Suffolk Small Business Improvement Grant

The Comcast Innovation Fund was created to support technology and public policy research that contributes to the betterment of the Internet, and the continued evolution of connectivity products and services. The fund provides grants to technologists, researchers, and academics to support Internet- and connectivity-focused projects within the fund’s areas of interest, which are updated annually.

Business Training Grants support Wyoming businesses seeking to enhance employee skills or address a specific skill deficiency required for their current job. Grant funds must not replace existing funds already earmarked for training purposes, and the skills to be acquired must better position the business to remain competitive in its industry marketplace. Funding limits are as follows: $2,000 per trainee, $3,000 per trainee for select industries, $75,000 per business, with all totals being per fiscal year.

NOFA-VT’s Farmer Emergency Fund, established in 1997, supports organic and NOFA-VT member farmers who have been adversely affected by natural and unnatural disasters. The NOFA-VT Farmer Emergency Fund is available to assist farmers who are in financial need after having been adversely affected by natural and unnatural disasters. -$2,500 grants are available for commercial farmers who are NOFA-VT members. Applying farmers will need to be NOFA-VT members in good standing for at least one year before being eligible to apply for funds. -$5,000 grants are available to any farm that is VOF certified organic. Because we want to incentivize organic certification, and because of the commitment involved in getting certified, we will waive the one-year waiting period for certified organic farms.

The city of Westminster, CO has multiple grant programs available for small businesses. These include training grants of $500-$5,000 for both employees and entrepreneurs for classrom and on-the-job training. They also have multiple improvement grants which reimburse business expenses spent on sustainability and facade upgrades. These programs are updated regularly so follow our link to the grant page for details on the current offerings.

The NIH "$100,000 Start an SUD Startup" Challenge awards a total of $100,000 in cash prizes (up to $10,000 per winning team) plus intensive non-cash mentorship to early-stage teams developing research ideas in drug use, misuse, or substance use disorder (SUD) that could form the foundation of new biotech startups. Administered annually by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the challenge is designed to support and accelerate would-be founders before they typically become eligible for traditional research funding, and to eventually contribute new startups to the pool of small businesses competing for NIDA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants. The challenge is administered in two stages. In Stage 1, up to 12 winning teams are selected based on a 5-minute video introducing the team and a 4-page written proposal describing the research idea, and each Stage 1 winner receives a non-cash prize of a 6-month product development mentorship from NIDA entrepreneurship experts (including monthly 90-minute lectures, monthly office hours with an assigned mentor, and a series of homework assignments, requiring approximately 25 hours per team member per month). In Stage 2, the teams that successfully complete the mentorship (including all required lectures, exercises, and a final Peer Board Meeting presentation) are each awarded up to $10,000 in cash. Winners are encouraged to use the prize money to develop a minimum viable product, gather customer feedback, assess the feasibility of a science-based small business, and develop key concepts to support a future NIDA SBIR/STTR application. To qualify, participants must apply as a team of no less than three and no more than five individuals, each at least 18 years old at the time of submission. Each team must identify a Team Leader who is a U.S. citizen or permanent resident and who is responsible for registering, submitting materials, and receiving and distributing prize money on behalf of the team. Non-U.S. citizens and non-permanent residents may participate as team members but are not eligible to receive prize money. The research idea must directly relate to drug use, misuse, or SUD (or a platform technology broadly applicable to those areas), and the team must intend to form (or already be) a U.S.-based startup. Teams need no prior startup experience. Federal employees (of HHS or acting within their federal scope) are not eligible, and SBIR/STTR grantees with currently active grants or applications currently under review cannot participate. Teams that applied to a past challenge and did not win may reapply with the same or a new idea; past winners may reapply only with a new idea. Submissions related to alcohol use disorder or pain will not be accepted.