Grants/Prizes
Business Preparedness and Resiliency Program
The NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS) this week launched a new grant to support small businesses and commercial properties in New York City floodplains become more resilient in the face of natural disasters. The BPREP Risk Assessment and Grant Program offers a free, one-on-one resiliency assessment to help businesses and commercial properties identify vulnerabilities, and provides to eligible…
Read MorePowerUP Business Plan Competition
Calling all Brooklyn start-up entrepreneurs as we enter the 21st year of the PowerUP Business Plan Competition. Since 2003, we have nurtured 10,900 individuals with over 1,800 business plans and awarded more than $650,000 in cash and in-kind gifts to Brooklyn entrepreneurs. Our success stories include more than 100 companies with passion for food and drink, health…
Read MoreWomen Who Enterprise Application
At Women Who Enterprise, we look for entrepreneurial Black and Brown women who have a(n): • Idea-stage for-profit small businesses and startups • Pre-revenue for-profit small businesses and startups • Early-stage (less than $25K in revenue) for-profit small businesses and startups. We also favor applicants whose businesses incorporate technology in some way, whether it’s an…
Read More1 week. $10,000. Your Fast-Track Into Silicon Valley.
We are your first believer. We’ve worked with high school dropouts, college students, and people with full-time jobs across a variety of industries, including consumer, social, enterprise, defense, healthcare, edtech, fintech, gaming, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, crypto, AI, ML, climate, biotech, and more.
Read MoreMelanin Prenuers Black-Owned Small Business Program
THE MISSION OF THE MELANIN PRENEURS™ BLACK-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAM is to create more opportunities for emerging and established Black-owned businesses across the United States by helping them accelerate their spending power by reinvesting in themselves, their community, and their businesses. Businesses will be judged and selected based on their marketing plan, financial need, product/service…
Read MoreGrubhub, Oyate Group and New York State Latino Restaurant, Bar & Lounge Association Announce $200,000 Microgrant Program for NYC Restaurateurs
NEW YORK – Mar. 1, 2024 – Grubhub, Oyate Group and the New York State Latino Restaurant, Bar & Lounge Association (NYSRBLA) today announced the launch of “Rising Restaurateur: A Community Grant Program” to provide $200,000 in microgrants and business development opportunities to New York City Latino, Black, Indigenous, Asian American and/or Pacific Islander restaurateurs.
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Silver Corps
Silver Corps is an AmeriCorps-funded initiative through the NYC Department for the Aging. The program mission is to connect adults 55+ to volunteer assignments at a partner organization, while they simultaneously engage in training, and/or credentialing with the end goal of obtaining sustainable employment. Our participants offer their time, skills, and experience to community organizations…
Read MoreBRIC Media Share
Media Share is BRIC’s NY Emmy-winning media education & production grant program. Since 2013, this in-kind grant has helped 80+ non-profit organizations create and use media to inform the public about their work in the community. During a 6-8 month in-kind grant cycle, organizations designate 1-2 staff members to take BRIC media classes and collaborate with…
Read MoreOffshore Wind Training New York
This website, supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), will introduce you to career pathways and training opportunities in the growing offshore wind industry to help jumpstart or further your career. https://www.offshorewindtraining.ny.gov/
Read MoreClimate Justice Fellowship
New York State is committed to promoting environmental and climate justice and ensuring an equitable clean energy transition for all communities, especially those disproportionately burdened by environmental health hazards. A key element of climate justice is ensuring the green jobs needed to get us there are available to all New Yorkers. Learn more about the…
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Climate Justice Fellowship
New York State is committed to promoting environmental and climate justice and ensuring an equitable clean energy transition for all communities, especially those disproportionately burdened by environmental health hazards. A key element of climate justice is ensuring the green jobs needed to get us there are available to all New Yorkers. Learn more about the…
Read MoreFutures and Options Internship Program
Futures and Options connects employers with engaged high school juniors and seniors toprovide students with meaningful, career‐building work experience while enabling them tomake valuable contributions to your business or organization. What Employers GainInvestment in NYC’s next generation of employees and a pipeline of new talentContributing team members whose wages are coveredOpportunities for staff to gain…
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Business Preparedness and Resiliency Program
The NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS) this week launched a new grant to support small businesses and commercial properties in New York City floodplains become more resilient in the face of natural disasters. The BPREP Risk Assessment and Grant Program offers a free, one-on-one resiliency assessment to help businesses and commercial properties identify vulnerabilities, and provides to eligible…
Read MorePowerUP Business Plan Competition
Calling all Brooklyn start-up entrepreneurs as we enter the 21st year of the PowerUP Business Plan Competition. Since 2003, we have nurtured 10,900 individuals with over 1,800 business plans and awarded more than $650,000 in cash and in-kind gifts to Brooklyn entrepreneurs. Our success stories include more than 100 companies with passion for food and drink, health…
Read MoreClimate Justice for Resilient Communities Request for Proposals
We’re currently seeking social justice grant proposals to empower communities to address climate resiliency. We want to hear from advocates for change from communities most impacted by climate injustices. Proposals should address the intersectional issues of extreme heat & humidity, extreme weather events, and/or precipitation & flooding with the outcome of building and advancing resiliency in these…
Read MoreWomen Who Enterprise Application
At Women Who Enterprise, we look for entrepreneurial Black and Brown women who have a(n): • Idea-stage for-profit small businesses and startups • Pre-revenue for-profit small businesses and startups • Early-stage (less than $25K in revenue) for-profit small businesses and startups. We also favor applicants whose businesses incorporate technology in some way, whether it’s an…
Read MoreMelanin Prenuers Black-Owned Small Business Program
THE MISSION OF THE MELANIN PRENEURS™ BLACK-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAM is to create more opportunities for emerging and established Black-owned businesses across the United States by helping them accelerate their spending power by reinvesting in themselves, their community, and their businesses. Businesses will be judged and selected based on their marketing plan, financial need, product/service…
Read MoreGrubhub, Oyate Group and New York State Latino Restaurant, Bar & Lounge Association Announce $200,000 Microgrant Program for NYC Restaurateurs
NEW YORK – Mar. 1, 2024 – Grubhub, Oyate Group and the New York State Latino Restaurant, Bar & Lounge Association (NYSRBLA) today announced the launch of “Rising Restaurateur: A Community Grant Program” to provide $200,000 in microgrants and business development opportunities to New York City Latino, Black, Indigenous, Asian American and/or Pacific Islander restaurateurs.
