The Female Founders Lab: Pitch Labs for female founders with ideas/ventures impacting society.
One10: Activate and Amplify virtual accelerator, enabling purpose-driven people to shape and scale startups for positive social and environmental impact.
ProVeg Incubator: supporting pioneering companies that are developing disruptive alternatives to animal-based products and services.
Transformational Business Network: Business Continuity and Recovery (BCR), an intense 6-month program and mindset-shifting experience, with personalised support from experienced entrepreneurs, investors, content experts and powerful business tools; geography: Kenya and Uganda.
Kindle VC: mentorship (incubator/accelerator) and EIR support for startups in US and India; the focus sectors include agritech and social impact.
Upcoming deadlines:
Carbonless and MTR: Asia Challenge for growth-stage startups and data technology providers with the power to radically reduce carbon emissions (deadline: October 23d).
Tom Ford: Plastic Innovation Prize, offering $1.2 million to the innovators who create the best replacement for thin-film plastic; one that can be used in everything from polybags (the fashion industry’s packaging of choice) to single-use, resealable sandwich and storage bags (deadline: October 24th).
CirCoAX: Circular Innobooster, providing funding and business support to 30 transnational partnerships each led by one SME that aims at creating a new innovative product, process, service or business model, directly impacting the take-up and adoption of sustainability and circularity approaches and practices in the fashion & textile sectors; eligibility: EU member state or COSME associated country and UK (deadline: October 27th).
IDEX: a 6 month virtual program designed to equip and train professionals with the functional skills required to cater to the growing demands of the social enterprise & impact sector (deadline: October 31st).
Eurobest: Awards for Good, recognising and celebrating the use of creativity to positively impact not only businesses and brands, but also the world at large; eligibility: entries designed specifically for and to run in the European region and are created or produced by companies in/outside the European region, or designed to run globally as long as they are created or produced by companies in the European region (deadline: October 31st).
GoHub: Global Water Challenge, creating the largest global hub of water technologies.
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Finance and Operations Manager, location: offices in Washington DC (USA) and London (UK) where all precautions and measures are in place. The position is also available as remote worldwide
Senior Data Orchestration Engineer, location: a global, virtual team with presence in Seattle, USA; Houston, USA; Washington, D.C., USA; Medellin, Colombia; Algarve, Portugal; Beirut, Lebanon and São Paulo, Brazil. Ideally you will be in one of these locations, but you can work from anywhere provided you overlap with our working time zones. Candidates that are based in EST time zone will be prioritized
International Director of People & Culture, Location: The successful candidate may be based in a country where one of the independent National/Regional Greenpeace Organisations (NRO’s) is located
MERL Officer, location: PlanBørnefonden’s office in Copenhagen or in a European and African time zone. Applicants must be nationals of a European Union member state or otherwise hold the permit to work in Denmark
Investment Officer – South-East Asia, will not be based in a MDIF office but can opt to work from a location of their choosing. This location must allow easy communication with clients and stakeholders in the region, including the ability to make frequent company visits on a short-haul basis
You will find below the most useful job boards and job digests (out of dozens “scanned”) for your global and regional remote impact job search. In most cases you can subscribe to newsletters/updates to make your search even easier.
Impact job boards:
LeanVentures: global and regional remote impact jobs.
Idealist.org: connects millions of idealists – people who want to do good – with opportunities for action and collaboration all over the world.
Skoll Foundation: an aggregated list of social sector job opportunities and original postings covering unique opportunities in the NGO / Government and CSR space.
Communications Coordinator, This role is fully remote and the company is able to legally hire from most countries, however preference is for applicants to be located in North, Central and South American Time Zones, as well as African and European Time Zones (UTC-8 to UTC+3)
Marketing Manager, Applications are encouraged from all candidates that can serve at least three hours of the standard workday (9 am – 5 pm) in both Pacific Time and Greenwich Mean Time (Vancouver and London)
Halcyon Incubator: Africa Intensive Fellowship, providing high quality leadership and business development for early-stage social enterprise founders from across Sub-Saharan Africa (deadline: October 8th).
POZI: RESTART, an international startup and idea competition that brings ideas, projects, and solutions to make our future more livable and sustainable together on one platform (deadline: October 8th).
