“introduce the Savvy Prize, which will provide $3,000 in equity-free funding to a Savvy Fellow with the most innovative business idea and execution strategy.”Nwaogu received the Catalyst Award for his work at Savvy that has helped “trained 4,182 passionate individuals from 137 countries to build successful and sustainable impact-driven businesses.” This news comes barely a week when the young entrepreneur was named one of the 50 Africa’s Business Heroes by Alibaba Foundation and Jack Ma Foundation, for his work at Publiseer that is helping to “transform the creativity of underserved African creatives into wealth for them.” In a statement on social media, Nwaogu wrote,
“This recognition means a lot to me, knowing how competitive the process was. Out of 12,000 applicants, many of whom are highly skilled and accomplished entrepreneurs, I emerged in the Top 50 list! That’s a 0.42% successful rate!”Chidi Nwaogu is a co-founder at Savvy, a global fellowship program that has equipped over 4,100 passionate individuals from 137 countries, with the necessary knowledge, skills, tools, resources, and community they need to build successful and sustainable impact-driven businesses and succeed as social entrepreneurs. He is also a co-founder at Publiseer, a digital publisher that has helped over 7,000 underserved African creatives living in low-income and disadvantaged communities to earn above the minimum wage and live above the poverty line from the sales of their creative works.
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