Driving change by empowering women impact entrepreneurs
The Cartier Women's Initiative is an annual international entrepreneurship program that aims to drive change by empowering women impact entrepreneurs. Founded in 2006, the program is open to women-run and women-owned businesses from any country and sector that aim to have a strong and sustainable social and/or environmental impact.
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2025 Impact Awards

For the 2025 edition, the Cartier Women’s Initiative will proudly host another Impact Awards edition, dedicated to former fellows who have achieved extraordinary impact over the years.

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Awards

Our regional and thematic awards recognize and fund talented impact entrepreneurs from around the world who are leveraging business as a force for good.

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Fellowship

The fellowship aims to provide our fellows with peer-, industry-, and academic-based educational programming for skills and leadership development and business growth.

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Community

The community gives fellows lifelong access to a vibrant group of impact leaders, creating opportunities for engagement, relationship-building, and the development of social capital.

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Insights

We aim to drive an active conversation about women impact entrepreneurs through content curation and research partnerships.

The best thing you can do in business is to empower women. It changes everything.

Cyrille Vigneron

Chairman of Cartier Culture & Philanthropy

Latest Updates

Here are some exciting updates.

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HEADED TO OSAKA

For the 2025 Impact Awards Ceremony, we are headed to Osaka, Japan. The Awards Ceremony will take place on May 22, 2025 where we will celebrate our 9 Impact Awardees during the 2025 World Expo.

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OUR DATA

We share insights based on our program data and have shared the application statistics from the 2023 and 2024 editions.

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NEXT CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

The Call for Applications for the 2026 edition will open from April 18 to June 24, 2025. Stay tuned!

330
entrepreneurs supported since 2006
66
countries with at least one fellow
12.2M
in financial support since 2006
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15-YEAR IMPACT REPORT

To mark the fifteenth anniversary of the Cartier Women’s Initiative, we look back on the program’s evolution and its impact. Going forward, our role is to create a global coalition of allies that can amplify that impact by leveraging our unique strengths: our community of fellows, our knowledge of the ecosystem, and our ability to activate different players in the space.