Deadline: 20 March 2018
Do you have a project that is tackling a particular social or environmental problem in Ireland and are looking to grow your impact? Social Entrepreneurs Ireland, Through their Awards Programme provides funding, mentoring and a network of supports to high-potential social entrepreneurs and their project, helping them to build a strategy to become a highly impactful, effective, scalable, and sustainable organisation.
Social Entrepreneurs Ireland looks for up to 8 social entrepreneur-led projects with the potential to significantly impact the problem that they are addressing in Ireland, and work with them for 9 months.
The Awards programme works with high-potential social entrepreneurs to help them build a strategy for their organisation to become highly impactful, effective, scalable, and sustainable.
Social Entrepreneurs Ireland invests significant time and effort to provide a range of resources and opportunities to its Awardees. In return they expect:
- Full personal participation on core programme support elements;
- Open-minded and honest engagement;
- Willingness to participate in group events and share knowledge;
- Active involvement with the Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Alumni Network both during and after the Awards Programme.
Benefits
- Funding: Each Awardee will receive €10,000 in direct, unrestricted funding.
- Training & Support: In addition to this funding, Awardees will receive support valued in excess of €15,000. Awardees will join an accelerator programme where they will receive mentorship, training and support, in areas like leadership development, governance, strategic planning, and impactful storytelling.
- A Powerful Community: Each Awardee will become a member of the Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Alumni Network – Ireland’s largest network of social entrepreneurs. Alumni Network workshops and events are an opportunity for Alumni to come together to network and learn from each other, receive expert advice from other social entrepreneurs and hear selected guest speakers on both personal and professional topics.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to apply to the Awards Programme, applicants must meet the following criteria:
- They are aged 18 years or over at the time of applying for the programme.
- They are the social entrepreneur leading the project – the main driver and decision maker.
- The primary focus of their project is on benefiting people in Ireland.
- They have identified a social or environmental issue and developed a clear business model to solve it.
- Their solution is new or better than others in existence already in Ireland.
- Their project has moved beyond the initial idea stage, with activities up and running that relate directly to the problem they are trying to address.
- They have evidence to illustrate the social mission and impact of their project on their target beneficiaries/audience.
- They have the ambition to scale and grow the impact of your project beyond its current level.
- They are open to the learning and development opportunities provided through their Awards Programme. The Programme will run from July 2018 – March 2019. This involves a time commitment of on average 3 days per month.
- They are available to attend mandatory Selection Process events: Social Entrepreneurs Bootcamp on 14 th May and Finalist Day on 6 th June.
- They are willing and able to develop their project on at least a part-time basis for the duration of the programme.
Note: Social Entrepreneurs Ireland is not in a position to support research projects, party-political projects, or projects with an explicit religious or faith-based agenda – as opposed to projects that are driven by a personal belief system but are open to all the community.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
Eligible Country: Ireland
For more information, please visit The Awards Programme.