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The Youth Entrepreneurship Capacity Grant is a $250,000 funding opportunity from VentureLab that supports afterschool networks and partner organizations in expanding youth entrepreneurship education programs. Targeted at VentureLab's state afterschool network partners and potential collaborators in cities like Boston, the grant is designed to build organizational capacity to deliver entrepreneurship programming to young people.
Partners receive a toolkit of resources including ready-to-use copy, newsletter blurbs, and slide decks to promote the program and demonstrate impact to their networks. The application deadline is June 30, 2026.
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Capacity Grant Partner Toolkit 2026 VentureLab Capacity Grant Partner Toolkit Welcome! We’re thrilled to have you as a partner. This toolkit is designed to make it easy to share our partnership and showcase the impact of our work together and includes everything you need: ready-to-use copy, images, and slide decks to share with your networks.
With this toolkit, you can: Copy and paste any of the sample posts below Drop our blurb into your newsletter, blog, or website Share program slide decks with your networks Use the provided visuals when you post Help spread the word to educators, program leaders, and youth organizations VentureLab 101 – Introductory presentation. Use this slideshow when introducing VentureLab.
VentureLab Spark Mentorship & Materials Program Overview – Use this slideshow for recruiting new program sites. VentureLab Spark Mentorship & Materials Program Overview – Use this slideshow for recruiting new program sites. VentureLab Idea to Pitch Deck – Use this slideshow when introducing Idea to Pitch Curriculum and program overview This toolkit folder in Canva offers a curated collection of fully customizable templates.
This is a living folder and will be continually updated with new assets. To request access to Canva Folder, email [email protected] . The Google drive folder also contains visual assets for you to use.
Access Toolkit in Google Drive. Review these key talking points when dealing with the media, speaking presentations and more. Free, high-quality resources: Access ready-to-use activities, guides, and tools for educators, parents, and youth.
Built with educators: Designed to foster innovation and entrepreneurial thinking in every learning space. Programs for youth empowerment: Spark Program, Idea to Pitch, and more to inspire confidence, creativity, and resilience. ESTEAM® approach: Integrates entrepreneurship with science, technology, engineering, arts, and math.
Join the movement: Partner with VentureLab to inspire the next generation of diverse innovators and changemakers VentureLab is a national nonprofit dedicated to sparking entrepreneurial mindsets in youth through fun, interactive, and hands-on learning experiences.
Our VentureLab ESTEAM® approach, (Entrepreneurship, Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) empowers students to build creativity, resilience, problem-solving, and collaboration skills—preparing them to thrive in school, career, and life. VentureLab’s programs teach entrepreneurial thinking and employability skills by: Providing opportunities for group work, prototyping, and hands-on learning.
Demonstrating examples of real-world challenges and inspiring female role models tackling them. Creating opportunities for risk-taking and confidence-building. Helping instructors establish a safe (and brave) space for creativity and exploration.
Spark Mentorship & Materials Program Recruitment Bring the VentureLab Spark Mentorship and Materials Program to your community! Join (add your org here) for an action-packed youth entrepreneurship experience where students work with a mentor and a framework to grow an existing business idea and their entrepreneurial mindset.
They set SMART goals, mindset goals, and take actionable steps toward bringing to market or scaling their business. Using the VentureLab ESTEAM® approach, students build creativity, resilience, problem-solving, and collaboration skills—preparing them to thrive in school, career, and life. Let’s work together to inspire the next generation of innovators and changemakers.
Students turn ideas into action with VentureLab’s Idea to Pitch Program ! With the Idea to Pitch Program, students grow their entrepreneurial mindsets and skills as they apply their passions and strengths to identify opportunities to creatively solve problems, develop their solution into a business, and pitch the idea. Along the way, they build entrepreneurial mindsets like curiosity, adaptability, and resilience.
Let’s inspire the next generation of changemakers together! Instagram: @ourventurelab When referencing VentureLab on your website or newsletter, hyperlink the word VentureLab to https://venturelab. org .
VentureLab’s Free Resources VentureLab’s FREE Resources Whether you’re an educator, parent, or student, discover tools, activities, and guides designed to foster innovation and entrepreneurial thinking in young minds. Explore today and empower the next generation of diverse innovators and changemakers. Join VentureLab’s Monthly Newsletter Get a free monthly resource, youth entrepreneurial news and more.
