Grants & Funding Opportunities

Grants & Funding Opportunities

Grants

Restaurant Resilience Fund – Apply by April 26, 2025

$5,000 Grants to Restaurants to Build Resilience

Restaurants are the heartbeat of any community – small businesses that employ thousands and enrich communities. When restaurants thrive, communities thrive. The Restaurants Care Resilience Fund is offering $5,000 grants to independent restaurants and caterers in select California counties to invest in kitchen equipment, technology upgrades, employee training, and unexpected hardships. These grants are designed to help restaurants strengthen their business, support their teams, and prepare for the future.

Amber Grant  –

$10,000 monthly grants and a chance at a $25,000 annual grant is available.

WomensNet founded the “Amber Grant” in 1998. The grant was set up with one goal in mind: to honor the memory of a very special young woman, Amber Wigdahl, who died at just 19 years old — before realizing her business dreams.

Today, WomensNet carries on that tradition, proudly giving away at least $30,000 every month in Amber Grant money. In recognition of the diversity of businesses owned by women, we’ve also expanded our grant-giving to include “Marketing Grants,” “Business Category Grants,” as well as two “$25,000 Year End Grants.”

Build-To-Scale Grant

Venture Challenge and Capital Challenge. Learn more about the FY23 funding opportunity (NOFO) (PDF). Apply here. EDA’s Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIE) leads the Build to Scale (B2S) program, which is authorized under Section 27 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. § 3722). Under the B2S program, EDA awards and manages a portfolio of grants designed to increase regional capacity to strengthen ecosystems that equitably and inclusively support diverse technology innovators, entrepreneurs, and startups. These regions are growing technology-driven businesses, creating high-skill, high-wage jobs, and building the industries of the future.

CORE Grant

CORE: Children of Restaurant Employees is a national nonprofit providing financial grants to food & beverage service employees with children when the employee, their child, or their spouse/partner faces a life-altering medical crisis, death, injury, or natural disaster. CORE is here to give a hand-up to qualifying families during their time of need!

Humboldt Area Foundation/Wild Rivers Community Foundation Grants Portal

HAF+WRCF grant funding supports charitable programs and projects in our region and surrounding area (Humboldt, Del Norte, and Trinity counties in California, and Curry County, Oregon).

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