Discover Opportunities
The Entrepreneurial Support Hub has diverse opportunities for taking a leap into entrepreneurship. Filter below by the categories that apply to you and your ideas.
Opportunities that accept applications on a rolling basis are listed as an "all-year" deadline.
Current Opportunities
Boettcher Foundation: Doers & Difference Makers Fellowship
The fellowship is a nine-month program designed with the belief that leadership is an activity, not a position or title, and everyone can lead.
Chinook Fund: Grant
Grants range from $4,000 to $10,000 and are selected from community members in The Giving Project.
JHTV: Social Innovation Lab
A 6-month program open to any applicant from the greater Baltimore area.
JHTV: I-Corps - Fall
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.
Fast Forward Accelerator 2026
The Accelerator is Fast Forward’s longest-standing program for early-stage tech nonprofits. Through the program, tech nonprofits get a $25K grant, mentorship, community, and more. It bridges the gap between the tech and nonprofit sectors, providing training tailored to the challenges entrepreneurs face.
Tulane Changemaker Institute
The Changemaker Institute (CI) supports budding social entrepreneurs who are graduate students or undergrads at Tulane university who are interested in building a business or program with social or environmental impact.
Obama Foundation Scholars: Columbia University
The Obama Foundation offers a robust curriculum of leadership development, training, networking activities, and customized support throughout the academic year to help the Obama Scholars gain the real-world skills, tools, and experiences they need to expand the impact of their work.
Idea Village: VILLAGEx
VILLAGEx is our industry-leading, mentor-driven accelerator program for venture-scale startups on the path to raise at least $1M in the next 24 months in the Gulf South.
Blue Ridge Labs: Catalyst
Blue Ridge Labs incubates innovative, community-driven tech solutions to the real-world problems of people experiencing poverty.
Robin Hood: Grantee Interest
Robin Hood is a strategic grantmaker; we source grantees and offer funding opportunities in collaboration with organizations in the field, rather than via unsolicited proposals. Applications received on a rolling basis.
Vela Foundation: Grant
The Vela Foundation is a private grant making foundation dedicated to promoting improved nutrition and wellness in Cape Cod and southeastern Massachusetts. Applications received on a rolling basis.
Kapor Capital: Grants
Kapor Capital is an Oakland-based venture capital firm that invests in industry-transforming startups. Applications received on a rolling basis.
Stay Tuned. New Opportunities coming your way soon! In the meantime, please check out our Past Opportunities for an idea of what’s to come.
Past Opportunities
Hopelab: HBCU Translational Science Fellowship
Eligible candidates are research faculty and career researchers at an HBCU in a relevant field of behavioral science. Fellows will each work on an independent project focused on supporting the well-being of Black adolescents (ages 10-25).
Leadership Denver Fellowship
Leadership Denver transforms actively engaged civic leaders into community champions through in-depth experiences with a close network of new personal and professional relationships that last a lifetime. This 11-month program includes a class retreat and community impact project.
The Fellowship seeks to strengthen and sustain a diverse community of outstanding leaders who are transforming public education so that every child is prepared to lead a free and fulfilling life.
New Profit: Call for Discovery Submissions for Economic Mobility
New Profit, through its Catalyze cohort in Economic Mobility, will provide $100,000 of one-year unrestricted funding, $10,000 of funding for leadership development, and strategic advisory support to a cohort of innovative nonprofit organizations expanding access and opportunity in America.
JHTV: I-Corps - Summer
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.
Bridgespan: Leadership Accelerator - Creating An Adaptive Plan
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.
Bridgespan: Leadership Accelerator - Investing in Future Leaders
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.
Bridgespan: Leadership Accelerator - Achieving Strategic Clarity
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.
Bridgespan: Leadership Accelerator - Strengthening the Executive Team
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.
Boettcher Foundation: Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Awards Program
We support scientific innovation in Colorado by providing biomedical research funding at the state’s leading research institutions and hospitals.
Boettcher Foundation: Community Connection Grant (Summer)
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.
Black Girl Ventures: Emerging Leaders 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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