{"id":27673,"date":"2025-03-18T13:44:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/?p=27673"},"modified":"2025-03-18T13:44:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:44:32","slug":"a-fundacao-tony-elumelu-vai-anunciar-a-coorte-de-2025-do-programa-de-empreendedorismo-tef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/press-releases\/the-tony-elumelu-foundation-set-to-announce-2025-cohort-of-tef-entrepreneurship-programme","title":{"rendered":"A Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Tony Elumelu prepara-se para anunciar a coorte de 2025 do Programa de Empreendedorismo TEF"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs have collectively created 1.5 million jobs and generated $4.2 billion in revenue<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Over 2 million Africans lifted out of poverty<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lagos, Nigeria \u2013 March 17, 2025 \u2013 The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa\u2019s leading philanthropy empowering entrepreneurs is set to announce the 11<sup>\u00ba<\/sup> cohort of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme on Saturday, March 22, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 announcement comes at a critical time, as Africa\u2019s entrepreneurship ecosystem faces funding constraints and global economic headwinds. TEF continues to provide much-needed support, empowering African entrepreneurs to transform their ideas into sustainable businesses and engines of economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>Each selected Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur will receive $5,000 non-refundable seed capital, a world-class business training on TEFConnect, one-on-one mentorship, and access to global networks and investment opportunities. The selection process is being conducted by Ernst &amp; Young, to ensure independent assessment.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of the Tony Elumelu Foundation extends beyond funding. It is changing lives and shaping Africa\u2019s future, as witnessed by beneficiaries of the catalytic TEF Entrepreneurship Programme.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the upcoming announcement, Tony O. Elumelu, C.F.R., Founder of TEF and Group Chairman of Heirs Holdings, reiterates his unwavering belief in the potential of Africa\u2019s entrepreneurs:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I believe that Africa\u2019s transformation will not be led by aid, but by empowering the next generation of African entrepreneurs\u2014giving them the tools, the funding, the training, and the networks to build sustainable businesses that create jobs and drive economic growth. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Over the past decade, we have nurtured entrepreneurs from inception to success, scaling our impact across all 54 African countries. We have provided capital and also developed a robust monitoring and evaluation framework that allows us to track the progress of our entrepreneurs and measure their contributions to their communities and economies. <\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>No other organisation is implementing entrepreneurship development at this scale across Africa. We have learned, we have refined, and we continue to improve, ensuring that African entrepreneurs\u2014women and men\u2014are at the forefront of solving our continent\u2019s challenges and creating wealth for themselves and their communities. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Entrepreneurship is the key to Africa\u2019s prosperity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I wish the 2025 cohort of Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs success, as they chase their ambitions, and play their part in Africa\u2019s transformation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more details on the Tony Elumelu Foundation\u2019s impact visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/relatorios-de-impacto-tef\/\">Impact Page<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/historias-de-sucesso\/\">African Success Stories Page<\/a>, e <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/demonstracoes-financeiras-auditadas-pela-tef-2\/\">Annual Report Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For Media Inquiries: <a href=\"mailto:tefmedia@tonyelumelufoundation.org\">TEFMedia@tonyelumelufoundation.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur Testimonials from Previous Years<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I started my agribusiness with nothing but an idea. TEF changed everything. With the funding, training, and mentorship, I have now expanded across three countries and employ 25 people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Fatima Diallo, Senegal, Agritech Entrepreneur<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a woman in the fintech industry, it was difficult to secure funding. TEF not only provided me with capital but also the confidence and skills to build a business that is now attracting international investors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Mary Okeke, Nigeria, Fintech Founder<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The TEF Entrepreneurship Programme helped me commercialise my clean energy innovation. Today, we provide solar solutions to over 50,000 homes in rural Tanzania.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Juma Nyerere, Tanzania, Renewable Energy Entrepreneur<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sobre a Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Tony Elumelu <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Tony Elumelu Foundation is the leading philanthropy empowering a new generation of African entrepreneurs, driving poverty eradication, catalysing job creation across all 54 African countries and ensuring inclusive economic empowerment.<\/p>\n<p>Since the launch of the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme in 2015, TEF has lifted over 2 million Africans out of poverty, provided 2.5 million young Africans with access to training on <a href=\"https:\/\/tefconnect.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TEFConnect<\/a>, and disbursed more than $100millon in direct funding to thousands of African entrepreneurs who have gone on to create over 1.5 million direct and indirect jobs and generate over $4.2 billion in revenue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lagos, Nig\u00e9ria - 17 de mar\u00e7o de 2025 - A Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Tony Elumelu (TEF), a principal institui\u00e7\u00e3o filantr\u00f3pica africana que d\u00e1 poder aos empres\u00e1rios, vai anunciar a 11.\u00aa coorte do Programa de Empreendedorismo TEF no s\u00e1bado, 22 de mar\u00e7o de 2025.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":27674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27676,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27673\/revisions\/27676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}