Business Grants

We have sourced and curated the latest business grant opportunities for you to explore and raise free funds to start or expand your business. Scroll down and check them one by one, take advantage of those opportunities that you are qualified for, and also share them with your loved ones.

africa development bank 2022 agriPitch competition ($140,000 grant)

The aim of the 2022 AgriPitch Competition is to support agripreneurs by focusing on building the bankability of their businesses and ensuring that they are pitch ready for potential investors. Entrepreneurs will be coached and mentored in an interactive and tailored two-week training to review, prepare and present their businesses for capital raising from investors. […]

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Africa Development Bank AgriPitch Competition

Get $250,000 For USADF Off-Grid Energy Challenge

The Off-Grid Energy Challenge is an initiative of the United States African Development Foundation (USADF) designed to achieve the following results: • To increase electric power generation to unserved and underserved African communities through sustainable business model solutions• To expand energy access through off-grid solutions such as home systems and micro- or mini-grids• To increase

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USADF Off-Grid Energy Challenge

Get $250,000 Grant From the USADF Accelerate Africa Entrepreneurship Challenge

BACKGROUND ON THE ACCELERATE AFRICA ENTREPRENEURSHIP CHALLENGEUSADF’s Accelerate Africa Entrepreneurship Challenge is an initiative of USADF’s Youth and Women Entrepreneurship Portfolio designed to address Africa’s youth bulge, economically empower youth and women, and impact job creation across Africa. The Accelerate Africa Entrepreneurship Challenge is intended to invest in Micro, Small, and Mid-Size enterprises (MSMEs) that:•

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USADF’s Accelerate Africa Entrepreneurship Challenge

Access Bank Womenpreneur Pitch-A-ton Africa 2022 for women entrepreneurs across Africa (5 million Grant & a mini MBA)

The Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton Africa initiative is intended to empower female-owned enterprises in Africa with access to capital, world-class business training, and mentorship opportunities. This programme was created to provide a supportive atmosphere for female entrepreneurs to expand their firms. The Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton programme, which debuted in 2019, is the industry’s first women-in-business support initiative of

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Access Bank Womenpreneur Pitch-A-ton

Shell LiveWIRE Global Competition for young Innovators (US$30,000 Award)

The Shell LiveWIRE Top Ten Innovators competition is a global competition that recognises and honours influential and creative LiveWIRE businesses. Shell LiveWIRE has been strengthening local economies throughout the world for 40 years by supporting meaningful employment and entrepreneurship, demonstrating Shell’s commitment to Powering Lives. Today, we are just as dedicated to aiding the nations

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Shell Livewire

CBN Tertiary Institutions Entrepreneurship Scheme (TIES)

The CBN as part of its policy measures to address rising youth unemployment and underemployment, introduces Tertiary Institutions Entrepreneurship Scheme (TIES) to create a paradigm shift among undergraduates ad graduates of Nigerian Universities and polytechnics from seeking white-collar jobs to entrepreneurship. The scheme aims to provide an innovative financing model that will boost job creation,

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CBN Tertiary Institutions Entrepreneurship Scheme

Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) Women Entrepreneurship For Africa (WE4A) Program (€10.000 in grant)

The “Women Entrepreneurship for Africa” (WE4A) program is an action jointly supported by the European Union (EU), the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), and the German Development agency GIZ (E4D program). It is focused on empowering

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Grinnell College Innovator in Social Justice Prize 2022 ($50,000)

The Grinnell College Innovator for Social Justice Prize, or the Grinnell Prize, directly reflects Grinnell’s historic mission to educate men and women “who are prepared in life and work to use their knowledge and their abilities to serve the common good.” Grinnell was founded in 1846 by a group of transplanted New Englanders with strong

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Access Bank Womenpreneur Pitch-A-ton Africa 2021 (Naira 5 million Grant)

Launched in 2019, the Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton Africa was the first women-in-business support initiative of its kind in the industry offered by the Access Bank W Initiative. The program in its maiden edition provided financial grants worth N9Million to the top 5 applicants with a free mini MBA certification for 50 women entrepreneurs in Nigeria. This it did

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2021 Kickstart Entrepreneurship Empowerment Programme powered by International Breweries Foundation

The International Breweries Foundation is an arm of International Breweries Plc, (a proud part of the AB InBev Group) with the objective of delivering impactful, developmental, and sustainable projects. Kickstart is an initiative of the Foundation and focuses on enterprise growth and development for young entrepreneurs. The programme supports youth-owned businesses through the provision of

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