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Verizon small business digital ready grant
State/Country: United States
Type/Date: Grant closes 12/20/23
Max Amt: $10,000
Small businesses can access, for free, personalized learning through over 40 courses, mentorship, peer networking, 1:1 expert coaching, and incentives such as grant funding.
Warrior rising grant
State/Country: United States
Type/Date: Grant/ rolling due date
Max Amt: $20,000
Warrior Rising strives to accept and assist veterans at any point in the process of starting their own business, whether it is only a concept or if they have actual operations.
Awesome foundation
State/Country: Global
Type/Date: Grant/ On-going
Max amt: $1,000
Foundation distributes $1,000 grants, no strings attached, to projects and their creators. At each fully autonomous chapter, the money is pooled together from the coffers of ten or so self-organizing “micro-trustees”.
Etsy Disaster Relief Fund
State/Country: Global
Type/Date: Grant/on-going
Mx amt: $2,500
Sellers will be eligible for a grant if they experienced a federally declared natural disaster within the past year, have been an active seller on Etsy for at least one year, and their Etsy account is in good standing.
Tony Elumelu Foundation
State/Country: Any of Africa's 54 Countries
Type/Date: Grant/rolling
Max amt: $5,000
To apply, you only need to be a permanent resident of any of Africa’s 54 countries. Your startup must be at an ideation stage or not a business older than 5 years.
BMO Fellowship (Watson Institute)
State/Country: United States
Type/Date: Grant closes 1/31/2024
Max Amt: $10,000
This fellowship is a fully funded 16-week intensive virtual fellowship designed for sustainability entrepreneurs who are driving solutions to their communities’ most significant environmental and sustainability challenges. While BMO is located across North America, this fellowship will focus on the U.S. mid-west region. Preference will be given to applicants from Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Minnesota.
Start Path Small Business (Mastercard)
State/Country: United States
Type/Date: Accelerator/rolling
During the 4-month program, startups will have the opportunity to leverage Mastercard's network and subject matter expertise to uncover product partnerships, scale their companies and power solutions that drive safe, secure and simple experiences. Companies should be in one of following industries: Customer Service, Banking, Security, E-commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Payment Processing, Digital Lending, FinTech.
Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Country: United States
Type: Fellowship
Deadline: 4/13/2025
Must be a women-owned or led business that is a social enterprise that is intentional about supporting women’s economic empowerment, climate resilience, or the intersection of both and have at least $50K in income
Amazon app store
State/Country: Global
Type: Accelerator/rolling
Max amt: up to 20% of appstore
The Small Business Accelerator Program allows developers who earn less than 1 million USD in total annual revenue in the previous calendar year to access additional benefits up to or equivalent to 20% of Appstore revenue.
American Express Leadership Academy
State/Country: Open Globally
Type/Date: Fellowship/rolling
Max Amt: Unknown
The Academy is for people in the non-profit sector who are intentionally striving to be better equipped to respond adaptively to challenges and to keep going in the face of adversity.
About Her Microgrants
State/Country: Open Globally
Type/Date: Grant/Closes June 2024
Max Amt: $500
Micro grants are open to Caribbean and African women + women of African and Caribbean descent, who are entrepreneurs, creatives and non-profit founders, based in their home countries or anywhere around the world. Applicants must demonstrate that their projects are positively impacting culture and community.
Sustain Evanston Grants
State/Country: Evanston, IL/USA
Type/Date: Grant/Closes 6/30/2024
Max Amt: $25,000
Sustain Evanston's Incentive Program grants small business and commercial property owners funding to implement sustainability measures that align with the goals of the City’s Climate Action & Resilience Plan while reducing their operating costs and better serving their customers.
Entrepreneurship World Cup
Location: Global
Type/Date: Grant/ Apply by 7/31/24
Max Amt: $1,000,000
The competition offers over $1 million in cash prizes to top entrepreneurs and provides a supportive community, global exposure, and access to mentorship and resources to help grow their businesses
Hart Lift Program
State/Country: Hartford, CT
Type/Date: Grant/ Closes 12/31/2024
Max Amt: $150,000
Through the newly created Hart Lift program, the Hartford Chamber is directing up to $7,000,000 of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to property owners throughout the City of Hartford affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Small Business Investment Fund Program
State/Country: Hartford, CT
Type/Date: Grant/Ongoing
Max Amt: $100,000
The Small Business Investment Fund in an effort to stabilize the small business community post-pandemic. The goal of the program is to create and retain job opportunities. Entrepreneurial activities revitalize downtown and neighborhood businesses and leverage private investment in the small business community.
Small Business Façade Program Improvement Program
City, State/Country: Hartford, CT
Type/Date: Forgivable Loan/Ongoing
Max Amt: $50,000
The Small Business Façade Program Improvement Program is a forgivable loan program. The intent of this program is to improve the physical appearance of small businesses storefronts in order to increase storefront traffic and promote business attraction and retention in the City of Hartford
Seattle Storefront Repair Grant
State/Country: Seattle, WA/USA
Type/Date: Grant/ Rolling
Max Amount: $2,000
Storefront Repair Fund grants will help cover costs to repair current property damage or reimburse business owners for costs paid out of pocket for past damages. Eligible property damages include broken windows, broken doors, broken locks and etching on windows. This grant will not cover loss of stolen goods or damages such as graffiti.
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