Monitoring, Evaluation & learning (MEL) Consultants- Call off
Principal Consultant: Climate and Health, The Crown Agents’ headquarters is in London; however, this role allows for flexibility in work location and can consider applications from the UK, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Kenya, or Nigeria also
Innovation Advisor; Bangladesh, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Philippines, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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 (the deadline for applying for the 4th quarter 2022 funding cycle is on September 6th).
IAA Mobility: Mobilitython, a hackathon for the mobility transition (the event takes place on September 9th).
Startup Basecamp: Future of Climate Tech Global Startup Competition (quarterly onlinbe pitch competition with an upcoming deadline on September 22d).
FoodBytes: accepting startup applications to join its food and agriculture innovation platform (startups selected quarterly).
Women Startup Competition: empowering female founders, and advocating for more gender-balanced world (individual national deadlines – September to December).
Forward Fooding: FoodTech 500, showcasing selected international AgriFoodTech startup and scaleup companies using a unique methodology to rank them based on their business size, digital footprint, and sustainability practices (you can pre-apply for 2022).
Future Food-Tech: Applications are now open for start-ups seeking capital or corporate partnerships to showcase their solutions at Future Food-Tech in March 2023.
Innovate4Water: pitch opportunity for Utilities, water technology companies, social enterprises, corporations, agribusiness organisations, etc.
Get in the Ring: Global Startup Competition – Open Application for startups that have what it takes to solve the global challenges of the future.
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).
Western Union Foundation: Accelerator and Fellowship, a program for young entrepreneurs and community leaders who are from and working with highly marginalized, refugee, and forcibly displaced communities around the globe (rolling basis, final application deadline is November 15th).
SEIP: an online incubation program matches quality seeds with the best soil for sprouting.
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.
August 17th – September 1st:
Because International: an accelerator designed to help entrepreneurs take their innovative products to the next level (August 17h).
GENERALI Health Solutions: looking for innovative approaches to improve the life of millions of people (August 18th).
GETINGE: looking for future-proof management solutions for a more patient-centric innovation approach (August 18th).
IKKclassic: looking for all-embracing, holistic, OR special individual health care solutions (August 18th).
European Innovation Council: EU Prize for Women Innovators, awarding three prizes of €100,000 each to the most inspiring women innovators across the EU and Associated Countries, including Ukraine (August 18th).
Economist Impact: Ocean Changemakers Challenge for game-changing solutions for a sustainable blue economy (August 19th).
Meaningful Business 100: an award programme celebrating leaders globally combining profit and purpose to help achieve the UN Global Goals (August 19th).
AVPA: Africa Impact Investing Fellowship, selecting individuals in Africa who embody the values and skills needed to develop a strong impact investing sector (August 19th).
Great Companies: Global Business Award; the focus sectors include education and health (August 19th).
SHV Energy: looking to reduce its direct CO2 emissions in Scopes 1 and 2 by working and collaborating with global innovative solutions in various steps in their value chain (August 19th).
She Loves Tech: Global Startup Competition, looking for early-stage women-led and women-impact startups (August 21st for Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand-Vietnam-Cambodia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Central Asia; September 1st: India, Pakistan, Japan, South Korea, China-Mainland, China- Hongkong & Macau, Mongolia, Israel; September 12th: Turkey, Australia, Middle East, Western Europe, Nordics, South Europe, Baltics – Central & Eastern European, United Kingdom, Africa, Latin America, North America).
The Joke Waller-Hunter (JWH) Initiative: giving small grants to young people in the environmental sector in developing countries to expand their knowledge, experience and training, aiming to strengthen environmental Civil Society Organisations capacity and efficiency (August 24th).
Digital Attraxion: MoveUp Program, a 20-week acceleration program that connects companies that want to innovate with healthcare startups that already have a prototype and want to confront it with market needs (August 24th).
Startup Wise Guys: SAAS AFRICA STARTUP ACCELERATOR, for English-speaking East and West African early-stage digital B2B SaaS startups with initial traction, a solid team, and a focus on the areas incl. AgriTech, EdTech, CleanTech, HealthTech (August 25th).
Third Derivative: a climate tech accelerator, looking for world-changing climate tech startups addressing billion-dollar markets in the areas of hard science, hardware, software, and business model innovation (August 25th).
SVG Ventures: THRIVE Global Impact Challenge, a global search for the most innovative startups who are advancing a more sustainable future for agriculture (August 26th).
FAO: Agrination Startup Cup, aiming to support NENA-based youth-led early-stage startups in the field of agrifood and rural development (August 27th).
Yunus Environment Hub: GrowUp Incubator, supporting and advancing innovative solutions that have the potential to create substantial environmental and social impact (August 28th).
