Funding Opportunities

1863 Venture’s 3R’s Grant Program

GrantA nation-wide education and grant program designed to help you rebuild your business post COVID.

Beygood

To celebrate people, communities, and small businesses impacted by economic inequities . . . the Black Parade Route continues.We are proud to announce the next phase as the Black Parade Route continues and journeys to various cities to support entrepreneurs through highly anticipated Black Parade Route luncheons.

The goal is to celebrate small business owners with relief grant opportunities and valued business support services offered by global partners to aid in business sustainability.

We will support one thousand small businesses with a commitment totaling $1M.

Amber Grant for Women

GrantWomensNet founded the Amber Grant Foundation in 1998. The Foundation was set up with one goal in mind: to honor the memory of a very special young woman, Amber Wigdahl, who died at just 19 years old — before realizing her business dreams.  Today, WomensNet carries on that tradition, giving away at least $10,000 every month in Amber Grant money. We've also expanded our grant-giving to include other grants such as our Annual $25,000 Amber Grant.

Black Girl Ventures

InvestorOur mission is to provide Black/Brown woman-identifying founders with access to community, capital, and capacity building in order to meet business milestones that lead to economic advancement through entrepreneurship.

Cartier Women’s Initiative

GrantSince 2006, the Cartier Women’s Initiative has helped these women reach their full potential by shining a light on their achievements and providing them with the necessary financial, social and human capital support to grow their businesses and build their leadership skills. The program is open to women-run and women-owned businesses from any country and sector that aim to have a strong and sustainable positive impact on society as defined by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Fearless Fund

InvestmentFearless Fund invests in high growth, scalable, women of color-led ventures across the United states. While we are industry agnostic, we seek companies that we feel our team of General and Limited Partners can add the most value to and help scale.

Funding Finder | Tory Burch Foundation

Funder Finder ToolLooking to fund your business? This new tool from the Tory Burch Foundation can help! Answer a few questions about your business and goals and the Funding Finder will provide a personalized recommendation about what capital you may want to pursue.

Grow by Invoice2go

GrantGrow by Invoice2go is giving away $200,000 to eligible small businesses owned by people from underrepresented communities.  We want to help small business owners do what they do best — run their business, their way — and a focus on equity is crucial in doing so.

IFundWomen Universal Grant Application

General Grant ApplicationWhen IFundWomen brokers a grant with a partner, we match the partner’s grant criteria to those businesses who have applied through our Universal Grant Application. If you're a match, we may request that you apply for that partner’s specific grant program, and you will be notified.

New Voices Fund

InvestorStarted in 2018, New Voices Foundation is delivering on its promise to help women of color business owners build, grow and scale their businesses and create a more inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem.  We provide them with unprecedented access, capital, and expertise via Pitch Competitions; Mobile Accelerators; Coaching and Mentorship for pitch winners and others in the New Voices community; Online Learning and Skills Development Opportunities; and Ongoing Communications Outreach via social media, newsletters and other channels.

SoGal Black Founder Startup Grant

GrantSoGal Foundation has teamed up with Winky Lux, bluemercury, twelveNYC, Twilio, and other sponsors to make a small step towards progress by providing several $10K and $5K cash grants to Black women or nonbinary entrepreneurs.

WOMEN OF COLOR GRANT PROGRAM

• Business must be at least 51% woman of color-owned
• For-profit business
• One to five years in business preferred
• Formed under United States law and operating in the United States
• Revenue generating (Minimum annual revenue of $100,000 strongly preferred)

 Women Who Tech

GrantHelping to close the funding gap by backing women-led FemTech and HealthTech startups globally that are driving the future of healthcare.

STACY’S RISE PROJECT

Since 2017, Stacy’s has provided funding, resources, and mentorship to thousands of women entrepreneurs, including entrepreneurs of color. Together with Hello Alice, a company that helps small businesses thrive, and Hello Sunshine, a media company founded by Reese Witherspoon, Stacy’s is currently offering $15,000 in business grants to women founders in the packaged food and beverage space.

