To help sustain our mission of connecting everyone everywhere to global opportunities, we have extended our hands of partnerships to exceptional organization(s) around the world. It is our pleasure to introduce you to several organizations whose commitments and mission are representative of all the organizations we are fortunate to call our partners.
Global Changemakers is an international youth organization and a global pioneer in supporting youth-led sustainable development. Our mission is to empower and support youth to build inclusive, equitable, and sustainable communities by providing skills development, capacity building, mentoring, and grants. To date, we have trained thousands of young people in over 190 countries and provided grants to over 500 youth-led projects, which have had a combined impact on over 16 million people. They are offer 12 full scholarships for the “Project Management for Changemakers” online course valued at $150 USD. Project Management for Changemakers is an online course where participants can learn how to create, execute, and scale effective solutions to problems in their community, then apply for funding to make it happen.
Website: https://www.global-changemakers.net/
Savvy was founded to help at least 100,000 unemployed professionals around the world transition into entrepreneurship by equipping them with the knowledge, skills, tools, resources, support network, and community to build sustainable, innovative, and profitable impact-driven businesses, as a way to reduce global unemployment that has been broadened by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Savvy program is available in 111 languages, including English, French, Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, and Bengali. So far, out of over 90,000 applications, we’ve selected and trained over 7,500 individuals in 156 countries, who have gone on to build over 2,200 businesses across diverse sectors in different regions.
Website: https://savvyfellows.com/
Ideation Hub Africa is Africa’s leading public policy and impact advisory firm, working with changemakers, social innovators, social entrepreneurs, CSO actors, development practitioners, nonprofit professionals, nation-building enthusiasts, policy shapers, and governments. IHA also equips and empowers social entrepreneurs, changemakers, social innovators, development practitioners, and nonprofit professionals with experiential education, enterprise incubation, growth advisory, and collaborative platforms to start, scale, and sustain their big ideas for changing Africa. Since 2015, we have built a strong ecosystem for Africa’s impact-driven change-makers, expanding the talent, tools, and thinking for achieving the SDGs.
Through their initiatives – Development Dialogue, Social Innovation School, Women in Development Summit, African Masterclass Series, Mentorship Immersions, Nonprofit Programme Management Intensive, Visioning Retreat for Social Enterprises and NGO Leaders, Talent of the Future Awards, and Social Impact Webinars; we have reached over 25, 000 changemakers in the last 8 years.
WEBSITE: www.ideationhubafrica.org
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