Support for Award Winners

Support for Award Winners

Thursday, 26 March 2009 21:57

Unlike many other competitions, the SEED Award does not carry a money prize. Instead a range of services, support and connections are offered to give Award Winners (find eligibility criteria here) a better prospect of success.

While no support package to SEED Winners is the same - each package strongly orients itself on the needs expressed by the initiative itself - the support to SEED Winners generally consists of:

• assistance and advice on developing and improving the initiative’s business plan
• a two-day in-country business-oriented workshop, involving all partners, and covering the key elements and factors needed to build a successful social and environmental enterprise
• High-level profiling of the initiative nationally, regionally and internationally
• access to relevant institutions, organisations, businesses, including SEED winners and alumni, SEED Partners, SEED Supporters, and SEED Associates
• developing a support plan
• a financial contribution of USD5000 towards implementation of certain item(s) in that support plan, as agreed between the winner and SEED.

Read about concrete examples in the Case Study and High Level Profiling sections