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TEF offers Start-Up Grants to support social entrepreneurs who have a strong Feasibility Study and Business Plan to launch their employment social enterprise (ESE). Start-Up Grants provide a maximum of $100,000 over a three-year period and are used to support the costs required to launch and establish a new ESE. 

The ESE Idea Accelerator program supports individual entrepreneurs and organizations to develop new, high-potential, employment social enterprises ideas.

The program offers participants the chance to strengthen their ESE ideas through interactive workshops and peer support. Participants may also have the opportunity to pitch for a 'Catalyzing Grant'.