The Jim Leech Mastercard Foundation Fellowship is designated for African students and current graduates. It is an opportunity for the youth to gain financial support and network; to ground an impactful startup in their careers.
The program enables its beneficiaries to become entrepreneurs who are resourceful, confident, and goal-driven. It sparks in them a desire to solve pressing needs in the society.
The Jim Leech Mastercard Foundation Fellowship is numbered among the groups with State-of-the-Art Training facilities.
The Business Bootcamp fronts leaders with solid experiences in entrepreneurship and C-Suite, delivered by Queen’s University faculty and industry
The complex for training disciplined Entrepreneurs in the Institution was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and envisages a proven step-by-step framework for scalable startups
Candidates are assured to benefit from a world-class of coaching guidelines and mastery in their fields.
Certificates are awarded on 100% completion of the essential training modules of DDQIC’s entrepreneurship program
The program is slated into three online courses where the beneficiaries will learn the foundations of Entrepreneurship through virtual coaching, and developing their business idea. Also how to demonstrate commitment to advance to the next course.
Applicants aspiring to become beneficiaries of the scholarship must have done the following:
Phase 1: Explore – Scheduled to run from December 2021-February 2022
1000 witty candidates are to gain access to a tastefully selected list of online entrepreneurship courses and handle the first 11 steps of a Disciplined Entrepreneurship framework workbook.
Candidates are given several months to purport their commitment to the entrepreneurial process by accomplishing progressive milestones during the training course.
Phase 2: Ignite – February-April 2022
30 outstanding finalists evident to be committed to the entrepreneurship process, will be selected from the first phase. They must have produced excellent milestones to be selected to join this phase.
Here, the candidates will continue to go through another curated list of additional online entrepreneurship courses and work through the remaining parts of the Disciplined Entrepreneurship framework’s workbook. Participants will compete for the fellowship by pitching their ideas; the most promising and advanced business ideas will emerge as finalists who will receive the fellowship.
Phase 3: Jim Leech Mastercard Foundation Fellowship on Entrepreneurship – spans from May-August 2022
15 Fellows will be marked out to join DDQIC’s summer incubation program. Fellows are given the opportunity to work on their ideas, access the “Seed funding,” and engage in weekly three to one pitch presentations on the work they are doing and how they can transform their ideas into scalable startups.
Additionally, Fellows will be awarded a $500 stipend with dedicated coaches and mentors from DDQIC’s Global Network of entrepreneurs and experts in the industry.
Emergent entrepreneurs (Fellows) will complete their incubation program by the end of August 2022. On graduation, Fellows will thereafter continue to receive post-incubation services, supports, and pitch competition opportunities as participants of DDQIC’s network.
They will also be invited to participate as future ambassadors and mentors of the Jim Leech Mastercard Foundation Fellowships as well.
Method of Application
Interested candidates can indicate their interest in the program through this link
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