Your Weekly Wicked Good Funding Opportunities

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This week’s Wicked Good funding opportunities have appeared*.  
New opportunities w/o a deadline: here*
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Grants due this week & new opportunities

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• Slauson Friends & Family Accelerator program

• Baltipreneurs Accelerator

• Black Farmers Equity Initiative Program: Acres Program

• National Grid New England Grants

• Sparkplug Foundation Social Action Grant

• NKY Small BUsiness Grant

• NextFab Ventures

• Elle Marketing Grow Your Small Business Grant

• Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA)

• Common Future Accelerator 2024

Newly Added Opportunities:

• Slauson Friends & Family Accelerator program - 12 week program: virtual weekly sessions with an in-person program kickoff in Los Angeles. Opportunities to learn from and network with industry titans, investors, operators, and founders across different stages.

• Baltipreneurs Accelerator - This year’s Baltipreneurs Accelerator will provide a minimum of $40,000 in total funding for 8 ventures in the Baltimore community, including Loyola students, faculty, and staff. Eligible models include both startup businesses and innovative social ventures. Selected teams will join the Accelerator to receive training and technical assistance, mentorship, networking opportunities, and access to capital, ending with a Demo Day showcase in early spring.

• Black Farmers Equity Initiative Program: Acres Program - Program participants complete a 12-week learning curriculum focused on growing their capacity to take on major national contracts with corporate members.

• 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

• Sparkplug Foundation Social Action Grant - The Sparkplug Foundation is offering up to $10,000 grant for nonprofit organizations based in the US that are working on projects that address institutional injustices, and build a just society. This include projects focused to, educate or support communities, make systemic change and/or shift power to create justice, bring music to communities.

• 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.

  NextFab Ventures - Helping hardware entrepreneurs jump-start their business by providing them with hands-on technical and business consulting

• Funds up to $100k for 6% equity

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

• Elle Marketing Grow Your Small Business Grant - Must be a business based in the US and in business for 2 years or longer. You must have a website and at least one social media channel

• Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) - ERA Accelerator companies gain direct access to leading members of the New York City tech community through the ERA mentor network and are also given access to the right investors, sales prospects and partners. They accept companies from anywhere in the world that are able to take full advantage of the NYC opportunity as a starting point to successfully enter the market for their product, service or application

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

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Rose & Priya