The Nasdaq Foundation aims to reimagine investor engagement by empowering under-represented communities with financial knowledge and tools for sharing in market-created wealth. It focuses on leveraging its investment in the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center and establishing strategic partnerships to deepen data-led understanding of challenges, amplify existing efforts, and make distinctive contributions.
The Nasdaq Foundation's Quarterly Grant Program focuses on accelerating progress in diversifying entrepreneurship and empowering a broader, more diverse group of investors. The foundation supports programs designed to 1) empower diverse investors by enhancing their financial knowledge and confidence necessary to participate in market-created wealth, and 2) support women and under-represented minority communities by providing resources for business growth and sustainability. The program prioritizes grants for organizations delivering impactful outcomes in enhancing financial literacy and improving access to knowledge, tools, and capital for women and underrepresented communities. There is flexibility in grant amounts with $75,000 being the average size, and while grants typically have one-year terms, multiple-year funding is considered under specific conditions.