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The NeighborHUB Grant Program supports small business expansion in Detroit, Highland Park, and Hamtramck. Businesses can get up to $15,000 to put toward a business project that improves their neighborhood or community. To qualify, businesses need to have been in operation for at least one year, have fewer than 25 employees, and have less than $500,000 gross revenue in the past year.

The STEP grant is intended to offset international business development and related marketing costs for small businesses. Grant proceeds may be used for specific international business development and marketing costs. Grants under the STEP program are capped at $15,000 per business to reimburse for costs associated with export related international projects, activities or services consistent within the STEP guidelines.

The Indiana Economic Development Corporation provides a state grant match to Indiana companies that have received a Phase I or II award through a federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant program. The maximum award amount is $50,000 for Phase I and $75,000 for Phase II.

The Build Our Future Grant Pilot Program and Fund (Fund) is a financing resource operated by the Maryland Department of Commerce (Commerce), to provide grants for innovation infrastructure projects intended to support innovation in an eligible technology sector. Grant awards may be used to defray the cost a grantee incurs to acquire, construct, rehabilitate, install, improve, or equip an eligible innovation infrastructure project.

Getting access to capital is hard enough as a woman, and even harder at the very beginning stages of starting a business. The Women Founders Grant awards $5,000 merit-based grants to women founders and business owners.