Deadline: 31 May 2014
The 40 Chances Fellows Program is a global fellowship program inspired from the principles of Howard G. Buffett’s ’40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World‘ – a book that narrates stories of the author in helping the most vulnerable people around the world. This program is organized in partnership with Tony Blair’s Africa Governance Initiative, the World Food Prize, and the Howard G. Buffett Foundation.
The program will fund four 40 Chances Fellows with the most innovative social enterprise plans that use strategies built on the principles of Howard’s book. These social enterprises must seek to address issues of hunger, conflict, or poverty and may be established in any one of the following four countries where the Africa Governance Initiative has a strong presence: Rwanda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Malawi.
Each strategy must involve local leadership and management into the operations of the social enterprise by integrating local place-based ownership and relying on locally driven design, development, and deployment in its programs or services. In addition, these enterprises should fill gaps in existing value chains, or otherwise combine a variety of complementary and existing efforts into a comprehensive and integrated approach to solve the intended challenge.
Applicants must be between the ages of 18 and 39 on the date the application closes (May 31, 2014). Winners will be selected by a blue ribbon panel of judges and formally announced at the 2014 World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogue in Des Moines, Iowa. Each of four fellows will receive $80,000 in start-up funds and $70,000 for living and transportation expenses (a total of $150,000) for one year.
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