Call for Proposals: Academy for Women Entrepreneurs Canada 2025 (up to $35,000) – YOA

Deadline: January 15, 2025

The U.S. Embassy Ottawa proclaims an open competitors for organizations to submit functions to implement the 2025 Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) in Montreal, Canada. AWE is a U.S. Department of State-led initiative established in 2019 to present ladies with the skilled expertise, information, networks, and entry to launch or scale profitable companies. Cohorts of roughly 30 ladies meet on-line and in-individual to study core enterprise expertise similar to strategic planning, advertising and marketing, and finance, then focus on the fabric with native facilitators, enterprise leaders, and U.S. trade alumni mentors.

Through its partnerships with Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School for Global Management, AWE makes use of no-price, on-line studying platforms. Used by AWE since 2019 in partnership with ASU & Freeport-McMoRan, DreamBuilder — accessible in English and Spanish — teaches individuals the basics of beginning or rising a small enterprise from a U.S. perspective, providing modules on advertising and marketing, pricing, and bookkeeping, and features a constructed-in marketing strategy generator. The Najafi 100 Million Learners Global Initiative offers extra superior curriculum and can be utilized alongside or as a substitute of DreamBuilder.

U.S. Embassy Ottawa invites proposals to design and implement the Academy for Women Entrepreneurs in Montreal, Quebec, by way of a coaching program within the fall of 2025 to practice 30 ladies enterprise homeowners from beneath-represented backgrounds in Montreal and the broader province of Quebec. The program, in English and French will observe a hybrid mannequin, combining the U.S. on-line platforms DreamBuilder and/or Thunderbird’s 100 Million Learners programs, with localized in-individual mentorship and facilitation. Successful tasks will harness the facility of U.S. trade alumni and/or alumni networks to assist collaborating ladies and their enterprise develop.

Awards

• Awards could vary from a minimal of $25,000 to a most of $35,000.

Eligibility

• U.S. and Canadian registered not-for-profit organizations, together with assume tanks, neighborhood associations, and civil society/non-governmental organizations with programming expertise
• Alumni of U.S. authorities funded and U.S. authorities-sponsored trade packages in Canada
• Non-profit media organizations
• Professional commerce organizations
• Non-profit or governmental academic establishments
• Private academic establishments

Application

Mandatory Federal Assistance kinds:

All application supplies have to be submitted by electronic mail to [email protected] by Midnight EST on Wednesday, January 15, 2025.

For extra info, go to AWE Canada.