Springboard

Funding for Entrepreneur Builders. A stronger network starts here. Springboard is a competition that awards at least $600,000 in cash prizes to organizations that help grow the entrepreneurial landscape in Buffalo-Niagara, the Rochester region, and the southern tier. If you have a product, service, initiative, or program that helps companies or entrepreneurs, Springboard could be for you. As one of the most flexible funding programs in the region, offering up to $25,000 in funding, Springboard is open to businesses, non-profits, schools, and other for-profit and non-profit entities with an EIN in the counties of Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans, or Wyoming.