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Funding Criteria for Early-Stage Social Enterprises Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation seeks to dramatically improve the lives of underserved communities across the globe by supporting scalable, innovative, and impact-first solutions that leverage existing systems and stakeholders.
Our goal is to find social entrepreneurs with dynamic products or services that have a proven ability to positively impact the lives of underserved people, and nurture those organizations at the early stages by providing capacity, capital, and community. Our application process is designed to be open and accessible, and we accept applications year round from across our priority geographies and sectors.
Borrowing from our venture capital legacy, we find exceptional entrepreneurs and provide them with: The core of DRK’s model is deep and extensive operational and technical support for each portfolio organization, both through a dedicated hands-on Board service role and specialist capacity-building resources across leadership and board development, organizational and fundraising capacity building, financial sustainability, and scaling strategy thinking.
This involves one of DRK’s senior team members taking a board service role for a three year period and serving as a resource to help the grantee or investee navigate their pathway to scale, often involving weekly conversations on key issues.
There is also engagement with the broader DRK portfolio support team on specific and targeted issues, such as building out fundraising capacity, establishing a talent strategy, or refining financial models. In total, the capacity support can add up to $500,000 USD worth of in-kind support. DRK provides up to $300,000 USD in either unrestricted grant funding or investment capital over a three-year period, usually in multiple tranches.
The exact instrument and tranches are decided in conversation with the grantee or investee during the closing process. DRK convenes our portfolio and alumni annually, facilitating both in-person and digital connections to and within our community. This ranges from small 1:1 meetings to large 200+ person gatherings, including our three-day annual portfolio retreat.
DRK seeks to be transparent and equitable in its funding application process. The goal of our diligence process is to allow both the applicant and DRK to get to know one another and openly and honestly explore the prospect of collaboration. DRK has specific criteria that it uses to evaluate prospective portfolio organizations – which have been outlined on this page – and not every applicant will complete the diligence process.
In those situations, we will provide feedback to help articulate the rationale for our decision, regardless of where we are in the diligence process. Submit Application: The formal process begins when you submit an application through our website. This enters you into our system and provides us with the initial information we need to assess alignment and fit with our criteria.
This stage will take on average 8-10 weeks. Early Interviews: You will have a few exploratory conversations with a small group of DRK team members so that we can better understand your work and it fits with our impact criteria and aligns with our funding parameters. It is also a chance for you to learn about DRK’s support model, so that you can decide whether we are the right fit for you!
These conversations will likely take place via a combination of video, in-person, and email. Roughly 20% of applicants will make it to this stage. Formal Diligence: The core of our process, which typically takes 2-4 months, is a series of conversations with you and with those who understand your work well, complemented by research of our own.
We will request additional materials, including legal and financial documents, and will also co-create a plan for the years ahead. Our hope is that, regardless of the outcome, this process adds value as you plan for organizational growth. Fewer than 10% of candidates from the Early Interviews stage will make it to diligence.
Meet the Team: You will meet another subset of DRK team members, including members of our investment committee, so that we can benefit from our colleagues’ diverse perspectives on this opportunity. Closing Process: If you progress to this stage, we will complete a final closing documents review to formally finalize the deal.
Your incoming DRK board member – who will most likely be the person with whom you interacted most extensively during the interview and diligence process – will start working with you to sketch out a plan for the next three years.
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Nonprofit organizations (U. S. 501(c)(3) organizations and non-U. S. equivalents) and mission-driven for-profit entities. Primarily Africa, Europe, India, and the United States. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows up to $300,000 USD over a three-year period. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
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Corporate Social Investments (CSI) - Capacity Development Programmes is a grant from the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) South Africa that funds skills development, entrepreneurship, and community capacity-building initiatives targeting youth, women, and marginalized South African communities. The program supports accredited training, sustainable community projects, financial literacy programs for SMMEs, and capacity-building for nonprofits and community-based organizations. Eligible applicants include registered nonprofit organizations, nonprofit companies with PBO status, and public institutions operating for more than 12 months with acceptable governance structures. Projects must target rural, semi-urban, and township areas and align with Sustainable Development Goals. Applications are open from April 1 to August 31 each year, with a 2026 deadline of August 31.
