WI Entrepreneurial Training Program

The Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture believes that investing in arts and culture builds community and enhances the quality of life for residents. The agency offers various opportunities, including funding and professional development, designed to support the work of arts organizations, artists and educators who provide quality arts programming, activities and experiences to residents, neighborhoods and communities.

The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to fund clinical trials of products evaluating efficacy and/or safety in support of a new indication or change in labeling to address unmet needs in rare neurodegenerative diseases for children and adults. Through the support of collaborative, efficient, and/or innovative clinical trials, FDA expects to increase the number of approved treatments for rare neurodegenerative diseases and exert a broad and positive impact on rare disease drug development.

The Start.Pivot.Grow. Micro Grant provides $2,500 in non-dilutive funding to small businesses for essential expenses like rent, inventory, or marketing. Open to U.S.-based, for-profit companies with at least two years of operation, eligible applicants must generate $50,000+ annually and have no more than two employees, including the owner. Winners will also receive a digital business growth planner and a Prep My Loan Planner to support their development. Grants are awarded quarterly, with applications accepted on a rolling basis.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) supports innovative research and development in biomedical informatics and data science. This funding opportunity focuses on biomedical discovery and data-powered health, integrating streams of complex and interconnected research outputs that can be translated into scientific insights, clinical care, public health practices, and personal wellness to ensure the research is scalable, reproducible, and generalizable. The scope of NLM's interest in these research domains is broad, with emphasis on new and innovative methods and approaches to foster data driven discovery in the biomedical and clinical health sciences as well as domain-independent, scalable, and reusable approaches to discovery, curation, analysis, organization, and management of health-related data and digital objects.

Dayton Community Development Corporation offers grants for small businesses that focus on the Downtown District of Dayton. To qualify for these programs, businesses must be within designated locations in the city. The Dayton Downtown Improvement Grant provides up to $25,000, as a 50% match for activities such as interior renovations, signage, landscaping and improvement to the building and parking lot. Along the same lines, the Dayton Small Business Grant offers funding up to $7,500 for exterior projects and also $7,500 for interior projects — on a 50% match basis.