MD Commercial Solar Grant

Fund Her Future, a grant program from Block Advisors by H&R Block, is open to women business owners nationwide. One grand prize winner receives a $50,000 grant, while five additional small businesses get $10,000 each. Winners also receive a year of free small-business services, including bookkeeping, payroll and tax support. To be eligible, you must have an established business that generated a minimum of $20,000 in revenue in 2024.

Do you own a child care center business in Manchester that could use grant funds and business counseling to develop your business? With funding from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, REDC has available, on a limited basis, grants for child care businesses that are: -based in Manchester, NH, -for-profit, -and that need working capital, equipment, and supplies. The grant range is $5,000 to $10,000. Grant funding is limited and not guaranteed.

This training program helps Iowa businesses fund customized training for current employees. The program is designed to foster the growth and competitiveness of Iowa’s business and industry by ensuring that Iowa’s workforce has the skills and expertise to compete with any workforce outside the state of Iowa. The grant covers basic adult education, job-related instruction (or on-the-job training), skills assessments, testing and evaluation of employees, and travel reimbursement. Each of Iowa’s community colleges assists businesses with the development of training plans that are funded by forgivable loans. The maximum award is $25,000 for each project at a business site. A business site may be approved for multiple projects-with maximum funding over three years not to exceed $100,000. A cash match is required for projects exceeding $4,999.

The Virginia Global Business Internship Program reimburses companies up to $6,000 for a talented university student to perform a ten-week summer internship at a Virginia company. Students will further the company’s export capacity and make progress on its international business expansion strategies. Eligible companies have at least five employees and operate in Virginia.

The Build with Gemini XPRIZE is a 90-day hackathon that awards $2 million in total prize money across 25 winners to entrepreneurs, teams, and small organizations who build a real AI-powered business during the competition window. Sponsored by XPRIZE and powered by Google, with administrative support from Devpost, the competition was launched at Google I/O and challenges entrants to pick a problem worth solving, launch a real business, acquire real users, and generate real revenue within a 90-day window, all while running their business operations through AI. Submissions must fall within one of five categories: Education and Human Potential, Entrepreneurship and Job Creation, Small Business Services, Money and Financial Access, and Professional Services Access. Each project must use at least one Google Cloud product, and any project incorporating large language model functionality must use the Gemini API for at least one LLM call in the deployed application. The prize pool is structured into a 1st place award of $500,000, a 2nd place award of $200,000, three awards of $100,000 each for 3rd through 5th place, fifteen Runner-Up awards of $50,000 each, and five Category Prizes of $50,000 each (one per category). The competition is open to individuals who are at least the age of majority where they reside, teams of eligible individuals, and small organizations with fewer than 25 employees (including corporations, nonprofits, LLCs, and partnerships). Residents of countries restricted by U.S. law (including Russia, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, and North Korea) are not eligible. Submissions are judged on three equally weighted criteria: business viability (actual revenue achieved during the 90-day window and the sustainability of the business model), AI-native operations (the extent to which AI is live in production running key business decisions), and category impact (whether the project meaningfully moves the needle in its chosen category).