Read MoreDining out NYC
Applications for Dining Out NYC, the City’s new permanent outdoor dining program, are now open! Restaurants that are actively participating in the temporary Open Restaurants program need to apply by August 3, 2024 in order to continue operating outdoor dining setups. Once their application is approved, outdoor dining setups will need to comply with the permanent Dining Out NYC…
Read MoreStrategic Energy Management Program
Strategic Energy Management participants get no-cost, hands-on help from NYSERDA to turn low- and no-cost energy savings opportunities into cash flow and defined plans for further savings. Lower your energy costs and carbon footprint byup to 15% through low- and no-cost improvementsA professional energy coach will guide you through the developmentand implementation of a Strategic…
Read MoreSilver Corps
Silver Corps is an AmeriCorps-funded initiative through the NYC Department for the Aging. The program mission is to connect adults 55+ to volunteer assignments at a partner organization, while they simultaneously engage in training, and/or credentialing with the end goal of obtaining sustainable employment. Our participants offer their time, skills, and experience to community organizations…
Read MoreBRIC Media Share
Media Share is BRIC’s NY Emmy-winning media education & production grant program. Since 2013, this in-kind grant has helped 80+ non-profit organizations create and use media to inform the public about their work in the community. During a 6-8 month in-kind grant cycle, organizations designate 1-2 staff members to take BRIC media classes and collaborate with…
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Business Preparedness and Resiliency Program
The NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS) this week launched a new grant to support small businesses and commercial properties in New York City floodplains become more resilient in the face of natural disasters. The BPREP Risk Assessment and Grant Program offers a free, one-on-one resiliency assessment to help businesses and commercial properties identify vulnerabilities, and provides to eligible…
Read MorePowerUP Business Plan Competition
Calling all Brooklyn start-up entrepreneurs as we enter the 21st year of the PowerUP Business Plan Competition. Since 2003, we have nurtured 10,900 individuals with over 1,800 business plans and awarded more than $650,000 in cash and in-kind gifts to Brooklyn entrepreneurs. Our success stories include more than 100 companies with passion for food and drink, health…
Read MoreClimate Justice for Resilient Communities Request for Proposals
We’re currently seeking social justice grant proposals to empower communities to address climate resiliency. We want to hear from advocates for change from communities most impacted by climate injustices. Proposals should address the intersectional issues of extreme heat & humidity, extreme weather events, and/or precipitation & flooding with the outcome of building and advancing resiliency in these…
Read MoreWomen Who Enterprise Application
At Women Who Enterprise, we look for entrepreneurial Black and Brown women who have a(n): • Idea-stage for-profit small businesses and startups • Pre-revenue for-profit small businesses and startups • Early-stage (less than $25K in revenue) for-profit small businesses and startups. We also favor applicants whose businesses incorporate technology in some way, whether it’s an…
Read More1 week. $10,000. Your Fast-Track Into Silicon Valley.
We are your first believer. We’ve worked with high school dropouts, college students, and people with full-time jobs across a variety of industries, including consumer, social, enterprise, defense, healthcare, edtech, fintech, gaming, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, crypto, AI, ML, climate, biotech, and more.
Read MoreMelanin Prenuers Black-Owned Small Business Program
THE MISSION OF THE MELANIN PRENEURS™ BLACK-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAM is to create more opportunities for emerging and established Black-owned businesses across the United States by helping them accelerate their spending power by reinvesting in themselves, their community, and their businesses. Businesses will be judged and selected based on their marketing plan, financial need, product/service…
Read MoreGrubhub, Oyate Group and New York State Latino Restaurant, Bar & Lounge Association Announce $200,000 Microgrant Program for NYC Restaurateurs
NEW YORK – Mar. 1, 2024 – Grubhub, Oyate Group and the New York State Latino Restaurant, Bar & Lounge Association (NYSRBLA) today announced the launch of “Rising Restaurateur: A Community Grant Program” to provide $200,000 in microgrants and business development opportunities to New York City Latino, Black, Indigenous, Asian American and/or Pacific Islander restaurateurs.
Read MoreBRIC Media Share
Media Share is BRIC’s NY Emmy-winning media education & production grant program. Since 2013, this in-kind grant has helped 80+ non-profit organizations create and use media to inform the public about their work in the community. During a 6-8 month in-kind grant cycle, organizations designate 1-2 staff members to take BRIC media classes and collaborate with…
Read MoreThe American Dream Works
Earlier this month, the NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS) launched The American Dream Works website to connect business owners that are hiring with work-authorized migrants and asylum seekers looking for jobs. Regardless of hiring needs, SBS Recruitment Specialists can help businesses through the hiring process for free, in the following ways: Please reach…
Read MoreYard Labs
Yard Labs gives companies the opportunity to beta test frontier technology products by activating the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s 300-acre city within a city. Pilots have access to select infrastructure & space, offering a unique controlled urban environment to test new and existing technologies, collect data, and prepare for market launch. are open every 3 months…
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