September 2024 Grant Round Up
🌟 It's September! As we step into the final stretch of the year, it's time to harness the momentum and secure the support your business deserves. Dive into our list and find the perfect opportunity.
GRANT TIP OF THE MONTH: Share Your Community Impact
When applying for grants, emphasize the broader impact your business has on the community. Grantors often look for projects that offer significant social benefits alongside business success. Detail how your services or products improve local communities, create jobs, or address specific community challenges.
TL;DR - Highlighting your business's positive community impact can strengthen your grant application.
Weekly Skip Grants —$1,000 | Sept 3, 10, 17, & 24
Must be a US-based entrepreneur 18 or over
Must watch live to win on Sep 3, 10, 17, & 24 at 3pm ET on Skip's YouTube
Must download the Skip App to see your entry number and PIN code. If your entry number is announced during the live, enter your PIN code during the live in the comments
Legal Zoom Fast Break for Small Business—$10,000 | Sept 13 (Deadline)
Accion Opportunity Fund, LegalZoom, the NBA, WNBA, and NBA G-League have joined forces to provide entrepreneurs across the country with grants and LegalZoom services to support their small businesses.
Administered by nonprofit Accion Opportunity Fund, the program aims to assist business owners with the tools and resources they need to start and grow their businesses – the perfect play.
BIPOC Women Film Production Grant—$10,000 | Sept 15 (Deadline)
BendFilm’s Grant will support a BIPOC women artist with $10,000 toward making their short or feature film. The grant supports storytellers who are working to tell creative and complex stories told from a point of view that is unique and authentic.
Filmmakers who have been underrepresented are less likely to have the funding support to produce their first films to jumpstart their careers. This grant breaks down the economic barrier to democratize the art form.
Heinz Black Kitchen Initiative—Up to $25,000 | Sept 15 (Deadline)
The Black Kitchen Initiative began in 2020, with the mission to celebrate and preserve the legacy of Black food. The Heinz Black Kitchen Initiative is back for Year 4 of empowering, supporting and pouring into Black-owned restaurants.
The program continues in partnership with The Lee Initiative and SRRJ Coalition to provide more than $1MM in grants and other business resources to Black food businesses in communities nationwide.
Female Founder World x VistaPrint Grant—$15,000 | Sept 17 (Deadline)
Female Founder World connects a rising generation of small business owners with the people and resources you need to build your dreams. Now, thanks to their partners at VistaPrint, they are offering a one-time $15,000 cash grant to one business in their ecosystem to help fuel growth PLUS marketing support from VistaPrint.
Playbook’s $100,000 Imagination Fund—$1,000-$10,000 | Sept 20 (Deadline)
Calling all designers, artists, photographers, and creatives... 🔉 Playbook's mission is simple: to help creative people be more creative. With the $100K Imagination Fund, they want to give back to the Playbook community by financing bold ideas you haven’t had the opportunity — or funding — to build yet. Here's how this program works:
Must be 18 and over
US or Canada based
PepsiCo Juntos Crecemos Grant Program—$10,000 | Sept 27 (Deadline)
In partnership with Hello Alice, PepsiCo’s Juntos Crecemos program is a component of PepsiCo’s broader $50 million comprehensive support for small businesses in the food and beverage industry over five years. Through PepsiCo’s Juntos Crecemos Grant Program, twenty (20) grants of $10,000 each will be awarded to small business owners in the food and beverage industry.
Grant recipients will also be awarded with acceptance into PepisCo’s Juntos Crecemos Program: Jefa-Owned Business Health Accelerator and Boost Camp, a digital community space which will be home to monthly business coaching workshops, mentorship, networking and more.
LISC x Foot Locker Foundation Community Empowerment Program—$25,000-$100,000 | Sept 30 (Deadline)
LISC and Foot Locker, Inc., through the Foot Locker Foundation, are launching a fourth round of grants for the Foot Locker Foundation Community Empowerment Program, which funds nonprofit community organizations offering a range of services for young people, including health and wellness, education and life skills, mentoring, and career development.
The program is part of Foot Locker Inc.’s Leading Education and Economic Development (LEED) initiative, a $200 million commitment to enhance the lives of their team members and the communities they serve. To check out the grantees from rounds one, two and three, click here.Â
In its fourth round, the Foot Locker Foundation Community Empowerment Program will provide grants ranging from $25,000 to $100,000 to organizations in 13 cities. The funding will help organizations create opportunities for youth to learn, grow and thrive.
2024 Gucci Changemakers Impact Fund—Up to $25,000 | Sept 30 (Deadline)
Gucci Changemakers North America is a social impact initiative established in March 2019 focused on increasing inclusion and diversity within the fashion industry and across communities and cities.
The Impact Fund will grant up to $1 million to 12 community-based 501(c)(3) organizations across the select Changemakers cities through 2024 based on program and community needs. The Fund will support community-based social impact areas using arts and culture to bring about positive change.
Galaxy Grant Giveaway—$4,250 | Sept 30 (Deadline)
Enter for a chance to win our new $4,250 Galaxy Grant, brought to you by Hidden Star, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with an 8-year track record.
Galaxy grants only takes 30 seconds to enter! Deadline to enter is September 30th, 2024 and the winner(s) will be announced the following week!
High Five Grant for Moms—$1,000 - $10,000 | Sept 30 (Deadline)
The Mama Ladder helps ambitious mom entrepreneurs grow their business and want to see more moms fit the $1 million revenue mark in their companies, and the #HighFiveGrant is to help you get there.
The Mama Ladder® connects women at the intersection of mamahood and entrepreneurship. Create your own ladder™. Climb after business dreams that fit your family.
Outta Excuses Small Business Empowerment Grant—$3,000 | Sept 30 (Deadline)
The Outta Excuses Small Business Empowerment Grant is designed to support small business owners by providing crucial financial assistance and strategic coaching.
This initiative aims to help entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses effectively. Apply to gain a community of like-minded entrepreneurs and gain valuable insights from peers and mentors.
Additional Benefits: Free weekly strategic coaching sessions for 30 days
NASE Growth Grant—$4,000 | Sept 30 (Deadline)
The NASE has already awarded more than $600,000 to NASE Members.
Grants can be used for marketing, advertising, hiring employees, expanding facilities and other specific business needs.
NOTE: To be eligible for an NASE grant, you must be an NASE Member in good standing.