Whether a person is running a small business or taking care of their own accounting needs, mistakes can be costly. When it comes to running a business, accounting errors can be devastating and lead to profit losses and hefty tax issues. Often, accounting mistakes revolve around improper management. It is important small business owners know …
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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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Pitch AgriHack 2021 is sponsored by the global development organization Heifer International. The competition will identify and amplify efforts by young innovators to build resilience beyond COVID-19 through digital agriculture products and services. These innovations should be scalable and generate measurable impact in Africa’s food systems. Winners will receive funding and continued support to scale up their …
The UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), in partnership with Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog (Govt. of India); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Rabo Foundation; International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); and Bayer, is launching an innovation platform to enable the cross-border exchange of innovations, insights and investments. The first initiative of the Platform is the Agritech Challenge (‘Programme’), with a focus …
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The U.S. Department of State and IREX seek academic, professional, and regional experts to read and score applications for the 2022 Mandela Washington Fellowship. Over the first seven years of the Fellowship, the program received nearly 300,000 applications from 49 Sub-Saharan African countries for 5,100 Fellow slots. Your talents and expertise in helping score our high …
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In the digital age, businesses are trending toward online marketing as well as radio and television ads. After all, it makes sense to take your marketing and advertising campaigns to where your target audience members are most likely to see them. That’s certainly an effective policy to follow, and the majority of companies are investing …
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Over 17 million tonnes of waste are generated by Sub-Saharan Africa annually, and only 12% of plastic waste is recycled. The Challenge aims to reduce marine plastics in Sub-Saharan African countries by developing and scaling innovative solutions to plastic mismanagement in a way that promotes gender equality and empowerment of women and girls. The Challenge …
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Building the gender-lens investing ecosystem for women climate entrepreneurs to grow scalable climate-related businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa. Through this project, ANDE, in consortium with the Aga Khan Foundation Canada (AKFC) and World University Service of Canada (WUSC) with funding support from Global Affairs Canada (GAC), seeks to build the gender-lens investing ecosystem for growth-oriented women …
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Google in partnership with Maliyo Games has launched a training Bootcamp for beginner game developers that aims to take you from zero experience to creating android game titles published on the Google Play store. Are you Smart, Passionate and Ambitious? Do you have a passion to create content? Do you possess the 4 Cs Commitment, Competence, Creativity and Collaboration? Join the Game Developer Bootcamp designed for individuals with basic programming …
‘Scaling Digital Agriculture Innovations through Startups’ (SAIS) is a project implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The overall goal of the project is to support African startups in scaling their digital innovations; these innovations should enable users in the agriculture or …
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