MULTICULTURAL MIAMI

RESOURCES, GRANTS AND LOANS

Career Fair 2023

Join The South Florida Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, in collaboration with CareerSource South Florida, for a day of networking with top recruiters and hiring managers in South Florida! Career Fair 2023 will take place on June 15 at the Florida Blue Building. Come check out networking opportunities and find job possibilities. Please remember to bring your resume, dress professionally, practice your personalized pitch and don't forget to smile! You are encouraged to register online.

Miami Bayside Foundation Small Business Training

Enrollment for the Miami Bayside Foundation's Small Business Workshop opens June 26. The program runs from July 18 through August 17. The 15-session online workshop is geared towards helping business owners sharpen their entrepreneurial skills while learning how to prepare to access capital. Participating small businesses will complete workshop training led by industry professionals. The program is supported by the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Buerau’s Tourism Business Enhancement Initiative with the mission to advocate, support, and strengthen the economic sustainability and access of multicultural communities and heritage-related businesses within the Greater Miami & Miami Beach as part of the efforts of the Multicultural Tourism & Development Department. To learn more about this training opportunity and the application process email Petra Brennan.

Recession Proof Miami 2023

Get ready to take charge of your financial future! This is an exciting business conference designed to empower you with the knowledge and skills needed to succeed. Money matters, and it's crucial to understand how to make it work for you. Whether you're new to the stock market or already have some experience, this event is for you. Are you dreaming of starting your own business? Explore the essentials of entrepreneurship, from generating ideas to creating a solid business plan. But that's not all, dive into the world of retirement planning and leaving a financial legacy. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity happening on June 3. Click here for more details.

Bold Arts Brands for New Times

Join the Miami Arts Marketing Project for this intensive workshop for curious and innovative arts leaders eager to explore the relevancy of their brand related to mission, goals, and fundraising. Explore your organizational identity and its ability to harness community and donor support. It draws the direct connection of a bold brand to your values, encourages reflection of those values through a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and teaches you how to position your voice with the stakeholders crucial to your success. This online session on June 6 will be lead by Dale Edwards, Vice President of Marketing at the Adrienne Arsht Center.

Young Women's Christian Association Women’s Empowerment 360° Program

The Young Women's Christian Association Women’s Empowerment 360° (WE360°) is a national program designed to help women of color overcome barriers to starting, growing, and sustaining businesses while providing them with educational tools to increase their knowledge and confidence as entrepreneurs. This is an online program, one day a week, 6 pm - 8 pm via Zoom. Link is sent after registration. The nine week program starts June 6. Click here to register.

Legal Pitfalls Tech Businesses Should Avoid

The Business Innovation & Technology (BIT) Center of Miami Dade College presents Legal Pitfalls Tech Businesses Should Avoid. Discover how to protect your personal and business assets with the right entity and Internet Protocol protection. Learn the differences between trademarks, copyrights, and patents. Understand what infringement is, and more! The BIT Center invites students, faculty and our Miami Community (non-students) to join them on June7 at the Miami Dade College (MDC) Wolfson Campus to meet and learn from their guest speaker in person. Or, Zoom from home or at their BIT Center at MDC Kendall. They will be monitoring the online chat room for your questions. Register here.

Marketing 101

Florida International University's College of Business (FIU) and the Florida Small Business Development Centers Network (SBDC) have joined forces to bring you the Small Business Certificate Series. They will offer seminars from highly trained business experts. During these workshops, companies will learn steps to successfully start and grow a business, review key financial concepts for small businesses, and how to start doing business with the government. Learn successful marketing strategies to grow your business. Gain insights from the lender’s perspective and steps you can take today to make your business more bankable. Participants who attend and complete the five (5) workshops will receive a certificate of completion from Florida SBDC at FIU. This workshop takes place on June 7 at the Marjorie and William McDonald Center in North Miami Beach.

Future Festival

The 2023 #SHE_BUILDS Global Initiative's Future Festival is set to be a game-changer for women entrepreneurs and creators worldwide. With a focus on digital transformation in business, technology, art, and culture to name a few, this dynamic event aims to serve as a platform to propel economic prosperity in communities of color across the globe. The annual festival is making its footprint for the first time in Miami this year. A growing hub for entrepreneurship and technology – the Miami ecosystem is one to watch. The #SHE_BUILDS Future Festival is moving full steam ahead with its mission to empower women of color from around the globe. Don’t miss out on this groundbreaking event June 8-10!

Impacto Hispanic Business Accelerator

The PepsiCo Foundation created The Impacto Hispanic Business Accelerator to provide Hispanic food entrepreneurs with meaningful learning and networking opportunities, along with grant capital to fuel their business growth and empower them to overcome systemic disparities. Accion Opportunity Fund is proud to serve as one of the nonprofit partners hosting the Impacto program. At Accion Opportunity Fund they work closely with small business owners to provide them with fairly priced loans, educational resources, coaching, and support networks in English and Spanish. Apply before June 16.

