About SEED Support

About SEED Support

Helping good ideas to grow

SEED offers two main types of support to entrepreneurs working in partnerships:

Learning resources and tools

Resources generated or discovered through SEED's programme are compiled for use by the broad community of social and environmental entrepreneurs and partnerships practitioners. They are collated as:

Direct, tailored support to SEED Award Winners

SEED works directly with Award Winners to help them scale up and increase their impact. Award Winners receive a comprehensive package of tailor-made support services, worth up to $40,000, to help their venture to become established and to increase their impact. This includes

  • access to relevant expertise and technical assistance
  • meeting new partners and building networks
  • developing business plans and
  • identifying sources of finance.

 

SEED newsletter - Issue 3

Find out more about SEED’s past months and read more about the in-country events for each Gold Winner, an interview with Jonathan Tillson, SEED Board Chairman and Head of the Sustainable Development Unit at the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and discover SEED’s new online database where you can view a detailed profile of all the SEED winners. Click

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SEED 2009 Gold Winners move on

Over the last few months SEED has visited the five 2009 SEED Gold Winners travelling to meet up with the initiatives: Bangladesh – Shidhulai: Solar conversion of traditional kerosene hurricane lamps Colombia - Oro Verde: Facilitating Market Access for Artisan Min

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