{"id":21827,"date":"2016-03-29T15:55:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T19:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/?p=21827"},"modified":"2016-03-29T15:55:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T19:55:14","slug":"leadership-grants-for-young-social-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/cccc\/2016\/03\/29\/leadership-grants-for-young-social-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership Grants for Young Social Entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know any young social entrepreneurs working hard to make a difference in the world? Be sure to tell them about the Spark Initiative!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Spark Initiative is providing 10-month leadership grants for young social entrepreneurs who need some support to take their idea to the next level.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Those accepted to The Spark Initiative\u2019s program will receive:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One-time cash awards of $5,000-$20,000<\/li>\n<li>Over $6,000 in training\/development courses and over $3,000 of \u201cin-kind\u201d business services<\/li>\n<li>10 months of access to one-on-one mentorship with professionals<\/li>\n<li>Peer community of young social entrepreneurs, including prayer support for leadership &amp; organization<\/li>\n<li>Free publicity and promotion about their organization\/product<\/li>\n<li>Access to philanthropists and other donors to gain further capital and\/or mentorship<\/li>\n<li>Attendance at the awards gala and mentoring weekend, October 28-30, 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Find out more in the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/The-Spark-Initiative-Information-Package-FINAL.pdf\">brochure<\/a><\/u> or online at <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesparkinitiative.ca\"><strong>www.thesparkinitiative.ca<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>(The application deadline is May 20, 2016.)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know any young social entrepreneurs working hard to make a difference in the world? Be sure to tell them about the Spark Initiative! The Spark Initiative is providing 10-month leadership grants for young social entrepreneurs who need some support to take their idea to the next level. Those&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/cccc\/2016\/03\/29\/leadership-grants-for-young-social-entrepreneurs\/\" class=\"linkbutton\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ts_fic_featured_image_caption":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-21827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21827"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=21827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}