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
Free Virtual Incubator for Nonprofits (September-October)
The Greater Sum is a private operating foundation that awards grants via a pitch competition and a matching gifts campaign. Both grant award programs are open to graduates of our free Virtual Incubator Program. VIPs also receive access to our network of subject matter experts.
Summer 2025 Open Call Funding Opportunity
The Public Benefit Innovation Fund (PBIF) is awarding $5 million in non-dilutive funding to accelerate AI-enabled solutions that help governments respond to recent federal policy changes and funding constraints in safety net programs.
This Fellowship program will provide $5K in non-dilutive funding and hands-on, business-oriented workshops to 15 founders who are representative of Greater Boston’s rich racial and gender diversity. Applications for VHBOS are open now through 8/22!
NC IDEA MICRO & SEED Grants
Non-dilutive grants supporting NC founders leading early stage growth-oriented companies on a path to be a multi-million dollar company or be investable.
JBS Corp 20th Anniversary Pitch Competition
Open to business owners based in Massachusetts with annual gross revenue between $100,000 and $1,000,000. Applicants must complete a two-phase application process and be available to pitch in person in November 2025.
Game On-Community Places to Play
Game On-Community Places to Play is an initiative of The DICK’s Sporting Goods Foundation and LISC. The goal is to improve the quality, safety, and accessibility of local athletic spaces for young people. Grant awards will range from $50,000-$100,000 and will require 1:1 match funding.
Propeller: Impact Accelerator: 2025 - Startup Track
Our work centers Black, native New Orleans-entrepreneurs.
Fund 17: Be the Boss Accelerator
Be the Boss Accelerator (BtB) is a 6 week program where Fund 17 partners with trepwise to provide one-on-one business coaching and bi-weekly educational workshops for entrepreneurs who are ready to operate their business full-time and/or hire their first employee or contractor.
NationSwell Fellows
The NationSwell Fellowship aims to equip young (Gen Z) leaders with the resources, tools, and network they need to translate their passion into effective community-focused, intersectional solutions.
Valentine Foundation Grants
Our grants are primarily available to nonprofit organizations in the Greater Philadelphia area that focus on improving the lives of women, girls, and non-binary individuals. Applicants can apply for grants ranging from $7,000 to $15,000, and multi-year options available.
Boettcher Foundation: Community Connection Grant (Fall)
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.
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.
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
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.
EdPioneers: Impact Fellowship
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