Good morning, Paul! Good to be with you on this Friday earlier than Labor Day weekend. Earlier than we begin considering weekend an excessive amount of, we’ve received work to do. And we’re right here on the Enterprise Beat this morning to carry you details about a brand new grant program. Now, each entrepreneur is on the lookout for funding today for his or her startup and grants are a good way to hunt funding since you don’t must pay ’em again and also you don’t have to surrender fairness in your organization in change for them.
One of many issues that makes this explicit grant program so fascinating is that it’s extra than simply cash. It gives instruments and knowledge you must get began and to get rolling with your enterprise that goes past simply funding. Amongst different issues, there’s a free, customized studying plan. That features programs on financing, e-commerce, logistics, social media, advertising and marketing, conversion funnels, and extra in addition to entry to one-on-one teaching, group boards and incentives like the newest spherical of $10,000 grants to be awarded to particular person firms.
To be eligible for a grant, you merely have to finish any two programs, teaching occasions or group occasions earlier than Nov. 14, 2022. Now this explicit grant program is a part of Verizon’s dedication to deploy greater than one million {dollars} in funding grants to small companies with a specific deal with these based by girls or folks of shade.
Want a shot of training and even funding on your small enterprise? Go to startupnation.com to be taught extra about this Verizon grant program being made out there to small companies right now.
I’m Jeff Sloan, founder and CEO of startupnation.com, and that’s right now’s Enterprise Beat on the Nice Voice of the Nice Lakes, WJR.