Global Portfolio Value Creation Fellow, Location: Americas (Seattle, Washington DC, San Francisco, New York, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Mexico DF, Santiago And Miami Are Preferred Cities) Or Bangalore, India Or Nairobi, Kenya
Global Portfolio Value Creation Fellow, Location: Americas (Seattle, Washington DC, San Francisco, New York, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Mexico DF, Santiago And Miami Are Preferred Cities) Or Bangalore, India Or Nairobi, Kenya
Programme & Partnerships Officer, Flexible where Plan International has a legal entity and the applicant has the pre-existing right to work and live. Those locations closest to Plan International’s point of impact are preferred
Two Research Associates, One position is global and open to all nationalities/locations of residents, and one is dedicated for a Kenyan national with local residence preferred
Senior Partnerships & Account Manager, MovingWorlds is a global, virtual team with presence in Seattle, Oakland, Houston, Washington, D.C., and New York City in the USA, as well as in Portugal, Lebanon, and 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 – or open to working in – in EST time zone will be prioritized. Current clients are as far west as Seattle and as far East as Nairobi. Your home base should be between those locations for the optimal working hours
Writer, open to candidates located in Liberia or on the Eastern seaboard of the United States
Global Head of Brand&Communications, Ideally, the selected candidate is based in a location with a running Impact Hub or is willing to relocate to an Impact Hub location at own cost
Risk Analyst, only consider applicants with authorization to work in the United States or Kenya on a permanent, full-time basis
Developer Advocate, can be located in Tigera’s offices in Vancouver BC; San Francisco; San Jose; or Cork, Ireland; or fully remote anywhere in the United States
Knowledge Manager, looking for candidates who are able to work remotely in the U.S., or Asia (India, Bangladesh, Nepal), Latin Americas (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, or Nicaragua), or Africa (Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania)
Research Manager-Climate, preference for a PXD’s country office (including: Kenya, India, Pakistan)
Senior Program Analyst, can be based anywhere in GMT -5 to +3 time zones (e.g., Boston, London, Addis Ababa, etc.) with a slight preference for candidates based in Boston
FoodFutureCo: a scale-up accelerator in food, agriculture, social, & environmental entrepreneurship.
Thiel Fellowship: giving $100,000 to young people who want to build new things instead of sitting in a classroom.
Katapult: Climate Accelerator, accelerating tech startups with a positive impact on the climate.
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.
Submissions reviewed every 8-12 weeks:
Mobilizing ‘Protein Diversification’: sourcing innovative solutions for protein diversification and is calling on entrepreneurs to step up and share their approach to accelerate food systems transformation.
Clean Air for all: sourcing innovative solutions and entrepreneurs to step up and share their approach to clean our air.
Achieving Health Equity: sourcing innovative proposals and ideas for achieving health equity.
Accelerating Clean Energy Transitions: sourcing innovative solutions and entrepreneurs to step up and share their approach to accelerate a clean energy transition.
Global Plastic Innovation Network: crowdsourcing diverse innovations and empower a community of high-potential innovators to tackle the plastic pollution.
Upcoming deadlines (December 13-31):
Amani Institute: Social Innovation Management Fellowship, a 5-month intensive program where you will be learning by doing, train with master practitioners, gain skills and build networks, all for the career you truly want (December 13th).
Sankalp Global Awards: Sankalp Africa Awards, looking for social entrepreneurs who are mainstreaming impact, are making a positive impact on society, gaining hands-on experience and networking with a global community (December 16th).
EIT Community: looking for the most innovative ventures driving sustainable change for cities, industries, climate, food, wellbeing and overall quality of life in order to support their business growth and help them become the international gamechangers (December 17th).
ONSIDE Gaming: Call for Proposals for girl/women/non-binary people-led initiatives that promote and advocate for gender justice in esports and gaming (December 17th).
EMERGE: NEW EAST TECH AWARDS, recognition for the startups with traction and investors from the New East region across 15 nominations, incl. cybersecurity, smart city, impacttech, healthtech&wellbeing (December 17th).
EIT Health InnoStars: seeking partners with early-stage healthcare projects to fund the proof-of-concept phase for high-quality, strong, balanced projects, targeting EIT Health’s six Focus Areas and to be developed by local actors including both business and academic/research/healthcare institutions; geographical coverage: EU, RIS eligible countries (December 18th).
Roche: looking for Digital Health solutions for Dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease (December 19th).
Impaction and Because International: 2021 Social Innovation Competition with a chance to win Seed money and a spot in Because International’s Pursuit Incubator accelerator program (December 20th).
Social Ventures Foundation: The End Poverty Innovation Challenge, engaging the next generation of entrepreneurs in developing social ventures that provide solutions to poverty reduction challenges (December 20th).
TotalEnergies: Startupper of the year Challenge for all business creation’s project holders and young innovative startups with a positive impact on their communities; geographical coverage: 32 African countries (December 23d).
Zurich: Looking for solutions to the most important challenges around sustainability: Changing Climate, Confidence in a digital society, Work sustainability (December 23d).