The Mayor’s Career & Job Fair

Join the Miami-Dade county Family! Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, the Human resources Department and CareerSource South Florida invite you to attend the Mayor’s Career & Job Fair on June 21. Details are to be announced. Learn more here.

Intro to Government Contracting

Florida International University's College of Business (FIU) and the Florida Small Business Development Centers Network (SBDC) have joined forces to bring you the Small Business Certificate Series. They will offer seminars from highly trained business experts. During these workshops, companies will learn steps to successfully start and grow a business, review key financial concepts for small businesses, and how to start doing business with the government. Learn successful marketing strategies to grow your business. Gain insights from the lender’s perspective and steps you can take today to make your business more bankable. Participants who attend and complete the five (5) workshops will receive a certificate of completion from Florida SBDC at FIU. This workshop takes place on June 21 at the Marjorie and William McDonald Center in North Miami Beach.

Miami Business, Tech & Entrepreneur Professional Networking Soiree

Attend the the largest networking event for entrepreneurs, startups and business professionals. Are you looking for co-founders, partners, coaches or core team members for your start-up? Please join us for an evening of creativity, inspiration and passionate conversations. Hosted by Miami Entrepreneur and Startup Network, this event on June 26 will take place at Esotico Miami. Bring plenty of business cards! RSVP is a must.

2024 - 2025 Arts and Culture Grants Applications

Applications for the fiscal year 2024-2025 for General Program Support, Specific Cultural Projects, Cultural Facilities, and Cultural Endowment State Matching Share grant programs are now open! They must be submitted online using the Department of State (DOS) Grants System. The deadline for application submission is June 21. DOS Grants allow Floridians to apply for and manage grants offered by the DOS through the Divisions of Arts and Culture, Elections, Historical Resources and Library, and Information Services. These grants support Florida's position as the recognized national leader in these areas.

Understanding Financial Statements

The Community Fund of North Miami Dade invites you to a zoom lesson on Understanding Financial Statements. Do you know how much your business is worth? How profitable is it? If it is profitable, why is it running out of cash? Can your business take on loans to grow? Learn how you can answer these questions and more from your business financial statements. Register now for this online seminar on June 22.

Calling South Florida Photographers

HistoryMiami Museum’s Center for Photography announces the continuation of its photography fellowship for local Black, Indigenous, People of Color and Latinx photographers to amplify community stories through their lenses. The fellowship offers one emerging, South Florida-based photographer with opportunities. Submissions for the 2023-2024 fellowship are due by June 30. Applications will be reviewed by a diverse committee of local documentary photographers, curators, other photography professionals, and museum staff. Get more information here.

RISE Miami-Dade Small Business Loan

Miami-Dade County is a place of great entrepreneurial spirit and great opportunities for continued economic growth. With RISE, Miami-Dade County will continue to be a leader in successful minority-run businesses, continue to be a county of opportunity for all, and a county that prioritizes investing in its small business economy. This fund’s goal is to create a highway of access to capital for Miami-Dade County’s small business ecosystem by providing loans directly to low and moderate, minority and women-owned small businesses. Click here to find out if your business qualifies for this loan.

Miami Open for Business: Asset Building Loans For Entrepreneurs Fund

Through Open For Business, funded by a grant from Wells Fargo, The Miami Foundation is supporting historically underinvested small businesses and nonprofits with grants and loans. The goal of the Miami Open for Business Asset Building Loan for Entrepreneurs (ABLE) is to provide low-interest financing for minority-led nonprofits and small businesses to buy a vehicle or inventory, renovate their workspace, refinance predatory debt for assets, or finance a business transfer or worker co-op conversion. Click here to learn more.

United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Free Counseling Program for Entrepreneurs

The business advisors at United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) Navigates Small Business provide support to help your business thrive, with guidance on establishing a business, business finances, funding and access to capital, marketing and branding, growing a team, government contracting, public and corporate supply chains and procurement, and minority certification. Learn more here.

Registration for the Full Series of Miami Arts Marketing Project 2023 is Now Open!

Miami Arts Marketing Project is a high-impact series curated for the arts and creative ecosystem that provides the discovery of the latest trends in marketing, innovation and exploration of impactful partnerships and new audiences. As the arts comeback intensifies your organization needs tactics, tips and inspiration to reach new audiences, engage your patrons and connect with new sponsors. Join us to amplify your marketing, outreach, and fundraising. Click here for the lineup.

