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Ford Driving Dreams: The Ford Driving Dreams Latina Entrepreneurs is a unique new initiative that provides access to capital, educational resources, networking opportunities, and other business development tools for Latina entrepreneurs.
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Silicon Valley: The Hispanic Satellite SBDC provides you with advising, practical tools, and access to sources of capital to foster your business growth and success.
WePower: The Elevate/Elevar Accelerator is a 6-month entrepreneurship development program for Black & Latinx entrepreneurs with its curriculum, connections, community, and access to capital through grants.
USDA Rural Development: Rural Business Development Grants is designed to provide technical assistance and training for small rural businesses.
Lightning Rounds: Lightning Rounds connects startup founders (identify as Black or Brown) with investors via quarterly quick-pitch opportunities.

Funding

Global Giving: GlobalGiving awarded grants of $5,000 each to female entrepreneurs in the U.S. to help alleviate the impact of the crisis.
Digital Undivided: The Do You Fellowship Program will award 10 promising Black and Latinx women innovators with a $5,000 investment in their business and access to unparalleled resources and mentorship necessary to develop their businesses.
SoGal: SoGal Foundation has teamed up with Winky Lux, Bluemercury, twelveNYC, and other sponsors to make a small step towards progress by providing several $10K and $5K cash grants to Black women or nonbinary entrepreneurs.
Shea Moisture Fund: The $1Million Fund is a grant that intends to show the power of small/black-owned businesses to help communities, while also hoping to minimize the financial disruptions that many are experiencing from the current global crisis.
Black Girl Ventures: Black Girl Ventures fund tech-enabled revenue-generating Black/Brown woman-identifying founders.
We Back Black Businesses: We Back Black Businesses provide immediate financial assistance and long-term support for America's Black-owned small businesses.
IFundWomen: IFundWomen is the go-to funding marketplace for women-owned businesses and the people who want to support them with access to capital, coaching, and connections.
National Black MBA Association: NBMBAA Scale-Up Pitch Challenge provides startups the unique opportunity to connect with early-stage investors and venture capitalists who are ready to invest.
Amber Grants for Women: WomensNet provides at least $10,000 every month in Amber Grant money for entrepreneur women.
Backstage Capital: Backstage Capital provides investment for companies led by underrepresented founders.
Harlem Capital: Harlem Capital is a venture capital firm on a mission to change the face of entrepreneurship by investing in 1,000 diverse founders over the next 20 years.
Founders First: Founders First fund service-based companies generating between $250K and $5M in annual revenues typically led by minority, military veterans, or woman founders.
Humble Ventures: Humble Ventures support and invest in diverse founders and organizations creating solutions for diverse audiences.
NAACP: NAACP has teamed up with the BeyGOOD to expand economic opportunity by awarding grants of $10,000 on the 15th of each month.
NAACP: NAACP, in partnership with Hello Alice, is working to provide a growing resource of money, networks, and opportunities for one of the fastest-growing groups of small business owners in America.
Lemon-AID Foundation: Lemon-AID Foundation, aimed at providing opportunities by investing in underserved communities and small businesses.
Accion: Accion is a nonprofit, community organization that provides fairly priced, flexible loans to a diverse group of entrepreneurs.
Association for Enterprise Opportunity: AEO and Paypal provides the PayPal Empowerment Grants for Black Businesses Program, which will award up to $10,000 to more than 1,000 black-owned businesses that have been impacted by COVID-19 and civil unrest.
Oakland Black Business Fund: Oakland Black Business Fund (OBBF) is a Black-led investment platform, providing capital, technical assistance, and growth strategy to Black-owned businesses.
FundBlackFounders: FundBlackFounders rewards crowdfunding for Black entrepreneurs.
The Mansa Fund: The Mansa Fund makes micro-investments in Black & Latinx small businesses.
FedEx: The FedEx Small Business Grant Contest is a grant program by FedEx to award U.S.-based small businesses with grants to help them grow and scale their business.
Rebuild the Block: RTB is an organization that serves as a community liaison that bridges black business owners within our communities with reputable resources to infiltrate generational wealth and capital in the black community.
Tory Burch Foundation: The Tory Burch Foundation Capital Program powered by Bank of America provides women entrepreneurs in the United States the opportunity to access affordable loans through Community Lenders.
Camino Financial: Camino Financial offers support for small business owners to get a business relief SBA loan.
Prospera: Prospera assists small business owners in the process of obtaining traditional and micro-loans.
Latino Community Foundation: The Latino Entrepreneurship Fund invests in the immense potential of Latino entrepreneurs to advance the economic mobility of our entire community.
Wells Fargo: Open for Business Fund provides capital, technical support, and long-term resiliency programs to diverse small businesses, with a focus on Black, African American, Latino, Asian American, American Indian, and Alaska Native entrepreneurs.
Kapor Capital: Kapor Capital invests in tech-driven early-stage companies committed to closing gaps of access, opportunity, or outcome for low-income communities and/or communities of color in the United States.
