I am wanting to get a grant to start a home based business. Can yahoo help me with that?

I am wanting to start a home business and was wondering if I can get help from yahoo. I am wanting to do gift baskets, invatons, picture taking and calenders. I need start up things like a new pc a new camera and sart up stuff. Can anyone help me?

I am wanting to get a grant to start a home based business. Can yahoo help me with that?
It is hard to find grants to start a business. Unlike the myths that some perpetuate, federal government and even private foundations hardly give grant money for a for-profit business. And yes, grants mean PAPERWORK - lots and lots of it, that is why a cottage industry of grant writers was born.



Nonetheless, you can go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) http://www.cfda.gov and Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov - these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. Browse through the listings and see if you can find any grant that would support a for-profit venture.





Even SBA does NOT give out grants. From the SBA website http://www.sba.gov/expanding/grants.html



"The U.S. Small Business Administration does not offer grants to start or expand small businesses, although it does offer a wide variety of loan programs. (See http://www.sba.gov/financing for more information) While SBA does offer some grant programs, these are generally designed to expand and enhance organizations that provide small business management, technical, or financial assistance. These grants generally support non-profit organizations, intermediary lending institutions, and state and local governments."



Here is a listing of federal grants for small businesses. See if there is any available for individuals for starting a business -- THERE'S NONE.

http://12.46.245.173/pls/portal30/CATALO...



Most of the federal grants are given to specific target groups with specific requirements (e.g. minority business owners involved in transportation related contracts emanating from DOT - Grant#20.905 Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Short Term Lending Program



Grants are also often given to non profit groups or organizations involved in training or other similar activities (grant 59.043 Women's Business Ownership Assistance that are given to those who will create women's business center that will train women entrepreneurs



I suggest you read the following books to get ideas of how to finance your business:



Financing Your Small Business http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1...

Small Business Financing: How and Where To Get It http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0...

Financing the Small Business: A Complete Guide to Obtaining Bank Loans and All Other Types of Financing http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1...

The SBA Loan Book http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1...

Angel Capital : How to Raise Early-Stage Private Equity Financing http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0...

Financing Your Small Business (Barron's Business Library Series) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0...



For private grants, you may want to check the Foundation Center's Foundation Grants for Individuals Online http://gtionline.fdncenter.org . It's a subscription based website ($9.95 per month) but their opening blurb only says that the database is ideal for "students, artists, academic researchers, libraries and financial aid offices." Entrepreneurs are apparently not one of them, so I take it they also don't have listings of private foundations who give grants to would-be entrepreneurs.
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Reply:Go to http://www.grants.gov/ to see what grants are available, if any, and how you can apply for them



Then, go to http://www.npguides.org/ for instructions on how to write a grant proposal
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