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Latina Leaders in Tech: Essential Skills Cohort Program

Total Funding:
$0
Application Opens:
3/2/2025
Application Deadline:
5/25/2025
Fellowship

A free 7-week cohort program is designed for Latinas ready to develop skills, build community, and become a catalyst for change in the tech industry.

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June - Aug 2025
Location:
Remote
Under $10K
#LatinaGeeks
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Fellowship

CZI: Global Science Scholar

Total Funding:
Varies
Application Opens:
12/17/2024
Application Deadline:
5/27/2025
Fellowship

An up to two-year international postdoctoral fellowship program between the U.S. and Japan designed to advance excellence in bioengineering and biomedical research.

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Fall 2025 - Spring 2027
Location:
USA & Japan
$75K and above
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
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Stage 4
Education
Social Impact
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Fellowship

EdPioneers: Impact Fellowship

Total Funding:
$58,000
Application Opens:
3/4/2025
Application Deadline:
5/27/2025
Fellowship

Funding Period:
Funding Type:
Duration:
Sep 2025 - May 2026
Location:
In-Person, Varies
$50K - $74,999
Education Pioneers
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Stage 2
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Technology
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opportunity
Fellowship

Black Girl Ventures: Emerging Leaders Fellowship

Total Funding:
$5,000
Application Opens:
4/1/2025
Application Deadline:
5/30/2025
Fellowship

A 3-month leadership development program (with 2 cohorts in 2025) created specifically to expand the capacity of early-stage entrepreneurs and ecosystem builders, empowering them to strengthen their local ecosystem of under-resourced women-identifying entrepreneurs.

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July - September 2025
Location:
Austin, Chicago, or Los Angeles
BLACK GIRL VENTURES FOUNDATION
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Accelerator

StartOut Growth Accelerator

Total Funding:
$0
Application Opens:
5/1/2025
Application Deadline:
5/30/2025
Accelerator

StartOut Growth Lab is a startup accelerator that offers top quality mentoring, education, and networking opportunities for companies that happen to be founded or co-founded by LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs.

Funding Period:
Funding Type:
Duration:
TBD
Location:
Virtual
StartOut
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Education
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Boettcher Foundation: Community Connection Grant (Summer)

Total Funding:
$20,000 - $75,000
Application Opens:
5/1/2025
Application Deadline:
5/30/2025
Grant

These grants often help fund the construction of facilities with multi-use spaces, bring together nonprofit organizations and cross-sector partners in shared locations, or make strategic investments that elevate successful initiatives to the next level.

Funding Period:
Notified July 1
Funding Type:
Grant
Duration:
Location:
Colorado
Notified July 1
Grant
$50K - $74,999
Boettcher Foundation
Stage 4
Social Impact
Technology
past
opportunity
Grant

Boettcher Foundation: Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Awards Program

Total Funding:
$250,000
Application Opens:
1/1/2025
Application Deadline:
5/30/2025
Grant

We support scientific innovation in Colorado by providing biomedical research funding at the state’s leading research institutions and hospitals.

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Location:
Colorado
$75K and above
Boettcher Foundation
Stage 4
Social Impact
past
opportunity
Fellowship

Bridgespan: Leadership Accelerator - Strengthening the Executive Team

Total Funding:
$0
Application Opens:
4/15/2025
Application Deadline:
5/30/2025
Fellowship

Bridgespan’s Leadership Accelerator programs help your leadership team tackle the critical strategy and management challenges you face every day. Cost is $15,000 per team (3-6 leaders), self-paced, online with structured discussion and coaching.

Funding Period:
Funding Type:
Duration:
Six Months
Location:
Remote
Under $10K
The Bridgespan Group
Stage 3
Social Impact
past
opportunity
Fellowship

Bridgespan: Leadership Accelerator - Achieving Strategic Clarity

Total Funding:
$0
Application Opens:
4/15/2025
Application Deadline:
5/30/2025
Fellowship

Bridgespan’s Leadership Accelerator programs help your leadership team tackle the critical strategy and management challenges you face every day. Cost is $15,000 per team (3-6 leaders), self-paced, online with structured discussion and coaching.

Funding Period:
Funding Type:
Duration:
Six Months
Location:
Remote
Under $10K
The Bridgespan Group
Stage 3
Social Impact
past
opportunity
Fellowship

Bridgespan: Leadership Accelerator - Investing in Future Leaders

Total Funding:
$0
Application Opens:
4/15/2025
Application Deadline:
5/30/2025
Fellowship

Bridgespan’s Leadership Accelerator programs help your leadership team tackle the critical strategy and management challenges you face every day. Cost is $15,000 per team (3-6 leaders), self-paced, online with structured discussion and coaching.

Funding Period:
Funding Type:
Duration:
Six Months
Location:
Remote
Under $10K
The Bridgespan Group
Stage 3
Social Impact
past
opportunity
Fellowship

Bridgespan: Leadership Accelerator - Creating An Adaptive Plan

Total Funding:
$0
Application Opens:
4/15/2025
Application Deadline:
5/30/2025
Fellowship

Bridgespan’s Leadership Accelerator programs help your leadership team tackle the critical strategy and management challenges you face every day. Cost is $15,000 per team (3-6 leaders), self-paced, online with structured discussion and coaching.

Funding Period:
Funding Type:
Duration:
Six Months
Location:
Remote
Under $10K
The Bridgespan Group
Stage 3
Social Impact
Technology
past
opportunity
Accelerator

JHTV: I-Corps - Summer

Total Funding:
$0
Application Opens:
4/1/2025
Application Deadline:
5/30/2025
Accelerator

A free, 4-week program developed by the National Science Foundation for researchers, faculty, students, and community entrepreneurs. Participants will engage in customer discover research to inform how to take their innovation from idea to market.

