$1000 In Business Funding!
Ready to start your own business or work on marketing and growing your business? The NSJ Foundation will be awarding $1000 to 5 individuals during the month of January. To apply, click the button below and let us know the type of business you’re wanting to start and/or the current business you own. How would you use the funding to enhance your business and how would the funding make a difference for you?
About Our Founder
Nicola Smith Jackson
The Nicola Smith Jackson Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization.
Nicola is passionate about helping people to create a growth mindset, so they can develop their purpose and create a work/life balance. She also helps them reach their full potential by empowering them with financial literacy, money management and fostering economic development. Using time-tested principles, she has helped many to create stronger financial independence, so they can have access to resources to reduce debt, save money, purchase homes, get better employment and entrepreneurial opportunities.
Testimonials
Tamala
I’m so grateful to the Nicola Smith Jackson Foundation for the funds given to me and my family. The funds were used to pay my rent because I was short this month. I will also use the funds to get needed training that will help me to increase my income.
Ariana
I want to thank the Nicola Smith Foundation wholeheartedly for your financial blessing. When I first wrote to you, I was working hard to build my team and be the best mentor I could be. With this blessing, I will invest back in my business. I will do some paid ads for myself and my team. I thrive better when I have someone to care for.
KiWanda
I have been praying and asking God to help me and trusting that He will do just that. I know and believe that He has not brought me this far to leave me and I am not giving up. The funds from the Nicola Smith Jackson Foundation will be a blessing for me to start a business that can bring in additional income to take care of my family.
Yasmin
I was recently fired from my healthcare job due to not having child care that would cover extended hours and I had no help from family. This is my current situation, but not my final destination.
The funds I received from the NSJ Foundation is a blessing. They will go to keep food in our home, keeping our light on, as well as rent.
Mindset
How do you cope with the difficulties of every day, raise a family, and crush it in business?
Posts and articles in this section are dedicated to creating the winning mindset needed to survive in today’s socially distant, yet still high stress, high-pressure society. Often it is pure grit that persevers in a desperate time. The winning mindset that understands “there IS a solution” and pushes your physical body to find it.
Posts and articles in this section are dedicated to tools, resources, and government programs that will help you manage your small business. Government programs, sales and marketing solutions, HR, and team building are all delicate parts of a complicated puzzle. We are here to help.
Making Money
What is the difference between working for some and working for yourself?
Managing Money
Where you ever taught how to manage your money?
Posts and articles in this section are understanding the importance of prioritizing your financial decisions. Unless you studied independently or had an incredible mentor, the natural system does not teach proper money management. We are here to help.
Posts and articles in this section are focused on the key elements of both mental and physical help. In times of financial, family, professional, societal, or relationship stress, our health is often given a back seat. It is in fact, this moment that our health is most important.
Having the energy and clear thought to combat the enemy is essential to not just surviving, but winning.
Health & Wellness
Do you have what you need to focus on your mental and physical health?
On a mission for mothers.
Within all single-parent families in the U.S., single mothers make up the majority.
Our mission is to impact, educate, and transform communities, schools, and families through programs and initiatives that foster total wellness, equality, financial economic development, and entrepreneurship.
A majority (59%) of SNAP households with children were single-mother households. Only 12% received cash benefits from TANF.
Though a small percentage, they represent more than 90% of all TANF families.
Among children with single mothers, 38% get food stamps, and 62% don’t. Roughly two-thirds received free or reduced-price meals.
Only 8.5% of children in single-mother families received TANF.
Even for those who did receive assistance, the amount was far less than the minimum they’d need to stave off hardship — like hunger, homelessness, and utility cut-offs.