Harford County Workforce Training Grant

The Greater Dallas County Development Alliance has officially opened applications for the next round of its Small Business Grant Fund, which provides monetary support to small businesses in the Dallas County area. The grant program, which launched last year, aims to fund applicants looking for financial assistance in key growth areas such as furniture and fixtures, technology, marketing, and professional development. A total of $20,000 in funding is available, and applications are open from April 1 through May 31. Last year, five small businesses representing a range of industries were awarded funding through the program.

This program helps businesses grow and modernize by offering a 50/50 match on eligible equipment purchases. Elligible businesses can receive up to $20,000 in matching grant funds.

Get up to $2,000 to cover the cost of repairing vandalism to your storefront, such as broken windows, doors, locks, or graffiti removal

The New Mexico Healthy Food Financing Fund (HFFF) provides grants of $50,000, $100,000, or $150,000 (with a smaller $20,000 grant plus technical assistance available to applicants not selected for a primary award) to food retailers, food processors, food hubs and distributors, cooperatives, farmers, ranchers, Tribal nations, and nonprofit organizations across New Mexico to strengthen the state's food and agricultural supply chain and expand food security for New Mexicans. Administered by the New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD) through its Food, Hunger, and Agriculture Program, the fund awards competitive grants each fiscal year across five project categories: Food Retail (grocery stores, cooperatives, mobile grocery projects, farmers' markets), Processing and Value-Added Products (staple foods including meat, fruit, vegetables, dairy, and grain), Aggregation, Distribution, and Transportation (food hubs, cold and dry storage), New Mexico Grown Production (farmers, ranchers, cooperatives, nonprofit production, hydroponic and aquaponic operations), and Climate-Smart Pre-Production (regenerative soil inputs such as compost, biochar, or microbial inoculants, innovative water irrigation systems, and solar systems). Eligible applicants include political subdivisions of the state, Indian nations, Tribes, and pueblos, for-profit business enterprises (including corporations, LLCs, sole proprietorships, public benefit corporations, and social enterprises), cooperatively owned businesses, tax-exempt nonprofit corporations, and small farmers and ranchers with gross cash farm income under $250,000 (production applicants must be NM Grown Approved Suppliers or in the process of obtaining that certification). Priority is given to projects that increase food access for historically under-resourced communities, address workforce development through job creation and retention in the food and agricultural supply chain, strengthen and diversify in-state market channel access for small and mid-scale food and agricultural operations, advance food safe storage, distribution, and transportation in regional food supply chain networks, or support the implementation of regenerative agricultural practices. Eligible costs include predevelopment work (business plans, market analysis, site plans, architectural and engineering designs, feasibility studies), brick-and-mortar facility development (construction, renovations, property improvements), capital needs (equipment, supplies, furnishings, technology), and other costs such as marketing, websites, business process upgrades, and training or certifications, with research and development eligible only for climate-smart pre-production projects. Staffing and payroll costs, real estate transactions and land acquisitions, non-durable goods, charitable food projects such as food banks and food pantries, purely experiential or educational projects, restaurants primarily focused on selling prepared hot foods, and entities seeking to lend or regrant the award funds are not eligible.

Santander's Cultivate Small Business program helps early-stage entrepreneurs in the food industry, with a focus on historically underserved businesses. Through this program, business owners participate in a 12-week virtual education curriculum that includes mentorship and networking. Business owners also receive up to $20,000 in capital grants. To qualify, you must have been in business for at least one year, have between one and 10 full-time employees and have generated between $25,000 and $1 million in revenue in the past year.