Visa Everywhere Intiative

August 23, 2022Posted inStart Up
For startups. Visa Everywhere Initiative is an open innovation program that helps startups like yours unlock new opportunities—and gives you a global platform to demonstrate your ground-breaking solutions. The program first launched in the U.S. in 2015, and quickly expanded into a global program. To date, nearly 8,500 startups have participated, and have collectively raised more than $16 billion in funding. The first step towards getting your startup worldwide attention is to join the Visa Everywhere Initiative network—the same network of startups that our product teams from all over the world access when searching for solutions. Visa will select the…

Fundera Zach Grant

August 15, 2022Posted inGeneral/Foundation Grants
The Zach Grant is offered through Fundera, a company that helps small businesses obtain the funding that they need. Their mission is to help small companies face financial challenges to be able to grow their business. The company has helped over 10,000 small businesses through their regular practices, as a non-bank alternative lender for small businesses and entrepreneurs. The company was founded when Zach, who owned a thriving restaurant couldn’t get a loan from the bank in order to add another location. Fundera hosts a small business grant that gives out $2,500 every year to entrepreneurs looking to start or…

Amazon Products For Tomorrow Grants

August 12, 2022Posted inGeneral/Foundation Grants, Start Up
Amazon is offering a new grant program to support sustainable small businesses. Recipients will get $20,000 and access to Amazon Launchpad, a platform designed to increase visibility and sales on Amazon. Amazon Products for Tomorrow Grants The Products for Tomorrow Awards are open to U.S. small businesses that sell a physical product. To qualify, products must be innovative, desirable, and sustainable. Judges will take look at the following criteria when selecting winners: Performance: how effective the product is at solving a problem for customersInnovation: the ability to fill a need in an interesting way, or in a way that hasn’t been done beforeNeed: filling…

PayPal Venmo Small Business Grant Program

August 3, 2022Posted inGeneral/Foundation Grants
A $10k grant to boost your businessPublic promotion on the Venmo and PayPal websites and social profilesBusiness resources and professional consulting services Paypal is on a mission to help small business owners with big plans. That’s why they've created the Venmo Small Business Grant. They’ll be giving 20 business profile users $10k in funding each, plus mentorship and access to resources to help their businesses grow. Special consideration will be given to business owners from historically underrepresented communities, many of whom may face additional barriers to growth. Paypal believes that small businesses are the backbone of our economy. They also…

Dream Big Awards

July 11, 2022Posted inGeneral/Foundation Grants, Government Grant
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is proud to recognize the very best in American small business. Every year at The Big Week for Small Business, the Dream Big Awards program honors the achievements of small businesses and highlights their contributions to America’s economic growth. The Small Business of the Year award winner will receive national recognition and a $25,000 cash prize! Official Rules of the Dream Big Awards Eligibility for Application: To be eligible to apply for the Dream Big Awards, an applicant must: Be a legal resident of the continental United States.Be a for-profit business operating for at least…

Wells Fargo Community Grant

July 7, 2022Posted inIndustry-Specific Grants
Wells Fargo and the Wells Fargo Foundation collaborate with a wide range of national and local nonprofit organizations that align with their strategic funding priorities: financial health, housing affordability, small business growth, and sustainability and environmental justice to address these complex societal issues and help create a more inclusive, sustainable future. In alignment with their updated strategy, Wells Fargo has implemented an invitation process.  Please refer to their grant eligibility requirements below for more information. Grant eligibility To receive funding for any type of grant, organizations must: Have tax exempt status under IRS code 501(c)(3), or be a qualified governmental agency, tribal…

Legal Zoom Fast Break For Small Business

June 28, 2022Posted inGeneral/Foundation Grants
Together with the NBA, WNBA, and NBA G League, this program supports small businesses with $6 million in grants and services. When applications reopen, they'll be accepting them from small business owners across the country for $10,000 grants and free LegalZoom services.* Applications will reopen during the 2022-23 NBA season. Their community partner, Accion Opportunity Fund, will be managing the application process for Fast Break for Small Business. If you applied for a grant by May 27, 2022, you'll hear back from them by early July 2022.

Operation Hope

June 20, 2022Posted inMinority/Women Owned
HOW THE PROGRAM WORKS: Operation HOPE’s team of dedicated Small Business Coaches are here to help you identify and address the issues you may face in starting or growing your business and can assist you in developing a plan to help you achieve your business goals.   Our dedicated team of coaches can help entrepreneurs and new or existing small business owners identify their key needs and then provide the education, coaching and connections needed to improve their businesses.  By offering small business group education sessions, small group coaching, and individual/personalized coaching, we can help you master business basics, create and maintain…

Jennifer Easton Community Spirit Awards

June 14, 2022Posted inMinority/Women Owned
Each year, First Peoples Fund honors and celebrates exceptional Native artists and culture bearers across the country through the Jennifer Easton Community Spirit Awards. These artists embody their People's cultural assets in their creations and their way of life. The Jennifer Easton Community Spirit Award recognizes artists who: Demonstrate an artistic practice that passes on the traditions and the lifeways of the people.Show a commitment to building the strength of Native communities by sharing their skills and talents with others in their respective communities;Are deeply rooted and maintain direct ties to their tribal community.  Bringing spirit to the community is…

Barstool Fund

June 9, 2022Posted inGeneral/Foundation Grants, Industry-Specific Grants
The Barstool Fund is a non-profit 30-day monetary fund to help small businesses such as bars, restaurants and dry cleaners, survive shutdown orders caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was launched in December of 2020 by Dave Portnoy, internet celebrity and founder of the sports and pop culture blog Barstool Sports. Portnoy contributed $500,000 of his own money to get the fund started. He has since raised more than $41 million to help over 420 local businesses survive Government-enforced restrictions. Among the 260,000 other contributors to the fund are many successful business people as well as celebrities. One of the…