Customer success manager; opportunity to work remotely: 50% of the VIDA team works remotely from countries such as Rwanda, Ukraine, Sweden and UK, option to work from Munich office
Senior Developer; preferably located in -5 UTC/ +0 UTC timezones
SAP Solution Architect – Supply Chain Planning; Oslo, NO Vordingborg, DK Espoo, Uusimaa, FI Sète, 34, FR Nokia, FI Porsgrunn, NO Serra do Salitre, MG, BR Melun, 77, FR Bordeaux, 33, FR Berlin, BE, DE Vilnius, LT Szczecin, PL Viitasaari, FI Siilinjärvi, North Savo, FI Helsinki, Uusimaa, FI Avonmouth, ENG, GB Belfast, NIR, GB Antwerpen, Antwerp, BE
Series of blog posts ”Learning and Funding Resources for Impact Entrepreneurs”, ”Growth Opportunities for Impact Entrepreneurs”
Applications always open/accepted on a rolling basis:
Zinc: seeking 70 entrepreneurial individuals from across the globe to build businesses that will transform the industries that have the most impact on our environmental crisis (apply by 15 July if you need a visa; apply by 29 July to join final Pre-Founder’s Days; 12 August – Apply for final spots open).
WomensNet: giving away at least $30,000 every month in recognition of the diversity of businesses owned by women; must be residents of US/Canada (last day of each month).
SWAN Impact Network: providing funding for impact startup companies on a quarterly cycle.
FoodBytes: accepting startup applications to join its food and agriculture innovation platform (startups selected quarterly).
HATCH: Accelerating sustainable aquaculture (you can register interest in ’22 program).
Katapult: Africa and Ocean Accelerator Programs, aiming to contribute to a transformative, structural change in the food chain (you can join watchlists).
Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship: an accelerator for entrepreneurs working on women’s economic empowerment and/or climate resilience because of your outsized impact on eliminating poverty (accepting applications on a rolling basis).
Grid.Lab: accelerating energy transition and to support all parties involved in the changing energy field in Scandinavia.
MATTER: a membership-based incubator and an accelerator for healthcare startups at all stages of growth by creating access to learning and development opportunities, capital and customers and a dynamic community; Chicago roots and global reach with many of the members from outside the US.
Founders Factory: accelerating exceptional founders solving global problems using technology; the focus programs include Home&Hygiene accelerator.
Baltic Sandbox: Women in Tech, empowering female founders and supporting Women in Tech globally.
Dassault Systèmes: Electro Mobility Accelerator, accelerating successful mobility innovations, while optimizing cost, quality and customer experience, via Cloud or on Premis.
Muellners: LEARN, an online Growth Accelerator for entrepreneur talent to break into social sustainable product engineering.
Solar Impulse Foundation: a challenge for solutions protecting the environment in a profitable way, and bringing them to decision makers to help them adopt more ambitious environmental targets and energy policies.
DART Labs: an accelerator helping the startups working towards healthier humans and a healthier planet from Switzerland and Europe to enter the US market.
The Difference Incubator: accelerator programs designed to help businesses at all stages of growth to set themselves up for long-term sustainability and social or environmental impact across the world.
The Female Founders Lab: Pitch Labs for female founders with ideas/ventures impacting society.
Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation: looking for social entrepreneurs with dynamic ideas to provide them with 3 years of unrestricted capital (totaling $300,000) and provide rigorous on-going support by joining their board of directors for the 3 years and partnering with the leader to help them to build capacity in their organization and scale their impact.
July 17th – August 1st:
Empact Ventures in Partnership with Hays: Global Tech for Good Competition for tech startups (pre-seed & seed) and scaleups (Series A & B) in the UK Ireland, Europe, Australia and New Zealand; focus areas: AI for Good, EdTech, HealthTech, MedTech, FoodTech, ClimateTech and FinTech for Good (July 18th).
