H&R Block’s ‘Fund Her Future’ Grant Returns to Empower Women-owned Small Businesses

This year’s assistance volition money 1 SMB $50,000 and the different 5 imaginable recipients volition person $10,000 successful assistance money.

The 2025 programme volition grant up to 1 SMB proprietor a assistance bundle of $50,000. Up to 5 further recipients volition person a $10,000 grant. All recipients volition person a twelvemonth of entree to Block Advisors’ SMB services. H&R Block is particularly looking to grant businesses that person demonstrated a committedness to their communities.

Authors of Block Advisor’s “2024 State of Women’s Small Business Report,” recovered that women entrepreneurs look much barriers than men successful accessing superior and resources. The study recovered that 42 percent of women concern owners who applied for slope loans were ne'er approved and astir 90 percent of women reported relying connected their ain idiosyncratic finances and recognition cards to assistance money their businesses arsenic a effect of inaccessible funding.

“Amplifying women-owned businesses is astir much than conscionable supporting entrepreneurs — it’s astir fostering innovation, diverseness and resilience successful each industry,” said Lastasha Randle, strategy and SMB programme manager astatine Block Advisors by H&R Block. “When we uplift women, we make opportunities for caller perspectives and solutions that payment everyone. By championing these businesses, we’re not lone driving economical maturation but besides inspiring the adjacent procreation of leaders to imagination large and interruption barriers.”

Block Advisors by H&R Block said that past year’s programme received much than 6,000 applications and was awarded to 5 women whose businesses achieved maturation with the company’s resources.

Grant winners from past twelvemonth see Heather Jiang, proprietor of Allégorie, a New York-based small-batch accessories marque that turns nutrient discarded into fashion; Erica Cole, proprietor of No Limbits, a Richmond, Va.-based accessible apparel marque for radical with little limb difference, constricted manus and arms dexterity, sensory processing challenges and wheelchair users and Ameka Coleman, proprietor of Strands of Faith, a Pearl, Miss.-based marque who created nontoxic hairsbreadth attraction products for textured hair.