Deadline: 22-Feb-22
Applications are now open for the Innovate For All Grants Program that supports a portfolio of projects that scale essential innovative programs, services, and technology deployments across the state.
These projects help empower and sustain a statewide network of innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship resources that enable shared economic success for Georgia’s rural, suburban, and urban centers, with a focus on the people and places that are often overlooked as hubs of innovation.
What are the objectives and mission of Innovate for All?
- We are dedicated to Inclusive Innovation. Our goal is to support a portfolio of projects that will scale programs, services, and advance technology deployments across the state that improve, sustain, and expand access to opportunity for all Georgians.
- Partnership guiding principles include: talent, connectedness, diversity, sustainability and identity – to achieve inclusive innovation, which we define as creating and increasing access and opportunity for all Georgians.
Funding Information
- Innovate for All has a fixed amount to help fund innovation. They ask that you structure your proposals for up to $250,000.
Selection Criteria
- Project scalability – Ability of the project to scale operations and impact into multiple regions across the state or statewide.
- Team & Infrastructure – Experience and ability of project team and partners to drive execution
- Innovation & Impact – Ability to deliver innovation and opportunity access that impact communities in multiple regions across the state.
- Alignment to Innovate for All Values – Connection between the project’s objectives and PIN values
- Return on Investment – Ability to increase impact of proposed project outcomes over time and create or secure additional funding sources.
- Time to Value – the length of time required to achieve project outcomes and show impact.
- Financial Sustainability – Ability for the project to survive to realize goals and proposed outcomes; a project’s ability to continuously secure sustainable funding or revenue is a key selection criterion as Innovate for All funding is a one-time grant with the expectation for the project or service to continue after the project period.
- Risk Mitigation – Anticipation and defined process for mitigation of risk
For more information, visit Partnership For Inclusive Innovation.
For more information, visit https://pingeorgia.org/pilot-program-overview/