Miami-Dade Economic Advocacy Trust Minority Small Black Business $10,000 Grant

Miami-Dade Economic Advocacy Trust (MDEAT) announced the availability of grants through its Minority Small Black Business Capitalization Program for small to medium minority businesses in Miami-Dade County in the amount of $10,000 to improve or stabilize neighborhood businesses throughout Miami-Dade County. For more information, contact Robert Parson, Economic Development Manager, at 305-375-5610, Robert.Parson2@MiamiDade.gov or download the application here.

The National Endowment for the Arts 2023 Grant Opportunities

Guidelines and application materials for Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) and Challenge America funding are now available on the National Endowment for the Arts’ website. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) supports projects in any part of the nation’s 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. jurisdictions. The NEA encourages activities that rebuild the creative economy and educate the next generation, unite and heal the nation through the arts, and serve the nation’s arts field.

Hacker Nation at StartUP FIU

Hacker Nation at StartUP FIU is a group dedicated to creating an open learning environment where people can share new topics, ideas, and knowledge, or ask for certain areas of expertise that are not yet available in schools/universities/online. Any student, researcher, or explorer, who wants to challenge their thinking is welcome, regardless of the major or previous level of expertise. Held every Wednesday at 11:30 am at StartUP FIU or via Zoom.

The North Miami Community Redevelopment Agency Business Assistance Program

Learn more about our Beautification and Enhancement Grants offered by the North Miami Community Redevelopment Agency! This program offers up to $25,000 with no match requirement, to eligible commercial property owners or business operators for improvements to the exterior and/or interior of the building. To learn more email cragrants@northmiamifl.gov.

Florida MBDA Export Academy

Interested in selling your products abroad but are new-to-export and new-to-global markets. This online platform is designed for you, with an on-demand, 12-module certificate course for new-to-export companies. Click here to learn more.

⁠US Citizenship & Immigration Services Job Information Session

Join the USCIS for their monthly virtual job information session for Miami and the Caribbean District. They are currently hiring for various Immigration Services positions and Operation Support Specialists. This meeting occurs on the third Thursday of every month at noon. Click here to join the meeting.

Google Career Certificates

Jump-start your career with free access to a Google Career Certificate. Prepare for entry-level jobs in data analytics, IT support, project management, or user experience design – no college degree or relevant experience required. Explore the Grow with Google program at grow.google/certificates. CareerSource South Florida offers scholarships for free access to the Google Career Certificate. To find out if you qualify register here.

Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs Grant Guidelines

The Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs has released guidelines and deadline schedules for the 2023-2024 spring cycle of arts and cultural grants programs available to Miami-Dade County based non-profit cultural groups. Guidelines containing information regarding eligibility requirements, funding requests and program criteria can be downloaded here. Grant guidelines can also be requested by calling the Department of Cultural Affairs at (305) 375-4634, or via email at culture@miamidade.gov.

SBA Loans

Start or expand your business with loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration. Use Lender Match to find lenders that offer loans for your business. To get matched to potential offering SBA-backed funding click here.

South Florida Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

The South Florida Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (SFLHCC) promotes the continued growth and development of the Hispanic business community and serves as a resource center and forum to advocate for Hispanic and Minority owned businesses. The organization is comprised of dedicated professional individuals and business owners who have come together to advance the commercial, financial, educational and civic interests of the ever-growing Hispanic Community of South Florida. To learn more visit SFLHCC.

Beacon Council - Business Assistance

The Miami-Dade Beacon Council, a public-private partnership, is the official economic development organization for Miami-Dade County. As Miami-Dade County's official economic development partnership, The Beacon Council facilitates local, national and international business growth and expansion programs, helping companies of all sizes in diverse industries achieve their goals.

CAMACOL - Latin Chamber of Commerce of the USA

One of the largest and oldest Hispanic business organizations in Florida and one of the most influential minority business groups in the U.S. For more than four decades, their mission has been to foster the entrepreneurial spirit of Florida’s Hispanic and minority communities, and as such, it conducts programs to strengthen local business activity, promote economic development, facilitate international commerce, and serve the civic needs of the community. Through its Hemispheric Congress, CAMACOL provides businesses with the opportunity to establish commercial linkages in the international marketplace.

CareerSource South Florida

CareerSource Florida is the statewide workforce policy and investment board. Our partners include the Department of Economic Opportunity, 24 local workforce development boards and 100 career centers throughout Florida. Together, we help connect businesses with the talented workforce and training needed to succeed and grow. To learn more visit CareerSource South Florida.

Miami Dade Chamber of Commerce

The Miami Dade Chamber of Commerce has business resources available to include the Micro Loan program. The mission of M-DCC is to create opportunities for economic and social transformation in our community. Please visit their website for more information.

MIAMI-Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau