McGill's Mastercard Foundation Scholars consistently rank highly in the听Dobson Cup Competition.听 Take a look at our winners below:
2024 McGill Dobson Bootcamp & Cup Competition听
1st place - Social Impact Enterprise track ($20,000)听听
Congratulations to Farmicle Grow and Mastercard Foundation Scholar, Jamil Tanimu, and his team. Farmicle Grow is a pioneering start-up revolutionizing agriculture through data-driven innovation. By harnessing farm data and cutting-edge technologies, they empower smallholder farmers in Ghana to meet the demands of both local and global markets.
3rd place - Social Impact Enterprise Track ($8,000)听
Congratulations to the Friends Career Center and Mastercard Foundation Scholar Alum, Joyeuse Senga, and her team. The Friends Career center is a transformative social impact organization empowering low-income youth and those living with HIV in rural Rwanda with a mission to dismantle barriers, foster resilience, and shape a brighter future.听
3rd place - Technology Driven Track ($8,000)
Congratulations to Kikao Invest and Mastercard Foundation Scholar Alum, Serge Byusa. Kikao Invest is a Proptech startup connecting the African diaspora with real estate investment opportunities in Africa.听
AvMor Prize for social responsibility ($1,900)听
Congratulations to the Friends Career Center and Mastercard Foundation Scholar Alum, Joyeuse Senga, and her team.听听
2024 Mastercard Foundation-Dobson Startup Awards听
First prize of $10,000听听
Congratulations to Farmicle Grow and Mastercard Foundation Scholar, Jamil Tanimu, and his team. Farmicle Grow is a pioneering start-up revolutionizing agriculture through data-driven innovation. By harnessing farm data and cutting-edge technologies, they empower smallholder farmers in Ghana to meet the demands of both local and global markets.听听
Second prize of $7,000听听
Congratulations to the Friends Career Center and Mastercard Foundation Scholar Alum, Joyeuse Senga, and her team. The Friends Career center is a transformative social impact organization empowering low-income youth and those living with HIV in rural Rwanda with a mission to dismantle barriers, foster resilience, and shape a brighter future.听听
2023 McGill Dobson Bootcamp & Cup Competition听听
1st place - Social Impact Enterprise track ($20,000)听听听
Congratulations to Caring for Girls and Mastercard Foundation Scholar, Oluwatoyin Jegede, and her team. Caring for Girls is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing reproductive health education and services for adolescent girls and women in Sierra Leone through sexuality education, awareness-raising, and service delivery.
3rd place - Environmental Enterprise Track ($8,000)听
Congratulations to Safe Environment Hub - Kenya (SEHub) and Mastercard Foundation Scholar Alum, Ascarnancy Bako and her team. Safe Environment Hub is a non-governmental community-based organization aiming at influencing positive mindset/paradigm shift and actions towards interaction with the environment through climate action.听听
2023 Mastercard Foundation-Dobson Startup Awards听
First Prize of $ 10,000
Congratulations to Safe Environment Hub - Kenya (SEHub) and Mastercard Foundation Scholar Alum, Ascarnancy Bako and her team. Safe Environment Hub is a non-governmental community-based organization aiming at influencing positive mindset/paradigm shift and actions towards interaction with the environment through climate action.听
Second prize of $7,000
Congratulations to Caring for Girls and Mastercard Foundation Scholar, Oluwatoyin Jegede, and her team. Caring for Girls is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing reproductive health education and services for adolescent girls and women in Sierra Leone through sexuality education, awareness-raising, and service delivery.听
2022 McGill Dobson Bootcamp & Cup Competition听
3rd place - Social Innovation Track
Congratulations to Smart Innovation Hub and Mastercard Foundation Scholar, Oluwabunmi Amosu, and her team. Smart Innovation Hub is a non- governmental organization established to educate youth, especially young girls on entrepreneurial skills and promote learning opportunities through quality education.听
2022 Mastercard Foundation-Dobson Startup Awards听
First Prize of $ 10,000听
