📢Announcement of an SBA grant for restaurant owners and all things Money Monday!
Announcement of an SBA grant for restaurant owners, Startup Competition that awards innovative, scalable, and job-creating exchange for headquartering your business in St. Louis.
Here is what to expect is in this newsletter:
Announcement of an SBA grant for restaurant owners
Startup Competition that awards innovative, scalable, and job-creating startups with $50,000 non-dilutive grants and access to an ecosystem of resources in exchange for headquartering their business in St. Louis.
Business roles at early-stage startups
Card of the week to make your life a moving prayer.
🗣From the Founder (Kamilah)
Get the right people around you and watch how fast you level up. It is May Money Monday, and we have all the resources and opportunities you need. Let’s get straight into it.
🤑 Let’s have some FUNding
💰Grants
Restaurant Revitalization Fund
Applications for the $28.6 billion Restaurant Revitalization Fund open TODAY, Monday, May 3, via the Small Business Administration's website. Your restaurant could be eligible for a grant of up to $10 million to spend on operating expenses, including rent, payroll, and food supplies.
The Arch Grants Startup Competition awards innovative, scalable, and job-creating startups with $50,000 non-dilutive grants and access to an ecosystem of resources in exchange for headquartering their business in St. Louis for at least one year. Competition applications are evaluated by over 400 investors and industry experts from the St. Louis community and around the country.
💼Job Opportunities
Career Karma is hiring a Live Audio Room Host. They are looking for a Live Room Host to attend nightly weekday events. In this role, you will be responsible for enhancing the experience on the Career Karma app for our community engagement. Successfully doing so will have a major impact on the value of our user experience and company growth. Apply now.
Business roles at early-stage startups are highly coveted, and we think these are some strong ones. It's a super fun time over at Maven; They are growing quickly, there's tons of potential, and you can make a real impact. Check them out.
Goodr is hiring delivery drivers in Atlanta, starting at $15/hour. Goodr is an Atlanta-based social impact startup leveraging technology to reduce food waste and end hunger. Backed by an amazing group of venture funds and angel investors. They have been featured by national press outlets like Forbes, Inc., CNBC, and Oprah Winfrey Network.Learn more.
Join Rich + Riot’s membership for access to more resources like this. Be a part of a community of women entrepreneurs who make waves and support one another while they do it. As a member of Rich + Riot, you will receive:
💌 Weekly Resources and opportunities are emailed directly to your inbox weekly.
🔗 “The Connect” Directory access - You will be listed on our directory and have access to all of our community members.
💻 Access to the community on a forum where you can connect with others 1:1
☎️ Live Office Hours- Opportunities to participate in live virtual Q&As and mentoring sessions with experts. You'll get full access to an archive of these sessions if you can't catch them in real-time.
🎟 Free tickets to networking events (when outside opens up again 🤞)
👚 Free candle or t-shirt mailed directly to you :)
📈 Accelerators
Open to both emerging and established artists, the Art Business Accelerator distributes unrestricted funds to invest in your art business, as well as six weeks of self-guided online educational resources that increase business skills, economic proficiency, marketing knowledge, and more.
📆Events
Join The Alliance for Community Development, May 13th at 10:30 am for our next Ask Me Anything (AMA) event with licensed attorney Ruky Tijani, founder of Firm for the Culture. Ruky will be sharing her knowledge around intellectual property rights, going over how to know if you should go through the trademark or copyright process, and answering any questions you may have for her! This is a free opportunity to ask a licensed attorney your questions around intellectual property, so come ready to interact and learn!
Thursday, June 24th at 12 pm for an interactive workshop on funding your business — facilitated by Willis Wilson, Portfolio Manager at ICA! This workshop will cover a brief overview of different types of business funding, then focus on the specifics of equity funding. If you’re a business owner currently evaluating whether to raise capital, this workshop is for you! Participants will walk away with a clear understanding of what equity investment is, how to assess if it's right for your business, and what to look for in an investor.
🛠 Tech Tools
I downloaded Otter when I was not feeling well after my second COVID 19 shot, but I still needed to send a long email. Otter lets you generate rich notes for meetings, interviews, lectures, and other important voice conversations. Otter, your AI-powered, not taking assistant. So far, I really like it.
🔮Business Alchemy ✨
WOO, There it is! Let’s pull a card for the week and get inspired.
△ CARD OF THE WEEK: THE COSMIC HEART △
Devotion. Potency. Make your life a moving prayer.
When you surrender to a state of devotion, you find yourself flowing with all of life. You’re being called to refocus your attention deep within: to the intelligence of your own heart. To bow with deep reverence to your Inner Temple. To live your life in devotion to this place. To make your life one big moving prayer.
Perhaps you’ve felt a bit off-kilter lately, sensing that the potency of why you’re doing things has gotten a little watered down or weak? Perhaps you’ve forgotten what made you start doing them in the first place? If so, this is your call to take a moment and reconnect with the truth at the very center of your heart. To reconnect with the very center point of your heart. To get back to the essence of what you’re about. To devote your life to what you care most about. To turn your gaze deep, deep deep deep.
There are seasons for harvesting and seasons for sowing. Right now, you’re being called to plant your soul’s seeds and sing to them with deep devotion. To feed them with the sweet waters of your own soul. To lose yourself in the potency of what it is that most expands your heart. To live your life according to what makes you come alive, rather than what everyone else thinks. To make your life one big moving prayer.
△ STARSEED ACTIVATION: How can you make your life a moving prayer? △
Card of the week from The Starseed 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.