Virginia Renewal Eneergy Fund Grants

The 2026 WeddingPro Grant Program is a $500,000 investment designed to support wedding small businesses through financial grants, advertising support, mentorship, and education. Each business will be elligible to receive grants between $10,000 and $50,000 as well as one year of free advertising on The Knot and WeddingWire. The program is open to US-based wedding professionals who operate a small business and earn a meaningful portion of their income from weddings.

The UPS Store Small Biz Challenge offers entrepreneurs the chance to win a grand prize, including a cash award from the $35,000 prize pool and a spotlight in Inc. magazine. The competition involves several phases: an initial application, a mentoring phase, and a public vote to narrow the field to three finalists, who will pitch their businesses to a panel of judges.

The JobsOhio Small Business Grant offers up to $50,000 in financial assistance to eligible small businesses in Ohio looking to grow their operations. To be eligible, a business must be in operation for at least a year and have revenue between $100,000 and $25 million. Grant amounts can be used for eligible costs such as machinery, equipment, buildings, new construction, land, technical improvements, revitalization costs and more.

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) provides a continuing opportunity for the rapid support of early-stage applied research to explore innovative new concepts with the potential for transformational and disruptive changes in energy technology. Spurring Projects to Advance Energy Research and Knowledge Swiftly (SPARKS) awards are intended to be flexible and may take the form of analyses or exploratory research that provides the agency with useful information for the subsequent development of focused technology programs. SPARKS awards may also support proof-of-concept research to develop a unique technology concept, either in an area not currently supported by the agency or as a potential enhancement to an ongoing focused technology program. Applications must propose concepts that are not covered by open ARPA-E focused FOAs and that do not represent incremental improvements over existing technology. SPARKS awards are defined as single-phase efforts of durations of 18 months or less with a total project cost of $500,000 or less and will be issued through Grants. ARPA-E expects to make approximately $10 million per fiscal year available for new awards, subject to the availability of appropriated funds. This announcement is purposely broad in scope to encourage the submission of the most innovative ideas in energy technology to support transformative energy R&D that complements ARPA-E’s primary mechanism, which is through the solicitation of research projects in focused technology programs.ARPA-E’s focused programs target specific areas of technology that the agency has identified through extensive interaction with the appropriate external stakeholders. The focused programs have significant potential impact on one or more of the statutory goals described in Section I.A of the FOA. Awards made in response to the solicitation for focused programs support the aggressive technical targets established in that solicitation. Taken in total, ARPA-E’s focused programs cover a broad swath of energy technologies and applications.

The Building Bridges Small Business Program is designed to help Milwaukee entrepreneurs navigate resources and organizations to fuel commercial corridor revitalization. Elligible businesses can receive up to $10,000 in grants to start or expand brick-and-mortar commercial corridor businesses. Applications are administered through partner agencies across Milwaukee.