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Apply for small business grants in Nigeria 2025. Most of the small business funding listed below are free grants to start a business.
The Lagos COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (CARES) Program is a state-level intervention that seeks to mitigate the local effects of the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic at the state-level, by protecting the livelihoods of existing and newly poor and vulnerable households and supporting the
Published: 08 Feb 2023 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Nigeria Deadline: Not Specified
The Flourish Africa Grant for Female Entrepreneurs is a One Billion Naira Fund created to support and promote African female-owned businesses over 5 years through training, mentoring, and funding. The Flourish Africa training curriculum has been designed to educate and prepare female entrepreneur
Published: 12 Jan 2023 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Nigeria Deadline: 29 Jan 2023
The Cudos Foundation Grant Program funds initiatives that power the development and growth of the Cudos ecosystem through our community of builders and creators. We fund talented teams aligned with our vision of creating a sustainable future that’s borderless, scalable, and secure. Our
Published: 10 Jan 2023 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 31 Jan 2023
Village Capital 2023 Financial Solutions for Migrants supporting innovation across Africa, the Middle East and South Asia increasing migrant access to financial services and employment opportunities. The program will: Define: Develop and refine an in-depth, contextualized understanding o
Published: 07 Dec 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 06 Jan 2023
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The Standard Chartered Women in Technology Incubator is Africa’s leading incubator programme for female-led and founded businesses. It aligns with calls for more diversity in technology, and entrepreneurship and for more opportunities for women to develop entrepreneurial and leadership ex
Published: 24 Nov 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Zambia Deadline: 14 Jan 2023
The ACT Foundation believe that grant making is a critical tool in engineering social change, and even more the foundation is inspired by the long and short term partnerships they make. Foundation’s strength lies in the partnerships they create and sustain through funding for programs and acti
Published: 21 Oct 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 11 Nov 2022
MTN is inviting Nigerians to submit entries for the MTN Pulse 68 Million Naira grants for small businesses and hustlers in Nigeria. The MTN Pulse ‘Blow My Hustle’ engagement is a Youth Empowerment Campaign put together to project the ingenuity of young promising entrepreneurs in
Published: 21 Oct 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Nigeria Deadline: Not Specified
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Visa, in partnership with IFundWomen, is back with more funding opportunities for exceptional businesses in Canada. As part of Visa’s continued commitment to support small businesses, 10 remarkable entrepreneurs will be selected to receive a $10,000 CAD grant plus one year of coaching se
Published: 17 Oct 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Canada Deadline: 25 Oct 2022
Applications are open for the Commonwealth Foundation Grants Program 2022. Under this call, the Foundation is looking to support projects that seek to facilitate constructive engagement between civil society and government, including civil society participation in policy development and decisio
Published: 06 Oct 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 01 Nov 2022
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Are you an immersive media artist or creative technologist based in Africa? Do you have a concept or project that utilises real-time 3D (RT3D) or Extended Reality (XR) technology in a creative and impactful way? Electric South invites emerging as well as accomplished African XR creators to apply for
Published: 24 Aug 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 31 Aug 2022
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Applications are invited for the British Council New Narratives – Co-creation Grant 2022. Targeting a youth (18 – 35-year-old) audience, the co-creation grant aims to support Africa and UK cultural partnerships to develop digital, face-to-face, and hybrid artistic projects that examine N
Published: 24 Aug 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 30 Aug 2022
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The Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton Africa programme is designed to provide female owned businesses across Africa an opportunity to access finance, world-class business trainings as well as mentoring opportunities. This programme has been designed to create an enabling environment for female entrepren
Published: 16 Aug 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 19 Aug 2022
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The Basu Innovation Scholar Grant, provided through the generosity of Sunanda Basu, will provide travel support to an early-career scientist/recent Ph.D. graduate making an impact in the area of space physics and aeronomy, through innovative approaches to observation and interpretation, to attend AG
Published: 21 Jul 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 06 Aug 2022
EatOkra, in partnership with Dine Diaspora, is providing grants for Black women-owned restaurants across the United States. The EatOkra Black Women in Food Grant provides capital for Black women to accelerate growth for their brick and mortar restaurants. The EatOkra Black Women in Foo
Published: 28 Jun 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: United States Deadline: 17 Jul 2022
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Because we understand the work that goes into building a business, we’ll like to support its growth. Three business owners will have the opportunity to take their business to the next level with our grant prize of N1,000,000, N500,000 and N200,000 respectively.
Published: 13 Apr 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 15 Apr 2022
For each project a partnership is created between the HEINEKEN Africa Foundation, the local HEINEKEN brewery and a local or international (N)GO. The Foundation provides funding and administrative assistance. The local brewery supports through means of manpower, expertise and monitoring. T
Published: 05 Apr 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 15 Apr 2022
Are you the founder of an early-stage company that is developing solutions to modernize manufacturing and advance sustainable production? Help make the factory of the future a reality sooner, and jump-start your startup by getting your product or service in front of the Toyota Ventures team. We&r
Published: 30 Mar 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 31 May 2022
The Keystone Startup Advantage Program (KSA Program) is being introduced as a specialized incubator program with offerings to address the needs of Startup businesses. It is a Social Enterprise Initiative which aligns with the United Nations Envision #2030 Sustainable Development Goal (UN SDG) 8:
Published: 09 Feb 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 28 Feb 2022
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