Expressions of Interest for the 2025 Snow Entrepreneurs – fellowships for social change will open on 21 May 2025 (closing 16 June 2025).

Join us for this Information Session to learn more about who these fellowships are for, the support on offer, and the selection process. You’ll hear from the Snow Foundation team and current Snow Entrepreneurs and will get your questions answered.

This is an online webinar that will be delivered via Zoom. You will receive an email with link to access to the Zoom webinar 24 hours prior to the event.

About the Fellowships:
The Snow Entrepreneur – fellowships for social change are an opportunity for eight to twelve entrepreneurial leaders to receive funding and wrap-around capacity-building support for their early-stage initiatives that tackle disadvantages in innovative ways.

The fellowships are a celebration of our own entrepreneurial roots and honour the legacy of our late founder Terry Snow AM. They reflect our long-term commitment to back inspiring leaders and teams with innovative ideas to address pressing social issues - particularly those affecting women and girls, First Nations communities, young people, and LGBTIQ+ people.

Selection Criteria

We are looking for great people who are:

Capable and credible leaders who are visionary, passionate and persistent in pursuing their goals
Motivated by a strong understanding of the issue they are addressing, particularly through lived experience
Entrepreneurial problem solvers who aren’t afraid to chart new waters, listen and learn from mistakes, and who are able to surround themselves with excellent advisors and collaborators
Willing to engage with and support their peers in the Snow Entrepreneurs cohort

We are looking for initiatives that:

Address a gap: demonstrated community need
Are innovative: addressing entrenched problems in new ways
Have a realistic plan for growth and sustainability: including a business model that includes some self-generated revenue (current or future)
Align with our themes: Gender, First Nations, Youth and/or LGBTIQ+.
Focus on one or more of the following cause areas:
– Domestic and sexual violence
– Economic empowerment
– Healthy masculinity
– First Nations self-determination/leadership (post Voice)
– First Nations cultural understanding
– Rheumatic heart disease prevention (living conditions in Indigenous communities)
– Education outcomes (school age)
– Mental health prevention
– Digital addiction
– Alcohol addiction
– Disability employment and empowerment
– Civil society and democracy

Eligibility

Address disadvantage: Be driven by a social purpose and directly benefit disadvantaged or at-risk populations (initiatives that generate impact primarily by donating a portion of their commercial revenue are not eligible).
Be early stage and operating: Already be in operation and have been in market for less than three years.
Have national or scalable impact: Demonstrate potential for national reach, including benefits for people in our key regions - ACT, Sydney, the NSW South Coast, or NT (for Indigenous communities only).
Have revenue under $1m in the past 12 months.
Be registered in Australia (DGR and charitable status are not a requirement).

This is an online webinar that will be delivered via Zoom. You will receive an email with link to access to the Zoom webinar 24 hours prior to the event.

Full program details and application guidelines can be found here.