Project Grant SLE20020GR0017

This $150,000 Project Grant awarded on September 30, 2023 by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Entrepreneurial Development under the Women's Business Ownership Assistance Program (CFDA 59.043) will fund Communityworks, a non-profit Community Development Corporation, to provide training, counseling, and technical assistance services to support small businesses owned and controlled by women, with an emphasis on socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. The goal is...

This $223,365 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) is designed to support Brazilian women entrepreneurs. The grant will provide leadership and entrepreneurship training, as well as economic empowerment through practical skills development, networking opportunities, workshops with specialists, mentorship sessions, and pitch competitions. The program will be implemented by the foreign-owned...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $116,937.72, provided by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs under the Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs Appropriation Overseas Grants (CFDA 19.022) program, will fund a 5-month long Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) program in South Africa, Lesotho, and Eswatini. The program will equip 100 women entrepreneurs with business skills and mentorship to scale their enterprises. The awardee, the Africa Women...

The Sun Yat-Sen Management Education Foundation will implement the second year of the Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) program in Taiwan under a $160,610 project grant from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. The grant was awarded on March 8, 2022 to support entrepreneurship training through January 31, 2023. As part of the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040), the foundation will recruit a new cohort of early-stage women entrepreneurs to provide online...

The Department of State Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs awarded a $114,430 Project Grant to Emprender Futuro to execute the Mujeres 360 Forum, the 360 Effect Women & Tech program, and the Mujeres 360 Bootcamp in La Paz Department, Bolivia from April 5, 2022 through January 31, 2023. This funding supports the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) federal grant program's goals of informing and influencing foreign publics and expanding relationships between people to advance U.S. foreign...

The Center for Women & Enterprise, Inc. was awarded a $300,000 Project Grant from the Small Business Administration Office of Entrepreneurial Development under the Women's Business Ownership Assistance federal grant program (CFDA 59.043). The grant will fund the Center for Women & Enterprise to provide training and counseling services to small businesses owned and operated by women from September 30, 2022 through September 29, 2025 in Boston, Massachusetts. The Women's Business Ownership...

This $150,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Entrepreneurial Development under the Women's Business Ownership Assistance Program (CFDA 59.043) will enable Sistema Universitario Ana G. Mendez, Inc., a private non-profit Hispanic Serving Institution in Puerto Rico, to provide training, counseling, and technical assistance to support the growth of women-owned small businesses, with a focus on socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. The grant...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $150,000 was made by the U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA) Office of Entrepreneurial Development under the Women's Business Ownership Assistance program (CFDA 59.043). The award recipient, Increasing H.o.p.e., is a minority-owned, woman-owned, veteran-owned non-profit organization in North Charleston, South Carolina, that functions as a community development corporation. The funding will support Increasing H.o.p.e.'s operation of a Women's...

The Women's Center for Entrepreneurship Corporation will provide entrepreneurship training and counseling services to women-owned small businesses through a $200,000 cooperative agreement award from the Small Business Administration's Office of Entrepreneurial Development. The award is part of the SBA's Women's Business Ownership Assistance federal grant program (CFDA 59.043), which aims to fund organizations that assist women entrepreneurs through training and counseling, and remove...

This federal Project Grant award of $150,000 was provided by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Women's Business Ownership Assistance Program (CFDA 59.043). The grant recipient, Liftfund Inc. (doing business as Accion), is a non-profit community development financial institution that provides small business loans, microloans, technical assistance, and other services to diverse entrepreneurs, including startups, minorities, veterans, and women. Through this funding, Liftfund Inc....