Empowering Black communities
Our Programmes
We have multiple entry points into DiNN programmes, making access to resources, guidance, and funding available to you or your organisation based on what your organisation needs. Our programmes are designed to see a future of sustainable Black-led organisations receiving the support required to thrive.
Find the right programme for you
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Our community
DiNN Community is a safe and intentional online platform available to all Black individuals. With various community groups that cover specific areas of career development, research, or challenges, we welcome you to be a part of this dynamic environment.
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Idea stage
An online business growth support programme, Side Hustle Support gives you all the tools and resources you need to bring an idea to life. Spread over 6 weeks, this course helps you go from zero to ready-to-launch in 24 hours collectively.
Everything starts as an idea. Our Starting Up programme helps you refine and add weight to your passion to build something that exists to serve the Black community. The future is whatever we make it, and we want to discover it together.
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Early stage
Early-stage organisations often struggle to breakout of their existing networks, and go from self-funded to generating revenue. Our Build, Hustle, Grow programme gives your organisation the chance it needs to mature and grow.
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Ready for growth
This is the time to work with experts and similar organisations to level up operations, enhance practices and develop your charity or social enterprise so that it can grow into its fullest potential. Innovate Now is designed to equip your organisation with everything it needs to scale.
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Ready for investment
Allow experts to guide you into a new era of investment readiness. Our Make it Big programme will support you to new milestones that you have struggled to achieve, strengthening your operations and allowing you greater access to funding.
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Fortify your successes
Many organisations need support in fortifying to become the fullest versions of themselves. Give your charity or social enterprise the brightest possible future and learn to secure assets, succession planning and more with our Big Business programme.
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DiNN Community
Bring your voice and lived experience.
Join a dynamic and intentional space that invites all Black people wanting to engage, share, and network. This space has dedicated channels that allow for community building as well as general information, support, inspiration, and discussion. Learn about financial resilience, advocacy, ecosystem building, and navigating the systems that we live, work, and lead in.
Side Hustle Support
Free ignition to start your business.
Side Hustle Support is an online business growth support prorgramme and gives you all the tools and resources you need to bring an idea to life. Spread over 6 weeks, this course helps you go from zero to ready-to-launch in 24 hours collectively. All you need is 24 hours to build something great. That's 4 hours a week, over 6 weeks, to build a strong side hustle foundation.
Starting Up
Your idea could change lives.
Starting Up is a call to all new Black-owned businesses and non-profits with a mission to better their communities. This programme supports idea-stage organisations with intentional 1-2-1 guidance from experts, mindful coworking spaces, and most importantly a community of people working on their own ideas and willing to encourage each other. Organisations will be provided all the resources on financial literacy skills and business structure know-hows to foster a thriving ecosystem of Black-led businesses wanting to engage well within the systems in which they exist.
Build, Hustle, Grow
The fundamentals of early-stage development.
Build, Hustle, Grow is designed to support early-stage Black-led businesses and non-profits solving issues within the communities they serve. The programme provides the financial tools and know-how that young businesses need to nurture scalable organisations built to last. Beyond business models, the support also prioritises developing skills in financial management so that participants can level up their business toolkit and feel more confident navigating their business’s landscape.
Innovate Now
Develop your enterprise.
Innovate Now is positioned to give direct, intentional support to Black-led charities and social enterprises, by empowering them to position their organisations for growth. This programme understands the nuances of Black communities working to find funding for their much-needed services. Through financial support and expert guidance, successful applicants can move into their next stage of operations with improved investment readiness and organisational traction, creating the best possible future for their organisation and their service users.
Make it Big
Get investment ready.
Make it Big addresses the gap in the sector for supporting social investment readiness and systems change for Black and Global Majority-led charities and social enterprises. Existing non-profits need support to grow sustainably and through this programme they can co-produce equitable systems benefiting themselves and the sector. These organisations will be empowered to engage directly with decision makers in their ecosystems, putting them on the path to innovate their organisations as well as the landscape of Black and Global-Majority leadership.
Big Business
Building big futures.
Big Business elevates existing Black and Global Majority-led non-profits and social enterprises. The programme supports organisations that are already accruing substantial revenue by helping them fortify and sustain their operations ensuring a long and impactful future. Resources and expert guidance offer in depth discussions, knowledge sharing, and 1-2-1 guidance with the focus being on assets, wealth building, and succession planning. Organisations will scale for a future that sees many Black and Global Majority-led charities and social enterprises thriving as they change the systems in which they exist.