Insights from the Digital Diaries Report
June 2021 Scholars Entrepreneurship Fund
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The Scholars Entrepreneurship Fund (SEF) was launched in 2018 by the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program to help incubate Scholar- and alumni-led social enterprises. The SEF was also intended to support post-graduation transitions to work, provide a platform for giving back to communities, and offer an experiential learning opportunity for applying transformative leadership skills and mindsets. The SEF was implemented by Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program partners, primarily universities, and each partner designed the SEF with its own unique features”
The SEF Digital Diaries were a qualitative study building on monthly — primarily quantitative — monitoring surveys with recipients of SEF funding. The findings presented here offer an in-depth look at the entrepreneurial journeys of 15 young women and men from across Africa over a two-week period in late 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
