Deadline: 31 March, 2021
South African Breweries Limited (SAB) Foundation has announced a call for innovations for the Social Innovation and Disability Empowerment Awards 2021.
The foundation supports and invests in entrepreneurs and social innovation with a priority in benefitting women and youth, people in rural areas and people living with disabilities.
The award is aimed at innovators/social entrepreneurs/institutions/social enterprises with prototypes or early stage businesses that can solve a social problem, including innovations that provide solutions for people living with disabilities.
Benefits
- Award can range between R200,000 and R1,300,000
Eligibility
- Open to any innovation solution that offers a credible prospect of meeting a demonstrable social and/or economic need evidenced by the SAB Foundation’s target low-income beneficiary groups
- Entries are welcomed from South African individuals, innovators, entrepreneurs, social enterprises and university departments
- Entrants may enter as individuals on their own, or as members of a team, in which case one individual team leader shall complete the online application form
- The innovation entered must be the original work of the applicant and a true innovation and/or a significant improvement on an existing technology, product, service, and production method or business model
- The innovation solution must have progressed past the ‘blue-sky’ thinking stage and there must be some evidence of investment by the applicant
- Entrants must be South African citizens of 18 years or older
- All entrants must submit a certified copy of their South African identity document
To enter and for more information, click here.
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