Springboard Enterprises: an accelerator program serving as the pipeline into our community of world-class entrepreneurs, investors and business development professionals; industry verticals include life science, digital health (deadline: October 13th).
Circular Valley: Circular Economy Accelerator for all start-ups with business concepts for the circular economy; the accelerator takes place take place in Wuppertal (deadline: October 15th).
Unconventional Capital: investing in Africa’s bottom up growth; the sectors include agriculture, education, food (deadline: October 15th).
Atlantic Smart Ports Blue Acceleration Network: a 9-month acceleration program with workshops based on both accelerating your business and your collaborations within the sector strengthening innovation in the European blue economy (deadline: October 15th).
Tourban: Sustainable Urban Tourism Acceleration Programme, calling European SMEs in the tourism industry (deadline: October 22d).
TCS: Pitch for Purpose, a startup competition celebrating social entrepreneurs and their ideas that will change the world (deadline: October 22d).
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This is a blog post in the series “Resources for impact entrepreneurs”: Growth Opportunities for Impact Entrepreneurs. Part 4: Smart Cities & Urban Innovation Global and Regional Programs.
Smart City Expo World Congress: World Smart City Awards aiming to recognize and support innovative city strategies, projects and ideas that can potentially make an impact on citizens’ lives and turn our cities into more sustainable and inclusive places to live in.
Aveiro Urban Challenges: awarding startups, scaleups and R&D centres for the best ideas and solutions to resolve urban issues.
XTC: a social innovation startup competition; the sectors include smart cities.
Logrono, ecoembes, TheCircularLab: Circular Urban Challenge, a European competition between startups linked to the field of circular economy in which the best solutions are sought to address specific challenges that affect cities.
FIA: Smart Cities Global Start-Up Contest, identifying, supporting and investing in the world’s most innovative and impactful technology companies in the Smart Cities ecosystem.
NSCN: Nordic Smart City Challenge, open to innovators developing solutions that will help to support local authorities to build the liveable and sustainable cities citizens will need now and in the future.
Hackathons, Incubators and Accelerators:
Cassini Hackathons: challenging hackers to develop innovative solutions that sustainably improve our green spaces in urban and rural areas.
+Impact Accelerator: looking for startups working with Smart Cities; geography: Nordics (Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway); the program will be a hybrid (virtual + in person), if people prefer to attend virtually, it is possible.
Conscious Venture Lab: an acceleration program for mission-driven business solving problems around urban resilience and smart cities.
Urban Mobility Incubator: a 10-week incubation program to transform mobility ideas into deployed prototypes; geographical coverage: the primary focus are participants from the Baltic states, but ready to consider teams from elsewhere in the world if interested in registering the company in Latvia.
IMPACT: Growth Smart Cities & Infrastructure Accelerator, selecting growth-stage startups working to solve the challenges of urbanization by optimizing resource consumption and improving services through better management of supply and demand in urban life activities.
Future Hub: Open Innovation Sustainability Accelerator, a kickstarter for startup & enterprise co-creation; the sustainability areas include smart cities; geography: Baltic countries.
URBAN-X: an accelerator for startups reimagining city life.
Plug and Play: three-month accelerator programs boosting startups through corporate business development, networking and pitch events, world-class mentorship, and the potential for investment; the sectors comprise smart cities.
Africa Mobility Initiative: Africa Transformative Mobility Accelerator for transformative, practical, well researched and possibly tested solutions to urban mobility challenges in African Cities.
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Senior Dev/Team Lead, location: flexible on location – the core team hours are: 3pm to 6pm UK time – any location is OK, as long as those hours work for you in your timezone
Technical Reviewer, looking for suitable candidates in the following countries : UK, Ireland, UK, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Denmark, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, South Africa, Morroco
RightsCon Program Coordinator, location: ideally based in our Berlin, Brussels, New York City, San José (CR), Tunis, or Washington, DC office, with flexibility for remote work locations
Go To Market Manager – Life Sciences, to be based out one of the global office hubs (offices in Switzerland, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom or United States)
AVF Portfolio Manager, The ideal candidate is an African based within the African continent with pre-existing work authorization for any employer in their country of location, working times are within East African Time zone
AL DESIGN MANAGER, SAMEA, Preference will be given to candidates based in the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Srilanka)
Go To Market Manager – Life Sciences, to be based out one of the global office hubs (offices in Switzerland, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom or United States)
Program Finance and Compliance Consultant, location:Location: This opportunity is fully remote but it is required to work from the US, European or African timezones
This is a blog post in the series “Resources for impact entrepreneurs”: Growth Opportunities for Impact Entrepreneurs. Part 3: Mobility & Transportation Global and Regional Programs.
