its first cohort – eight companies from five different African countries in October of last year and is now looking for another eight ed-tech innovations that can change education across
BMCE Bank of Africa invites you to submit your business or idea for the African Entrepreneurship Award 2018. The African Entrepreneurship Award welcomes angel investors to mentor and select businesses for investing. International angel investors seeking African deal flow improve their investing efforts by joining AEAngels. Their goal is to close the gap in startup funding. The African
The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Mission in Uganda announces an open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for a small grant to implement and manage a gender-based violence video and radio programming project. This 6-month project will produce videos and radio skit programming to raise awareness about Gender-Based Violence in Northern and
