As an individual or company, you can apply for business grants. Whether successful in the application process largely depends on if your project aligns with federal, state or local government funding initiatives. Often times, entrepreneurs and small businesses have great ideas on how to solve some social crisis, key to receipt of funds, but fail to properly research funding sources. In this article, we’ll briefly discuss ways to make your organization or project eligible for government grants....

SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) business assistance grants can come in many forms and used for a variety of purposes but mostly technology related development. In this post we’ll explore, briefly, options for those seeking to either build or expand business using not only SBIR but grants in general. In another article written some time ago, we faced down and destroyed the argument which teaches government grants aren’t available to ‘for-profit’ businesses and new startups. ...