Grant for Female Entrepreneurs in the MENA Region from EY Building a Better Working World

The EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program invites women entrepreneurs in the MENA region to participate in its 2021 edition. The program aims to support successful women entrepreneurs whose businesses show real potential for scale and provide them with support, resources, and access to help accelerate their growth.

Entrepreneurial Winning Women join an international network of women entrepreneurs and participate in a bespoke executive education program with year-round activities designed to:

• Expand their knowledge with the latest information, research, and executive dialogues about business strategies and practices.
• Develop the skills needed to effectively identify potential partners, strategic alliances, customers, and suppliers as well as find routes to prospective sources of capital.
• Provide access to informal, one-to-one guidance and support.
• Strengthen their executive leadership and business skills and identify opportunities to grow through meetings with senior advisors and seasoned entrepreneurs.
• Increase visibility for themselves and their companies among corporate executives, investors, and the media, creating possible new collaborations and opportunities.
• Provide a gateway to a global community of successful women entrepreneurs and inspiring peer role models who, in 2020, numbered more than 750 across 48 countries.

Entrepreneurial Winning Women will be expected to demonstrate the necessary qualities to take the fullest advantage of this opportunity, including ambitious company growth goals, energy, creativity, entrepreneurial purpose, and passion.

To be eligible for this extraordinary opportunity, applicants must meet the following criteria:

• Are founding CEOs (at least 51%) in a registered business
• Demonstrate a passion to grow their business and scale up internationally.
• Businesses that: Are at least 2 years old.
• Have annual revenues higher than USD 250,000.
• Are headquartered in MENA

About EY Building a better working World:

EY provides integrated services in assurance, consulting, strategy, transactions, and taxation. EY exists to build a better working world, helping create long-term value for clients, people, and society and build trust in the capital markets. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax, and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

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