Entrepreneurship Programme
Training, structure, tools, mentorship, and support for young entrepreneurs building real businesses.
Explore programmeThe Eli Adewole Foundation helps young entrepreneurs, students, and emerging changemakers access mentorship, education support, entrepreneurship grants, skills acquisition training, and opportunities that move them from potential to progress.
Many brilliant young people have vision, discipline, and hunger to build something meaningful — but they lack access to mentorship, capital, education support, employability training, business structure, and the right network.
The Eli Adewole Foundation exists to close that gap. We identify, support, and equip students, entrepreneurs, and young people with the tools they need to build sustainable futures for themselves, their families, and their communities.
EAF’s public standing is presented clearly across the website: 501(c)(3) nonprofit in the United States, registered nonprofit in Nigeria, and United Nations ECOSOC Consultative Status.
EAF communicates its nonprofit and international engagement context clearly so donors, partners, volunteers, mentors, applicants, and the public understand the foundation’s structure.
EAF identifies as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the United States, supporting charitable and mission-focused work.
EAF identifies as a registered nonprofit in Nigeria, strengthening its ability to serve youth, students, and entrepreneurs across communities.
EAF communicates United Nations ECOSOC Consultative Status as part of its international development and public engagement context.
Our work is focused on practical support: mentorship, funding pathways, education assistance, employability training, business systems, and volunteer-backed community service.
Training, structure, tools, mentorship, and support for young entrepreneurs building real businesses.
Explore programmeConnecting mentees with experienced mentors who can guide their growth, decisions, and development.
View mentorshipEducation grants and support opportunities for students with financial need, drive, and ambition.
Education supportPractical training that helps young people become employable, job-ready, self-reliant, and income-capable.
Explore skillsNot every young person is ready to start a business immediately. Some need practical skills, workplace readiness, digital exposure, vocational training, and mentorship that can help them become employable and self-reliant.
Through skills acquisition and employability training, EAF supports young people with marketable skills, confidence, discipline, workplace preparation, and the ability to pursue income opportunities with dignity.
The foundation supports entrepreneurs and students through targeted grant opportunities designed to reduce financial barriers and increase access to growth.
For promising entrepreneurs who need support to launch, stabilize, or grow their business responsibly.
Entrepreneurship GrantFor students and young people who need financial support to continue their education or training.
Education GrantSelected participants can receive mentorship, business guidance, employability support, and practical tools.
MentorshipEAF is designed to move people through a structured process so support is practical, fair, and measurable.
Entrepreneurs, mentees, students, skills trainees, volunteers, and applicants submit the right application for their area of interest.
Applications are reviewed based on mission fit, need, seriousness, contribution, readiness, and potential impact.
Selected participants receive mentorship, grant consideration, education support, skills training, programme access, or volunteer placement.
We track progress, share approved stories, and help participants move from opportunity to outcome.
We bring experienced professionals, entrepreneurs, educators, and leaders together with mentees who need direction, accountability, employability guidance, and encouragement.
Serve young entrepreneurs, students, and skills trainees who are ready to learn, grow, and build a better future.
Join the mentorship pathway for business direction, career clarity, employability guidance, and access to foundation opportunities.
The Eli Adewole Foundation welcomes volunteers who want to support young entrepreneurs, students, skills trainees, and emerging leaders through service, mentorship support, outreach, events, administration, fundraising, and community engagement.
Whether you can give a few hours, support an event, help review applications, assist with outreach, or strengthen foundation operations, your contribution matters.
EAF impact is measured by the lives strengthened, students supported, entrepreneurs guided, skills built, volunteers mobilized, and communities improved.
Education support for young people with drive and financial need.
Training, mentorship, systems, and funding pathways for business builders.
Practical training that helps young people become employable and income-ready.
Professionals and leaders giving back through practical guidance.
EAF events create space for learning, mentorship, skills training, volunteer service, visibility, and practical conversations that help young people grow.
Practical sessions for business ideas, business structure, sales, funding readiness, and growth.
View eventsConversations that connect mentees with experienced leaders and practical business voices.
Meet mentorsCampaigns and initiatives designed to raise support for students, skills trainees, and education access.
Skills trainingWhether you give, mentor, volunteer, partner, or share the mission, your support can help a student stay in school, an entrepreneur build with confidence, or a young person gain the skills to become employable and self-reliant.