AI integration in CCSI work practice: catalysing innovation and competitiveness is sponsored by European Commission — Horizon Europe. Expected Outcome: Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: Insights, recommendations, strategies, guidelines, methods and tools supporting full AI integration in CCSI practices become available to CCSI, policymakers, and stakeholders. Scenarios for co-created solutions tailored to CCSI needs, utilizing quality data and federated data sources, along with digital infrastructures, and inclusive cooperation processes, become available. Generally made available AI-powered and ethically designed solutions, tools and services in several CCSI areas benefit creators, cultural professionals, and society, including persons with disabilities and other specific needs, fostering innovative creative expressions and improving creative business models while preserving and enhancing cultural diversity, and inclusion. By mastering ethical and inclusive AI, CCSI are empowered drivers of culture, innovation, competitiveness and societal wellbeing. Scope: AI technologies are transformative, providing unprecedented opportunities for human creativity, experimentations and co-creations. AI profoundly impacts cultural and creative sectors and industries, changing practices, facilitating new ways of working and making innovative services and products possible. Artists, industry players, and cultural organisations increasingly use AI, for assistance in content creation, production, and management, to predict trends, personalise market content, engage audiences, enhance cultural heritage preservation and accessibility, and many more purposes. Cultural and creative sectors and industries (CCSI) [1] need to fully harness AI's potential to maintain relevance, expand their impact and value, increase competitiveness, and keep their vibrant, inclusive nature. Embracing and co-creating ethical AI solutions tailored to CCSI needs will, among other benefits, enable the automation of low-creativity tasks, allowing to increase focus on high-value activities that enhance creativity and productivity, thus unlocking unprecedented possibilities. Production times and costs can be reduced, market reach expanded, preservation, interpretation and inclusive access to cultural heritage enhanced, and new job categories could emerge. Although several initiatives are on the ground, a comprehensive understanding of enabling frameworks and factors and of what is still lacking in terms of data, standards, infrastructures, computing power, tools, knowledge and capacity for the CCSI to fully embrace the opportunities opened by AI is essential for effectively integrating AI technologies into CCSI practices and workflows. Proposals should assess the current level of AI readiness in the CCSI, investigate the specific barriers to AI adoption in the sectors, and highlight areas where AI can offer the most benefits. In continuous engagement with the sectors, based on the analysis of current practices and through concrete use cases, proposals should produce strategic guidance to extensively and seamlessly integrate AI into CCSI operations, enhancing efficiencies, averting risks, and facilitating cross-sector collaboration. Based on this analysis, they should develop a set of tailored tools designed to address the specific gaps and leverage the opportunities uncovered during the assessment. These tools should be strategically aligned with the sector's needs, ensuring they provide targeted solutions to enhance AI adoption and maximize its potential benefits. They should be scalable, affordable for smaller, less-resourced CCSI actors and accompanied by related documentation and training materials and documentation. Proposals should address one of the following two options, and are allowed to address both: Develop scalable pilots for innovative AI-enabled products and services across diverse segments of sectoral value chains, in cooperation with CCSI. These pilots are expected to address identified gaps in CCSI operations and prioritise solutions that catalyse innov Programme areas: Horizon Europe (HORIZON), Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Culture, creativity and inclusive society, Cultural Heritage Keywords: Artificial intelligence, intelligent systems, multi agent systems, Business models, Capacity building, Creativity management, Cultural heritage, cultural memory, Data and image processing, Digitalisation/ICT and cultural heritage, Entrepreneurship, Experimentally-driven research and innovation, High performance computing, Intangible cultural heritage, Knowledge transfer, Machine learning, statistical data processing and applications using signal processing (e.g. speech, image, video), Open innovation, Public administration, Social innovation, Tangible cultural heritage, Trustworthy ICT, Visual arts, performing arts, design, AI adoption, AI integration, CCSI, accessibility, audience engagement, automation, business models, capacity building, co-creation, content creation, creative industries, creative innovation, creators’ rights, cross-sector collaboration, cultural and creative sectors, cultural diversity, cultural inclusion., data-driven creativity, digital infrastructures, digital transformation, emerging jobs, ethical AI, federated data, heritage preservation, inclusive AI, innovation ecosystem, knowledge transfer, market reach, multilingual access, personalization, sustainable creative economy, sustainable models, underserved audiences, upskilling
Schmidt Sciences' AI Impact on Jobs program supports rigorous interdisciplinary research on how generative AI and AI agents are reshaping employment, occupational tasks, wages, productivity, and labor markets. Funded scope includes empirical measurement of AI adoption across industries and occupations, task-level analyses of AI capabilities and displacement, longitudinal studies of worker outcomes, AI's effects on inequality and labor market polarization, evaluation of reskilling and transition programs, AI's role in entrepreneurship and small business productivity, and policy-relevant work on social safety nets and labor regulation in an AI economy.