Your Weekly Wicked Good Funding Opportunities

Good news! This week’s Wicked Good funding opportunities have appeared. This list is exclusive for our subscribers and members.

Not all of our opportunities have deadlines so you can see a list of the new opportunities we added this week here.

Grants due this week include :

• Artists Respond Grant

• Sherman - RISE in Sherman grant

• Small Business Growth Fund (Hello Alice, Etsy and Progressive)

• Black Farmers Equity Initiative Program: Acres Program

• NextFab Ventures

• Elle Marketing Grow Your Small Business Grant

• Baltipreneurs Accelerator

• NKY Small BUsiness Grant

• National Grid New England Grants

Newly Added Opportunities:

• NKY Small BUsiness Grant - Funds will be awarded to small businesses with 50 employees or less that are Duke Energy customers in Boone, Campbell, and Kenton counties. Funds may be used for a broad array of expenditures including, but not limited to, physical space adaptability and beautification, technology improvements, talent sourcing, job posting fees, and/or professional development training costs. Ineligible expenses include payroll, incentive pay, rent and utilities.

• Black Girl Ventures (BGV) Pitch Program - If you're a Black/Brown woman-identifying founder in business for at least a year you can apply

• Texas Women for the Arts Grant - Eligible organizations include nonprofits with 501(c)3 status, governmental agencies, and religious institutions. To be eligible for consideration, the program for which applicants are seeking funding must reflect the mission of TWA: To awaken and nurture the artist in every Texas child.

• National Grid New England Grants - Must be Black, Latino, Asian, Women, LGBTQ+ or business owner with at least $100,000 in 2022 annual revenues and not more than $1,000,000. Business must be based in Massachusetts

• Choi’s Kimchi and Portland Farmers Market - Choi’s Kimchi and Portland Farmers Market will offer grant awards of up to $1,500 to support new food and farm business entries to Portland area farmers markets.

• Merchant Maverick Grant for Native American Businesses - Any business that is majority-owned by an official member of an American Indian or Alaskan Native group and operates on US soil is eligible to apply for one of the Merchant Maverick Opportunity Grants. The business itself does not need to be physically located on tribal land to be eligible

• Stacy's Rise Project Grant - For women entrepreneurs - must be a for-profit U.S.-based business selling a consumer packaged good - must have at least $25,000 and no more than $1M in annualized sales.

• Common Future Accelerator 2024 - Must be BIPOC or non-binary led organization based in the US. Accelerator includes mentorship and funding

• Google for Startups Accelerator - Google for Startups Accelerator. “Geared toward social impact startups working to create a healthier and more sustainable future, the accelerator provides access to training, products and technical support. Startup founders will work with Google engineers and receive mentoring from over 20 teams at Google, as well as outside experts and local mentors.”

• AT&T Aspire Accelerator - AT&T Aspire Accelerator provides a $100,000 investment plus $25,000 program costs to founders working on redefining student outcomes and preparing students for success.

• Future Labs Flash Pitch - Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For pre-seed and seed companies based in the US and Israel with a focus on AI for social impact.”

• Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship - Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship. “Since 2011, the Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship has supported the work of 36 innovators—representing the United States as well as 18 other countries on five continents—who address pressing global issues, from healthcare delivery to college persistence and sustainable construction in developing nations. From the beginning, the BHSI Fellowship has created meaningful, customized experiences for Fellows with connections to influential business and civic leaders, exposure to a broad audience as a speaker at Chicago Ideas, and over $3 million in financial support and in-kind contributions.”

• Maze X - Maze X is a “3-month pan-European program followed by 6 months of ongoing support. We offer 7.5K no-equity stipend + corporate pilot opportunities with our founders. “

• Intuit Prosperity Accelerator - Intuit Prosperity Accelerator selects startups to work for 4 months on specific challenge areas concerning consumers and small businesses post COVID-19. Participating startups receive access to a mentorship network, $20,000, and an investment opportunity.

• Bloomberg New Economy Forum Solutions - Bloomberg New Economy Forum Solutions. “Mike Bloomberg announces an open call for solutions to global challenges facing the new economy. Entrepreneurs, academics, founders, and big thinkers are invited to submit their solutions to societal problems that need momentum, support, and adoption from the private sector.”

• World Summit Awards - World Summit Awards for Young Innovators. “WSA Young Innovators is a special recognition for young social entrepreneurs under 30 years of age, using ICTs to take action on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Together with the WSA winners of each year, they are honored as outstanding digital innovation with social impact.”

• Google AI for Social Good - Google AI for Social Good. “Our 20 selected organizations will receive coaching from Google’s AI experts, Google.org grant funding from a $25 million pool, and credits and consulting from Google Cloud. They will also be offered the opportunity to join a customized 6-month Google Developers Launchpad Accelerator program, including guidance from our nonprofit partner, DataKind, to jumpstart their work. We looked for projects across a range of social impact domains and levels of technical expertise, from organizations that are experienced in AI to those with an idea for how they could put their data to better use. “

• Kaplan Innovation Prize - J.M. Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The J.M.K. Innovation Prize seeks out innovators who are spearheading transformative early-stage projects in the fields of the environment, heritage conservation, and social justice. The J.M.K. Innovation Prize is open to non-profit and mission-driven for-profit organizations that are tackling America’s most pressing challenges through social innovation. In 2019, we will award up to ten Prizes, each including a cash award of $150,000 over three years, plus $25,000 for project expenses, for a total award of $175,000.

