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
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.
NDN Community Action Fund
This grant supports Indigenous frontline, grassroots, community-based groups and organizations, Tribes, communities and villages, and individuals leading direct action or movement-building work in their effort to DEFEND Indigenous People’s rights, and protect their land, air, water, and natural resources.
Community Health Matching Grant Program (Michigan)
We offer up to $25,000 for two years to Michigan-based nonprofits. We want to develop population-led, community-inspired programs or implement evidence-based programs to address community-identified needs, and evaluate measurable programmatic and health outcomes.
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.
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
The Promise Sandbox Award from Promise Venture Studio
$20K for changemakers with firsthand insight into early childhood challenges
Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Fellowship 2026
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.
gener8tor Milwaukee 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.
gener8tor Cox Cleantech Accelerator Fall 2025
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.
Rally SEA Summer 2025 Cohort
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.
Thriving Communities: Climate Resilience US (Village Capital)
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.
The Rally Accelerator Program
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.
The Opportunity Trust: Reinvention by Community (St. Louis)
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.
Dobbs Foundation: Summer 2025 Grant Cycle
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.
Blue Ridge Labs: Launch Fellowship
This 13-week program is designed to support early-stage tech founders who are committed to launching a venture-scale company.
The Residency: HSR House (Generalist)
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”.
The Residency: V2 (Creative Tech)
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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