🎉 10 RICH + RIOT Memberships Giveaway for Women's Month and Money Monday!
A grant honoring a woman who wasn’t able to fulfill her dreams, a platform for investors with early access to deals, An accelerator program to help you launch your business Silicon Valley style.
Here is what to expect is in this newsletter:
A chance to win up to a $50k small business grant from FedEx,Â
🎉 10 RICH + RIOT Memberships Giveaway for Women’s Month.
A private platform for fledgling Angel Investors
How to launch your business Silicon Valley style.
A card of the week that sets March up to be the strongest month yet.
🎉 We are so excited to launch our very first giveaway collaboration with Pando. The Founders of Pando believe that career success is more easily achieved when your community stands with you, so they created a platform that makes it possible to both invest in and accept investment from your peers.Pando is sponsoring 10 RICH + RIOT Memberships! As part of the Giveaway Pando will be hosting a conversation around community and entrepreneurship with the 10 membership winners and current RICH + RIOT community members. They will invite industry experts, Founders, and VCs to speak with the RICH + RIOT Community members on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:00pm PST. Lunch will be provided to you by Pando. Submit your entry by registering today!
🗣From the Founder (Kamilah)
Issue number 10! It is only fitting that our 10th issue and launch of our first collaboration be on the first day of International Women’s Month. We wouldn’t have it any other way. If you would like to continue to receive these emails every week and be a part of the RICH + RIOT community, make sure to subscribe now and don’t miss a thing. Join now for 25% Off forever.
🤑Funding (FUNdamental to any business)
💰Grants
The FedEx Small Business Grant Contest returns for its ninth year! Apply for a chance to win $50,000 from FedEx to help your business continue to grow stronger.
12 businesses will win one of these prizes:Grand Prize:
$50,000, plus $7,500 in FedEx Office print services2nd Place Prize:
$30,000, plus $5,000 in FedEx Office print services3rd Place Prizes (10):
$15,000, plus $1,000 in FedEx Office print services
WomensNet was created to help women achieve their dreams. Every month they give away at least $10,000 in small business grants in honor of Amber Wigdahl, who died before fulfilling her dreams. At the end of each year, one grant recipient receives an additional $25,000 grant. For more information and to apply, please click here.
Vistaprint, the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation, and the NAACP have teamed up to empower Black-owned small businesses in New England through the new Power Forward Small Business Grant program. Through this initiative, qualified applicants will receive $25,000 grants plus design and marketing assistance.
KKR Small Business Builders offers $10,000 grants and mentoring to help owners sustain their businesses, maintain and create jobs, and spur economic opportunity during COVID-19. Round 4 is now open for applications.
💸 Angel Investors
If you’re starting your Angel Investing journey or looking to access new investment opportunities, the Seedrs AngelNetwork is a private platform designed to provide Angels with advanced access to the Seedrs deal pipeline and portfolio.
💼Job Opportunities
Breakroom is hiring a Growth Manager and a Digital Designer.
These are great opportunities to join a growing seed-stage company backed by top-tier investors (PROFounders and Northzone), work with a friendly team, and do something meaningful every day.Â
igniteXL Ventures is seeking an enthusiastic Operations and Research Intern for day-to-day operations and research projects.
📈 Accelerators
The GUILD Academy's next cohort starts on April 1st. Launch your business Silicon Valley style. Learn from Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, investors, and thought leaders how to launch, grow and fund a profitable and scalable company. (I will be in this cohort. I am so excited!)
Join Village Global to accelerate your startup. Selection criteria include the team, opportunity, and references. We can only fund a small percentage of founders who apply, but we review each submission. We’ll contact you if a conversation is a good next step. Preview all application questions here.Â
💲 Venture Capital
📆Events
Tuesday, March 2, 10 am - 11amPST COVID-19 & Small Business Briefing - As the Bay Area continues to navigate the coronavirus crisis, it's important for business owners to stay up to date with reopening guidelines, resources and restrictions. This one-hour workshop will cover updates in all Bay Area counties.
Thursday, March 4, 6 pm EST FemTech Innovation Summit: International Women's Day will be looking at FemTech's role in forging an equal gender world. Part 1 of this 3 part series celebrates gender equality while equipping participants with practical takeaways to progress their professional skill sets in the FemTech ecosystem. (You do not want to miss this. I am a BIG fan of FemTech Collective!)Â
Friday, March 5, 12:00 pm - 1:00pmPST Legal Lunch & Learn (WBC) Are you starting or running a San Francisco Bay Area community microbusiness but can’t afford a lawyer? Grab your lunch and join us via Zoom on alternate Fridays at noon for an informal group discussion to help you develop or revise your legal strategy and risk management plan during these challenging times of the Covid-19 pandemic and economic recession. (Note: This is NOT a formal legal advice session)
Saturday, March 6, 10 am - 12pmPST - The Renaissance Women’s Leadership Council Pop Up Advisors for Women will bring together women volunteers from corporate, small business, and other sectors to participate in small panels of advisors to provide personalized support and guidance to Renaissance women business owners.
🛠Tech Tools - My absolute favorite things!
We are hard at work on expanding our member perks and have been excitedly making plans to help you all easily connect to keep each other informed, encouraged and empowered. In order to offer you the very best we need to hear from you! Your responses to this simple, 30 second two-part mini-survey will be tremendously helpful as it will help us select the best platform to use for these connections. We’re happy with a simple one-letter answer to each question but if you have time we’d deeply appreciate it if you could take a moment to tell us what you like or dislike about your selections.Â
What’s your favorite platform for connecting with the community?
A. Slack
B. Facebook Group
C. Notion
D. Discord
E. Google Groups
F. I don’t care! If you build it, I will be there.
What’s your LEAST favorite platform for connecting with the community?
Google Groups
Facebook Group
Notion
Discord
Slack
I still don’t care! Just build it already!
🔮Business Alchemy ✨
Yall know I am with the Woo Woo! Lets pull a card for the week and get inspired.
Card of the week: Warrior Woman (this is how you start Women’s Month)
If you weren’t afraid, what would you do?
What are you being called to do or face that requires courage? If you weren’t afraid, what would you do? Living a heart-and-soul-led life is not all fluffy and smooth sailing. Living a heart-and-soul-led life requires courage to triumph over fear.
So often, our fears are the gatekeepers to our greatest gifts. And the more resistance we have toward answering a call, the more important it is to our soul’s growth. Sometimes fear is an indication that we are facing the right way.
Joan of Arc was known for her courage and her famous line: ‘I’m not afraid, I was born to do this.’ But the thing about courage is that it is not possible without fear. So, if you are feeling afraid, what is needed is courage. And courage comes from living from the heart.
Think of your fears as opportunities to expand, rather than things that are holding you hostage. If you look at your fears in this light, then, as uncomfortable as it might feel, it’s actually a sign that you are on the right track.
△ Work Your Light Inquiry: If you weren’t afraid, what would you do? △
Card of the week from The Work Your Light Oracle.
Rich + Riot was previously a product brand with an empowerment message now it is an empowerment community with just a few products. Rich + Riot is about empowering women entrepreneurs and encouraging collaborations. This Thursday will be the last weekly issue for our for our nonmember. If you would like to continue to receive these emails on a weekly bases and be a part of the RICH + RIOT community make sure to subscribe now and don’t miss a thing join now for 25% Off forever.