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Hello Alice is a free platform that helps businesses launch and grow. Learn more at helloalice.com
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Apply for a COVID-19 Business for All Emergency Grant
Hello Alice is offering $10,000 grants being distributed immediately to small business owners impacted by coronavirus, as part of our broader mission to ensure Business for All. In addition to funding, grant recipients will receive ongoing support from the Hello Alice community.
Hello Alice is a free, multichannel platform that helps businesses launch and grow. With a community of more than 200,000 business owners in all 50 states and across the globe, Hello Alice is building the largest network of owners in the country, while tracking data and trends to increase the success rate for entrepreneurs. Our partners include enterprise business services, government agencies, and institutions looking to serve small and medium sized businesses to ensure increased revenues and promote scale. Co-headquartered in Houston and San Francisco, and founded by Carolyn Rodz and Elizabeth Gore, we believe in Business for All by providing access to all owners including women, people of color, military connected owners, the LGBTQ+ community, entrepreneurs with disabilities, and everyone with an entrepreneurial spirit.
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SoGal Black Founder
Startup Grants
SoGal Foundation and Winky Lux partnered to provide at least two $10K cash grants to Black women or nonbinary entrepreneurs.
OPPORTUNITY
An accelerator program for DivInc to help entrepreneurs all over the country apply their skills to creating systems-level change.
DivInc Social Justice Innovation Accelerator Fall 2020
FUNDING
The Doonie Fund: Supporting Black Women Entrepreneurs
An initiative of digitalundivided, this fund makes micro investments in Black women entrepreneurs.
We've assembled hundreds of resources specific to managing your business through COVID-19. From step-by-step guides including how to reopen your business safely and create lasting pivots to crucial industry-specific resources, find everything you need to know to thrive in the current business climate.
Find Support Through the COVID-19 Business Resource Center
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GET EDUCATED ON THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT
History is being written in yellow letters 30 feet high on the streets of our capital. But it’s up to everyone one of us to keep pushing forward and demanding change. That’s why it’s crucial to get educated about the Black Lives Matter movement while supporting Black-Owned Business. So get the facts and get busy getting others to do the same.
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Apply for a COVID-19 Business for All Emergency Grant
Hello Alice is offering $10,000 grants being distributed immediately to small business owners impacted by coronavirus, as part of our broader mission to ensure Business for All. In addition to funding, grant recipients will receive ongoing support from the Hello Alice community.
The Impact of COVID-19 on Black Business Owners
Early reports estimate that more than 40% of Black-owned businesses will be shuttered due to COVID-19. What are the challenges these owners are facing, and how can we all help? Hello Alice and its partners harnessed the latest data to explain the state of Black small business and lay out an action plan for the months and years ahead.
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A GROWING RESOURCE OF MONEY, NETWORKS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR ONE OF THE FASTEST GROWING GROUPS OF SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS IN AMERICA
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PRESENTED BY THE NAACP, THE LARGEST AND MOST PRE-EMINENT CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION IN THE NATION,
BeyGOOD Black-Owned Small Business Impact Fund
Meet the Shark: Apply for Funding and Mentorship from Daymond John
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More Money, No Strings: Apply for the NAACP Grant Fund
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#VoteSmallBusiness
93% of small business owners vote, because your vote has the power to change the way we work. This year, we've partnered up with NAACP to make sure you have everything you need to make your voice count for the 30.2 million small businesses in the United States. From how to support your employees, to volunteering your time at the polls, find everyting you need to prep your business for election season.
Your Small Business Toolkit
You took a giant leap of faith starting your own business, and for that, we celebrate you. Especially as a Black entrepreneur, we get that the odds are stacked against you for reasons far beyond your control, and it's why Hello Alice came to be in the first place. So while celebrating is great, funding and support and guidance is even better, and we're committed to doing that, too. This is a crowdsourced pool of resources to accelerate your growth. Then we hope you come back and share your stories of success at alice@helloalice.com, so we can celebrate you all over again.
Resources to Meet Your Every Need, Updated Daily
Join the NAACP Small Business Community
The NAACP is leading a small business community to help business owners like you, the strong Black and African American entrepreneurs breaking barriers each and every day, representing one of the fastest-growing groups of entrepreneurs. Join the conversation for opportunities and mentorship, collaboration with your peers, and a chance to ask the tough questions to mentors and experts who have gone through it before.