Keeling Curve Prize: looking for projects with a proven track record of taking greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere; the categories include transport&mobility.
Future Mobility Awards: recognizing startups that are bringing the very best new innovations to the industry, and enabling transformations in four key categories: Sustainability, AI for Safety, Connectivity and Virtual Development.
BCG, via iD, EP: European Startup Prize for Mobility, aiming to select and support every year the 10 most innovative and sustainable mobility startups in Europe (and neighboring countries) in order to shape a new landscape for sustainable mobility in EU and around the world.
Hyundai & POSCO: H2 Challenge, looking for hardware & software applications, technologies and solutions for hybridization and decarbonization in the areas comprising Transportation.
Siemens Stiftung: E-Mobility Innovation Calls: “Electric Mobility Made in Africa for Africa”.
Bosch: Future Mobility Challenge, an international technical competition for student teams to develop autonomous driving algorithms on 1/10 scale vehicles provided by the company.
IAA Mobility: IAA Mobilitython, a hackathon for the mobility transition.
Urban Mobility Incubator: a 10-week incubation program to transform mobility ideas into deployed prototypes; geographical coverage: the primary focus are participants from the Baltic states, but ready to consider teams from elsewhere in the world if interested in registering the company in Latvia.
SOLUTIONSplus: New Incubator for start-ups developing e-mobility solutions across the globe.
Volkswagen: Future Mobility Incubator, supporting innovative business ideas related to the mobility of the future and giving entrepreneurs from all over the world the chance to develop their innovative mobility concepts to market maturity.
IMPACT: Connected Car, a 6-month acceleration program
Toyota and ISDI: Toyota Startup Accelerator program, looking for innovative solutions in the startup ecosystem that work in the fields comprising of Mobility for All.
Connected Places Catapult: Future of Air Mobility Accelerator, selecting 12 SMEs to join a 6-month programme, where they will receive support from a consortium of industry, academic and regulatory partners on the trial and testing of disruptive innovations; key challenges: Data-Driven Aviation, Smart Airports, Advanced Air Mobility.
Dassault Systems: Electro Mobility Accelerator, accelerating successful mobility innovations, while optimizing cost, quality and customer experience, via Cloud or on Premis.
Future Hub: Open Innovation Sustainability Accelerator, a kickstarter for startup & enterprise co-creation; the sustainability areas include mobility; geography: Baltic countries.
DeepTech4Good: an acceleration program, financed under the Horizon 2020 framework, committed to help Deep Tech startups accelerate their development and scale up at European level; the application domains comprise smart mobility.
Plug and Play: three-month accelerator programs boosting startups through corporate business development, networking and pitch events, world-class mentorship, and the potential for investment; the sectors comprise mobility.
Startup Wise Guys: Sustainability Accelerator, meant for B2B startups with solid and passionate teams, global ambitions, and the power to execute; the sectors include mobility; geography: online and offsite format for startups from anywhere.
MAN Accelerator: MAN Impact Accelerator, built to scale social ventures in transport and logistics with a considerable impact on society; geographical coverage: Europe, Brazil, Africa.
Africa Mobility Initiative: Africa Transformative Mobility Accelerator for transformative, practical, well researched and possibly tested solutions to urban mobility challenges in African Cities.
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This is a blog post in the series “Resources for impact entrepreneurs”: Growth Opportunities for Impact Entrepreneurs. Part 2: Water Global and Regional Programs.
Nexus Community: a global and curated community of professionals sharing solutions, business opportunities and knowledge related to water nexus thematics.
WIA: Oceanside Chats, online water community gatherings with experts and professionals from all around the world.
Awards, Prizes and Competitions:
FINNOVA: Ivace Water Startup Europe Awards, open-innovation programme.
Global Water Awards: a competition for projects demonstrating a significant contribution to the water industry.