L’Oréal: Beyond Plastic challenge for sustainable packaging solutions (July 18th).
Because International: inviting impact-driven, product-based entrepreneurs from around the world to apply for the Because Impact 2022 Prize and win a spot in the Fall 2022 Because Accelerator (July 19th).
Spring: IMPACT Startup Visa Accelerator, a 4-month cohort-based virtual program supporting revenue-generating impact businesses scale into North America (July 20th).
Italgas Group: Open Innovation Challenge for the best European innovative and sustainable solution in the energy sector (July 20th).
Startup SG: a deeptech startup pitching competition; the sectors include health & biomedical; envrionment, energy & green technology (July 24th).
Hello tomorrow: APAC Challenge for startups working in the following sectors: Digital Health and Medical Devices, Medical Biotech & Pharmaceuticals, Industrial Biotech, Energy, Environment, Food & Agriculture, Urban Sustainability, Mobility among others (July 24th).
BioEconomy Ventures: an accelerator for bioeconomy innovators from Eastern Europe to get funding, access to clients and solutions to market (July 26th).
Story Cube: an online programme covering strategy, sales and storytelling, designed to help ambitious edtech entrepreneurs inspire, pitch and sell with ease (July 29th).
SE Greenhouse: SEG Ideator, a 6 week program designed to help you develop, test, and vet your ideas in a risk-free and supportive environment (July 29th).
Sente: investing in foodtech startups located in Asia, Eastern Europe, Europe, Middle East, North America (July 30th).
Sente: an investment program to support the next generation of industrial, sustainable technologies (July 30th).
Palladium: Challenge Fund, a funding opportunity for impactful and high-quality ways to restore nature and mitigate harm, without greenwashing or double counting; two themes: Measuring the Value of Nature and Jobs for Refugees (July 31st).
PES Latam and TrustLaw: pro-bono legal assistance for LAC social enterprises whose profile is registered on the ES2 Latam platform (July 31st).
Big Idea Venture’s in partnership with Informa Markets: a competition for plant-based and/or fermentation-based startup in the meat, seafood or dairy industry based in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, China, Korea, Japan (August 1st).
Impactlatam: empowering and accelerating impact ventures within LAC (August 1st).
Stay tuned on Linkedin and Twitter for more useful resources and updates on online programs, fellowships, awards, competitions, incubators, accelerators.
Manager, Innovative Finance; a global full-time position with working hours that are aligned with London. Candidates applying for a position in the United Kingdom, where UNF has an office, will be considered for a staff position. Candidates applying for a position in all other countries will be considered for a contract position. There is a preference for candidates located in Sub-Sahara Africa
MULTIPLE COUNTRIES
Several openings @Tech Matters; a remote-first, globally distributed team that spans from the U.S. West Coast to South Africa/a distributed team across Americas
Multiple openings @Planet, a global company with employees working remotely world wide and joining from offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, Germany, and The Netherlands
Program Coordinator, must be based in a time zone between GMT-3 and GMT-7 (inclusive)
Analytical Associate for Latin America; U.S. citizenship or legal right to work in the U.S. is preferred, but all applicants located in North and South America are welcome to apply
Latin America Program Manager, Forest Campaign; open to hiring a candidate working remotely, but the ability to work full time from Washington DC and authorization to work in the U.S. is a plus
Director of Programs; work location for this position is flexible from remote locations – a commitment to working within USA Eastern Time Zone hours is required
Software Engineer / Data Systems Engineer, Data Team; can be located anywhere – the core hours are 10am to 2pm Eastern Time (currently UTC -4) Monday through Friday, with team members choosing either an early start or later stop as suits them
Travel & Logistics Support Consultant; a 4 day/week consultancy role and working hours are aligned with WIEGO´s TMC operating hours (09:00 – 17:30 GMT) although you don’t need to be UK based
Several openings @Open Philanthropy; flexible on work hours and location, provided you are able to have at least 5 hours overlap with EST working hours; not able to sponsor visas for this role, but happy to consider hiring a candidate lacking U.S. work authorization to work remotely abroad
