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Grants, VC funds, accelerators, and competitions for African entrepreneurs.
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$100K-500K
Skoll Foundation Africa Programs supports pan-African social enterprises at the scale stage with investment support, connections to a peer and partnership community, and visibility through the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Typical ticket sizes are $100K-500K. The program focuses on social innovations creating scalable positive impact, including in global health, deforestation and Indigenous land rights, economic opportunity through smallholder agriculture, and girls' education.
Investment support
The Skoll Foundation invests in social entrepreneurs and other social innovators with innovations creating scalable positive impact, particularly at their inflection point towards scale.
Connection to community and partnerships
The foundation connects change agents through a cultivated community of peers and innovative partnerships.
Visibility and recognition
Through the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the foundation champions and celebrates social entrepreneurs and social innovators.
Global health
Supporting partners who are strengthening global health through community health workers.
Deforestation and Indigenous land rights
Supporting efforts to curb deforestation by securing Indigenous land rights.
Economic opportunity and smallholder agriculture
Supporting expanded economic opportunity by supporting smallholder agriculture.
Girls' education
Supporting efforts advancing girls' education.
Social entrepreneurs changing the world
Reporting support, capacity building, peer learning network
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Applicants should show a proven model with clear evidence of scalable positive impact and explain why the organization is at an inflection point toward scale now. It will help to tie the application directly to one of Skoll's listed focus areas and highlight lived or learned experience with the problem being addressed.
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Deploying
Multiple grantees across Africa