Small business grant opportunities to apply for in August
July 22, 2025
From microgrants to global pitch competitions and regional accelerator programs, August offers funding opportunities to help small businesses grow, scale, and create impact. Below, we’ve rounded up small business grants and resources with August deadlines.
🌍 SpringWell 360 Health Equity Grant
Amount: $1,000
Deadline: August 1, 2025
Overview: Supports students and professionals leading projects that advance health equity in underserved communities. Open to proposals focused on education, outreach, research, or innovation.
🌱 Prose Emerging Entrepreneurs Grant
Amount: $10,000
Deadline: August 1, 2025
Overview: The Prose Emerging Entrepreneurs Grant, presented in partnership with Ellis Brooklyn, offers a $10,000 grant and mentorship opportunities to support Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) entrepreneurs.
🎨 City of Charlotte Creative Growth Grants
Amount: Up to $25,000
Deadline: August 4, 2025
Overview: Up to $25,000 in public arts funding for Charlotte-based individual artists and cultural organizations across disciplines.
🎤 South Side Pitch
Amount: Up to $15,000
Deadline: August 4, 2025
Overview: South Side Pitch is an annual business pitch competition showcasing and celebrating the many creative and promising South Side businesses and entrepreneurs. Finalists pitch to a panel of judges and a live audience on October 16, 2025, at the Polsky Exchange North, competing for over $36,000 in prizes.
🏙️ Commercial Tenant Improvement Program (CTIP)
Amount: Up to $20,000
Deadline: August 4, 2025
Overview: For small businesses relocating to, expanding, or opening in Cincinnati. Covers interior renovation and soft costs.
🧴 MaesaMagic Incubator
Amount: $35,000
Deadline: August 6, 2025
Overview: An incubator program for early-stage beauty and wellness entrepreneurs from underrepresented communities. Backed by Maesa’s legacy of building scalable consumer brands, the program provides $35K in funding along with strategic mentorship and support.
🤝 Praxis Nonprofit Accelerator
Amount: $50,000
Deadline: August 8, 2025
Overview: A mentorship-driven, non-residential accelerator for Christian nonprofit founders seeking to build sustainable, culture-renewing ventures rooted in faith. Each year, 12 seed and early-stage nonprofits (with up to two co-founding leaders) are selected to join a cohort focused on leadership formation, effective use of philanthropic capital, and redemptive impact.
💡 Praxis Business Accelerator
Amount: $50,000 (opt-in investment)
Deadline: August 8, 2025
Overview: A mentorship-driven, non-residential accelerator for Christian founders leading seed and early-stage ventures. Focuses on shaping redemptive leaders who build profitable, culture-renewing businesses rooted in faith. Accepts 12 ventures annually (with up to two co-founders as Praxis Fellows).
📣 Business by the Bay Pitch Competition
Amount: $11,000
Deadline: August 13, 2025
Overview: Hosted by the Michigan SBDC, this live pitch event offers small business owners and entrepreneurs in Bay County the chance to pitch their business, gain skills through in-person workshops, and compete for $11k in cash prizes.
🌟 Small Business Hero Grant
Amount: $20,000
Deadline: August 14, 2025
Overview: $20,000 grant by QuickBooks to support high-impact small businesses nominated by their communities.
🌐 Global Citizen & PayPal Small Business Impact Awards
Amount: $25,000 (5 winners)
Deadline: August 15, 2025
Overview: Celebrates small businesses that are revolutionizing commerce and advancing social and environmental impact. Winners receive a $25,000 cash prize, access to expert mentorship, and brand-building support. Open to businesses with a track record (3+ years) of measurable impact and a compelling growth vision.
🚀 Alibaba CoCreate Pitch
Amount: Up to $40,000
Deadline: August 15, 2025
Overview: A global, product-focused startup competition where visionary entrepreneurs pitch to win funding, connect with top manufacturers and investors, and tap into Alibaba.com’s powerful sourcing ecosystem. Includes access to star mentors, global exposure, and the tools to turn bold ideas into scalable products.
🌍 STREETS Global Award
Amount: $10,000
Deadline: August 15, 2025
Overview: Recognizes mission-driven businesses, nonprofits, and NGOs in hospitality or tourism that are creating positive change through social impact, innovation, and sustainability. Open to organizations in their first 1–5 years of operation.
🛠️ Zendesk Impact Awards
Amount: Up to $50,000
Deadline: August 15, 2025
Overview: Zendesk's Tech for Good Impact Awards provides free software and multiple grants ranging from $5,000 - $50,000 to global nonprofit organizations that are fostering community, promoting resilience, and creating career pathways into tech.
🏜 Simply Hermosa Microgrant
Amount: $500
Deadline: August 15, 2025
Overview: Microgrants for woman-owned businesses in Southern Arizona to support startup costs, business growth, marketing, or other operational needs. Designed to empower women entrepreneurs and strengthen values-driven local enterprises.
📊 Expanding Business Ecosystems (EBE) Accelerator
Amount: Up to $1,500
Deadline: August 22, 2025
Overview: The EBE Business Accelerator Program empowers small businesses and minority-owned enterprises across Virginia by providing essential resources in Capital Readiness, Financial Literacy, Government Contracting, and Business Development. Graduates can win up to $1,500 as part of a pitch contest.
🌎 Social Shifters Global Innovation Challenge
Amount: Up to $15,000
Deadline: August 29, 2025
Overview: Fellowship for founders aged 18–30 leading social-impact projects worldwide (excluding a select group of sanctioned countries).
💫 Hey Helen Grant
Amount: $5,000
Deadline: August 29, 2025
Overview: The Hey Helen Grant gives $5,000 in financial support to women founders building impactful, mission-driven businesses in the U.S. Funds can be used for operations, growth, marketing, hiring, or infrastructure.
🏢 Chicago Small Business Improvement Fund (SBIF)
Amount: Up to $250,000
Deadline: August 30, 2025
Overview: The SBIF provides reimbursement grants for permanent building improvements and repairs to industrial and commercial properties within designated Chicago TIF districts. Eligible tenants and property owners can receive between 30%–90% of project costs, up to $150,000 for commercial and $250,000 for industrial properties.
🏙️ NHE3 Small Business Grant Program
Amount: Varies
Deadline: August 31, 2025
Overview: Funded by a $7.2M grant from the Connecticut DECD, this program aims to build a more equitable and resilient small business ecosystem in Greater New Haven. Eligible New Haven-based for-profit businesses can access grants, technical assistance, and consulting support through local entrepreneurial support organizations (ESOs).
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