(Senior) Space Systems Engineer, Space Operations, a global company with employees working remotely world wide and joining from offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, Germany, and The Netherlands
Training Manager, remotely is also an option, although needs to be available during Pacific time office hours (GMT-7), applicants should have full working authorization in the country where they will be based
Backend and Infrastructure Engineer, Aselo; a remote-first, globally distributed team that spans from the US West Coast to South Africa. You can work from anywhere, though people on the West Coast can expect earlier workdays and people in Europe and Africa can expect later workdays – core overlap hours of 8-11am Pacific Time, which is flexible day-to-day
Strategy Consultant, CAN BE BASED IN AMSTERDAM :PARIS : MUNICH : LONDON (remote working is fine but we would love for you to be in office 2 or 3 days a week where at all possible)
Series of blog posts ”Learning and Funding Resources for Impact Entrepreneurs”, ”Growth Opportunities for Impact Entrepreneurs”
Applications open / No specific deadline:
Copernicus Centroamérica: competición para la resolución de problemas locales centroamericanos mediante la utilización de Copernicus (5.07 – ceremonia de apertura y comienzo de la competición).
LAB 1720: looking for Agri Founders (m/f/d), welcome to join the team in one of the hubs/can participate from anywhere in Europe.
AI for Good Innovation Factory: Monthly Pitching Sessions and Follow-up Accelerating Programs to help start-ups grow and scale their innovative AI-powered and SDG-driven solutions, by providing them with opportunities of business matchmaking, mentoring, fundraising and more.
Omdena: AI Incubator, the only AI development program in the world exclusively for startups and impact ventures (next available start date: July 21st).
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 (applications accepted through Earth Day 2025).
Miller Centre for Social Entrepreneurship: Women’s Economic Empowerment Accelerator for entrepreneurs working on women’s economic empowerment and/or climate resilience because of your outsized impact on eliminating poverty.
Global Innovation Fund: accepts applications working in any sector in any developing country on a rolling basis with no deadlines or rounds of funding.
One10: Activate and Amplify virtual accelerator, enabling purpose-driven people to shape and scale startups for positive social and environmental impact.
Kindle VC: mentorship (incubator/accelerator) and EIR support for startups in US and India; the focus sectors include agritech and social impact.
MovingWorlds: TRANSFORM Support Hub, connecting social enterprises with corporates, peers, learning content, and a global community of pro bono professionals to deliver market-based solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals.
Catalyst Fund: Inclusive Fintech Accelerator, supporting early-stage innovators in emerging markets who are building affordable, appropriate and accessible inclusive fintech solutions designed for the world’s 3 billion underserved.
HortiHeroes: startup programs for food & flower startups.
StartLife: accelerating food & agtech startups with lasting impact in Europe (pre-applications open).
ygap: finding, accelerating and supporting the growth of impact ventures led by local entrepreneurs around the world who deeply understand the unique challenges of their communities and are best placed to develop solutions; locations: you can apply in Kenya, South Africa and Australia.
Upcoming deadlines(July 2-16):
Danone Asia Pacific: Health & Nutrition IoT Challenge for any innovative ideas, technologies, business collaboration models, disruptive solutions (July 2d).
HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management: SpinLab, a startup accelerator that supports the growth of entrepreneurial and innovative teams who want to scale up their businesses; focus areas: eHealth, Smart City, and Energy (July 5th).
ATS Labs: an accelerator for accessibility startups (July 5th).
Startupbootcamp: a program designed to re-imagine and make the mobility & transportation industries greener; geographical coverage: Europe, North America (July 5th).
GreenOffshoreTech: aiming to support SMEs and the development of new products, processes, or services for Green Offshore Production and Transport (July 6th).
