BMO Fellowship 2026 for Entrepreneurs (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: July 12, 2026

Applications for the BMO Fellowship 2026 at the moment are open. The BMO Fellowship, powered by Watson Institute, is a completely-funded program for entrepreneurs and small enterprise homeowners driving financial OPPORTUNITY of their communities.

Fellows are rising their communities’ entry to formal monetary companies, instruments, and literacy, supporting and enhancing the small enterprise ecosystem of their market, or increasing home possession alternatives for households locked out of wealth-constructing pathways. Fellows achieve the abilities, insights, peer community, and lengthy-time period Alumni assist wanted to drive sustainable influence and progress of their communities.

Benefits

• Business & Leadership Workshops: Participate in 16-weeks of entrepreneurship coaching led by knowledgeable practitioners who’re profitable entrepreneurs and small enterprise homeowners themselves, with workshops targeted on enterprise acumen and monetary literacy.
• Financial Tools & Resources: Access sensible monetary instruments, frameworks, and workshops designed to strengthen your enterprise’s monetary basis. Benefit from the experience of practitioners and Watson Institute’s broader community of specialists supporting entrepreneurs at each stage.
• Basecamps: Creating Lasting Impact: Design and lead a complete 1-day entrepreneurship coaching program (Basecamp) for 20 earlier-stage small enterprise homeowners in your neighborhood. With coaching, assets, and a neighborhood improvement stipend, you’ll deepen the small enterprise ecosystem in your market.
• Pitch Training & Virtual Summit: Develop and refine knowledgeable, compelling pitch by way of devoted coaching periods. Present your small enterprise progress and influence on the digital Summit to neighborhood companions, mentors, BMO group members, and potential traders.

Eligibility

• You are a small enterprise proprietor or neighborhood chief deeply dedicated to creating sustainable, scalable influence. You are advancing financial resilience, increasing entry to alternative, and strengthening native economies by way of what you are promoting. Your work aligns with one of many following:
  • Bringing formal monetary companies to underbanked communities: Providing entry to monetary companies, instruments, and literacy
  • Supporting small companies: Enhancing the small enterprise ecosystem in your market
  • Expanding home possession alternatives: Creating pathways to home possession for households locked out of wealth-constructing
• You have an entrepreneurial spirit, a progress mindset, and are pushed to develop as an efficient chief.
• You are situated in and creating influence inside BMO’s precedence markets: Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, and Denver
• Your enterprise or group has been working for 1-5 years with fewer than 10 staff. You have engaged prospects, measurable outcomes, and have secured some funding by way of grants, investments, donations, or income, and also you’re able to develop to the following degree. (All authorized enterprise constructions welcome: for revenue, nonprofit, social enterprise, and so forth.).
• Adults 18 or older.
• You should be capable of decide to the complete 16-week program, together with the obligatory digital Immersive and weekly workshops held Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Mountain Time. They prioritize members who’re absolutely dedicated to energetic engagement all through the whole program. The program’s success relies on constructing a robust neighborhood the place all members are keen about each studying and sharing their experiences with others.
• You search entrepreneurial coaching led by knowledgeable practitioners, dedicated mentorship from Watson Institute’s community, connections to nationwide sources of capital and BMO’s small enterprise ecosystem, a supportive neighborhood for suggestions, and alternatives to problem your self by main a Basecamp coaching program that helps 20 earlier-stage small enterprise homeowners in your neighborhood. You carry an entrepreneurial spirit and progress mindset to this work.

Application

Candidates full the web application in roughly half-hour. Submit by the precedence deadline of July 12, 2026, for early consideration. Applications will proceed to be reviewed on a rolling foundation till all spots are stuffed.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to BMO Fellowship.