‘Grants for Women’
Fed Biz Ops – Businesses Benefit from Government
FedBiz Ops – Website for Doing Business With the Federal Government
Small businesses sell billions of dollars worth of goods and services to the US federal government every year. Furthermore, many government agencies require that some percentage of their contracts for goods and services be awarded to small businesses. And the federal government now makes it easy for small businesses like yours to know about the business opportunities that the government has.
Fed Biz Ops – Gov Gives Biz
The Fed Biz Ops website is an official United States government website which advertises business opportunities created by the 2009 stimulus package. On the same day that President Barack Obama signed the package, the first jobs appeared on the site. >>Read more
Business Grants for Women – Separating Fact From Fiction
Let’s start with the biggest myth of all…Whether you want to believe it or not, the U.S. government does not currently provide grants for starting or expanding a small business, no matter what your gender, ethnicity, age, financial position is. It just doesn’t do it. It doesn’t matter how persuasive the argument, or how believable the testimonial…They just don’t do it.
According to the Small Business Administration (SBA): The SBA does not offer grants to start or expand small businesses. SBA’s grant programs generally support non-profit organizations, intermediary lending institutions, and state and local governments in an effort to expand and enhance small business technical and financial assistance.
Although no business loans or business grants for women are available at the federal level, what the government does offer is lots of free help in planning how to start or grow your business and how to secure low-interest SBA-backed small business loans.
So is that it? No money from Uncle Sam to help you start that dream business you’ve been planning for? Unfortunately, that’s true…Good ‘ol Uncle Sam’s pockets have been picked cleaned when it comes to grants for starting up small businesses. However, the good news is that the story doesn’t end there because… Read the rest of this entry »