Enterprise Singapore: Trade and Connectivity Challenge for solutions that will address on-the-ground operational needs and drive partnerships in the aviation, maritime, land mobility, logistics and trade sectors (December 30th).
Impactlatam: empowering and accelerating impact ventures in Latin America and Caribbean (December 30th).
Get In The Ring: Global Startup Competition, looking for unconventional solutions that have the ability to solve global challenges (December 31st).
Fledge: conscious company accelerators and investment funds, helping entrepreneurs create impactful companies and co-ops at scale through intense, short programs filled with education, guidance, and a massive amount of mentorship; locations: Seattle, Boston, Lima, Barcelona, Padova, Rwanda (December 31st).
Savvy: Savvy Price 2022 for Innovative Startups, High-Impact For-Profit and Non-Profit Projects; open to Savvy Fellows who are currently participating in the Savvy program, or that have completed the program. For those who aren’t Savvy Fellows yet, they can apply first to the Savvy Fellowship Program, and after getting accepted into the program, they can apply for the Savvy Prize (December 31st).
Horizon 2020 project ‘’The Pilots for Healthy and Active Ageing (Pharaon)’’: Open Call, an opportunity for other solution providers to contribute their technologies to the project, demonstrating that their solutions are compatible with the Pharaon open platform and supporting the ongoing development and refinement of the overall Pharaon ecosystem (December 31st).
Nomfro Technologies: Nomfro Technologies’ Entrepreneurship Empowerment Project (NTEEP 2022) seeking to identify and support innovative startups whose activities can create solutions and employment in Africa (December 31st).
Accelerate2030: A global program supporting entrepreneurs from developing and emerging markets to scale their solutions towards the Sustainable Development Goals (December 31st).
Stay tuned on Linkedin and Twitter for more useful resources and updates on online programs, fellowships, awards, competitions, incubators, accelerators.
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Global Portfolio Value Creation Fellow, Location: Americas (Seattle, Washington DC, San Francisco, New York, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Mexico DF, Santiago And Miami Are Preferred Cities) Or Bangalore, India Or Nairobi, Kenya
Global fellowship, applications for ‘21&’22 cohorts are being accepted
Product Owner, Anywhere in the world, preferably near PST/UTC -8 time zone. Being open to an eventual relocation to Los Angeles, CA in the future will be a plus
Outreach Lead (Aselo), Working from any location is fine so long as your workday can overlap at least 50% with colleagues in the Pacific Time Zone, and you can accommodate the timing of meetings with partners around the world
Global Head of Brand & Communications (Manager); Location: Ideally the selected candidate is based in a location with a running Impact Hub, or is willing to relocate to an Impact Hub location at own cost. Please be mindful that the majority of the global team is in the European timezone. Availability for meetings between 4 and 7 pm CET is required
Senior Policy Advisor, Economic Justice, Position location to be determined by home country of successful candidate in a jurisdiction (US state or country) where WVI is registered to operate
External Relations Director, remote working on a time zone compatible with working hours in Africa (GMT to GMT +3). There is the possibility of relocation to the country where APHF operations will be permanently based, depending on circumstances
Visa Foundation and Village Capital: Greentech Europe 2022 initiative, a new project dedicated to supporting gender diverse ventures creating sustainable economic, environmental and social solutions across Europe (the program will launch in November).
Food Tech Matters: bringing together the investor, start-up and industry community (the event takes place on November 29-30).
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.
MovingWorlds: S-GRID, New Social Enterprise Support Program, helping social enterprises build revenue partnerships with the corporate sector to become more integrated into global value chains.
FoodBytes: a digital and physical discovery program that connects the best and brightest startups with corporates and investors through structured mentor sessions, one-on-one corporate and investor meetings, and more, culminating in a live pitch competition.
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).
leAD Sports & Health Tech Academy: accelerators in Berlin and Lake Nona, supporting and growing early-stage sports & health tech startups globally.
Story Cube: free online sprints for edtech entrepreneurs covering strategy, sales and storytelling, designed to help ambitious edtech entrepreneurs inspire, pitch and sell with ease.
HATCH: Accelerating Sustainable Aquaculture; location: require teams to visit their three office locations during the program (Hawaii, Norway and Singapore).
SPRING: IMPACT Startup Visa Accelerator for purpose-driven entrepreneurs seeking to anchor their business in Canada (the next cohort kicking off in January 2022).
Omdena: AI Incubator, the only AI development program in the world exclusively for startups and impact ventures (next available start date: February 17th, ‘22).
EIT Food: supporting innovative impactful agrifood entrepreneurs and startups to deliver new food innovations and businesses across Europe (incubator, accelerator, scaleup program).
GROW: Southeast Asia’s first dedicated agrifoodtech pre-accelerator and accelerator with an impact focus; onsite and online format for startups from anywhere.
Upcoming deadlines (December 2-12):
SVG Ventures: THRIVE LATAM CHALLENGE, selected Latin American startups for an opportunity to pitch their solutions before an audience of top agricultural leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs (December 3d).
DB mindbox: 4th Future of Operations & Maintenance 2022 program – Weather resilience open call (Weather Analytics for train stations; Infrastructure Alerter for Flooding Counteraction; Combined solutions) (December 5th).
