Funding Toolkit for Early-Stage Social Innovators

This Funding Toolkit is publised by the European Social Innovation Competition. It aims to provide early-stage social innovators with tools, information and advice on what is needed (and why) to finance socially innovative ideas, projects or organisations. Furthermore, the guide provides an overview of some of the European funding opportunities that the European Social Innovation Competition’s programme consortium identified as relevant for early-stage social innovators.

The Funding Toolkit takes interested innovators through all steps, from laying the groundwork, how to access funding, early-stage finance tools and providers, specific EU funding opportunities and all the way through to next steps once funding is acquired. It is mapped around the trajectory of a rocket, from conception and design through to lift-off. It provides simple steps for social innovators and early-stage startups to follow, and breaks down the various avenues of funding available to them.

The Funding Toolkit for Early-Stage Social Innovators  is one of the Competition’s main publications. It complements the other support actions, such as the Challenge Prize Support Package. Together with this, the Funding Toolkit is designed and developed to accompany the participants from the phase when their socially innovative ideas blossom to the step when they are ripe and ready to be launched into the market.