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©techstars®
About the Accelerator:
The Techstars Sustainability Accelerator, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, will ensure that we innovate to make the world a better place to live. Techstars and The Nature Conservancy are seeking for-profit entrepreneurs with commercially viable technologies that can rapidly scale to help sustainably provide food and water and address global issues like climate change.
Accelerator offerings:
What investments does Techstars make in its Accelerator portfolio companies?
Techstars provides Accelerator portfolio companies with access to financial, human and intellectual capital to fuel the success of their business. Upon acceptance to a Techstars Accelerator, every company is offered a $100,000 convertible note. Techstars contributes $20,000, which is commonly used as a stipend to support living expenses during the program, and in return receives 6% common stock from each company.
When you join a Techstars Accelerator, you also receive:
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Access to Techstars resources for life.
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Acceleration in a 90-day Techstars mentor-based Accelerator program with personal mentorship and office space to accelerate your business.
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Lifetime access to the Techstars worldwide network of entrepreneurs including more than 10,000 mentors; 2,700 investors; 1,200 alumni companies and 180 staff members.
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Access to over $300k of cash equivalent hosting, accounting and, legal support –plus other credits and perks worth more than $1M.
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Demo Day exposure and other investor connections.
For eligibility and a complete FAQ section, please click here.
Deadline: Applications are open now and the deadline to apply is April 07,2019. The program starts on July 29, 2019 and October 30, 2019 is the demo day. The location will be Denver, CO, USA.
How to apply:
Please visit techstars’s website to apply.
©TheSummerSchool, GWP Central and Eastern EU
About the grant:
Towards 2030 Agenda: A summer school for climate change, innovation and youth advocacy in water management
The Summer School, Towards 2030 Agenda: A summer school for climate change, innovation and youth advocacy in water management“ will take place on 1- 6 July 2018 at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences in Warsaw, Poland.
Grant objectives
Global Water Partnership Central and Eastern Europe has designed this summer school to enhance skills of students currently enrolled in different water related MSc and PhD programs from universities throughout Europe. The curriculum aims at presenting the most current global and regional water issues, possible ways to address them and innovative approaches.
Grant Themes: Main Topics
The main topics will include:
Guest lecturers from different institutions and organisations that will provide the students with valuable insights into
There will be case studies on the application of integrated water resources management, as well as many practical exercises and group work that will contribute to the better understanding of multi-disciplinary aspects of water governance such as legal issues, participatory approaches, and conflict resolution techniques.
The summer school will have a special focus on Water Security and Climate Resilience, which will deal with some of the most globally discussed climate topics at the moment. These will include
- Paris Agreement,
- National Adaptation Plans,
- Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction,
- the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,
- Green Climate Fund,
- GWP Water and Climate Programme,
- Integrated Drought Management Programme and others.
The participants will learn how the planning and decision-making at national and regional level is influenced by the latest analyses and processes on the global level.
Special Offering: A dialogue between youth and decision-makers
A very important part of the Summer School will be a dialogue for Water and Climate Change Policies between Young Leaders and Policy-Makers called Youth Voices → Policy Choices. This initiative, funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ program, will provide an interactive platform for a dialogue between young water advocates with decision-makers. Young leaders will meet with experienced policymakers to craft actionable visions for water in advance of 24th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP24) that will be held on 3-14 December 2018 in Katowice, Poland.
The dialogue Youth Voices → Policy Choices has been made possible thanks to a collaboration between Solidarity Water Europe, the Global Water Partnership Central and Eastern Europe (GWP CEE), and Youth Water Community Central and Eastern Europe (YWCCEE).
Grant Eligibility and fees:
The Summer School is open to students in existing MSc and PhD water management related programs from Europe, Mediterranean and Caucasus regions. The participants must be able to communicate fluently in English. Selection will be made on first come-first served basis.
Applicants from universities which are registered partners to GWP CEE, GWP MED and GWP CACENA are especially encouraged to apply. If selected, they will be granted financial support, covering the price of the course and accommodation. The participants will have to cover their travel costs to Warsaw. Exceptions in that regard are for participants from the following countries, whose travel cost will be covered as well: Armenia, Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine.
The summer school is open also to MSc and PhD students from any other university in Europe that show an interest in enhancing water resource management knowledge and broader aspects of water security.
Fees:
– 0 EUR registration fee for students from GWP CEE, GWP MED and GWP CACENA Universities, which are officially registered as GWP Partners
– 380 EUR (approx. 467.446 USD) registration fee, tuition, accommodation on campus (in double rooms) and lunches for duration of the summer school for student from Universities, which are not officially registered as GWP Partners.
Enrollment
To apply, interested students should submit a completed application form and their Curriculum Vitae to GWP CEE at gwpcee@gwpcee.org.
Deadline:
Deadline for applying is 31 May 2018. For more information and FAQs, please visit GWP’s website.
All the best!
Patagonia Accepting Grant Applications for Grassroots Environmental Campaigns
About the grant:
Outdoor clothing and gear company Patagonia provides grants to nonprofit organizations to support environmental work.
Grant’s focus:
The company’s environmental grant program supports activist grassroots organizations that have provocative direct-action agendas and are working on multi-pronged campaigns to preserve and protect the environment.
Thematic Areas:
The program seeks to fund work that is
- action-oriented,
- builds public involvement and support,
- strategic,
- focuses on root causes,
- accomplishes specific goals and objectives, and
- demonstrates a commitment to long-term change
Eligibility criteria:
The company does not fund organizations without 501(c)(3) status or an eligible fiscal sponsor. Grants are not provided for
- general environmental education efforts;
- land acquisition, land trusts, or conservation easements;
- research (unless it is in direct support of a developed plan for specific action to alleviate an environmental problem);
- environmental conferences;
- endowment funds;
- political campaigns;
- green building projects
Amount of grants:
Most grants are in the range of $3,000 to $12,000.
Geographic locations:
Funding is limited to programs in the
- United States,
- Canada,
- Japan,
- Chile,
- Argentina,
- The United Kingdom,
- The Netherlands,
- Switzerland,
- Sweden,
- Spain,
- Norway,
- Luxembourg,
- Italy,
- Ireland,
- Germany,
- France,
- Denmark,
- Belgium, and
- Austria
Application timeline and specifics:
- All applications received by August 31 will receive a response by January 2014. Only one proposal from an organization will be considered per year.
- In addition to the corporate grant program, Patagonia retail stores administer their own local grants programs. Retail store grant applications are accepted year-round.
To apply:
Visit the Patagonia Web site for complete program guidelines, application requirements, information on previous grant recipients, and a retail store locator.
Global Environmental Grants 