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
Boston Impact Initiative: Pitch Interest
BII Fund II prioritizes investments in enterprises that address an unmet need or issue affecting communities of color, including enterprises owned by people of color and commercial and residential real estate projects in MA and the Northeast. Applications received on a rolling basis.
Bridgespan: Leading for Impact
Leading for Impact® is a cohort-based experience for nonprofit executive teams that helps them strengthen their overall leadership skills while also making progress on a specific strategic goal.
CZI: Grant Interest - Education
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative makes grants to organizations working in support of our mission. We are invested in education and education technology. Applications received on a rolling basis.
Detroit Children's Fund: Partnership
We are non-profit committed to helping Detroit children receive the quality education they deserve. We do this by making leaders stronger, teachers more effective and school systems more successful. Interest received on a rolling basis.
DVRGNT Ventures: Interest
A pre-seed and seed fund focusing on tech-enabled startups in the most economically and culturally diverse regions of America, Middle America or as we call it The Great 38™️. Applications received on a rolling basis.
ESO: Operate Incubator
A free program for Black and Latino small business owners. The Operate Incubator focuses on helping existing businesses optimize operations and scale effectively. Applications on a rolling basis.
ESO: ReEntry Incubator
The ReEntry Incubator is an 18-week program that provides training, coaching, and community enrichment resources for formerly incarcerated entrepreneurs. Applications on a rolling basis.
ESO: Create Business Incubator
A FREE, 8-week incubator is specifically designed for entrepreneurs who are just starting out and have generated $0 - $10,000 in revenue.
Four Bands Community Fund: Business Loans
Four Bands’ loan fund program is available for Native American and permanent residents of the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, as well as enrolled tribal members who reside in the state of South Dakota. Variety of help available, applications accepted on rolling basis.
Four Bands Community Fund: CREATE Business Training
We provide business training for Native American and permanent residents of the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, as well as enrolled tribal members who reside in the state of South Dakota.
Harlem Capital: Pitch
We are currently making investments of $1mm-$3mm in Seed rounds by diverse founders.
As investors, we accelerate innovation to support equity-centered solutions that improve the mental health and well-being of young people. Pitches accepted 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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