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AfDB announces funding for women entrepreneurs in Africa Shares The African Development Bank (AfDB) is calling upon proposals for projects to enhance the viability and sustainability of women entrepreneurship enablers. Eligible organizations may apply for funding of between Ksh. 10,650,000 ($100,000) and Ksh. 26,625,000 ($250,000), provided through the Bank’s Gender Equality Trust Fund. Deadline for applications is 30th May, 2021. Women’s business associations, incubators, accelerators, and...

Application Deadline: May 30th 2021 This May, the African Development Bank Group is launching a call for proposals for projects enhancing the viability and sustainability of women entrepreneurship enablers. Women’s business associations, incubators, accelerators, and cooperatives that advance women’s entrepreneurship, can apply for funding for innovative projects or programs to bolster the skills of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) owned and run by women across Africa, the Bank announced...

OTP Bank Romania has registered an after tax profit of RON 7 million during the first quarter of 2021, marking an increase compared to the first quarter of last year, when a loss of 11 million RON was recorded, as a result of supplementing by 48 million RON the risk costs in the context of COVID-19. “We are now in full deployment of our organic growth program, implementing new projects and developing new products and services, while in the first three months we have marked steady double digi...

Share: New Indie Capital program provides growth funding to promising independent media filling community news gaps across North America VANCOUVER, BC, May 6, 2021 /CNW/ - Applications are open for a new Indiegraf grant program aimed at supporting the growth of BIPOC-led news outlets in Canada. With funding from the Facebook Journalism Project, the BIPOC Media Growth Program will provide $25,000 grants and support from Indiegraf to six Canadian media projects owned or led by BIPOC journalists. ...

Public Spend Forum: GovMarket’s Growth Principles and AI-technology Pixabay Public Spend Forum (PSF) is a public sector procurement global community and market intelligence platform dedicated to improving public buying everywhere. GovShop is its free-to-use global government market research tool for finding and connecting with suppliers. Read more from PSF and GovShop founder Raj Sharma here: Working towards a more open and accessible public sector marketplace – for suppliers an...

Appendix I Details of the charges included in GAAP results, as summarized in the press release (above), are as follows: Derivative Mark-to-Market (Gains) Losses:  The mark-to-market (gains) losses on commodity derivatives are recorded as unallocated and excluded from adjusted results until such time as the related inventory is sold, at which time the corresponding (gains) losses are reclassified from unallocated to segment income.  Since we often purchase commodity contracts to price inventor...

Icebreaker.vc, a Helsinki, Finland-based venture capital firm, closed its second fund, at €100M, and raised a separate €20M Opportunity Fund. The firm’s second fund invests €150–800k in startups in Estonia, Finland and Sweden at their angel and pre-seed stage while the opportunity fund will be used to continue investing in their Fund 1 portfolio companies. Led by Riku Seppälä, Icebreaker has broad investment scope, focusing on strong domain-expert founding teams with complementary...

The Andrews Labor Government is stimulating investment in towns and cities across the state by helping local councils unblock or fast-track planning...

Credit: Pixabay A project to increase the health data literacy of youth has received funding through the University of Illinois Extension Collaboration Grant Program. Rachel M. Magee, assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at Illinois (iSchool), will lead the project, "Health Data Literacy Ambassadors," with iSchool Associate Professors Catherine Blake and Jana Diesner serving as co-investigators. Funded through the Office of the Provosts Investment for Growth Program and Uni...

A project to increase the health data literacy of youth has received funding through the University of Illinois Extension Collaboration Grant Program. Rachel M. Magee, assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at Illinois (iSchool), will lead the project, "Health Data Literacy Ambassadors," with iSchool Associate Professors Catherine Blake and Jana Diesner serving as co-investigators.