📣 The Sephora Beauty Grant
Deadline: December 18, 2023
The Sephora Beauty Grant aims to help spur growth for a Black entrepreneur in this industry where they’ve been historically underrepresented. To qualify, the business must be operational for at least two years and have annual revenue of at least $100,000.
Enter for your chance to win $100,000 to grow your beauty business!
Who can apply?
Black-owned businesses that sell products to consumers for their own use or enjoyment in the beauty category. This includes beauty, haircare, makeup / makeup tools, skincare, fragrance, bath & body. This does not include service businesses (e.g., hair salons).
Must sell a product in at least one of the following categories: Beauty, Haircare, Makeup / Makeup tools, Skincare, Fragrance, Bath & Body, Must be in business for at least 2 years. As part of this grant, the Pledge team will help facilitate a bridge between the grantee and the Sephora team, continuing our mission to create an ecosystem where Black businesses and retailers can be connected.
📣 Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Grant
Deadline: January 1, 2024
Small businesses like yours are awarded $10,000 grants throughout the year. Small businesses are the backbones of our communities. Through programs like Small Business Digital Ready, Verizon is committed to providing them with the tools, resources and funding they need to dream big.
📣 Apply today for the $25,000 Amber Grant
Deadline: Monthly
Whether you’re starting or growing a business, WomensNet can help.
How the Amber Grant Works
Apply right now by telling us your story. No lengthy, complicated forms.
Our Judges pick two $10,000 Amber Grant winners each month.
Two of our 24 monthly winners will be awarded our $25,000 Amber Grant at the end of the year.
For more information on this funding opportunity, please visit: Amber Grant
Deadline: Varies
This festive month we’re joyful for 10 new challenges on Challenge.Gov from five agencies. These challenges have a total prize purse of more than $6.2M and one challenge promising an exhilarating non-monetary prize. Challenge.Gov is the federal government’s hub for prize competitions & challenges across the U.S.
For more information on this opportunity, please visit: Challenges
📣 Walmart Local Community Grants
Deadline: November 1 – December 31
Walmart's local community grants are awarded through an open application process and provide funding directly from Walmart and Sam’s Club facilities to local organizations in the U.S. Don’t know how to determine your local facility? Don’t worry, the application will assist you.
Guidelines
Local Community grants range from a minimum of $250 to a maximum of $5,000.
Eligible nonprofit organizations must operate on the local level (or be an affiliate/chapter of a larger organization that operates locally) and directly benefit the service area of the facility from which they are requesting funding.
Applications may be submitted at any time during each quarter funding cycle. All applications will be reviewed prior to the next funding cycle.
Organizations may only submit a total number of 25 applications and/or receive up to 25 grants within the 2023 grant cycle.
All organizations applying for a Local Community grant must be CyberGrants FrontDoor verified prior to applying.
For more information on this funding opportunity, please visit: Local Community Grants
📣 The NEA Big Read Grant
Deadline: January 24, 2024
The National Endowment for the Arts Big Read is a program that awards grants ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 to organizations. These grants support community reading programs designed around a single NEA Big Read book. The goal of this program is to inspire meaningful conversations, celebrate local creativity, elevate a wide variety of voices and perspectives, and build stronger connections in each community.
New this year! Explore a theme
Programming for the 2024-2025 grant cycle will center around the theme WHERE WE LIVE. Using a book selection as inspiration, applicants will choose one or more aspects of this theme as it relates to their own communities. For example, a community may explore its physical environment, people, industry and culture, history, and/or imagine an alternate reality.
📣 Mid-America Arts Alliance
Deadline: January 17, 2024
The Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA), in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), invites applications for the Creative Forces Community Engagement Grant program.
Connecting military communities through the arts
The program aims to improve the health, well-being, and quality of life for military service members and veterans exposed to trauma and their families and caregivers through experiences of art or art making. Approximately 30 matching grants ranging from $10,000 to $50,000 will be awarded. Grants support non-clinical arts engagement programs in healthcare, community, or virtual settings. The grants are awarded in two tiers, emerging and advanced, which reflect the capacity of the project at the time of the application.
Successful applicants have included:
Arts nonprofits with a mission that focuses on serving military communities
Performing arts nonprofits (theaters, dance companies, musical groups) looking to expand their mission to include programming for military communities
Military and veteran-serving nonprofits expanding their services to include the arts
Municipal and regional arts centers expanding and designing course offerings for military communities
Community radio stations
Universities that include community engagement in their arts, health, and military programming
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