DEMO4Green: “Green Manufacturing” – project implementation support, one to one coaching and skills development; geographical coverage: Europe (August 30th).
Ocean Exchange: an Awards for Solutions Inspiring Action (August 30th).
MediaFutures: looking for artists and startups eager to reshape the media value chain through innovative, inclusive and participatory applications of data and user-generated content (August 30th).
Sustainable Energy for All: Cool Challenge, looking for youth-led sustainable cooling solutions that can help deliver on one of more of the three cooling needs: Human comfort and safety: passive or active personal, space or urban cooling; Food, nutrition and agriculture: agricultural cold chain Health services: vaccine and medical cold chain (August 30th).
Tencent and Viva la Vida: THINC, a 12-month fellowship program bringing together a community of 50 selected change-makers from 30+ countries including entrepreneurs, influencers, scholars, artists, politicians, investors, and activists, etc. (August 31st).
InnovX: an accelerator for Eastern European innovative tech solutions to set up a scalable product and discover new markets; the focus sectors include Energy&CleanTech (August 31st).
EIT Manufacturing: Green Manufacturing Accelerator for early-stage green technology startups based in Europe (August 31st).
EIT Circular Economy Community: Circular Economy Prize for SME or start-up with an innovative service, technology, or product around circular economy (August 31st).
Digilogic: Call for proposals to address Smart Logistics Challenges in Africa (August 31st).
WSA: Young Innovators, a special recognition for young people under 26 years of age, using ICTs to take action on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (August 31st).
Startup Reaktor: an incubation platform specially designed to fast-forward early-stage EU tech startups; the sectors include Healthcare IT, Energy & Cleantech, AgriTech, EdTech (August 31st).
Enel Green Power: looking for a new design and architectural concept for the construction of a new and innovative sustainable building system dedicated to primary substations (August 31st).
Enel Global Infrastructure & Networks: looking for a new design concept for a prefabricated secondary substation, which must have innovative features in design, materials, and construction, incorporating the principles of sustainability and, in particular, a circular by design approach (August 31st).
Ambivation: looking for startups in the field of EVs for pilot projects, cooperation projects and investments; the specifically relevant fields are: Electric Mobility, Electric Vehicles, Battery Management Systems (August 31st).
AI2: seeking to provide two (2) grants, each in the amount of $15,000 USD, to organizations that are deploying or developing technology to make a positive impact in conservation management, including but not limited to, the security of endangered animals, animal behavioral research, anti-poaching enforcement, ecological management, and human-wildlife coexistence (August 31st).
Mirova: Nature+ Accelerator Fund, supporting nature-based innovative solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change whilst delivering positive impacts both on biodiversity and the wellbeing of local communities (August 31st).
Inter-American Development Bank: IDB Lab innovation laboratory, an open innovation call to identify, pilot and accelerate technological solutions based on artificial intelligence (AI) that contribute, through the concept of algorithmic justice to reduce bias and discrimination on the basis of gender and gender (August 31st).
GEEP: Youth Innovation Challenge, giving young people (ages 15–30) around the world a chance to come up with innovative solutions to a pressing environmental issue affecting our marine ecosystems, using environmental education as a key strategy (September 1st).
EIT Urban Mobility: Urban Mobility Pre-accelerator, supporting mobility startups between incubation and acceleration phase; geography coverage: Eastern Europe (September 1st).
CYD: Cyber Startup Challenge; geographical coverage: France, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia/NZ, Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Europe, Middle East, Americas (September 1st).
New Sector Alliance: Leadership Longevity Fellowship, designed for mission-driven emerging leaders focused on addressing the world’s most pressing challenges and opportunities (September 1st).
Stay tuned on Linkedin and Twitter for more useful resources and updates on online programs, fellowships, awards, competitions, incubators, accelerators.
A couple of openings @Purpose; Global, but strong preference for candidates in the US, UK, India, Brazil, or Australia. This role has an option to be fully remote, or to work out of any Purpose office
Business Partnerships Associate; can be based in GlobalGiving’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. (including a hybrid work style) or be filled remotely, as long as most of the workday overlaps with US/Eastern time
Program Coordinator; must be based in a time zone between GMT-3 and GMT-7 (inclusive)
Business Development Associate, may be based in Oslo Norway, or the UK, or for highly qualified candidates you may work from a remote home office in Southern Europe
Operations Manager; a virtual team so you can be based anywhere providing you have the right to work there
MULTIPLE COUNTRIES/REGIONS
A couple of openings @Center for Reproductive Rights; can be based remotely in any of our Center’s offices and operational locations, including NYC and Washington D.C., USA; Bogota, Columbia; Geneva, Switzerland; Nairobi, Kenya; Nepal; Bangladesh; and the Philippines
Senior Consultant ESIA; can be based from any of our global locations including the UK, Ireland, Australia, South Korea, Singapore, North America and mainland Europe
Startups for All: EPIC!, Startups for All’s new trusted community for purpose-driven founders, knowledge workers, and product folx from historically excluded, marginalized, othered and underrepresented populations (rolling, open enrollment with complementary access through the 15th and last day of each month).
