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The Playground for Entrepreneurs is a coaching tool that supports coaches and entrepreneurs on their journey to success, in a collaborative way.

New entrepreneurs find lots of challenges. Developing entrepreneurial thinking to overcome challenges, get started, explore opportunities and ideas, and to innovate are essential to the success and ambition of entrepreneurs, but not always easy to get started with.

The Playground for Entrepreneurs provides a playful coaching tool that (community) coaches can use as a guide to support entrepr...

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New entrepreneurs find lots of challenges. Developing entrepreneurial thinking to overcome challenges, get started, explore opportunities...

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$1,000 per new project
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To access funding

  • Complete a 30 Day Challenge
  • Report the impact of your project
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"The Playground for Entrepreneurs, apart from being fun to play, also helps the participants to ask the right questions to achieve a broader and more profound view on their venture or project. They receive suggestions and hear about other people's...

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Playground for Entrepreneurs
Carolina Gómez

How to start a project on ChangeX

  • 1

    Create your project page

    Click the green start button to register and set up your project page. It’s quick, free and easy.

  • 2

    Complete a 30 Day Challenge

    Complete simple steps in 30 days to start your project and access funding.

  • 3

    Activate your project

    Follow the 5 Step Guide and your action plan to bring the project to life.

  • 4

    Share impact

    Share an impact summary to access the remaining funding and continue your project.

Great for

  • Someone who has experience with entrepreneurship and/or coaching/teaching
  • Someone passionate about helping people who have entrepreneurial and original ideas and want to advance them
  • For example teachers/lecturers/community leaders/municipalities/coaches/incubators

Playground for Entrepreneurs project essentials

5 Step Guide

  • Organize your team and facility
  • Get community support
  • Strategy planning
  • Facilitator training
  • Operate sessions and programs

Time

Suggested: During the training you’ll need to dedicate about 6 hours a week, of which 2 hours are on a zoom call. After the training you’ll set up your own programs, according to your availability and resources. Ideally you would run sessions once a week for community entrepreneurs.

Resources

More information on how to get started and any resources shared by the Playground for Entrepreneurs

11 Playground for Entrepreneurs projects have already been started

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Meet the Social Innovator

Welcome to the Playground for Entrepreneurs on ChangeX! The Playground is a coaching tool for coaches and educators to bring entrepreneurial thinking to students or aspiring entrepreneurs in a playful, exploratory way. Foster original entrepreneurship and collaboration between participants, for everyone to get ahead in their projects and in their lives! Let’s build businesses and projects together!

Inge de Dreu

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Why a 30 day challenge?

    The 30 Day Challenge was developed by our Team based on our experience working with communities. We’ve learned that the first weeks are critical to build momentum and get off to a good start with any community project. Teams who complete these steps within the first month are much more likely to successfully complete their project!

    The Challenge is a series of simple steps that each applicant has to complete to get their project off the ground and unlock funding, if there is funding currently available for that idea in your region. Steps include watching a video and/or reading content, having a call with a ChangeX team member, forming a team so that you have support, having your first team meeting, sharing a team photo, and sharing a project action plan.

  • What can funding be used for?

    Once funding is received it can be used to cover direct set-up costs of the new community project. For example space rental, insurance fees, seeds and planting materials, tools, training fees; pretty much any materials you might need for a project that benefits your community.

    Funds cannot be used for the costs of work that has already been carried out, costs unrelated to the setup and maintenance of the new project, payments to group members for their work on the project. Funds can’t be used for the promotion of religious causes, non-charitable activities, sponsorship or fundraising events. Please read the terms and conditions for further details.

  • How do I know if there is funding available?

    On idea pages, if there is funding available for the idea in your region you will see “Funding available” and the region listed in the turquoise box. When you first login you will also see a green banner at the top of the screen saying “live funds near you” if there is funding available in your region. The ChangeX homepage will feature those live funds near you.

    A note on the waitlist: when all the funding has been allocated to applicants, new applicants will go on a waitlist. If some applicants that are in the fund don’t successfully complete the 30 Day Challenge their funding will be released and can be then allocated to those on the waitlist. To see if you are going on a waitlist check the main fund page, ideas fully allocated will have the note “Join the waitlist” instead of “Apply to start”.

  • What is ChangeX?

    ChangeX is a platform that connects communities to proven ideas and funding.

    By empowering local changemakers with proven ideas from social innovators and accessible funding from our partners, we aim to build healthier, more inclusive and sustainable communities. Our work is aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and together with our partners, we aim to impact 1 billion people globally by 2030.

    • Communities: Get the funding, resources and support you need to start impactful projects in your community.
    • Social innovators: Connect with local changemakers, access funding to scale your idea, and impact more communities globally.
    • Funders: Fund the themes and regions they care most about, with measurable impact, and at global scale.

    We believe that by bringing the best social innovations and the world’s changemakers together in a shared community, we can accelerate the spread of innovations across the world and have a bigger impact. Together we aim to unleash the potential of changemakers by enabling collaboration, by sharing knowledge and resources, by connecting changemakers across different disciplines and innovations and by opening up access to the world’s best proven social innovations to everyone.

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