The Time is Now to Get Involved
NAACP SOCAP Fund
For 111 years, the NAACP has been in the business of helping people. That’s why we created the SOCAP Fund to leverage social capital for good. We’re proud to award small grants to support the issues we care about, including connecting Black-owned businesses to critical resources to support their stability in this time of crisis. We want to thank the Founding Funders (Bacardi, L'Oreal, and Vistaprint) for their commitment to us. We know together we can make a difference.
BeyGOOD is on a mission to spread hope. The goal is to provide a lifeline for small businesses at the epicenter of dual pandemics. BeyGOOD has teamed up with the NAACP to expand economic opportunity by awarding grants of $10,000 on the 15th of each month through the end of 2020.
More Money in your Pocket:
Apply for a Business for All Grant Today
African American and Black small business owners received disproportionately low amounts of government aid during the pandemic, and we're working extra hard to fix those inequities. Luckily, Verizon, Silicon Valley Bank, Ebay Foundation, UBS, Visible, and Stacy’s Rise Project, to name a few, thought we were on to something and offered $10,000 emergency grants. Thanks to them for being awesome, and for recognizing how amazing the Hello Alice small business community is, we were able to distribute over $1.5 million in funds to 154 awardees! But we're just getting started. Now you can apply for exclusive mentorship and grants up to $50,000 to catapult your business forward. Applications are open through September 25, and we'll be celebrating the recipients later this fall, while we work hard to support each and every one of you incredible owners grow.
NAACP Powershift Entrepreneur Grant
The NAACP Powershift Entrepreneur Grant is Daymond John’s quest to find and award up and coming Black Entrepreneurs. Black Entrepreneurs across the country can apply now for the chance to win $25,000 each to help them grow and scale their businesses during a time they need it most. In addition to the monetary compensation, winners of the grant will receive mentorship from Shark Tank’s Daymond John and join him live on air during Black Entrepreneurs Day to showcase their businesses. Apply for the NAACP Powershift Entrepreneur Grant now and be a part of history alongside Daymond John, Shaquille O’Neal, Gabrielle Union, Chance the Rapper, Jamie Foxx, Robert Johnson, and more!
Backing the B.A.R.
The NAACP x BACARDI are working together to provide dedicated support to Black-owned businesses in the beverage alcohol service, sales and hospitality industries. Backing the B.A.R. is a NAACP initiative that is awarding over $ 350,000 in acceleration grants, education, support and entrepreneurship solutions for Black-owned bars, restaurants, nightclubs, lounges, liquor stores and small businesses in the process of applying for a liquor license. If you are a Black business owner with a liquor license or real liquor license aspirations - and you need financial, educational or mentorship support, please apply here. Grantees will receive a grant of $ 10,000 dollars. Ideal grant recipients are looking for support in accelerating their business for the future.
L’Oréal is on a mission to create the beauty that moves the world. The L’Oréal USA Inclusive Beauty Grant Program, in partnership with the NAACP, aims to support and help inspire the best of beauty across an increasingly diverse world.
Vistaprint, the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation, and the NAACP teamed up to empower Black-owned small businesses in New England. Power Forward Small Business Grants provide $25,000 + design and marketing assistance to qualified applicants on a rolliang basis.
Vistaprint, the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation, and the NAACP teamed up to empower Black-owned small businesses in New England. Power Forward Small Business Grants provide $25,000 + design and marketing assistance to qualified applicants on a rolling basis.
L’Oréal is on a mission to create the beauty that moves the world. The L’Oréal USA Inclusive Beauty Grant Program, in partnership with the NAACP, aims to support and help inspire the best of beauty across an increasingly diverse world.
The NAACP x BACARDI are working together to provide $10,000 Backing the B.A.R. (Black-Owned Accounts & Retailers) acceleration grants, education, support and entrepreneurship solutions for Black-owned bars, restaurants, nightclubs, lounges, liquor stores and small businesses with, or in the process of applying for, a liquor license.
The NAACP x BACARDI are working together to provide $10,000 Backing the B.A.R. (Black-Owned Accounts & Retailers) acceleration grants, education, support and entrepreneurship solutions for Black-owned bars, restaurants, nightclubs, lounges, liquor stores and small businesses with, or in the process of applying for, a liquor license.