Reach for Change Green Business Incubator 2025 – YOA

Deadline: March 31, 2025

Applications are open for the Reach for Change Green Business Incubator 2025. The Green Business Incubator builds on Reach for Change’s expertise in delivering comparable applications in Ethiopia and different markets. However, this Green Business Incubator is exclusive as a result of it addresses the recognized gaps in supporting the alumni of the Green Innovation Lab and different early-stage waste administration and round enterprises.

The Incubator supplies them with tailor-made instruments and capability growth alternatives to maintain and develop their operations. The program’s goal is to develop sustainable enterprise fashions, improved enterprise processes, and finest practices for 10 waste administration and round enterprises in 2025.

Benefits

• One-on-one teaching assist from specialists in waste administration, circularity, innovation, fundraising, affect, M&E, enterprise growth and extra.
• Group-based peer studying with assist of trade specialists to swiftly handle staff wants and strengthen general capability for lengthy-time period success.
• Investor advisory, networking, information-sharing and studying alternatives with related specialists in finance, management, operations, sustainability.
• Bespoke market analysis and entry assist with from ecosystem actors and specialists.
• Raising consciousness of the startup by affect-pushed storytelling.
• Equity-free enterprise between $5,000 to $10,000.

Eligibility

• Open to an entrepreneur or enterprise working in waste administration or the round financial system;
• They are trying for initiatives that:
  • Are progressive. Waste administration and round financial system options which might be unearthing recent new methods to affect youth, and girls; and create sustainable and respectable jobs for youth in Addis Ababa and past.
  • Will have a confirmed social affect – a piloted and examined waste administration and round financial system resolution that may clear up youth unemployment in Addis Ababa, create sustainable livelihoods and resilient communities, and environmental challenges.
  • Are scalable – Waste administration and round financial system options which have the potential to alter the lives of many youths, and girls in Addis Ababa, nationally, and past.
  • Can be financially sustainable – Waste administration and round financial system options which have the potential to develop a enterprise mannequin that allows them to be financially sustainable in the long run.
  • Can be system-altering – Waste administration and round financial system options that may clear up societal and environmental points from grassroots to coverage ranges and within the lengthy-time period.

Application

Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of a transformative program designed that will help you succeed. Applications shut on March 31, 2025.

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For extra info, go to Green Business Incubator.