If you are a changemaker, impact entrepreneur or social innovator who are looking to scale your impact – we are definitely interested to hear from you!
Singtel Future Makers is a 4-month social innovation programme in Singapore, comprising up to S$20,000 grants for each selected start-up, mentoring by cross-sector experts, competency workshops, networking and strategic partnership opportunities with the Singtel Group and its partners.
*Singtel is pleased to announce that Home Nursing Foundation (with an additional grant of up to S$10k) and The Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore have issued two separate problem briefs through Singtel Future Makers 2017. To find out more about the briefs, please click on the respective links below*
Click here to view HNF-Singtel Future Makers 2017 Brief_ Healthcare Service Matching App
Click here to view MINDS-SMRT-Singtel Future Makers 2017 Brief_ Independent Transport for PWiDs
By 7 May 2017 (Final Round)
* applications on a rolling basis
Singtel Future Makers aims to help build and support an ecosystem of change agents, innovation, capacity building and collaboration that will help transform the lives of the vulnerable in the community, as well as support caregivers and Social Service Organisations. This social innovation programme comprises community engagement, mentorship, coaching and funding support for social entrepreneurs in Singapore. Singtel Future Makers is open to passionate individuals who believe that technological innovation plays a key role in addressing social causes in Singapore and beyond.
Attractive Funding
More than S$500,000 grants for start-ups across all Singtel Group Future Makers programmes in Singapore, Australia and the Philippines
Capacity Building
Tailored competency workshops, dedicated mentoring, 1-on-1 business coaching and community networking events
Regional Network
Regional cross-sector ecosystem for collaboration and market opportunities
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Chia Yong Yong
President of SPD and Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP), Singapore
I want to thank Singtel for this wonderful initiative. It is visionary, it has foresight but above all it will seek to encourage greater innovation and incubate more solutions for the social service sector and for Singapore.
Ng Ling Ling
Assistant CEO, NCSS, & Managing Director, Community Chest
To do well as a country is to serve the people in need. We need to build a whole ecosystem which must comprise of different players, such as the charities. But we should also include new businesses and social enterprises that enrich this whole experience.
Shafiqah Ramani
Co-Founder and CEO of PsychKick
Workshops such as social impact measurement or venture pitching really helped us to improve, refine and sharpen our business model. Not only they were educational and informative, but also inspiring because we got the opportunity to interact with other aspiring changemakers who want to create a positive change as well!
Larry Tchiou
Founder and CEO of UNFRAMED
With its deep expertise in ICT and innovation, and the track record in working with vulnerable communities, having Singtel as a key partner is definitely attractive for any entrepreneur leveraging technology to scale their social impact.
We have assembled a pool of great mentors and speakers with cross-sector experiences and expertise:
Anand Ramachandran
Director, Group Projects & Consulting, Group Strategy, Singtel
Andrew Buay
Vice President, Group CSR, & Talent Coach, Singtel
Audrey Chia
Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
Cheong Hai Thoo
Head, Digital Mobile, Singtel
Evelyn Phang
Director, Strategic Alliances & Partnerships, Group Strategy & Partnerships, Singtel
Frank Young
CEO, HungryGoWhere, Singtel
Jan Croeni
Principal, Croeni Foundation
Jane Lim
Consultant, Shopee
Jeff Kwan
Director, Social Enterprises & Employment Development, MINDS
Kobita Desai
Director, Group Strategy & Partnerships, Singtel
Monica Tsai
Senior Director, Investments & Operations Singapore, Singtel Innov8
Ng Ling Ling
Assistant CEO, NCSS, & Managing Director, Community Chest
Richardo Chua
Managing Director, Adrenalin Group Pte. Ltd.
Vishal Harnal
Partner, 500 Startups
Bompipi.com is an online marketplace that sells popular fast-moving consumer goods and groceries. It offers its customers a reward system, which supports social inclusion and develops the community through volunteering. It expects 70% of its shoppers to volunteer through the reward system and will contribute 15% of its profits to Social Service Organisations and Non-Profit Organisations.
Using a cloud-based platform and speech recognition technology, CaptionCube provides high quality, fast captioning, transcription, and subtitling services for e-learning and media content providers who are inclusive to a hearing impaired audience. They employ persons with disabilities who work remotely on the transcript, giving them flexibility and convenience. CaptionCube has improved communication engagements by over 30% among its clientele. It believes everyone has equal rights to communicate and be heard.
Enabled tackles stereotype and discrimination of persons with disabilities in Singapore by providing digital learning, empathy training and experiential workshops to empower school students to become advocates for this group, which makes up 15% of Singapore’s population. It also hopes to embed empathy training into the core curriculum in schools.
GIVE.asia is a free-to-use platform that empowers people and organisations to create crowdfunding and donation pages in a matter of minutes, without a designer or developer. It gives easy access to technology for charities, companies and individuals and harnesses the power of peer-to-peer fundraising for social causes. So far, 200,000 people have joined this social movement and raised S$10.8million to support 15,000 social causes.
