Pathway to Opportunity
Purpose: A competition designed to connect small businesses with corporations seeking to expand their supply chain with innovative products and services.
Process:
- Phase I: (Deadline to Apply – June 9, 2025, COB)
- Open to small businesses across the United States.
- Interested companies will complete an application and submit their capability statement and a three-minute video about their company.
- Submissions will be reviewed by a panel of judges from the corporate procurement community.
- Thirty companies will be selected to proceed to Phase II.
See link in bio for Phase II
Deadline: June 9, 2025
HerRise Micro Grant
Purpose: The HerRise Micro-Grant provides financial assistance, with the help of our corporate sponsors and donors, to women of color creating innovative solutions that impact their community and that are often unable to secure funding for their small business.
Eligibility:
- Women-owned business
- Businesses currently registered in the US
- Non-profits, franchise, direct seller, authorized reseller or independent consultant not eligible
Deadline: Rolling
Amount: $500
Military Entrepreneur Challenge
Eligibility:
- You have a Black-owned business
- You are 18+ years of age
- Your store has 20 or fewer employees
- Your store is a brick-and-mortar shop within the United States
- Your store earns an average annual revenue under $1M
- If selected for the program, you must join Wish Local
Deadline: Rolling
Amount: Up to $15,000
Restaurant Disaster Relief Fund
Eligibility:
- Be a restaurant located and registered in one of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, or Puerto Rico.
- Be a restaurant, gastropub or bakery with a brick & mortar location that has experienced a loss in revenue as a direct result of a natural disaster, severe weather event, or major infrastructure failure which occurred within the last 12 months declared a disaster by state, tribal, or federal government.
- Operate a brick-and-mortar location.
- Own a maximum of three locations, and employ fewer than 50 employees per location.
- Have been open for at least six months.
- Have revenues of $3M or less per location in the last 12 months.
Amount: $10,000
Deadline: Rolling
The Black & Brown Podcast Collective
Opportunities:
- Podcast Education Grant
- Black Women, the Experience Grant
- Podcasters of Color Seed Grant
- Content Creator Music Grant
Amount: Varies
Deadline: Rolling
