2023 Grant Recipients
Second Quarter
Global Entrepreneurship Network
The Equitable Access Program is aimed at enhancing credit access and financial education to underserved entrepreneurs facing credit challenges, and as part of this initiative, Hello Alice introduced the Business Health Score, an assessment tool that offers a comprehensive evaluation of a business's financial health.
Second Quarter
Defy Ventures
Defy's Pathway to Entrepreneurship program provides formerly incarcerated BIPOC men and women across 8 states with the tools to develop a business concept and launch a small business.
Second Quarter
National Coalition of 100 Black Women
Sister-Nomic$ is a financial literacy program providing underserved Black Women and girls the tools necessary for self-sufficiency and a better quality of life.
Second Quarter
San Francisco Disability Business Alliance
SFDBA’s Future Entrepreneur Program is a cohort-based training program that provides individuals with disabilities the knowledge and skills to start a small business.
Second Quarter
Savvy Ladies
Savvy Ladies’ customized mobile portal for accessing its Free Financial Helpline connects women 1:1 with pro bono CFPs and other financial services experts for personalized guidance.
First Quarter
Babson Financial Literacy Project
The Babson Financial Literacy Project (BFLP) will run a pilot financial literacy program called “Closing the Financial Knowledge Gap for Students at HBCUs.” The program includes interactive workshops by Babson finance professors to teach critical financial skills in a community setting.
First Quarter
Opportunity International
Opportunity International will implement the Women as Agents of Change program in India, empowering local women to serve as financial service agents for other women in their communities. Opportunity International will establish 2,000 women agents to reach over 3 million women in rural communities.
First Quarter
The Rosie Network
Service2CEO is a 12-week, 8 module, highly individualized entrepreneurship training program designed for military spouses, veterans, and transitioning service members. The goal is to reduce the wealth equity gap for this underserved, highly skilled population.
First Quarter
Mujeres Latinas en Accion
The Empresarias del Futuro (Entrepreneurs of the Future) program is a training program and curriculum designed to support budding Latina entrepreneurs across Chicagoland who want to initiate or expand a small business and improve their financial literacy skills.
2022 Grant Recipients
Fourth Quarter
We Are Enough
We Are Enough's 3.3.3 Challenge will engage 3 million women globally over 3 years to invest $3B in women-led businesses and/or with a gender lens in the public markets (with an average investment of $1000).
Third Quarter
Shared Interest
Shared Interest will create a 10-session course that provides HBCU students with an introduction to the history and fundamentals of ESG, SRI, and impact investing.
Third Quarter
Hispanic Access Foundation
Partnering with Thrivent, Hispanic Access Foundation will provide financial and investment training to Spanish-speaking Latinos at four sites served by Latino churches in California.
Second Quarter
Change Labs
The Native American Kinship Lending Program is a first-of-its-kind, culturally responsive lending model based on Navajo kinship providing Native entrepreneurs access to capital and resources to support growth and sustainability.
Second Quarter
Consumer Action
Investment Literacy and Engagement Program for Women and BIPOC Consumers is a a 12-month investment education project entailing the creation of investor education resources in multiple languages and an investor literacy webinar series.
Second Quarter
Savvy Ladies
Through Building the Financial Roadmap for Women’s Wealth and Empowerment, Savvy Ladies is creating a personalized, digitized mobile portal experience for women to readily access financial education resources and pro bono advisors and help create a plan to to achieve financial security.
Second Quarter
VC Include
Emerging Manager Training for Women and BIPOC Led Funds is VC Ventures' flagship fellowship program designed for first-time BIPOC fund managers who are looking to raise between $10 million and $100 million. Fellows receive expert knowledge and best practices from leaders.
First Quarter
Black Girl Ventures
Black Girl Ventures’ Change Agent Fellowship is a nine-month leadership skills development program that expands the capacity of early-stage entrepreneurs and creates an ecosystem within their city.
First Quarter
Boston Public Library Fund
Boston Public Library will pilot an Entrepreneur-In- Residence (EIR) program that provides entrepreneurs of color and minority-owned businesses mentoring, advice, feedback, financial assistance, and opportunities to grow their skills and prepare their own innovative endeavors.
