Entrepreneurship

Learn more about the Impact Entrepreneurship Initiative (IEI) here. For more information, you can contact them at impactentrepreneur@newschool.edu.. For more information regarding the application, please check out their website.

• Art Bound Full Scholarship Internship and a paid internship with Code & Theory: Paid internship and scholarship for the Artbound Initiative Program. The ArtBound Initiative Creative Diversity Scholarship scheme is designed to help students and recent grads launch their career in the creative industries. This scheme offers you: A Full Scholarship for the ArtBound Initiative internship program which includes personalized coaching, events, networking opportunities and access to an international network of alumni. A paid remote internship opportunity this Spring in New York with the agency Code & Theory. Follow link below if embedded link above doesn't work http://us15.forward-to-friend.com/forward/preview?u=19b1c08cae262cdceebd4cc4b&id=cbfcf7ddfe  Application can also be accessed via this link. 
• New York’s FAST NY Shovel-Ready Grant Program: Governor Hochul announced plans for the Focused Attraction of Shovel-Ready Tracts New York Grant Program - FAST NY - to attract and expand key growth industries to New York State. The State's Fiscal 2023 budget will make up to $200 million available to the grant program to develop sites that will attract high tech manufacturing, warehousing and distribution, and logistics businesses to the State. If you would like to express interest in, and receive updates about, the FAST NY Shovel-Ready Grant Program, please complete the FAST NY program intake form.
• Fast Break for Small Businesses: From the National Basketball Association [NBA] and LegalZoom. The grant program will target minority - and women-owned businesses, and members of the LGBTQ+ community. Applications for the next round of grants will reopen in Spring 2022, and will be awarded twice a year for the next three years.
• NYC Green Infrastructure Grant Program: This program offers green roof retrofit funding for private property owners in New York City. The goal of the Green Infrastructure Grant Program is to incentivize private property owners to retrofit their roofs with green roofs to manage stormwater runoff. DEP hosts quarterly public workshops to explain the eligibility requirements of the program and guide users through the online application. You must attend one of the online workshops to apply. Please see details here for workshop dates. 
• Global NY Fund Grant Program: Empire State Development’s $35 million Global NY Fund Grant Program provides grants and loans to help New York State’s small and medium-sized businesses go global and create new jobs. The Global NY Fund Grant Program is open to New York State companies and non-profit organizations seeking to create or expand direct exports. All export grants are awarded on a reimbursable basis. (Please note this grant is currently paused).