Is Your Women-Owned Startup In Need of A Grant? You've Found the Right Site
August 2023 Winner
3 Queens Soul Cuisine
3 Queens Soul Cuisine
If your women-owned business is a startup, you might be selected for a $10,000 WomensNet Startup Grant.
Even though women startup businesses are eligible for our monthly Amber Grant, we wanted to create this additional grant especially for this underserved sector: We define a “startup” as a business in the “idea phase,” or one that has only had minimal sales (less than $10,000).
These grants are quarterly based on applications submitted from: December-February, March-May, June-August, and September-November.
Here’s How You Become Eligible for Our Startup Grants
— As Well As All Our Additional Grants:
- 1. Apply for our monthly Amber Grant. By applying just once for the $10,000 monthly Amber Grant, you also automatically become eligible for that quarter’s $10,000 Startup Grant.
- 2. You do NOT have to apply again. Your single Amber Grant application also makes you eligible for any of our other grants, including:
Here’s How You Become Eligible for Our Startup Grant – As Well As All Our Additional Grants:
- The $10,000 “Business Specific Category” Grant that we give away each month for the next 11 months. Here are those categories and months that they are awarded:
— January: Skilled Trades
— February: Health, Fitness & Wellness
— March: Food & Beverage
— April: Sustainability
— May: Mental & Emotional Support
— June: Business Support Services (e.g. accounting, consulting)
— July: Animal Services
— August: Hair Care & SkinCare
— September: Education & Child Care
— October: Creative Arts
— November: Technology
— December: Fashion & Interior Design
At the end of the year, we will award one of the monthly recipients an additional $25,000 grant
- The $10,000 quarterly non-profit grant for the next 3 months. (We award this grant 4 times per year).
- The WomensNet “Marketing Grant.” We give “hands-on” marketing help to a selected female-owned business. It includes strategic sessions with members of our AdvisoryBoard and other "friends of WomensNet.” It also includes professional agency support in developing and executing a marketing plan. This is a grant a non-profit business can win as well.
- $25,000 Year-End Grants
At the end of every year, we select a $25,000 winner from the 12 monthly $10,000 Amber Grant winners -and- a $25,000 winner from the 12 Business Category Grants winners. This means your business could win a total of $35,000 in grant money by submitting just one application.
Submitting one application makes you instantly eligible for these multiple grants. Click here for your application »
Past WomensNet Startup Grant Winners
The Amber Grant Fund has grown through the years. That growth is reflected in two ways by the winners below. First, by the increase in the dollar amounts of each grant. Second, by the increase in how many times a grant is given.
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