Sankalp: a celebration of outstanding social entrepreneurs and a showcase of innovative and successful businesses globally (July 7th).
Female Founders: Grow F 3-Month Investment Readiness Accelerator for female-led ventures (July 7th).
FISHBOWL: bringing together college students from around the world to build tech-based social ventures that address the pressing problems of our time in these 5 critical areas: agriculture, healthcare, economic empowerment, renewable energy&sustainability, education technology (July 8th).
Aqua For All: Impact-Linked Fund for WASH, aiming at enabling pioneering impact enterprises in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East to gain access to suitable and innovative finance (July 10th).
Every Woman Forum: Everywoman Awards, open to any female business owner whether they operate as a limited company, sole trader, or in partnership with others (July 11th).
Energia Ventures: looking for Start-ups working with Computer Security, Smart Grid, Energy & Cleantech (July 11th).
The GreenTech Accelerator: an accelerator to grow and match innovative GreenTech solutions to meet the needs of ASEAN SMEs (July 12th).
Conscious Venture Lab: giving mission-driven businesses the funding, exposure, and guidance to thrive and have an impact (July 13th).
Stay tuned on Linkedin and Twitter for more useful resources and updates on online programs, fellowships, awards, competitions, incubators, accelerators.
Chief Impact Officer; Guatemala,Honduras,India,Malawi,Peru,Rwanda,Uganda,United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,United States of America
Principal Consultant ESIA, can be based from any of the global locations including the UK, Ireland, Australia, South Korea, Singapore, North America and mainland Europe
Head Of Sector, ideally one of our offices in New York, London, Nairobi, or Bangalore
Bid Coordinator, Any country in which Crown Agents has an International Office
Chief Impact Officer; USA, Peru, Guatemala, Honduras, UK, Uganda, Malawi, Rwanda, India
Global Regulatory Affairs and Compliance Leader, Location of this position is one of the Nipro locations, ideally in Europe to facilitate global coverage of Americas/ Europe/ Asia activities(working homebased is possible)
Grant & Funder Orchestrator (maternity cover), Ideally based close to a EIT Climate-KIC office but supporting full remote or hybrid forms of working and offer a high degree of flexibility
Greenpeace International: the successful candidates may be based in a country where one of the independent National/Regional Greenpeace organisations (NRO’s) is located (subject to agreement)
Pathfinder International: can be based in any country that Pathfinder operates: United States, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tanzania, Togo, Bangladesh, or Uganda
TDi Sustainability: offices located near Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK with satellite offices in New York City; Amsterdam, Netherlands, Milan, Africa; Accra, Ghana; Vancouver, Canada; and Malmo, Sweden – have a policy to accommodate remote, flexible and autonomous working arrangements in return for a commitment to extremely high-quality deliverables, working to fulfil project goals, and consistently meeting deadlines
Kisi, a global remote team spanning from America, Europe, Africa and Asia
This is a blog post in the series “Resources for impact entrepreneurs”: Growth Opportunities for Impact Entrepreneurs. Part 5: Sustainability & Circular Economy Global and Regional Programs.
BSR: a global network of member companies, thought leaders, peers, and stakeholders—all focused on creating viable sustainability solutions.
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability: a network of professionals to further the roles of women in growing the green economy and making a positive impact on the environment.
Global Green Connect: an integrated sustainability network that provides a business accelerator program in Asia.
Google: Startup Advisor: SDG Program, empowering an ecosystem of entrepreneurs to reach the SDGs.
Awards, Hackathons, and Competitions:
EIT Manufacturing, Whirlpool EMEA, voestalpine, and EROSKI: BoostUp! BRIDGE, seeking to address challenges and solutions under EIT Manufacturing’s flagship: Low Environmental Footprint Systems & Circular Economy for Green Manufacturing.
Dassault Systemes: Shape the World of Tomorrow Challenge, inviting students from all over Europe, with a focus on Northern European countries, to design innovative solutions that solve some of today’s biggest sustainability challenges using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
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.