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).
Good Pitch Summit: an opportunity for the owners of established purpose-driven businesses (the event takes place on October 11th).
Global Good Awards: rewarding businesses, NGOs, charities and social enterprises from all over the world and of all sizes from micro to multi-nationals, for doing good globally (you can register interest for 2023).
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).
Brinc: empowering founders who are solving some of the world’s most pressing challenges through new technology-based solutions: alternative protein, agritech, cleantech&sustainability, healthcare (you can register interest).
NESsT: a funding opportunity for social entrepreneurs with enterprises at the validate (i.e. sales exist but do not sustain the enterprise) and prepare-to-scale stages (i.e. sales sustain initial operations but not growth) from Central and Eastern Europe or South America.
The Eco-Business Growth Club: The EBGC Business Incubator, 12 workshop modules to develop solid and essential business foundations, plus more than 30 other training modules on all social media, Pinterest, Wellness, operations (available on demand).
SUBAK: looking for ambitious nonprofit organisations that focus on creating scalable and measurable climate impact; eligibility: Europe-based ventures (you can register your interest for the next cohort).
Climatebase: a climate career accelerator for the most talented, mission-driven members of the Climatebase community.
Connecting Dreams Foundation: Global Changemaker Fellowship, a 10-month advancement program intended to interface and develop a pipeline of social change leaders who are focused on handling challenges in their local communities.
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.
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(August 2-16):
SE Greenhouse: Practical tools, networks and resources to validate your idea, understand your customer, and formalize your growth strategies from fundraising to social impact measurement (August 2d).
3Vectores: Diseño de Negocios de Impacto, a training program for entrepreneurs, intraperenteres, consultants and agents of change, who seek to generate skills for the business design for a New Economy (August 2d).
SE Greenhouse: guiding you through the basics to launch your social enterprise (August 3d).
SAP y Socialab: Social Innomarathon para desafiar a startups o empresas de impacto con un modelo B2B, tecnología e impacto socio ambiental en Latinoamérica a abordar problemáticas alineadas a la educación, el trabajo y la alfabetización digital cómo también a la acción climática y la economía circular (August 3d).
Imagine H2O Asia: connecting global startups to new markets, partners, and pilot support from Singapore hub (August 5th).
Village Capital and MetLife Foundation: ADAPT-Social Innovation for a More Resilient Future, an accelerator for impact-driven startups developing bold solutions that enable equity, democratize access, and strengthen communities and individuals in the face of climate change, inequality, and other challenges to individual and community wellbeing (August 5th).
Tech2Impact: a 5-month virtual program aiming to support founders from the EMEA region with becoming investment-ready, finding the right investor, and scaling positive impact (August 5th).
Conscious Venture Lab: giving mission-driven businesses the funding, exposure, and guidance to thrive and have an impact (August 6th).
Huawei: Spark Ignite Global Startup Competition, calling for ambitious growth startups (at least Seed stage), with existing commercially available products/services to showcase your innovation to address one of the categories (incl.sustainability) and partner with a leading global brand (August 7th).
Techstars: inviting and encouraging EV startups from around the world to drive innovation (August 8th).
Swarovski Foundation: Creatives for Our Future, a global mentorship and grant program designed with advisor the United Nations Office for Partnerships to identify and accelerate the next generation of creative leaders in sustainable development (August 8th).
Westerwelle Foundation: Young Founders Program, a 6-month fellowship offering founders in Asia, Africa, and Latin America 1:1 mentorship, expert sessions, and access to a global network of entrepreneurs and supporters (August 9th).
PES Latam: “The First Latam Impact Unicorn Generation”, a program to help some of Latam’s most promising and fast-growing impact ventures become the first ‘Latam Impact Unicorns’ (August 9th).
Baker Hughes: Energy Ideas Generation Program focused on energy-related technologies (August 9th).
VERBUND X: looking for start-ups that want to shape the future of energy and infrastructure (August 10th).
ILO and IsDB: Youth Green Skills Accelerator Challenge Call, inviting youth-led organizations, networks or coalitions based in the IsDB – ILO common member States to propose new and innovative ideas and solutions that equip youths (15-35 years old) living in the IsDB – ILO common member States with the competencies required for supporting a just transition in their communities (August 12th).
