Business and Non-profit Funding, Grant Resources, etc.
- Texas
Enterprise Zone Program
- purpose is to encourage job creation and capital investment
in areas of economic distress
- Texas
Linked Deposit Program
- established to encourage lending to historically underutilized businesses,
child care providers, non-profit corporations, and/or small businesses
located in an Enterprise Zone
- Texas
Defense Economic Adjustment Assistance Grant Program
- established to assist adversely impacted defense-dependent communities
in responding to or recovering from defense closures or realignments of
defense installations, or reductions or termination of defense contracts
- Texas
Leverage Fund
- an "economic development bank" offering an added source of
financing to communities that have passed the economic development sales tax
- Market Texas Clearinghouse
- search for information about economic development programs and technical assistance
- Arkansas
Department of Economic Development Financing, Incentives, & Taxation
- funding sources for business start-ups and expansions in Arkansas
- Arkansas
Tourism Development - Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism
- Arkansas Development Finance Authority
- source of low-cost financing for low-to-moderate income housing development,
small industries, government, education, agricultural business enterprises and health care.
- Accion International
- nonprofit community based organization that provides credit and other services
to small business owners who do not have access to commercial loans
- EPA Grants and Debarment
- EPA Grants and Fellowship Information
- Department of Homeland Security
- Administration for Children & Families
- National Endowment for the Arts - grants page
- Federal Funding Sources for
Rural America
- Rural Information Center; this is a search tool that finds sources from many
different government agencies
- Rural Information Center's
Rural Homeland Security FAQ
- see index under Funding and Program Assistance
- egov Initiative
- grants.gov
- find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all
U.S. Federal government grant-making agencies
- GovLoans.gov
- U.S. Federal government loan information
- GovBenefits.gov
- government benefit eligibility information
- FedGrants.gov
- index of grant opportunities through Federal agencies
- National
Institutes of HealthSmall Business Funding Opportunities
- Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business
Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs
- National Trust
- grant and loan funds for historic buildings
- Getty Conservation Grants
- for conservation of museum collections and for preservation of buildings or sites
of archetectural, historical, and cultural significance
- National Transportation Enhancements Clearinghouse
- funds from the federal government to expand travel choice, strengthen the local economy,
improve the quality of life, and protect the environment
- venture capital
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