Siemens: Green factory co-creation challenge, identifying the most impactful opportunities in manufacturing where Siemens can support or partner to achieve more sustainability; the sectors include sustainable manufacturing, circular economy (EV battery recycling), sustainable procurement.
Enterprise Singapore: Sustainability Open Innovation Challenges for Startups and SMEs building a brighter future for the planet; sectors: sustainable materials, waste management, and many more.
Enactus World Cup: showcasing elite sustainability projects designed by university students from 37 countries.
Programs and Accelerators:
UNDP, Impact HUB: Accelerate2030, a global program supporting entrepreneurs from developing and emerging markets to scale their solutions towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
Climate Changes Hub: Startup Pilot Program, looking for Startups working in environmental sustainability; startups are expected to set up an office in the Comunidad Valenciana Digital District.
Sociedade Ponto Verde: digital open innovation program, focused on circular economy and digital disruption of packaging waste.
Accenture, World Economic Forum: Circulars Accelerator ’22, an action-oriented, a six-month accelerator program for early-to-growth-stage companies developing innovations towards a more circular economy.
Circular Valley: Circular Economy Accelerator for all start-ups with business concepts for the circular economy; the accelerator takes place in Wuppertal.
gener8tor: accelerating and Investing in Sustainability Tech Startups; while this program will be virtually held, parts of the program may be held in Chicago, Illinois if safety permits.
Startup Wise Guys: Sustainability Accelerator, meant for B2B startups with solid and passionate teams, global ambitions, and the power to execute; online and offsite format for startups from anywhere.
IMPACT KOMMONS: an accelerator for tech startups that have a combination of sustainability and business viability values.
Impact Club Accelerator: accelerating the creation of measurable social impact within the focus themes (SDGs), incl.sustainability.
Venice Sustainability Innovation Accelerator: VeniSIA Accelerator, a 7-month online program including the following phases, to support companies to identify, through an international call to action, and engage the most qualified researchers/start-uppers to carry out the sustainability.
Future Hub: Open Innovation Sustainability Accelerator, a kickstarter for startup & enterprise co-creation; five sustainability and GreenTech areas; geography: Baltic countries.
The Difference Incubator: accelerator programs designed to help businesses at all stages of growth to set themselves up for long-term sustainability and social or environmental impact across the world.
Toyota and ISDI: Toyota Startup Accelerator program, looking for innovative solutions in the startup ecosystem that work in the fields of comprising Circular Economy of Plastics and Life Cycle Footprint Ecosystem.
RaiseV: Startup Accelerator Programs and Corporate venturing Programs focusing on the convergence of the top influential technologies – IoT, AI & Blockchain – and four focus areas that ought to benefit from it, incl.circular economy.
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.circular packaging).
World Fair Trade Organisation, European Union: Small but Perfect, an accelerator programme of mentoring, funding and showcasing that connects fashion businesses across borders by encouraging transnational collaboration and transition to circular and sustainable models.
You will find below the most useful online platforms for your global and regional impact startup programs search. In most cases you can subscribe to newsletters/updates to make your search even easier.
Platforms for impact entrepreneurs
LeanVentures: global and regional programs for impactpreneurs (upcoming deadlines for impact programs, fellowships, competitions, challenges, awards, bootcamps, pitch events, incubators, accelerators, funding opportunities etc.)
Impact Shakers Community: weekly roundups with learning and funding deadlines for impact entrepreneurs. (mostly for Europe-&UK-based startups)
Ogunte: bi-weekly lists of current opportunities to ignite your social impact project. (mostly for UK-based ventures)
StartSomeGood: weekly digests – events and opportunities for social entrepreneurs.
Impact Hub Community: programs, events and opportunities for purpose-driven entrepreneurs and innovators.
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:fully remote impact jobs (global, regional, multiple countries) and resources for your impact jobs search.
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.
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