Cultivate Small Business
We work hard to ensure we are providing tools and solutions to our customers to enable them to achieve their financial goals.
Santander’s Cultivate Small Business helps early-stage entrepreneurs build and sustain businesses in the food industry, with a focus on historically underserved founders in low-to-moderate income neighborhoods. The program is completely free for eligible entrepreneurs and provides a 12 week food-focused curriculum, mentorship, and capital grants.
The targets businesses that have:
- a minimum of one year in operation at the time of application
- revenues between $25,000 and $1,000,000 in the last calendar year
- 1-10 full-time equivalent employees
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Cultivate Small Business supports entrepreneurs representing businesses in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts and the Greater Philadelphia, New York City and Miami areas.
Our Fall cohort runs from September through November with applications accepted from March through June.
Our Spring cohort runs from March through June with applications accepted from November through January.
Please reach out to CultivateSmallBusiness@Santander.us with any questions about program eligibility or application deadlines.
Partners
Santander is proud to work with our dedicated program partners: Initiative for A Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and Babson College.