Business & Funding Opportunities

💇‍♀️💅 ATTN: Beauty Pros and Salon Owners‼️

Bridging the Digital Divide for Beauty Businesses is a Michigan Women Forward six-month funding and marketing program sponsored by The Kresge Foundation

Time: March 31-Sept. 8, 2025, 8:30-10 a.m. | Certificate presentation on Sept. 22, 2025

Location: Online with an in-person orientation and graduation ceremony

This is a free six-month business funding and marketing program led by Katrina Turnbow-Marion of Kanopi Social which offers select beauty businesses the chance to learn foundational knowledge to boost their businesses’ digital profiles.

Ideal participants include beauty suite owners, salon/spa owners, licensed estheticians, manicurists, beauty professionals and barbers, and retail beauty businesses.

Applicants must have been in business for 1-2 years. Businesses in the ideation stage will not be accepted.

The program starts on March 31, 2025 for an in-person orientation, then meets online weekly on Mondays from 8:30-10 am. An in-person graduation ceremony will be held from 9-10:30 a.m. on Sept. 22, 2025.

PLUS! Engaged cohort learning program participants will receive a free tablet during the six-month program. Graduates of the program will receive a Certificate of Completion.

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