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Blackstone Charitable Foundation Awards $3M for Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

The Blackstone Charitable Foundation announced last week that it has awarded a combined $3 million in grants to 20 non-profit organizations around the world dedicated to strengthening entrepreneurial ecosystems and supporting high growth entrepreneurs. Now in the third year of its five-year, $50 million Entrepreneurship Initiative, this year’s funding was granted to 14 new organizations and six organizations from last year’s pool of winners. Grants from the foundation work toward helping organizations pilot, expand, or replicate programs that help catalyze growth of companies, industries, and communities. In total, more than 550 organizations submitted proposals to the foundation. Read more about the 20 grant recipients here.

Year One Recipients...

Year Two Recipients...