BlueInvest Africa: Call for Pitchers, providing an opportunity to put forward the African know-how and local skills, business projects and initiatives; eligibility: African Small Micro and Medium-sized businesses (December 5th).
MIT Enterprise Forum (MITEF) Pan Arab and MITEF Saudi Arabia: MITEF Startup Competition, enabling entrepreneurs and promoting an ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia and the Arab world, with the slogan “Empowering Today. Transforming Tomorrow”; three different tracks: Ideas, Startups and Social Entrepreneurship (December 6th).
JX Nippon Mining & Metals: Innovation challenge for the Next Generation; themes to tackle: Advanced materials to support lives and lifestyles, Technologies to facilitate materials development, Circular economy and decarbonization (December 6th).
Startupbootcamp: digital 3-month accelerators for high-growth tech startups; the sectors include sustainability, decarbonization, energy, cyber security (December 6th).
Startup Wise Guys: Sustainability Accelerator, meant for B2B AgriTech, FoodTech, MedTech, EdTech, SexTech, Smart city, Mobility, Energy, and Supply Chain startups with solid and passionate teams, global ambitions, and the power to execute; online and offsite format for startups from anywhere (December 8th).
Milken Institute: Milken-Motsepe Innovation Prize program, a series of multi-year, multimillion-dollar prize competitions for technological solutions that accelerate progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a spotlight on Africa (December 8th).
New Ventures: I3 LATAM Accelerator for innovative social entrepreneurs in Latin America (December 10th).
Stay tuned on Linkedin and Twitter for more useful resources and updates on online programs, fellowships, awards, competitions, incubators, accelerators.
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Global Portfolio Value Creation Fellow, Location: Americas (Seattle, Washington DC, San Francisco, New York, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Mexico DF, Santiago And Miami Are Preferred Cities) Or Bangalore, India Or Nairobi, Kenya
Global fellowship, applications for ‘21&’22 cohorts are being accepted
Several openings @ResponsibleSteel, Home office, preference for CET aligned time zones – where the majority of the current team operates – but open to candidates globally
Full Stack 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
Community Engagement Coordinator, Wedu’s team is primarily based in ICT (UCT +7) timezone, and team members are expected to have at least 5 hours of overlap with this timezone each day
Salesforce Project Manager, Location and Hours: IRAP has offices in the U.S. (New York City, Washington, D.C.), Jordan (Amman), Lebanon (Beirut), and Germany (Berlin); for candidates applying from these locations, in-person or hybrid work environments are possible once returning to the office is safe. Remote candidates who are able to overlap with both IRAP’s New York City and Beirut offices remotely for at least 1 work hour per day are also encouraged to apply
Impact Manager-Grants and Reporting, within EST and CET time zones (including all time zones and regions in between)
Research Manager Food Business EU, Ideally based in the UK but other locations possible (Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Belgium (preferably Brussels) or Poland)
Impact Specialist, remote, with a preference for candidates in a time-zone which would be “compatible” with the Netherlands
Fundraising Manager, Ideally Vienna, Austria, other DACH locations could be possible
Senior Consultant, Preferred location: Nairobi, Kenya. Exceptionally strong candidates in locations where BFA has an office or presence may also be considered – India, Nigeria, Mexico, Colombia, Spain or the US (Boston)
Director of youth Engagement, Candidates can come from anywhere in the world, should have partial overlap with EST hours, and some flexibility to accommodate global time differences
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Flexible where Plan International has a legal entity and the applicant has the pre-existing right to work
Global Programme Support Advisor, The successful candidate may be based in a country where one of the independent National/Regional Greenpeace organisations (NRO’s) is located (subject to agreement)
Research Analyst-Hydrogen, Locations available: Houston, Boston, New York, Edinburgh, London, Madrid, Singapore
Senior Strategy Manager, can be based remotely in the US (preferably New York / East Coast) or London
Marketing and Communications Lead, encourage applications from candidates that are from and live in the countries we work in (primarily Africa, Asia, Latin America) as well as individuals identifying as Black, Afro-descendent and/ or as People of Colour
Senior Product Manager- Growth, Location: Teams are mainly located across Hamburg, Berlin and Barcelona, however flexible and can also consider remote work within the EU
Canvas LMS Design Consultant, Preference will be given to candidates who live in one of the countries Generation serves including: Australia, Brazil, France, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Pakistan, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, USA
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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, 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: 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.
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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.
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.
Berlin Innovation Agency: Future City Startup Incubator, accelerating smart city startups; open to all nationalities, but founders must be registered in Berlin from the moment the program starts.
+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.
Techstars: Torino Cities of the Future Techstars Accelerator, focused on smart, efficient, sustainable and liveable cities; startups need to relocate to Torino for the entire length of the program (3 months).
Conscious Venture Lab: an acceleration program for mission-driven business solving problems around urban resilience and smart cities.
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.
Stay tuned on Linkedin and Twitter for more useful resources and updates on online programs, fellowships, awards, competitions, incubators, accelerators.
If you opt for funding advisory services (600+ impact investing opportunities), you are just one step away.
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