Apply today - The Social Innovation and Disability Empowerment Awards application deadline has been extended to 30 March

The SAB Foundation has decided to extend the deadline for applications to their 10th annual SAB Social Innovation and Disability Empowerment Awards to 30 March 2020 at 10am.

Who should apply?

The Social Innovation Awards are aimed at innovators, social entrepreneurs, institutions and social enterprises with prototypes or early-stage businesses that can solve social problems. These products, services, business models and processes should directly address the challenges faced by low-income women, youth, people living with disabilities, or people living in rural areas.

The Disability Empowerment Awards seek and award social enterprises, which have come up with innovative solutions, which improve access to the economy, and/or solutions for disabled people, while generating enough revenue to become sustainable over time.  People with disabilities are some of the most marginalised members of society with a high unemployment rate. 

Through the awards, the SAB Foundation aims to empower South Africa’s innovative thinkers and brightest entrepreneurial minds to develop products and services, which help the country’s most vulnerable communities, while also empowering them as entrepreneurs. 

Prizes awarded range from between R200 000 and R1.3 million and are used as an investment in the innovation. In addition to the prize money, the winners will also be assessed on a case-by-case basis and placed in a tailored programme with a specially selected business mentor. The programme is flexible and is adjusted to the needs of each winner, as mutually agreed upon by both the winner and their mentor.

Click here to apply, or for more information visit www.sabfoundation.co.za