Astia: Astia invests in high-growth companies with women leaders, following their successful completion of the Expert Sift process.
Chamber in New Braunfels: HBA launched Small Business Grants program to provide a small cash injection to Hispanic-owned businesses who have an immediate need or a specific project they are trying to fund.
Latino Economic Development Center: LEDC provides alternative microloan options to start-ups and existing businesses that have difficulty obtaining credit from mainstream financial institutions.
Latino Community Fund Georgia: LCF Seed Capital for Micro-Entrepreneurs allows Latinx micro-entrepreneurs to pay for incorporation and to purchase basic materials and equipment so they can start a commercial activity and over time, build credit and access other financial instruments such as CDFI's loans.
Economic Justice Fund: The versatile Economic Justice Small Business Loan is designed to help underserved entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses.
Haley Hoffman Smith: Haley Hoffman Smith awarded grants for female identifying business founders of all ages and backgrounds.
The Doonie Fund: The Doonie Fund makes micro-investments in Black women entrepreneurs.
Asian Women Giving Circle: Asian Women Giving Circle fund projects led by Asian American women artists and community groups.
Center for Asian American Media: CAAM provides funding and support for provocative and timely Asian American film and media projects from independent producers.
Asian American Business Development Center: AABDC along with 100 Black Men and the Hispanic Federation, as partners in Hennessy's Unfinished Business, will dispense grants to Asian American, African American, and Hispanic small businesses that apply for and qualify for funding.
The GSBA: GSBA provides Small Business Relief through the grant for small business owners (priority will be given to small businesses within the communities most impacted by COVID-19, including LGBTQ-, BIPOC-, and women-owned businesses).
Amplify Her Ventures: Amplifyher is a Venture Capital firm that invests in visionary founders with women in decision-making roles.
Female Founded Club: Female Founded Club is an organization where female founders can connect with top investors who are actively looking to fund the best female-founded startups.
BBG Ventures: BBG Ventures is an early-stage fund focused on consumer tech startups with a female founder.
Female Founders Fund: Female Founders Fund invests in women building category-defining businesses.
Golden Seeds: Golden Seeds gives investments for women-led businesses.
Jumpstart: Jumpstart Focus Fund invests seed capital in tech-based companies led by female entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs of color throughout Ohio.
Merian Ventures: Merian Ventures invest in women-founded and co-founded innovation in cyber, blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and consumer-facing companies.
Project Entrepreneur: The Project Entrepreneur Investment Readiness Program accelerates the growth of female-founded companies by broadening investment acumen, building bridges to capital, and investing in ecosystems that advance founders' growth and empower our most innovative entrepreneurs.
Prosper Women Entrepreneur: Prosper Women Entrepreneurs Startup Accelerator is a for-profit organization focused on increasing women entrepreneurs' access to growth capital and the number of women investing in early-stage capital markets.
GingerBread Capital: GingerBread Capital invests in the next generation of women founders and entrepreneurs leading high-growth businesses.
Portfolia: Portfolia provides investment funds for women, backing innovative companies for returns and impacts.
Rethink Impact: Rethink Impact is a venture capital firm investing in female leaders using technology to solve the world's biggest problems.
Women's Funding Network: The Women's Funding Network leads the creation of collaborative funds to deploy funding, resources, and support directly to members to expand organizational capacity and strengthen interconnectivity of the network's infrastructure.
Halogen Ventures: Halogen Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in consumer technology companies led by women.
The Jump Fund: The Jump Fund is an organization that provides women's capital, and provide access to capital for women entrepreneurs in the Southeast.
Broadway Angels: Broadway Angels invests in the best entrepreneurs and companies while showcasing the top women investors in venture capital and technology.
Angel Academe: Angel Academe invests in women-founded tech businesses.
Cartier's Women's Initiative: The Cartier Women's Initiative is an annual international entrepreneurship programme that aims to drive change by empowering women impact entrepreneurs.
MEDA San Francisco: The San Francisco Women's Entrepreneurship Fund is a joint project of MEDA in collaboration with the Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) of the Mayor's office that provides mini-grants of up to $5,000 to San Francisco women-owned small businesses for projects and upgrades that will have a transformative impact on the business's ability to grow.
AWE Funds: AWE Funds provides capital for women-owned, led, or influenced businesses.

Funding for Regional Businessowners

PowerUp Fund: The PowerUp Program will award over 500 eligible LatinX small businesses across California, Texas, and New York with a $5,000 grant paired with coaching support and resources.
Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation: The Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation is collaborating with the City of Fresno to provide $2,000,000 in grants to small businesses in disadvantaged/underserved neighborhoods impacted by COVID-19.