Congratulations to Smart Innovation Hub and Mastercard Foundation Scholar, Oluwabunmi Amosu, and her team. Smart Innovation Hub is a non- governmental organization established to educate youth, especially young girls on entrepreneurial skills and promote learning opportunities through quality education.听
Second prize of $7,000听
Congratulations to LBN-GuardZone and Mastercard Foundation Scholar, Linda Chirchir, and her team. LBN-Guardzone makes multipurpose mosquito repellant candles that are convenient, reliable, and affordable, as one of the preventive measures to Mosquitoes and/or other insects in Malaria infested regions.听
2021 McGill Dobson Bootcamp & Cup Competition听
2nd place - Environmental Enterprise Track ($12,000)听
Congratulations to Mastercard Foundation Scholars Beatrice Ayinkamiye and Ange Kalitanyi, and their Food Bundles team. Food Bundles is a digital platform designed to optimize the distribution of fresh food to consumers living in cities. Digitizing the supply chain, it creates a sustainable market for smallholder farmers.听
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2021 Mastercard Foundation-Dobson Startup Awards听
First Prize of $ 10,000听
Congratulations to Mastercard Foundation Scholar, Ibrahim Kasujja and his team at Nuture Posterity International Ltd. This is A private, not-for-profit social impact enterprise organization that aims at improving the overall health of women and children through fostering optimal feeding programmes and nutrition-sensitive agricultural programmes in African communities.听
Second prize of $7,000 听
Congratulations to Mastercard Foundation Scholars Beatrice Ayinkamiye and Ange Kalitanyi, and their Food Bundles team. Food Bundles is a digital platform designed to optimize the distribution of fresh food to consumers living in cities. Digitizing the supply chain, it creates a sustainable market for smallholder farmers.听
2020 McGill Dobson Bootcamp & Cup Competition
3rd Place - Social Enterprise Track
Congratulations to Mastercard Foundation Scholar Monica Mhina and her team at NIA. 听
NIA is an AI-powered personal banking and financial management assistant, accessible through mobile banking and payment apps, empowering users to acquire relevant financial knowledge, informative financial reports and make queries about their accounts.
2020 Mastercard Foundation-Dobson Startup Awards听
First prize of $15,000听
Congratulations to Mastercard Foundation Scholar Dorcus Nakachwa and her team at InoGen. InoGen is a Social Enterprise that resolves the gender disparity in science subjects among Ugandan high schools by creating practical workshops and mentorship programs for girls.听
Second prize of $5,000听
Congratulations to Mastercard Foundation Scholar Abraham Martey and the Global Custodians Academy Team. Global Custodians Academy (GCA) is a private school that trains its pupils in leadership, ethical behavior, basic computing skills and mastery of the academic syllabus from Ghana Education Services.听
Third prize of $3,000听
Congratulations to Mastercard Foundation Scholar Emmanuel Kofi Yeboah and the team at Kuapa Solar. Kuapa Solar Enterprise is a Ghanaian based social enterprise launched to enable smallholder farmers in Ghana to have access to solar powered irrigation pumps though a Pay-As-You-Grow model.听听
2019 Mastercard Foundation-Dobson Startup Awards听
First prize of $15,000听
Congratulations to Mastercard Foundation Scholar Jean Kagame and the team at Safe Kasupe. Water is not the source of life, it is life. At Safe Kasupe Ltd, we provide affordable clean water to eradicate negative social and health consequences of using unclean water.听
Second prize of $5,000 听
Congratulations to Mastercard Foundation Scholars Tinotenda Makuvire and Gamucharai Tavaziva and their team. 3.D.E is an additive manufacturing company that focuses on applying 3D printing technology to address challenges of affordability, availability, and accessibility of prosthetics and educational model kits in low resource settings in Zimbabwe.
Third prize of $3,000听
Congratulations to Mastercard Foundation Scholar Vella Abur and the Yonja team. Poor sanitation is a major setback to development. Yonja is here to provide the missing link between waste management service delivery companies and households for efficient, affordable and quality services.听