The Coaching Fellowship: Unlock Your Leadership Program,designed to increase the leadership capacity of the next generation of women leaders in social and environmental change (August 12th).
InnovX-BCR: an accelerator for innovative tech solutions from Eastern Europe to set up a scalable product and discover new markets (August 12th).
InnovX-BCR: fueling the next generation of Innovators and Venture Capital Funds in CEE (August 12th).
Sociedade Ponto Verde: re_source, a digital open innovation program focused on circular economy, and digital disruption of packaging waste (August 12th).
The Journey: Open Innovation Program for energy transition startups (August 14th).
Huawei: Global Startup Competition with Sustainability as one of the focus sectors (August 14th).
She Loves Tech: Global Startup Competition, looking for early-stage women-led and women-impact startups (August 14th for Asia rounds and September 12th for the rest of the world).
For ClimateTech: a global call for applications to source and develop the most impactful and equitable solutions in ClimateTech (August 15th).
EY: Entrepreneurial Winning Women, identifying ambitious women entrepreneurs and providing them with advice, resources and access to unlock their full potential (August 15th).
Brinc: FoodTech Accelerator for global startups developing processes to fix the broken food system (August 15th).
HerMeNow: an accelerator designed for women-led social enterprises focusing on building impactful solutions in culture, mindset, and education, this program is almost entirely remote and online and so accessible to companies across MENA + Africa, including Armenia (August 16th).
Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park: Advanced Industry Accelerator (SAIA) is designed to assist local and regional entrepreneurs as well as global start-ups to grow their startups to access the advanced industry landscape across the region to pilot and scale their solutions globally; the focus areas include energy and water technologies, environmental analysis and sustainable economy (August 16th).
Stay tuned on Linkedin and Twitter for more useful resources and updates on online programs, fellowships, awards, competitions, incubators, accelerators.
Global Research Lead, UPGI, BRAC International; The UPGI team is globally located and there is some flexibility in terms of location, but preference will be given to candidates who are based in Africa or Asia
Operations Manager; a virtual team so you can be based anywhere providing you have the right to work there (national engagement is currently planned in South Africa, Colombia, India and Malaysia)
Multiple openings @Together for Girls; All team members are expected to be available during core working hours of 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, the other four hours that the team member chooses to work are flexible and the core hours may be adjusted as well if negotiated with their supervisor
Customer success manager; Opportunity to work remotely: 50% of our VIDA team works remotely from countries such as Rwanda, Ukraine, Sweden and UK, Option to work from our Munich office
Social Science and Evaluation Advisor; Either in one of our global offices (Bristol or London – UK, Madagascar), or home-based within countries where Blue Ventures has administrative capacity (Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania)
Environmental & Social Management Specialist; Applications from domestic and international candidates with significant relevant environmental and social management experience in sub-Saharan Africa are welcome
Policy Counsel – MENA; applicants must be able to take certain meetings during the Central European Time (CET) time zone working day, expected working hours will generally be from 9:00 to 17:00 CET
Engagement Systems Community Manager; may be based in a country where one of the independent National/Regional Greenpeace organisations (NRO’s) is located ( subject to agreement)
Senior Associate, Innovation; Latin America (Lima, Peru; Managua, Nicaragua; San Jose, Costa Rica; Chiapas, Mexico; or remote in those countries); Kenya (Nairobi or remote); United States (Cambridge, MA or remote). Preference for applicants in Latin America or Kenya
Program Manager, Fish Forever; The selected candidate will be hired as a local national in one of the following countries and must have active work authorization in the country of hire: Honduras, Mozambique, Germany, US (DC, Maryland, Virginia)
Director of Research, you should have at least 4 hours of workday overlap with the UTC timezone
Membership Manager; Most of the team is currently based in Singapore but this role is open to remote candidates willing to work 6+hours/day overlapping with Singapore hours
Crisis Intelligence Manager; based in the APAC region within the GMT+8 to GMT +10 time zones (Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines etc.)
Planet, a global company with employees working remotely world wide and joining from offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, Germany, and The Netherlands
TRM: a remote-first workplace, with hubs in San Francisco, Washington, DC and London
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
Kisi, a global remote team spanning from America, Europe, Africa and Asia
Global Disinformation Index: based, and right to work, in the UK, Germany, or the USA (preferably in the following states: Texas, New York, Florida, or D.C.)
Relief International: US/UK(Head Office) and regional international opportunities(Africa/Asia/Middle East)
Equilibrium Energy; anywhere in the United States & Europe, or join one of our regional hubs in Boston, SF Bay Area, or London
COMPASS Pathways: United States or United Kingdom (can also be office based in New-York or London, UK)
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.
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.
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.
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