XPRIZE Carbon Removal: a four-year global competition for innovators and teams from anywhere on the planet to create and demonstrate solutions that can pull carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere or oceans ultimately scaling massively to gigaton levels, locking away CO2 permanently in an environmentally benign way.
MIT: Water Innovation Prize, startup competition focused on water innovation that awards up to $35K to student-led teams from across the country and internationally.
Brew Accelerator: yearly competitions unleashing water innovation by funding water technology startups from around the world with commercialization potential.
XPRIZE Foundation: large-scale global incentive competitions to crowdsource solutions to the world’s grand challenges; the domain areas include oceans.
UN Climate Change Conference: Tech For Our Planet challenge programme, an opportunity for startups to pilot technology that will help us reach our net zero targets (incl.Challenge 6 For Our Water).
Accelerators:
100Accelerator: an accelerator for innovative solutions that have the ability to scale quickly and make a significant impact on one or more of the challenge areas (incl. water stewardship).
Imagine H2O: an innovation accelerator for the world’s top water entrepreneurs.
Katapult: Ocean Accelerator, a digital program that combines 90 days of intense workshops, networking events and learning sessions with $150,000 – 500,000 investments.
HATCH: accelerating sustainable aquaculture with a requirement for teams to visit the three office locations during the program (Hawaii, Norway and Singapore).
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This is a blog post in the series “Resources for impact entrepreneurs”: Growth Opportunities for Impact Entrepreneurs. Part 1.2: Food & Agriculture Regional Programs.
FAO UN Fellowship: designed to attract fellows, typically PhD students, researchers and professors, who have an advanced level of relevant technical knowledge and experience in any field of the Organization.
Kirchner Food Fellowship: three fellowship programs that harnesses the power of millennials to find, fund and assist promising socially responsible agricultural businesses; geographical coverage: Central America, Mexico.
Networking:
EIT Food: Europe’s leading food innovation initiative, working to make the food system more sustainable, healthy and trusted.
LadyAgri: a network of International and African professionals linking agri-businesses with the finance community, social impact funds, through which women-agri- entrepreneurs can develop and upscale their businesses in Africa and Small Island Developing.
Incubators and Accelerators:
World Resources Institute: Land Accelerator, a four-month program and curated network for entrepreneurs who restore degraded forests and farmland; geographical coverage: Africa, Latin America, South Asia.
The Yield Lab: enabling entrepreneurs to sustainably revolutionize agrifood systems; regional accelerators: North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Europe.
EIT Food: supporting innovative impactful agrifood entrepreneurs and startups to deliver new food innovations and businesses across Europe (incubator, accelerator, scaleup program).
X-Europe: 6 acceleration cohorts for European startups; the areas include AgriTech.
Fresh Ventures Studio: a venture building program, co-founding companies with experienced professionals and entrepreneurs to address systemic challenges in the food system; for EU participants, require all participants to locate to Rotterdam for the physical part of the program.
StartLife: accelerating food & agtech startups with lasting impact in Europe.
Hatch Colab: a 12-month program (with periods of residence in Geneva) for Europe-based entrepreneurs committed to solving humanity’s grand challenges and driving sustainable change; the sectors include healthcare.
Future Hub: Open Innovation Sustainability Accelerator, a kickstarter for startup & enterprise co-creation; five sustainability and GreenTech areas: Mobility, Food & AgroTech, Smart cities & Energy, Supply Chain & Logistics, Sustainable Business & Circular Economy; geography: Baltic countries.
FAO and UNIDO: 3ADI+, Accelerator for Agriculture and Agroindustry Development and Innovation; pilot countries: Bangladesh, Suriname, Tanzania.
Future Food Asia Platform: aiming to accelerate open innovation in AgriTech and FoodTech across Asia Pacific, with the goal to catalyze and align an ecosystem to cope with the challenges of food.
Kindle VC: mentorship (incubator/accelerator) and EIR support for startups in US and India; the focus sectors include agritech.
Pangea: a Scaleup Program for Africa-based impact driven startups; the sectors include Agriculture.
Glocal: an accelerator for both, startups and mid – sized established companies in the Agribusiness Sector in Latin America.
Village Capital, with the support of Visa Foundation: Future of Food LatAm AgriTech and FoodTechAccelerator, an investment readiness program for Latin American startups that are tackling the region’s most pressing challenges in the agritech and foodtech sectors.
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