Copperas Cove Business Improvement Grant

The Enthuse Foundation Pitch Competition awards women-owned food, beverage, and consumer packaged goods (CPG) businesses with a total prize package valued at over $180,000, including $28,000 in direct cash prizes across three prize tiers plus significant in-kind business services. Administered by the Enthuse Foundation, a nonprofit that supports women entrepreneurs, the annual pitch competition selects five finalists from a competitive pool of applicants (recent cycles have drawn more than 320 applications) who pitch their businesses live in New York City to a panel of industry judges, with an in-person audience of 150 people and additional viewers online. The prize structure includes three tiers. The Grand Prize includes $15,000 in cash with no strings attached, plus in-kind business services from Enthuse, for a total prize package valued at $90,000 or more. The Runner Up receives $10,000 in cash with no strings attached, plus in-kind business services from Enthuse, for a total prize package valued at $85,000 or more. The Audience Choice award (presented by Kendra Scott SoHo and Launch Grow Exit) provides $3,000 in cash with no strings attached, along with quarterly mentoring and business strategy meetings with the founder of Launch Grow Exit (valued at $3,000), for a total prize package of $6,000. All five finalists gain the opportunity to pitch their businesses in Manhattan and access valuable exposure to potential investors, industry partners, and customers. To qualify, applicants must own a business that is at least 51 percent women-owned, produce a physical product in the food, beverage, or CPG space (including wellness, beauty, and similar categories), be U.S.-based with a primary market in the United States, and have at least one founder who is a U.S. citizen. The business must have generated between $100,000 and $999,000 in annual revenue and been in operation for less than four years. Previous grant winners and pitch competition finalists may apply if they still meet the eligibility criteria. Finalists must be available to attend the live in-person pitch night in New York City (stipends are provided for out-of-town finalists), participate in the Foundation's on-site marketplace, send product samples if selected, and remain connected to the Enthuse Foundation on an ongoing basis by providing annual revenue information to the organization.

The Small Business Grant is designed to help Columbia, MO businesses grow, innovate, and improve operations. This competitive grant prioritizes businesses owned by residents of economically disadvantaged areas in Columbia and supports long-term community impact. Grant Awards: 6 grants of $5,000 2 grants of $10,000

Get up to $2,000 to cover the cost of repairing vandalism to your storefront, such as broken windows, doors, locks, or graffiti removal

The Advanced Industries Early-Stage Capital and Retention Grant helps Colorado-based advanced industries technology businesses develop and commercialize advanced technologies that will be created or manufactured in Colorado. Projects can receive up to $250,000. This grant award maximum can be lifted for projects that impact more than one advanced industry. The market typically under-invests in early-stage technologies. The grant’s goal is to fill the gap left by the market. The grant is not meant to compete with existing funding.

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) encourages applications for investigator-initiated mid-phase clinical trials of natural products(i.e., botanicals, dietary supplements, and probiotics), which have a strong scientific premise to justify further clinical testing. For this NOFO, natural products include promising nutritional regimens that standardize the amount of a specific naturally occurring nutritional compound (e.g., omega-3 fatty acids, anthocyanidins, or polyphenols) and have compelling preliminary evidence. All applications submitted under this NOFO must be supported by sufficient preliminary data demonstrating bioavailability (if applicable) and documentation that the natural product produces a reproducible and measurable impact on target engagement (i.e., measure of the mechanism of action). Only in cases when it is not possible/practical to measure target engagement in the patient population of interest or when there is a fundamental understanding of the products mechanism of action will this preliminary data requirement be waived. Applications submitted to this NOFO should propose a mid-phase clinical trial to do the following: determine the optimal dose or formulation of a given natural product for use in a future multi-site efficacy trial; or determine which patient phenotypes will be responders versus non-responders to the natural product to inform inclusion/exclusion criteria of a future efficacy trial. Clinical trials submitted under this NOFO are expected to be hypothesis based, milestone-driven, and directly related to the research priorities and mission of NCCIH. This NOFO will not support single-site or multi-site efficacy or effectiveness trials, nor will it support trials to test natural products for the treatment or prevention of cancer. Applicants are encouraged to contact the appropriate NCCIH Scientific/Research contact for the area of science for which they are planning to develop an application prior to submitting to this NO