In addition to a cash prize, each winner will receive mentorship from a PepsiCo executive, visibility on Stacy’s platform and those of its partners, and access to a peer network with other women entrepreneurs. To be eligible, you must:

• Identify as a woman entrepreneur or a woman entrepreneur of color.
• Be the leading executive (founder or co-founder) of the business.
• Operate a for-profit, U.S.-based business selling consumer packaged goods.
• Must have $25,000 to $1 million in annualized sales.
• Must be at least 50% woman-founded or currently 50% woman-owned.

THE POWER FORWARD SMALL BUSINESS GRANT

The Power Forward Small Business Grant is a combined commitment of $1 million from Vistaprint, the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation, and NAACP. The $25,000 grants are awarded on a rolling basis to Black-owned small businesses across New England. Recipients will have opportunities to be featured on national co-branded platforms and receive marketing and design resources customized to their specific needs.

To qualify, you must be a Black-owned business with a maximum of 25 employees and be based and operating in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, or select areas of Connecticut.

ENRICHHER SMALL BUSINESS GRANT

EnrichHER provides grants of $5,000 to entrepreneurs who are women or people of color. The company itself is a Black woman-owned FinTech lender, and has so far given out $14 million in capital to minority-owned businesses from 47 U.S. states. The cash can be used for anything from rebranding your company to developing a new product or service.

GALAXY OF STARS GRANT

Galaxy of Stars is a community for minority and women entrepreneurs. It’s a great source of networking opportunities, and it gives business owners a space to support one another in reaching their business goals. The organization’s $2,750 Galaxy Grant is open to ethnic minorities and women who currently own their business or plan to start one. As a testament to the Galaxy of Stars’s emphasis on mutual support, they have an added perk for referrals: if you refer a friend to the grant and they win, the grant amount is doubled, and both applicants get a cash prize.

Business Expertise

 AARP Skills Builder – Women in Business Training

Educational Training CoursesThe courses in this category are designed to uncover the various challenges that evidence suggests women in business are likely to face that are different (in kind or in scale) than those faced by men in business. These courses will seek to prepare learners to either start a career or to advance a career, by naming some of the systematic obstacles they might face, such as explicit discrimination, implicit bias, glass ceilings, assumptions about familial responsibilities, and share strategies for addressing those challenges. Association of Women's Business Centers

Support OrganizationThe AWBC works to secure economic justice and entrepreneurial opportunities for women by supporting and sustaining a national network of more than 100 Women’s Business Centers (WBC). WBCs help women succeed in business by providing training, mentoring, business development, and financing opportunities to over 150,000 women entrepreneurs each year. Black Girl Ventures

TrainingOur mission is to provide Black/Brown woman-identifying founders with access to community, capital, and capacity building in order to meet business milestones that lead to economic advancement through entrepreneurship. Center for Women & Enterprise (CWE)

Support OrganizationThe Center for Women & Enterprise is a nationally known nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people start and grow their businesses. CWE has worked with more than 46,000 Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Vermont entrepreneurs since 1995. CWE also operates the Veterans Business Outreach Center of New England (VBOC of NE) that focuses on assisting veterans, active duty service members and their families with starting and growing their business. Ladies Who Launch

Support OrganizationAs a 501(c)(3), our mission is to empower a global community of early-stage women entrepreneurs by providing resources, grants, mentorship, and networking opportunities. Moms As Entrepreneurs (MAE)

Support OrganizationMoms As Entrepreneurs exist to provide support, resources, and formal training in entrepreneurship to help bridge the gap of chronic poverty, reduce crime, and grow the economy all through mothers starting sustainable businesses. National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO)

Support OrganizationNAWBO is the only dues-based organization representing the interests of all women entrepreneurs across all industries; with chapters across the country. With far-reaching clout and impact, NAWBO is a one-stop resource which propels women business owners into greater economic, social and political spheres of power worldwide. National Association of Women in Construction

Support OrganizationWith more than 115 chapters across the country, the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) offers its members education, support and networking to help advance their careers in construction, build their technical skills, and become leaders. National Association of Women in Real Estate Businesses (NAWRB)

