Deadline: July 8, 2025
Award Amount: Up to $20,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Businesses and Agriculture
Description: Santander’s award-winning Cultivate Small Business helps early-stage entrepreneurs build and sustain businesses in the food industry, with a focus on historically underserved founders.

Deadline: July 11, 2025
Award Amount: 20 to 25 scholarships of $1,000 to $1,500
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal and Higher Education
Description: This program supports Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian college students in entering agriculture and food systems fields so that they can better assist their communities with their food systems efforts. First Nations will award 20 to 25 scholarships of $1,000 to $1,500 for the 2025-2026 academic school year to Native college or university students majoring in agriculture and agriculture-related fields, including but not limited to agribusiness management, agri-science technologies, agronomy, animal husbandry, aquaponics, environmental studies, fisheries and wildlife, food production and safety, food-related policy and legislation, food science and technology, horticulture, irrigation science, and sustainable agriculture or food systems programs.

Deadline: Until funds are depleted.
Award Amount: Loan maximum is 100 percent of the allowable total development cost.
Eligible Entities: Individual farm owners, family farm partnerships, family farm corporations, and associations of farmers.
​Description: It provides affordable financing to develop or rehabilitate affordable rental housing for very-low to moderate income domestic, migrant, and seasonal farm laborers. It also provides funding used to increase the supply of affordable housing for farm labor; and the ability of the farmer to provide affordable, decent, sage and sanitary housing for farm workers.