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Grants

California Dream Fund

Status

Closed for now

No new state appropriation for the Dream Fund has been announced. CalOSBA continues to run the free Technical Assistance Program (TAP) centres that delivered the training; new microgrant rounds would be announced on calosba.ca.gov.

Closed
Amount
$10,000

Microgrants of up to $10,000 to new California small businesses that complete a training programme delivered by a state-funded technical assistance centre.

Funder

California Office of the Small Business Advocate (CalOSBA)

public · regional

Deadline: One call a year — The Dream Fund was a one-time $35 million allocation in the 2021 state budget; grants were distributed through 2022-2024 as trainees graduated from participating centres.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

Required completion of an approved entrepreneurship training programme at a CalOSBA-funded centre; targeted at underserved microbusinesses and new entrepreneurs.

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work · The EU SME definition (Recommendation 2003/361)

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://calosba.ca.gov/funding-grants-incentives/ · not human-checked

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: calosba.ca.gov

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