2022/23 Social Enterprise Accelerator Programme

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Application for the yooweedoo Social Enterprise Accelerator (Project 2)

Have you taken your first step into social entrepreneurship and formed the first version of your solution?

The next step is an important one: deciding whether or not you will continue and move ahead to form and grow a social enterprise. This decision takes your team beyond a once-off project and into the longer-term establishment of an organization.

Make sure you discuss this in depth within your project team, to decide if this is something you want to commit to. If the answer is “yes!”, then over the next 6 months, through the yooweedoo Social Enterprise Accelerator, you will:
1.   Improve your team processes, systems and culture
2.   Focus on how you are meeting the needs of your customers and beneficiaries
3.   Assess ways to scale your solution up, out or deep
4.   Exploring examples for sales and distribution
5.   Get Consultation on tax and legal requirements
6.   Advice on Crowdfunding if needed

So, if you are ready to take the next step and join the yooweedoo Social Enterprise Accelerator, please fill in the application below.

Please complete only one application form per team.
Note: this Accelerator is described as Changemaker ‘Project 2’ in the University system and is worth 12 ECTS.

Places are limited! Application deadline: 17th October 2022

Who are you?

Your project

What is the name of your project?

Where can we find you online? E.g. website, social media pages

Team members

Full name of first participant

E-mail of first participant

Phone number of first participant

Full name of second participant

Email of second participant

Phone number of second participant

Please name additional participants of your group and their email in brackets behind it: Full name 3 (Email address 3, phone number 3); Full name 4 (Email address 4, phone number 4); etc.

What is your project/Social Enterprise about?

The problem

What is the real-world problem you are solving and for who? Be specific about which people (customers or beneficiaries) are experiencing the problem and how this negatively affects their lives. (200 words)

The solution

How is or will your product or service solve this problem? (200 words)

Impact

What long-term social or environmental change do you want to contribute to? Which indicators will you use to measure whether your project is successful in this? (Social or environmental change goal 1: xxx, indicator 1: xxx; etc.)

What is your current status?

Key activities

What are the core activities of your current project? Bullet points please. (200 words)

Challenges

What is currently holding you back or stopping your progress? (200 words)

It's all about the team

Please describe how you meet as a team. How are you organized? What tools do you use? How do you take decisions? (200 words)

Support

Are there any particular topics you would like us to include in this programme? (200 words)

What is your vision for the future?

It might be that you don’t know exactly where you want to go with your project yet! We hope that we can help you to figure that out through the Accelerator Programme. However, we want to get an idea of what you are thinking about it at this point of time:

12-months vision

How would you like your project to develop or evolve over the coming 12 months? E.g. team changes, new markets, new business model or revenue streams, new partners, new activities, establishment of a legal entity. (300 words)

Think big

Think about that bigger social or environmental change you want to contribute to. What else could your organization do to have a greater impact on this shift? (400 words)

Examples:

Scaling OUT: replicate your solution in additional locations, grow your organizational capacity, or increase the reach of your solution
Scaling UP: integrate your solution into larger institutions, partner with other organizations or coalitions, or advocate for policy or legal change
Scaling DEEP: support others to contribute to or replicate your solution, work with communities to adapt your solution, invest in transformative learning, or focus on one cultural or values shift

Commitments

For the yooweedoo Social Enterprise Accelerator to really help you to evolve and develop your organization, each individual person and the whole team will need to actively engage in the process.

Please tick those commitments you agree to:

We will actively engage in workshops every 2 weeks during the winter semester We will attend yooweedoo Academy sessions connected to topic areas We will work at least one day per week on our project/enterprise, in between workshops We will offer advice, support and encouragement to the rest of the Accelerator group We will meet with the experts and mentors provided on specific topics We will be open to new ideas, strategies and directions for our project/enterprise

One last thing...

Project description on yooweedoo.org

Please update the existing project description on the yooweedoo.org platform / create a new project page if you don't have an existing one.

Make sure that all links to websites or social media platforms work properly and that your contact address is up to date.

Please tick as appropriate:

We have updated the existing project description on yooweedoo.org We have created a new project description on yooweedoo.org

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If you have any questions or want to cancel your application, please send us an email to Stefan: miethig@yooweedoo.org

To complete your application, please click the "Register now" button below. Thank you for your application!

We will let you know if you have a spot in the programme by 20th October 2022.

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