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digitalundivided: Breakthrough

Total Funding:
$5,000+
Application Opens:
8/5/2025
Application Deadline:
9/22/2025
Accelerator

Powered by JPMorgan Chase & Co., BREAKTHROUGH empowers founders to accelerate their revenue past the 5-figure mark and scale their digitally disruptive businesses. A 3-month virtual accelerator.

Funding Period:
Funding Type:
Duration:
Fall 2025
Location:
Hybrid
Under $10K
digitalundivided
Stage 3
Stage 4
Social Impact
Technology
past
opportunity
Accelerator

digitalundivided: BIG Pre-Accelerator

Total Funding:
$0
Application Opens:
8/5/2025
Application Deadline:
9/22/2025
Accelerator

A fast-paced pre-accelerator program for high-potential, women-led startups.

Funding Period:
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Duration:
Fall 2025
Location:
Remote
Under $10K
digitalundivided
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Stage 3
Social Impact
Education
Technology
past
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Grant

Boettcher Foundation: Rural Catalyst Grants (Fall)

Total Funding:
$1,000 - $10,000
Application Opens:
9/1/2025
Application Deadline:
9/30/2025
Grant

The Rural Catalyst Grant Program strengthens the internal capacity of organizations as they work to achieve goals.

Funding Period:
Notified October 30
Funding Type:
Grant
Duration:
Location:
Colorado
Notified October 30
Grant
Under $10K
Boettcher Foundation
Stage 2
Stage 3
Social Impact
Education
past
opportunity
Fellowship

Boettcher Foundation: Doers & Difference Makers Fellowship

Total Funding:
Up to $10,000
Application Opens:
9/1/2025
Application Deadline:
9/30/2025
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.

Funding Period:
Funding Type:
Duration:
Nine Months
Location:
Colorado
Under $10K
Boettcher Foundation
Stage 2
Stage 3
Social Impact
past
opportunity
Grant

Chinook Fund: Grant

Total Funding:
$4,000 - $10,000
Application Opens:
9/1/2025
Application Deadline:
9/30/2025
Grant

Grants range from $4,000 to $10,000 and are selected from community members in The Giving Project.

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Location:
Colorado
Under $10K
Chinook Fund
Stage 1
Stage 2
Social Impact
Technology
past
opportunity
Accelerator

JHTV: Social Innovation Lab

Total Funding:
$5,000 - $20,000
Application Opens:
8/11/2025
Application Deadline:
9/30/2025
Accelerator

A 6-month program open to any applicant from the greater Baltimore area.

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Duration:
December 2025 - June 2026
Location:
Hybrid in Baltimore, MD
Under $10K
Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures
Stage 1
Stage 2
Social Impact
Technology
past
opportunity
Accelerator

JHTV: I-Corps - Fall

Total Funding:
$0
Application Opens:
8/14/2025
Application Deadline:
9/30/2025
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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Funding Type:
Duration:
October - November 2025
Location:
Hybrid in Baltimore, MD
Under $10K
Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures
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Stage 2
Social Impact
past
opportunity
"Echoing Green: Purpose in Community. Join the Fellowship of Social Innovators at echoinggreen.org/apply."
Fellowship

Echoing Green Fellowship 2026

Total Funding:
100000
Application Opens:
9/17/2025
Application Deadline:
10/8/2025
Fellowship

Invest in you. Invest in your community. Apply to Echoing Green’s Fellowship to join a global community of nearly 1,000 Fellows working in health, education, business, human rights, and more to improve their communities and create a better future for all. Interested in learning more about the application process?

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Duration:
Jul 2026 - Jan 2028
Location:
Hybrid
$75K and above
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Social Impact
Education
Technology
past
opportunity
Accelerator

Tulane Changemaker Institute

Total Funding:
$0
Application Opens:
10/1/2025
Application Deadline:
10/15/2025
Accelerator

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.

Funding Period:
Funding Type:
Duration:
Spring 2026
Location:
New Orleans, LA
Under $10K
Tulane Changemaker Institute
Stage 1
Stage 2
Social Impact
past
opportunity
Mountaintop Executive Fellowship: A 12-week program for leaders in low-income communities to scale companies and build teams.
Fellowship

Mountaintop Business Executive Fellowship

Total Funding:
$30,000
Application Opens:
8/4/2025
Application Deadline:
10/15/2025
Fellowship

The Mountaintop Business Executive Fellowship is a 12-week program for business leaders seeking to scale their companies and build flourishing teams in low-income communities worldwide. Offered in partnership with the NYU Stern Initiative on Purpose and Flourishing. Includes one-week intensive at NYU Stern.

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Duration:
5th January 2026 - 22nd March 2026
Location:
Hybrid (Virtual and New York City)
Under $10K
Stage 4
Social Impact
Education
past
opportunity
Grant

NDN Community Action Fund

Total Funding:
$20,000
Application Opens:
1/29/2025
Application Deadline:
10/16/2025
Grant

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.

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Location:
Virtual
$10K - $49,999
NDN Collective
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Education
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Grant

Community Health Matching Grant Program (Michigan)

Total Funding:
$25,000 Over 2 Years
Application Opens:
8/15/2025
Application Deadline:
10/29/2025
Grant

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.

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Michigan
$10K - $49,999
BCBSM Foundation - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation
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EdPioneers: Impact Fellowship

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

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

CZI: Global Science Scholar

Total Funding:
Varies
Application Opened:
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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Duration:
Fall 2025 - Spring 2027
Location:
USA & Japan
$75K and above
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
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Education
Technology
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Fellowship

Latina Leaders in Tech: Essential Skills Cohort Program

Total Funding:
$0
Application Opened:
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.

Funding Period:
Funding Type:
Duration:
June - Aug 2025
Location:
Remote
Under $10K
#LatinaGeeks
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Technology
past
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Grant

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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Location:
Remote
$10K - $49,999
Promise Venture Studio
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Education
Technology
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Fellowship

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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Duration:
Fellowship
Location:
United States
Under $10K
IREX
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Social Impact
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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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past
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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.

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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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opportunity
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.

Funding Period:
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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Social Impact
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National Center for Civil and Human Rights - Civil Rights Teaching Fellowship
Grant

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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