The Social and Inclusive Business Camp is an acceleration program for innovative entrepreneurs with social and/or environmental impact in Africa, with a scaleup ambition to contribute to a fairer and more sustainable economy. Apply and join us
The program supports your work within 5 dimensions
- DIAGNOSE | During this prelimnary section 0, each entrepreneur will question and challenge, individually and collectively, the social and/or environmental mission of her organisation, and will clarify her own vision and purpose, using dedicated approchaches, tools (Business model Canvas, Scale Me Up, etc.) and personalized follow-up.
- INSPIRE | Section 1 aims to encourage women entrepreneurs to explore living things principles and to draw inspiration from it into their entrepreneurship project (planetary boundaries, inclusiveness, cooperation). It will also dive into your position as an african woman entrepreneur, and explore available options to mobilise collective intelligence.
- SPREAD | Good preparation for scaling up is an essential dimension and a crucial step to grow and sustain your project. Whether it involves expanding geographically, maximising your impact, or creating new partnerships, section 2 will provide insights to consider scale up trajectories, give access to specific tools to assess social and environmental impact over time, and strategies to communicate effectively about their project.
- FINANCE | What financing needs do you have? Which instruments are available and from whom? How could your business model become more hybrid? What are the expectations of investors or donors? All of these issues will be addressed in this section 3.
- COOPERATE | This last section is dedicated to developping you ability to pitch your project and to embark potential partners, investors or donors. Beyond the consolidation of your pitch deck and live presentations in front of professionals, you will also investigate innovative approaches to bring allies into your project and concepts around Commons.