Irish social entrepreneurs offered €600,000
Howard Lake | 5 April 2014 | News
An awards programme worth €600,000 to find new social entrepreneurs in Ireland is open for applications.
Social Entrepreneurs Ireland is offering €420,000 in cash and €180,000 in kind for social entrepreneurs who have innovative ideas and solutions to Ireland’s social and environmental programmes.
The awards will be provided under two programmes – Impact and Elevator. With €100,000 in funding, the Impact Programme acts as a substantial source of capital for the projects it supports. In addition to this funding, Impact Awardees will receive direct support from the Social Entrepreneurs Ireland team valued in excess of €40,000.
The Elevator Programme provides €20,000 in direct funding. In addition to this funding, Elevator Awardees will receive direct support from the Social Entrepreneurs Ireland team valued at more than €10,000.
The organisers envisage up to three awards in the Impact category and 4-6 awards in the Elevator category.
Two further information sessions will be held in Longford on the April 7th and Belfast, 15th April.
The deadline for applications is 28 April 2014 and can be made online at Social Entrepreneurs Ireland.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.