Pinterest Inclusion Fund

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What’s new in 2025

In its fifth year, the Pinterest Inclusion Fund is continuing to expand its support of emerging content producers, building on four successful years of empowering multiple types of content suppliers on Pinterest. The programme will unlock educational resources, financial support and growth opportunities for small merchant businesses, and for the first time since 2023, new-to-Pinterest content creators. 

The incubator programme is focused on connecting people on Pinterest to the inspirational ideas and products from emerging content producers across beauty, fashion and lifestyle verticals. Small merchant businesses and creators who sell products and/or produce content that fuels our inclusive product features like skin tone ranges, hair pattern search and body type ranges will be eligible to apply. People who used inclusive features on Pinterest saved 75% more Pins than those who did not, presenting a unique opportunity for participants to grow their organic content presence and get discovered by Pinterest users.¹

Creator and merchant Pins and profile images

Fashion and beauty

Inspiration for everybody

From innovative styling tips to lifestyle hacks that promote glowing skin, past Inclusion Fund participants create inspiring content that empowers everyone to live a life that they love.

Health and wellness

Inspiration for everybody

From innovative styling tips to lifestyle hacks that promote glowing skin, past Inclusion Fund participants create inspiring content that empowers everyone to live a life that they love.

Lifestyle

Inspiration for everybody

From innovative styling tips to lifestyle hacks that promote glowing skin, past Inclusion Fund participants create inspiring content that empowers everyone to live a life that they love.

Food

Inspiration for everybody

From innovative styling tips to lifestyle hacks that promote glowing skin, past Inclusion Fund participants create inspiring content that empowers everyone to live a life that they love.

About the Pinterest Inclusion Fund

The Pinterest Inclusion Fund is an incubator and pipeline programme designed to support emerging content suppliers on Pinterest. 

Accepted merchants and creators will gain access to cash and ad credit grants to assist with content production and optimization.² In addition, participants will learn how to use organic best practices to grow their businesses and content strategy, with sessions covering topics such as:

  • Platform best practices to support growth

  • Deep knowledge sharing from Pinterest and industry experts

  • Content trends, insights and analytics deep dives

  • Optimizing product catalog for Pinterest (merchants only)

The programme will also continue to foster community, offering dedicated collaboration sessions and office hours.

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Who can apply

The Pinterest Inclusion Fund supports small merchant businesses and creators from all backgrounds who adhere to the following partner segment criteria.

Small merchant business criteria

  • SMB, boutique and/or independent brands

  • Must sell/offer fashion, beauty and/or lifestyle products that support our inclusive product tools for skin tone and/or body type ranges 

  • Must have a Pinterest profile

  • Must be 18 years of age or older

  • Must be based in the US

  • Must have at least different 10 products in stock

  • Must be a brand that has at least three employees

  • Must have an e-commerce business supported by Pinterest: Adobe Commerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Shopify Woo

  • Must confirm business aligns with Pinterest merchant guidelines.

  • Must be active and sharing content on at least two other social media platforms

  • Is looking to develop organic and paid content strategies for Pinterest

  • Can commit to office hours and program sessions

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Why apply?

Participating in the Pinterest Inclusion Fund continues to drive success for content producers on Pinterest. Participating in the Pinterest Inclusion Fund continues to drive success for content producers on Pinterest. Last year, merchant participants saw over 250% increase in saves to their content and 147x increase in outbound clicks globally. US-based merchants, like Dosso Beauty, saw a 300% growth in saves, while Sknmuse saw an increase of 824% in outbound clicks to their site over a six-month period.

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FAQ

Participants will receive personalized education and dedicated time with Pinterest and industry experts, cash grants to fuel content creation and ad credits to support paid campaigns. (Note: Ad credits are only for merchants.)

Participants are required to attend virtual sessions, create organic content and adopt Pinterest best practices and features such as auto-import, collages, board sharing and more!

  • Merchants: 19 August at 2pm BST through 9 September at 2pm BST

  • Creators: 30 April at 2pm BST through 15 May at 9pm BST

Inclusivity helps us produce results. At Pinterest, we attract more people when the platform is more inclusive, presenting an opportunity to connect emerging creators and small businesses with users looking for their content.

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