Below, you’ll find examples of how our partners have successfully integrated VentureLab into their websites and promotional materials, such as flyers and brochures. We want to help amplify your efforts—please reach out with your ideas, suggestions, and storytelling opportunities so we can celebrate and share your impact. Contribute to transformative educational initiatives!
Contact VentureLab’s Director of Philanthropy, Monica Morales. Interested in entrepreneurial education opportunities? Contact VentureLab’s Director of Education, Scott Mann .
Media Inquiries? Story to share? Contact VentureLab’s Executive Director , Desma Deitz .
We’re on a mission to create the next generation of diverse innovators and changemakers by making entrepreneurship education accessible to ALL youth. VentureLab Curriculum & Programs Professional Development & Training
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: VentureLab and state afterschool networks; potential Boston partners. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
Current published award information indicates $250,000 Always verify allowable costs, matching requirements, and funding caps directly in the sponsor documentation.
The current target date is June 30, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, attachments, and final submission checks.
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Note: Each funding opportunity description is a synopsis of information in the Federal Register application notice. For specific information about eligibility, please see the official application notice. The official version of this document is the document published in the Federal Register. Free Internet access to the official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations is available on GPO Access at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/index.html. Please review the official application notice for pre-application and application requirements, application submission information, performance measures, priorities and program contact information. For the addresses for obtaining and submitting an application, please refer to our Revised Common Instructions for Applicants to Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs, published in the Federal Register on December 27, 2021. Purpose of Program: The NASNTI Program provides grants to eligible institutions of higher education (IHEs) to enable them to improve and expand their capacity to serve Native Americans and low-income individuals. Institutions may use the grants to plan, develop, undertake, and carry out activities to improve and expand their capacity to serve Native American and low-income students. Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.031X. Funding Opportunity Number: ED-GRANTS-051022-001. Assistance Listing: 84.031. Funding Instrument: CA,G. Category: ED. Award Amount: Up to $550K per award.
The National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program (NLG-L) supports projects that address critical needs of the library and archives fields and have the potential to advance practice and strengthen library and archival services for the American public. Successful proposals will generate results such as new models, tools, research findings, services, practices, and/or alliances that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend and leverage the benefits of federal investment. Applications to IMLS should both advance knowledge and understanding and ensure that the federal investment made generates benefits to society. Specifically, the goals for this program are to generate projects of far-reaching impact that: • Build the workforce and institutional capacity for managing the national information infrastructure and serving the information and education needs of the public. • Build the capacity of libraries and archives to lead and contribute to efforts that improve community well-being and strengthen civic engagement. • Improve the ability of libraries and archives to provide broad access to and use of information and collections with emphasis on collaboration to avoid duplication and maximize reach. • Strengthen the ability of libraries to provide services to affected communities in the event of an emergency or disaster. • Strengthen the ability of libraries, archives, and museums to work collaboratively for the benefit of the communities they serve. Throughout its work, IMLS places importance on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This may be reflected in an IMLS-funded project in a wide range of ways, including efforts to serve individuals of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds; individuals with disabilities; individuals with limited functional literacy or information skills; individuals having difficulty using a library or museum; and underserved urban and rural communities, including children from families with incomes below the poverty line. Application Process: The application process for the NLG-L program has two phases; applicants must begin by applying for Phase I. For Phase I, all applicants must submit Preliminary Proposals by the September 20th deadline listed for this Notice of Funding Opportunity. For Phase II, only selected applicants will be invited to submit Full Proposals, and only those Invited Full Proposals will be considered for funding. Invited Full Proposals will be due March 20, 2024. Funding Opportunity Number: NLG-LIBRARIES-FY24. Assistance Listing: 45.312. Funding Instrument: G. Category: AR,HU. Award Amount: $50K – $1M per award.
The California Department of Education (CDE) Early Education Division is making approximately .7 million available to expand California State Preschool Program (CSPP) services statewide, appropriated under the 2021 Budget Act. Eligible applicants are local educational agencies (LEAs), including school districts, county offices of education, community college districts, and direct-funded charter schools—both current CSPP contractors and new applicants. Funding supports full-day/full-year or part-day/part-year preschool services for income-eligible children beginning in FY 2024–25. Awards are allocated by county based on Local Planning Council priority areas and application scores, with redistribution provisions if county allocations are underutilized.