- Grant Amount – up to $30,000
- Deadline – August 31, 2025
- CLICK HERE TO APPLY
Sahara Group Foundation launched the Sahara Impact Fund (SIF) Fellowship programme, through a strategic partnership between Sahara Group Foundation, LEAP Africa, and Impact Investment Foundation.
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The Sahara Impact Fund (SIF) is designed to empower young African changemakers, innovators, inventors, and entrepreneurs with the right support, a growth-oriented mindset, and the necessary tools to establish and scale sustainable businesses, all geared towards attaining the SDGs in a manner that results in measurable social impact
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The primary purpose of the SIF programme is to encourage and support the generation of ideas and solutions which will help to increase the Sahara Group Foundation’s mandate of Building Sustainable Communities and mobilise the right support for tangible partnerships towards achieving the SDGs in a way that results in measurable social impact.
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Through this transformative initiative, SIF is equipping participants with the skills, tools, and networks needed to scale their impact-driven and sustainable businesses.
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Funding Information
- Now advancing into its fourth cohort, the program provides outstanding Fellows with seed funding of up to $30,000 upon successful completion of the intensive three-month fellowship following critically mapped milestones.
Selection Criteria
Underlisted are the elements to be considered before a solution is selected:
- Relevance
- – What problem does the solution address, who is affected, and how urgent is it? What are the broader impacts on people and the environment, and what are the risks of not acting now?
- Innovation
- – Is the solution a novel (never seen before) and an extraordinary idea or is it an improvement on an existing solution? If it is an improvement on an existing solution, what is unique to this solution?
- Impact
- – How wide and deep will the impact of this solution be?
- Scalable
- – How scalable is the solution? Is there a ready market for it? Is it easily replicable in other climes?
- Profitability
- – Is the solution commercially viable and profitable?
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