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Call For Applications: Mandela Washington Fellowship Catalyst Grant 2025 ( Up to $20,000 Grant)

Blessing Joseph by Blessing Joseph
October 24, 2024
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Call For Applications: Mandela Washington Fellowship Catalyst Grant 2025 ( Up to $20,000 Grant)
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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.

Requirements

  • 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*

Agriculture

  • Quality Inputs Challenge: Can you provide smallholder farmers with high-quality inputs and training proven to increase their harvests?

Education

  • Teaching at the Right Level Challenge: Can you teach basic reading and mathematics skills to primary school students in a resource-limited classroom?

Energy

  • Solar Lamp Challenge: Can you sell solar lights to rural or slum-dwelling households in need?

Health Access Challenges

  • Child Immunization Challenge: Can you direct 500 caregivers (parents or other guardians) to bring their infants to health facilities for routine immunizations that otherwise would not occur?

Livelihoods

  • Poverty Graduation Challenge: Can you provide business coaching, capital, and social support to lift people out of ultra-poverty?
  • Reading Glasses Challenge: Can you distribute non-prescription reading/ working glasses to those in need?

Public Services

  • Government Transparency Challenge: Can you improve transparency and report data on the public service performance?
  • Road Safety Challenge: Can you reduce road fatalities by mobilizing the public with a proven public transportation safety campaign?

Application Timeline:

Timeline

  • Round 1 Application Deadline: November 18, 2024
  • Round 1 Decision Notifications and Round 2 Application Invitations: December 2024
  • Round 2: Mandela Washington Fellowship Alumni applicants invited to Round 2 will be required to submit a plan a few weeks after the invitation.
  • Final Round: Mandela Washington Fellowship Alumni applicants’ invitation to the Final Round -Virtual interview by the selection committee.
  • Winning ventures will be announced in March 2025.

Deadline: November 18, 2024

Click HERE to Apply

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