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July - August 2025
Location:
Hybrid in Baltimore, MD
Under $10K
Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures
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The Promise Sandbox Award from Promise Venture Studio

Total Funding:
$20,000
Application Opened:
4/16/2025
Application Deadline:
5/21/2025
Grant

$20K for changemakers with firsthand insight into early childhood challenges

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Remote
$10K - $49,999
Promise Venture Studio
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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Fellowship 2026

Total Funding:
Travel and Curriculum Covered
Application Opened:
4/10/2025
Application Deadline:
5/15/2025
Fellowship

The Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Fellowship, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, is designed to empower the next generation of leaders. This year, we'll select 250 leaders.

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Fellowship
Location:
United States
Under $10K
IREX
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Accelerator

gener8tor Milwaukee Accelerator

Total Funding:
$100,000
Application Opened:
1/1/2025
Application Deadline:
5/11/2025
Accelerator

gener8tor invests $100k into your high-growth startup. Gain specific business knowledge via a nationally ranked system and a 12-week investment for-equity program.

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Duration:
July 31 - October 31, 2025
Location:
Milwaukee, WI
$75K and above
gener8tor
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Accelerator

gener8tor Cox Cleantech Accelerator Fall 2025

Total Funding:
$100,000
Application Opened:
1/1/2025
Application Deadline:
5/11/2025
Accelerator

gener8tor invests $100k into your high-growth startup. Gain specific business knowledge via a nationally ranked system and a 12-week investment for-equity program.

Funding Period:
Funding Type:
Duration:
July 31 - October 31, 2025
Location:
Hybrid
$75K and above
gener8tor
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Rally SEA Winter 2024 Cohort
Accelerator

Rally SEA Summer 2025 Cohort

Total Funding:
$0
Application Opened:
2/25/2025
Application Deadline:
5/9/2025
Accelerator

Rally’s 16-week accelerator helps early-stage entrepreneurs build ventures with measurable impact. Fellows receive mentorship, launch real-world pilots in Central Florida, and develop business and impact models—all at no cost. Open to global changemakers.

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Funding Type:
Duration:
Jul 2025 - Nov 2025
Location:
Hybrid
Under $10K
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Accelerator

Thriving Communities: Climate Resilience US (Village Capital)

Total Funding:
25,000
Application Opened:
4/22/2025
Application Deadline:
5/9/2025
Accelerator

Village Capital's Thriving Communities: Climate Resilience will support 10 place-based climate startups to drive a more sustainable economy and address gaps across the US.

Funding Period:
Funding Type:
Duration:
June 2025 - September 2025
Location:
Virtual, 1 in person workshop in Chicago
$10K - $49,999
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Social Impact
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Accelerator

The Rally Accelerator Program

Total Funding:
$0
Application Opened:
2/17/2025
Application Deadline:
5/9/2025
Accelerator

Rally's social enterprise 4-month, no-cost accelerator aims to help people transform their early-stage work into sustainable ventures that have positive and measurable social or environmental impact.

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Funding Type:
Duration:
Accelerator
Location:
Remote with an in-person Orlando summit
Under $10K
Rally SEA
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Grant

The Opportunity Trust: Reinvention by Community (St. Louis)

Total Funding:
Varies
Application Opened:
4/3/2025
Application Deadline:
5/3/2025
Grant

Historically, those most directly impacted by racial and education inequality have little to no voice. The RBC Fund was established to give grant-making power to members of our community.

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Location:
Missouri
$10K - $49,999
The Opportunity Trust
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National Center for Civil and Human Rights - Civil Rights Teaching Fellowship
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Dobbs Foundation: Summer 2025 Grant Cycle

Total Funding:
$50,000+
Application Opened:
4/4/2025
Application Deadline:
5/1/2025
Grant

The Dobbs Foundation is now accepting Letters of Inquiry (LOIs) for our Summer 2025 grantmaking cycle, with a streamlined process designed to meet the urgency of this moment.

Funding Period:
June 20th
Funding Type:
Unrestricted
Duration:
Location:
United States
June 20th
Unrestricted
$50K - $74,999
The R. Howard Dobbs, Jr. Foundation
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Fellowship

Blue Ridge Labs: Launch Fellowship

Total Funding:
$18,000 Stipend
Application Opened:
4/1/2025
Application Deadline:
5/1/2025
Fellowship

This 13-week program is designed to support early-stage tech founders who are committed to launching a venture-scale company.

Funding Period:
Funding Type:
Duration:
2025 - Details TBD
Location:
NYC for length of program
$10K - $49,999
Robin Hood
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Technology
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Fellowship

The Residency: HSR House (Generalist)

Total Funding:
$0
Application Opened:
1/1/2025
Application Deadline:
5/1/2025
Fellowship

the house invites successful founders as mentors every week to get feedback on work that builds their startup. we provide housing and co-working space so you can live and work with equally ambitious peers. you can think of us as “college” meets “accelerator”.

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Duration:
June - Sept 2025
Location:
Bangalore, India
Under $10K
The Residency
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Technology
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Fellowship

The Residency: V2 (Creative Tech)

Total Funding:
$0
Application Opened:
1/1/2025
Application Deadline:
5/1/2025
Fellowship

a collaborative space in vancouver that brings together the best of both worlds. we provide housing and co-working space so you can live and work with equally ambitious peers. you can think of us as “college” meets “accelerator”.

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Duration:
July - December 2025
Location:
Vancouver, Canada
Under $10K
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