• Summit Fellows - Summit Fellows. “Through a series of invitation-only events, Summit fosters a global community of entrepreneurs, academics, athletes, artists, astronauts, authors, chefs, engineers, explorers, philanthropists, spiritual leaders, scientists, and beyond.”

• Mulago Foundation Rainer Arnhold Fellowship - Mulago Foundation Rainer Arnhold Fellowship. “The course brings Fellows and faculty together for an intensive week to work on design for maximum impact and scalability. Held in a retreat center on the coast in Bolinas, California, the course gives Fellows the rare opportunity to focus completely on their ideas and a systematic way to apply them.”

• Halcyon Incubator - Halcyon Incubator offers a residency program with free residency, a living stipend, workspace, mentorship, and support to early-stage social entrepreneurs who are looking to change the world.

• UNICEF Innovation Fund - UNICEF Innovation Fund provides up to $100,000 in funding and other support to open source solutions/technology startups that have the potential to improve the lives of children and benefit humanity. They are currently looking for companies using machine learning, artificial intelligence, blockchain, or extended reality, to tackle digital risks to children. Should make your solution open source for investment.

• YC120 - YC120 (part of Y Combinator). “We’d like to find more curious, creative people who are doing exciting work in emerging fields and give them an opportunity to start building their network.”

• Skild - Skild. “For the past 16 years, Skild has helped organizations design and run hundreds of innovation challenges and employee engagement programs…The biggest one is the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge: $350K annually in cash prizes to 14 companies.”

• William James Foundation Sustainable Business Plan Competition - William James Foundation Sustainable Business Plan Competition: The William James Foundation (WJF) seeks to identify, promote, and support entrepreneurs who have financially viable ways of integrating social and/or environmental sustainability into a for-profit business model. Entrants can be of any age or from anywhere in the world and the business must either not have started yet, or be in start-up phase. The cash and in-kind prizes as a whole are worth more than $125,000.

• Columbia Business School Tamer Fund for Social Ventures - Columbia Business School Tamer Fund for Social Ventures. Requires Columbia affiliation.

• SEIF Awards Tech - SEIF Awards Tech for Impact. The SEIF Awards target European impact entrepreneurs who develop or make innovative use of technologies to tackle social and/or environmental challenges and contribute to the UN Social Development Goalss. Each Award grants the winners CHF 10,000. Together with our partners UBS and PwC we provide finalists a unique opportunity to increase their international awareness, gain reputation and present themselves to a top-class jury.

• The PeaceTech Accelerator - Peacetech Accelerator. “The PeaceTech Accelerator provides the mentorship and training needed to scale both for and not-for-profit peacetech initiatives rapidly, securely, and cost-effectively. Startups are selected based on their ability to produce innovative technologies that manage, mitigate, predict, or prevent conflict and promote sustainable peace.”

• Three dot dash - Three dot dash. “Powers the most influential social entrepreneurs between the ages of 13 -19, who have found a solution or innovation to address a basic human need.”

• Ashoka - Ashoka is a foundation that engages in scouring for and choosing the leading social entrepreneurs across the globe, who it refers to as Ashoka Fellows.

• Echoing Green Fellowship - Echoing Green Fellowship is a two-year fellowship that provides social entrepreneurs tackling issues like climate change, poverty, and racial injustice with a stipend, leadership development, and other tools/resources. The stipend is in the form of a recoverable grant for for-profit organizations. Applicants must be targeting the US and be able to commit to a 40-hour workweek.

• The Recurse Center - Recurse Center. “The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for people who want to get better at programming.”

• DV Hacks, led by BCG Digital Ventures - DV Hacks, led by BCG Digital Ventures: “A 48-hour hackathon to improve how we live, work, collaborate, and learn.”

• Roddenberry Foundation Catalyst - Roddenberry Foundation Catalyst Fund. “The Catalyst Fund awards small grants for early-stage, innovative, and unconventional ideas that address serious global challenges.“

• The Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Fund for Entrepreneurial Studies - The Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Fund for Entrepreneurial Studies. “The Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Fund for Entrepreneurial Studies supports entrepreneurs attempting to build something that advances business and society in revolutionary ways. “

• TPESF Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program - TPESF Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program: “The Paul E. Singer Foundation is offering support for young professionals looking to develop intellectually-driven, public policy and community-focused projects. Ideas for books, podcasts, video series, investigative research, essays, educational campaigns, and creative proposals.”

• Aspen Tech Policy Hub - Aspen Tech Policy Hub. “Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs. The Aspen Tech Policy Hub is a West Coast policy incubator, training a new generation of tech policy entrepreneurs. We take tech experts, teach them the policy process through an in-residence fellowship program in the Bay Area, and encourage them to develop outside-the-box solutions to society’s problems. We model ourselves after tech incubators like Y Combinator, but train new policy thinkers and focus the impact of their ideas.

