Video: How to Obtain a Grant to Start a New Business

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While obtaining a grant to start a new business, remember that most grants are awarded to artists or researchers. Find out how to get a business grant in this free entrepreneur advice video from a professional business consultant.

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Hi I am Emily Gasner with Working Solutions. And I will be telling you about how to obtain a grant for your business. What I would like to tell you is that for the most part, businesses will apply for a business loans. Where as generally non-profit organizations with a charitable purpose apply for grants. A lot of times businesses come to me and they say, Emily we hear about all these grants on television and for the most part what I have found. Is that the grants just do not exist. If they do there might be a local non-profit organization in your community that works with entrepreneurs that might have some specific very small grant programs for under served entrepreneurs. But for the most part it would be going to the bank, a financial institution or a non-profit organization that makes loans in applying for an actual business loan. And the main thing to remember is that a difference between a grant and a loan is that the grant is a gift. And a loan is something that needs to be repaid. And just to add a little bit more. With artists, I have heard of some grants that are available for art for profit entities that do art. Also there are some grant opportunities for science, scientists that are performing research for grants. So those are two of the kind of grant programs that I have heard of. But again for the most part grants are for non-profits, and loans are for small businesses.

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How to Obtain a Grant to Start a New Business

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