2025 TRANSFORM Business Grant for Systemically Marginalized Entrepreneurs

Donor: Transform

About: The TRANSFORM Business Grant 2025 is designed with a clear, powerful mission: to support and uplift entrepreneurs from systemically marginalized groups. TRANSFORM is on a mission to create lasting systemic change by redistributing wealth and promoting anticapitalist and antiracist ideals. This grant offers a $1,000 microgrant and a customized, year-long business strategy and development program to each grantee, ensuring that financial constraints do not hinder the growth of innovative and impactful business ideas.

The TRANSFORM Business Grant 2025 provides a unique opportunity for entrepreneurs, particularly those who identify as part of marginalized communities, to receive the necessary financial support and mentorship to grow their businesses. The grant aims to empower individuals in systemically marginalized groups who are making significant social impact and demonstrate financial need. This includes, but is not limited to BIPOC individuals, individuals with disabilities, formerly incarcerated individuals, and queer, trans, and nonbinary folks.

In addition to the $1,000 microgrant, grantees will participate in a year-long growth-based mentorship program. This program includes access to pro bono services from experts in branding, coaching, skill-based learning, marketing, and more. TRANSFORM is actively anticapitalist and antiracist, continually working to identify and dismantle oppressive systems of power. This grant is open to applicants in the United States, regardless of citizenship or immigration status.

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Focus: Entrepreneurship, Social Impact, Anticapitalism, Antiracism, Business Development, Mentorship, Systemic Change, Wealth Redistribution, Innovation, Community Empowerment, Financial Support, Professional Development, Marginalized Communities, Equity, Inclusion, Social Justice, Economic Empowerment, Business Strategy, Skill-Based Learning, Branding, Coaching, Marketing.

Region: United States

Eligibility:

-Individuals or teams located in the United States, regardless of immigration status.
-Applicants must identify as part of at least one systemically marginalized group.
-Idea/business must be aligned with TRANSFORM’s values, including antiracism and anticapitalism.
-Idea/business must be social impact-oriented and challenge systems of oppression/address social injustices.
-Applicants must demonstrate financial need.

This grant does not fund:
-Political organizations or activities.
-Religious organizations for religious purposes.
-Student loans or other debt payments.
-Business activities focused on medicinal or clinical practices.

Benefits: -Microgrant of $1,000 -Year-long customized business strategy and development program -Access to pro bono services from experts in various fields -Opportunity for significant social impact and systemic change

Terms:
-Anticapitalism: A socio-economic philosophy that opposes capitalism and advocates for a more equitable distribution of wealth and resources.
-Antiracism: The active process of identifying and eliminating racism by changing systems, organizational structures, policies, practices, and attitudes.
-Systemically Marginalized Groups: Groups that have been historically and systemically excluded or disadvantaged based on factors such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and socioeconomic status.
-Wealth Redistribution: The process of redistributing wealth from individuals or groups who have more than they need to those who lack sufficient resources.
-Social Impact: The effect of an activity on the social fabric of the community and the well-being of individuals and families.
-Social Justice: The view that everyone deserves equal economic, political, and social rights and opportunities.
-Grantee: An individual or organization that receives a grant. -Mentorship: A relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps to guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person.
-Pro Bono: Professional work undertaken voluntarily and without payment.