Support OrganizationNAWRB is a leading voice for women in the housing ecosystem. With the assistance of our Women’s Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Council (NDILC), NAWRB is advocating for women’s gender equality, raising the utilization of women-owned businesses and providing women the tools and opportunities for economic expansion and growth. By increasing women’s homeownership, we can leverage the entrepreneurial strength of women and help bring the awareness of women’s poverty. National Women’s Business Council

Advocacy OrganizationThe National Women’s Business Council is a non-partisan federal advisory council serving as an independent source of advice and counsel to the President, Congress, and the U.S. Small Business Administration. The Council is the government’s only independent voice for women entrepreneurs, tackling important and relevant economic issues. New Voices Fund

TrainingStarted in 2018, New Voices Foundation is delivering on its promise to help women of color business owners build, grow and scale their businesses and create a more inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem.  We provide them with unprecedented access, capital, and expertise via Pitch Competitions; Mobile Accelerators; Coaching and Mentorship for pitch winners and others in the New Voices community; Online Learning and Skills Development Opportunities; and Ongoing Communications Outreach via social media, newsletters and other channels. One Million Black Women: Closing the Wealth Gap

PhilanthropyOne Million Black Women: Closing the Wealth Gap is a Goldman Sachs initiative investing $10 billion in direct capital and $10 billion in philanthropic support over the next decade to help narrow opportunity gaps facing Black women. Grounded in research, the initiative forges partnerships with Black women–led organizations and other groups to address the disproportionate gender and racial biases that Black women have faced for generations and that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. SBA's Office of Women's Business Ownership

GovernmentThe Office of Women’s Business Ownership mission is to enable and empower women entrepreneurs through advocacy, outreach, education and support. Through the management and technical assistance provided by the WBCs, entrepreneurs, especially women who are economically or socially disadvantaged, are offered comprehensive training and counseling on a vast array of topics in many languages to help them start and grow their own businesses. Tory Burch Foundation - Fellows Program

TrainingThe yearlong Fellows Program for women entrepreneurs helps founders of early-stage companies grow and scale, through workshops with expert instructors, a rich peer-to-peer network, a business education grant and access to capital U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce (USWCC)

Support OrganizationThe U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce gives voice to the collective strength of women in the U.S. economy. Using a platform of influence, innovation, and opportunity, we work with and for our members to grow successful businesses and careers. U.S.A Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative

Support OrganizationU.S.A Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative is a no-cost, 5-month, practical, business management program for female business owners looking to grow successful, resilient, and scalable businesses. Learn more and apply before the deadline on April 16, 2022, at 9 a.m ET. Veteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (V-WISE)

Paid TrainingVeteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (V-WISE) is a premier training program in entrepreneurship and small business management. V-WISE helps women veterans and female military spouses/partners find their passion and learn the business savvy skills necessary to turn an idea or start-up into a growing venture. Veteran Women's Enterprise Center (VWEC)

Support OrganizationVWEC's mission is to empower Entrepreneur Women Associated with the Military (EWAM) inclusive of veterans, active duty, reservists and military spouses scale for success, we establish strategic alliances, leverage public/private-sector opportunities, advocate for relevant research, services and funding, while simultaneously providing on-site the personal and professional resources they need to succeed! Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP)

Support OrganizationWIPP is a national nonpartisan organization advocating on behalf of women entrepreneurs—strengthening their impact on our nation’s public policy, creating economic opportunities, and forging alliances with other business organizations. Women's Business Centers

GovernmentWomen's Business Centers (WBCs) are a part a national network of entrepreneurship centers throughout the United States and its territories, which are designed to assist women in starting and growing small businesses. WBCs seek to "level the playing field" for women entrepreneurs, who still face unique obstacles in the business world. Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC)

Support OrganizationThe Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) is a leading non-profit organization dedicated to helping women-owned businesses thrive. Women's Entrepreneurship Symposium (USPTO)

Government SupportThe annual Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium (WES) offers attendees a chance to learn about innovation and business from public and private sector experts. Women's Presidents' Organization (WPO)

Support OrganizationThe WPO is a dynamic and diverse collective of women business leaders around the world who share insight in groups facilitated to drive game-changing experiences. Where you can validate everything that’s gotten you this far and cultivate new strategies that’ll take you even farther.