Business Grants

Index:

Business real estate grants

First off, there is something you absolutely MUST know: you might not even need a grant, It could be that you need an entitlement rather than a grant, or maybe there is are no grants available to fill your needs but there are a whole bunch of loans.  If you don’t know the difference, then it will be very hard for you to get the money you need.

First off, what exactly are grants? Grants are: money granted to you that you never have to pay back. 

As we talked about in the introduction, you simply don’t qualify for most government or private grants. However, there are still grants that you can receive. Every grant always comes with conditions.  For example:

“If you meet the following qualifications, AND prove a need, AND present a compelling proposal, AND present an accurate budget, AND allow us to check on your progress, AND send us proof of the outcome, THEN we will put you in competition for this grant.”

Now you know what I mean when I talk about “conditions”.  That sounds like a lot of stuff to get through. And sometimes it is, but I will teach you step-by-step how to get through it all.

For now, all you need to know is that a grant is money that is granted to you that you will never have to pay back.  It is money that is given to you after you agree to some conditions.  It is money that is given after competing grant applications are compared to each other.  The winning grant applications get the money.
 
Now, let’s move onto something called Entitlements:

Entitlements are in many ways like benefits. Entitlements are simply programs that, if you qualify, will pay you money or provide services for you. Some examples of entitlements are:

o Social Security

o Medicare

o Unemployment

o Worker’s Compensation

So what’s so great about entitlements? Well, first of all they are money that is granted to you which you will not have to pay back, and second: there are a TON
of them! In fact, you might even already qualify for several of them and not even know about it (I will help you find out).