First Quarter
National Coalition of 100 Black Women
Sister-Nomic$ is a financial literacy program providing underserved Black Women and girls the tools necessary for self-sufficiency and a better quality of life.
First Quarter
Climb USA
The Launchpad Program is an initiative to create a best practice framework for establishing Community-Based Investment Enterprises (CBIEs) in targeted communities.
First Quarter
Central European University
The Energeia Project is the Central European University’s Innovations Lab's (iLab) pilot program, in partnership with Startup Hub Poland, to promote the advancement of female entrepreneurship in Hungary and Poland by establishing an ecosystem of support to reach 200 underrepresented women.
2021 Grant Recipients
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1863 Venture’s 3Rs program provides business accelerator curriculum, 1:1 coaching, and non-dilutive capital allocation to Black businesses in an effort to help them stabilize, pivot, and recover from the detrimental effects of COVID-19. The Nasdaq Foundation is supporting 1863 Ventures to administer their 3Rs program content in Spanish to increase accessibility to native Spanish speaking entrepreneurs and expand their impact on the Hispanic community of entrepreneurs in their current 3Rs cities.
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digitalundivided is the leading non-profit leveraging our data, programs, and advocacy to catalyze economic growth for Black and Latinx women entrepreneurs and innovators. The Nasdaq Foundation is providing support for:
- The Do You Fellowship Program, which will award 15 Black and Latinx female entrepreneurs and innovators with the tools, resources, and network necessary to develop their business
- The Regional Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Report, which will focus on the role of location in Black and Latinx women founders’ entrepreneurial journeys
- The undivided We Rise event, which brings together thought leaders and experts in tech and innovation to discuss the importance of inclusivity in entrepreneurship.
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Resource is an initiative designed to create a better enabling environment for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous founders. Resource centers on Entrepreneur Support Organizations (ESOs), which serve as a critical resource to help founders from these communities gain access to the resources they need to grow and scale. This initiative provides ESO leaders themselves with hands-on leadership and management training, a national community to share best practices and tools, and direct funding to help these organizations grow - creating a better future for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous founders across the country. The Nasdaq Foundation is a critical funder of this work, alongside other leaders like JP Morgan Chase, UBS, Traveler's, Moody's, and others.
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Wall Street Bound’s (WSB) mission is to provide diverse young adults with the skills, experience, and social capital that empower them to reach their full potential through “front office” financial service careers. With support from Nasdaq, WSB will host a series of Intro to Wall Street Bootcamps, a 20 - 25 hour capital markets and finance career path introduction, held virtually or live on college and university campuses nationwide, culminating in a Wall Street Direct, a rigorous, 10-week (150 hr) technical “hard” and professional skills training, preparing college students and recent graduates cohort. Intro to Wall Street Bootcamps will act as a bridge to enroll in our “Direct” training, which intentionally connects students with internship opportunities in the financial services industry.
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Women’s Business Center of Utah (WBCUtah), VentureCapital.Org (VCO), and The Mill Entrepreneurship Center are collaborating to advance women entrepreneurship in Utah offering each organization’s suite of programs to provide women entrepreneurs with the knowledge to start a business or scale up their business. The Nasdaq Foundation is supporting the organizations to provide for free a total of 16 trainings, events, and courses, including “Jump Start: Intro to Entrepreneurship,” the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Accelerator, and the Everyday Entrepreneur Program. The goal is to create a model of proven approaches by organizations working to strengthen women entrepreneurship that can be easily replicated through similar partnerships in other states.
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The mission of the San Francisco Disability Business Alliance (SFDBA) is to help individuals with disabilities achieve economic self-sufficiency through small business ownership and entrepreneurship. The SFDBA works to ensure that individuals with disabilities have an equal and inclusive opportunity to make their mark in the business world and that the Bay Area benefits fully from the expertise, diversity, and innovation these businesses and individuals have to offer. SFDBA will offer training sessions to assist entrepreneurs with the resources and tools to strengthen and scale their businesses and contribute to the prosperity of society by equipping them through mentoring, resources, and access to capital. The Social Good Fund works to create and establish positive influences for individuals, communities, and the environment and is the fiscal sponsor for the San Francisco Disability Business Alliance.