IREX is excited to announce the launch of the Mandela Washington Fellowship Catalyst Grant application, a unique funding opportunity for Fellowship Alumni! Through a partnership with D-Prize, a non-profit organization that works to distribute and scale proven technologies to benefit people in extreme poverty, up to two Fellowship Alumni will be selected to receive grants of up to $20,000 USD each to pilot a new initiative to catalyze change and distribute a proven poverty intervention wherever extreme poverty exists.
ELIGIBILITY
- The Mandela Washington Fellowship Catalyst Grant is open to all Fellowship Alumni from all tracks, sectors, and levels of expertise who want to launch or scale a social enterprise in communities throughout Africa.
- The Mandela Washington Fellowship Catalyst Grant is intended to support Fellowship Alumni to deliver a proven poverty intervention at scale. The grant is not intended to support prototyping a promising new solution.
Mandela Washington Fellowship Catalyst Grant Challenges
- Can you provide smallholder farmers with high-quality inputs and training proven to increase their harvests?
- Can you teach basic reading and mathematics skills to primary school students in a resource-limited classroom?
- Can you sell solar lights to rural or slum-dwelling households in need?
- Can you direct 500 caregivers (parents or other guardians) to bring their infants to health facilities for routine immunizations that otherwise would not occur?
- Can you provide business coaching, capital, and social support to lift people out of ultra-poverty?
- Can you distribute non-prescription reading/ working glasses to those in need?
- Can you improve transparency and report data on public service performance?
- Can you reduce road fatalities by mobilizing the public with a proven public transportation safety campaign?
DEADLINE: November 18, 2024
To apply and for more information, visit here.
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