Competitive Fund for Entrepreneurship & SME Growth
The goal of the Competition on Entrepreneurship and SME Growth is to fund innovative research that supports the SME Initiative's objective to 'build a systemic body of evidence on the contributions of SMEs to poverty alleviation and economic development.' This competition is intended to have a catalyzing effect to stimulate high quality research on the role of access to finance and human capital for SME growth and the contributions of SMEs to development
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Access to finance,
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Access to human capital, and
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Access to markets.
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The first, and largest, grant fund supports new Core Research projects or scale-ups of existing research projects. The expected size of grants in this category is $50,000-$100,000 per grant.
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The second grant fund is a seed fund to support Project Development activities. These grants are aimed to defer some of the initial costs of starting up new projects focused on SMEs. The expected size of grants in this category is $5,000-10,000 per grant.
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The third fund is intended to attract Young Scholars to the SME field, involve them in the SME Initiative, and support the development of their work and ideas. The expected size of grants in this category is $5,000-$10,000 per grant.
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The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private nonpartisan foundation that works to harness the power of entrepreneurship and innovation to grow economies and improve human welfare.
The John Templeton Foundation serves as a philanthropic catalyst for discoveries relating to the Big Questions of human purpose, including exploring effective ways to empower the world’s poor to make progress towards prosperity.
SEVEN (Social Equity Venture Fund) is a virtual non-profit entity run by entrepreneurs whose strategy is to markedly increase the rate of innovation and diffusion of enterprise-based solutions to poverty. It does this by targeted investment that fosters thought leadership through books, films and websites; supporting role models - whether they are entrepreneurs or innovative firms - in developing nations; and shaping a new discourse in government, the press and the academy around private-sector innovation, prosperity and progressive human values.