Irisada is creating a specialised marketplace for the special needs community to find hard-to-reach products all at one place. The marketplace is specially designed to benefit the community of caregivers and persons with special needs using intuitive search functions, curation and features that encourage product innovation. It hopes to connect buyers to these specialised products that help them enjoy a high quality of life.
Jaga-Me is a health technology company, which aims to make healthcare more responsive, affordable and personal. It has developed a mobile app to help patients and their families engage home care services from qualified professionals within the community. These healthcare professionals are matched according to patients’ requests based on skillset and availability. To date, Jaga-Me has successfully served over 2,500 hours of safe nursing care across Singapore. Nurses are carefully screened and have at least three years of experience working in a hospital with valid clinical skills.
Medarwin is looking to change the way the elderly and people with physical limitations dry their laundry – with its product Raincheck. Through a smartphone app, Raincheck automatically deploys wet laundry outdoor and retracts it during inclement weather. Medarwin expects to test its solution across various households and smart city initiatives for further product feedback before manufacturing.
We assembled a pool of great mentors and speakers with cross-sector experiences and expertise:
Anand Ramachandran
Director, Group Projects & Consulting, Group Strategy, Singtel
Andrew Buay
Vice President, Group Sustainability, Singtel
Audrey Chia
Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
Cheong Hai Thoo
Head, Digital Mobile, Singtel
Evelyn Phang
Director, Strategic Alliances & Partnerships, Group Strategy & Partnerships, Singtel
Frank Young
CEO, HungryGoWhere, Singtel
Jan Croeni
Principal, Croeni Foundation
Jane Lim
Consultant, Shopee
Jeff Kwan
Director, Social Enterprises & Employment Development, MINDS
Kobita Desai
Director, Group Strategy & Partnerships, Singtel
Monica Tsai
Senior Director, Investments & Operations Singapore, Singtel Innov8
Ng Ling Ling
Assistant CEO, NCSS, & Managing Director, Community Chest
Richardo Chua
Managing Director, Adrenalin Group Pte. Ltd.
Vishal Harnal
Partner, 500 Startups
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By 7 May 2017 (Final Round)
* applications on a rolling basis 
Singtel is Asia’s leading communications group providing a portfolio of services including voice and data solutions over fixed, wireless and Internet platforms as well as infocomm technology and pay TV. We have presence in Asia, Australia and Africa with over 600 million mobile customers in 25 countries, including India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. We also have a vast network of offices throughout Asia Pacific, Europe and the United States.
Community Chest supports about 80 charities in Singapore, allowing them to focus on caring for the disadvantaged. 100% of your donations go towards helping children with special needs and youths-at-risk to reach their potential, adults with disabilities to integrate into society, relationships of families in difficulty to stay resilient, seniors to age graciously in the community and persons with mental health issues to integrate into society.
Founded in 1976, Home Nursing Foundation (HNF) is one of the oldest and most established charities that provides home care in Singapore. We deliver comprehensive care programmes that are dedicated to our patients. From nursing to medical-care, to looking after patients’ social well-being and other practical daily needs, we bring care and support into the homes of those in need.
The IMDA PIXEL Labs provide convergence spaces for individuals and companies to work collaboratively on ideas, developing new technologies and testing out proof-of-concepts. PIXEL Labs provide access to prototyping equipment, mentorship by experts, as well as opportunities to demo and showcase innovative products and solutions. With a nurturing environment that aims to inspire with technology, the PIXEL Labs also seek to ignite a bold passion for innovative thinking and inspirational experimentation in passionate individuals. Currently, there are three PIXEL Labs and they are located in IMDA’s headquarters at Mapletree Business City, National Design Centre and the Jurong Regional Library.
The Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore (MINDS) was founded in May 1962 by a group of philanthropists who saw the need to provide equal opportunities for children with intellectual disabilities to receive education and later, to be integrated as contributing and responsible citizens in Singapore.
The Singapore Centre for Social Enterprise, raiSE was set up to raise awareness on social entrepreneurship and raise support for social enterprises in Singapore. raiSE hopes to strengthen the social enterprise sector in Singapore and encourage the growth of social enterprises as a sustainable way to address social needs.
SPD is a voluntary welfare organisation that focuses on helping people with disabilities maximise their potential and integrating them into mainstream society. Through close to 20 programmes that encompass early intervention, therapy, training, assistive technology, day care as well as education, employment and social service support, SPD serves more than 5,000 people with physical, sensory and developmental disabilities, helping them to become self-reliant and independent.
NUS Enterprise plays a pivotal role in advancing innovation and entrepreneurship at NUS. It actively promotes entrepreneurship and cultivates global mind-sets and talents through the synergies of experiential entrepreneurial education, active industry partnerships, holistic entrepreneurship support and catalytic entrepreneurship outreach. As Asia’s Thought Leader for Innovation & Enterprise, its initiatives complement and add a unique perspective to NUS teaching and research at the University and beyond.
UNFRAMED is a training academy and accelerator which builds entrepreneurs for social impact! Through our hands-on trainings and startup programs, we equip the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders with the right skills, network and resources to build great startups. We leverage community engagement, entrepreneurship and technology to accelerate positive change in our society – #beUNframed!
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