• MassChallenge - MassChallenge. “Selected startups are early-stage (<$1M in funding and <$2M in annual revenue) and participate in a four-month, industry-agnostic accelerator where they receive: Hands-on support from top mentors and experts, free co-working space, access to MassChallenge’s unrivalled network of corporate partners, tailored workshops and office hours and the opportunity to win a portion of more than $2M in cash prizes.” “Startups do not receive any upfront funding but do have the opportunity to compete for approximately $3 million in zero-equity cash awards at the end of the program. MassChallenge does offer a limited number of scholarships, provided by our sponsor organizations.”

• Thiel Fellowship - Thiel Fellowship. “Founded by technology entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel in 2011, the Thiel Fellowship is a two-year program for young people [under 22] who want to build new things. Thiel Fellows skip or stop out of college to receive a $100,000 grant and support from the Thiel Foundation’s network of founders, investors, and scientists.”

• The Skoll Foundation - Skoll Foundation. “The Skoll Foundation drives large-scale change by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs and innovators who help them solve the world’s most pressing problems.”

• The Omdena AI Incubator - Omdena. “The Omdena AI Incubator is the only AI development program in the world exclusively for early-stage impact startups. We believe the future lies with startups that are driven by solving real-world problems rather than just maximizing shareholder profits. Thus, we will help 50 startups in the next 12 months by giving instant access to our platform of more than 1,700 AI engineers.”

  The Kairos Fellowship - Kairos Fellows. “The Kairos Fellowship is designed to build the next generation of leaders in the field of technology, analytics, digital campaigning, and online organizing.”

• " The Buckminster Fuller Challenge - The Buckminster Fuller Competition: The Buckminster Fuller Challenge is an annual international design challenge awarding $100,000 to support the development and implementation of a strategy that has significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. Winning solutions are regionally specific yet globally applicable and present a truly comprehensive, anticipatory, integrated approach to solving the world’s complex problems.

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• Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship - Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship has accelerators that focus on helping social entrepreneurs and offers support programs and mentors. The accelerators look for social entrepreneurs from around the world to connect to Silicon Valley mentors to help find ways to eliminate poverty around the world.

• O’Shaughnessy Fellowships - O’Shaughnessy Fellowships. “One-year $100,000 program for ambitious people who want to build something great.”

• Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge - Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge looks to support business ideas and early-stage entrepreneurs that use technology for social impact worldwide. There is more than $1,000,000 in prize money to help accelerate these technology solutions.

  Robin Hood Fellowship - Robin Hood Fellowship aims to support high-impact startups to build products for low-income Americans over four months. The Fellowship is in search of Fellows from diverse backgrounds that have the skills to make a difference.

• The HSBC Future Skills Innovation Challenge - The HSBC Future Skills Innovation Challenge is an international competition for social entrepreneurs with winners receiving up to $25,000 in cash and support from HSBC and Ashoka to scale and raise additional funding.

• Notley Ventures - Notley Ventures. “Notley is a catalyst for social innovation unlocking opportunities with today’s impact organizations and changing communities. Our mission is to scale and support businesses, nonprofits, individuals, and programs making positive change in the world.”

• MIT Solve - MIT Solve initiative. “MIT Solve advances lasting solutions from tech entrepreneurs to address the world’s most pressing problems. Solve is a marketplace for social impact: we find tech entrepreneurs from around the world and broker partnerships across our community to scale their innovative work—driving lasting, transformational change.”

• Common Mission Project - Common Mission Project. Supporting mission-driven entrepreneurs, student teams, universities, and research centers, aiding in national security, climate, sustainability, and resiliency.

• Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation - Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation identifies entrepreneurs that display characteristics of “exceptional social leadership through discretion, influence, vision, ambition, intelligence, and follow-through.”

• 776 Fellows - 776 Fellows receive a $100,000 grant and support from the Seven Seven Six network of founders, investors, and partners. For people age 18-23 focused on climate change.

• Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Grant - 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.

• Visible Hands NYC Founder Fellowship - A 10-week Founder Fellowship for early-stage, underrepresented founders building high-growth, tech and tech-enabled businesses. Through this hybrid program, you can join an exceptional cohort of 15 overlooked founders based in New York City. You will receive $10,000 in non-dilutive funding upfront as part of the VHNYC Fellowship—with the potential for future investments from Visible Hands.

• Redmond Small Business Resiliency Grants - This program will provide a $5,000 grant to 100 small businesses with physical locations in the City of Redmond and no more than 10 employees. These resiliency grants will be awarded though a lottery system performed by an external organization.

• Idaho National Laboratory Community Grants - Idaho National Laboratory, on behalf of corporate funding provided by Battelle Energy Alliance, supports philanthropic projects from nonprofit agencies that focus on health and human services, environment and sustainability, veteran and civic activities, and culture and the arts. applications will be evaluated based on the community impacts and service area. Submitting organizations must be 501(c)(3) nonprofits

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