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• Apply: Bayer Foundation Women Empowerment Award

  

  For the first time, Bayer Foundation is launching a Women Empowerment Award. With this award, Bayer Foundation wants to empower women as key change makers and help female entrepreneurs generate social impact in Sub-Saharan Africa. Through the Women Empowerment Award, Bayer Foundation offers a partnership which goes far beyond a one-off cash prize. The award…

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  February 24, 2021

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• Apply for the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Program

  

  Application for the the $100m Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program (TEEP) for emerging African entrepreneurs is now open. In 2015, TEEP has empowered 1,000 African entrepreneurs selected from over 20,000 applicants with startup investment, active mentoring, business training, entrepreneurship boot camp and regional networking across Africa. Entrepreneurs with an average age range of 21-40 from 51 African…

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  February 24, 2021

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  active mentoring, Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, business training, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, Elumelu, empowerment, empowerment fund, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, GEEP, girls, growth, Hafsatu Hamza-Babaji, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, investment, Kaduna, Lagos, leadership, LoftyInc Capital Management, LSETF, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mentoring, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, Nigeria empowerment fund, program, progress, small biz, small business, SMEs, solutions, South Africa, Startup, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, Teen Tycoons, TEEP, TEEP program, The AWP Network, Tony Elemelu Entrepreneurial Program, Tony Elumelu, Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth unemployment, Youths

• Tony Elumelu Foundation Seeks Mentors for Its Business Program

  

  The Tony Elumelu Foundation seeks mentors for its entrepreneurship program. To achieve its goal of 1:2 mentor/mentee ratio at most, we would like to take advantage of your network to recruit additional mentors. Kindly share this link with those you deem fit to mentor and grow the selected African Entrepreneurs – Qualities of a TEF…

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  April 29, 2019

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  active mentoring, Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, business training, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, Elumelu, empowerment, empowerment fund, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, GEEP, girls, growth, Hafsatu Hamza-Babaji, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, investment, Kaduna, Lagos, leadership, LoftyInc Capital Management, LSETF, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mentoring, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, Nigeria empowerment fund, program, progress, small biz, small business, SMEs, solutions, South Africa, Startup, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, Teen Tycoons, TEEP, TEEP program, The AWP Network, Tony Elemelu Entrepreneurial Program, Tony Elumelu, Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth unemployment

• Apply: 2019 TechWomen Program

  

  TechWomen empowers, connects and supports the next generation of women leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) from Africa and the Middle East by providing them with the access and opportunity needed to advance their careers, pursue their dreams, and inspire women and girls in their communities. Through mentorship and exchange, TechWomen strengthens participants’ professional…

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  January 11, 2019

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• 5 Young Senegalese Entrepreneurs accepted Into StartUp Accelerator

  

  Five (5) young Senegalese entrepreneurs have been selected to receive six (6) months of business incubation and $2,000 seed-funding to kick-start their business. The Senegal Start-Up Accelerator is designed to support innovators in the fishing and agricultural sectors by helping them to develop their commercial solutions and maximize their impact. Over the course of six…

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  January 4, 2019

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• Apply for the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Program

  

  The fifth round of the $100m Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program (TEEP) for emerging African entrepreneurs is now open. In 2015, TEEP empowered 1,000 African entrepreneurs selected from over 20,000 applicants with startup investment, active mentoring, business training, entrepreneurship boot camp and regional networking across Africa. Entrepreneurs with an average age range of 21-40 from 51 African countries…

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  January 2, 2019

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  active mentoring, Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, business training, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, Elumelu, empowerment, empowerment fund, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, GEEP, girls, growth, Hafsatu Hamza-Babaji, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, investment, Kaduna, Lagos, leadership, LoftyInc Capital Management, LSETF, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mentoring, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, Nigeria empowerment fund, program, progress, small biz, small business, SMEs, solutions, South Africa, Startup, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, Teen Tycoons, TEEP, TEEP program, The AWP Network, Tony Elemelu Entrepreneurial Program, Tony Elumelu, Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth unemployment, Youths

• Nigerian Startup ScholarX Joins Wise Accelerator and Injini Incubator

  

  Founded by Bola Lawal and Maxwell Ogunfuyi, ScholarX was recently accepted into Injini’s five (5) months edtech incubator program. The program is all expense paid, plus a $50,000 investment during the program. In addition to this, ScholarX is one of five (5) initiatives selected for the 2018-19 WISE Accelerator. The WISE Accelerator will support the five selected edtech…

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  July 17, 2018

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  Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, Bola Lawal, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Injini, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Maxwell Ogunfuyi, mentoring, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, ScholarX, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, WISE Accelerator, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• Tony Elumelu Foundation Seeks Mentors for Its Business Program

  

  The Tony Elumelu Foundation seeks mentors for its entrepreneurship program. To achieve its goal of 1:2 mentor/mentee ratio at most, we would like to take advantage of your network to recruit additional mentors. Kindly share this link with those you deem fit to mentor and grow the selected African Entrepreneurs – Apply here: Tony Elumelu Mentors…

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  March 27, 2018

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  active mentoring, Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, business training, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, Elumelu, empowerment, empowerment fund, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, GEEP, girls, growth, Hafsatu Hamza-Babaji, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, investment, Kaduna, Lagos, leadership, LoftyInc Capital Management, LSETF, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mentoring, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, Nigeria empowerment fund, program, progress, small biz, small business, SMEs, solutions, South Africa, Startup, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, Teen Tycoons, TEEP, TEEP program, The AWP Network, Tony Elemelu Entrepreneurial Program, Tony Elumelu, Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth unemployment, Youths

• $50k Available When You Join Africa’s Edtech Incubation Program

  

  Injini is the first EdTech incubator program on the African continent. It is the only opportunity for EdTech entrepreneurs based anywhere in Africa to get industry specialist mentoring, support, scale up and funding introductions, and early stage funding.  Injini selects a cohort of start-ups from across Africa every six months, invests in them and gives…

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  March 6, 2018

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• Want To Mentor Women In Science?

  

  PEER is happy to announce a new initiative aimed at supporting the career development of women in science: the Women in Science Mentoring Program. This program is designed in response to established studies showing that women are underrepresented in higher education and academia, in part due to a disproportionate number of female researchers leaving science…

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  February 19, 2018

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  Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, female researchers, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mentoring, Middle East, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, North Africa, PEER, program, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, USAID, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Women in Science, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths