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The Shift4 Rescue Mission Contest awards one selected restaurant or bar owner with a $100,000 business grant, a one-on-one business consultation with Bar Rescue's Jon Taffer, and a complete Shift4 POS system to help revitalize their business. Sponsored by Shift4 and run in partnership with hospitality expert and television personality Jon Taffer, the contest is open to restaurant and bar owners across the United States and is designed to support community-focused operators facing operational and financial challenges. In addition to the grand prize, two additional finalists each receive a free Shift4 POS system and an in-person consultation with Jon Taffer. Applicants enter by submitting a short video explaining why their restaurant or bar needs a Rescue Mission and how they would use the grant funds to strengthen their operations. Now in its third year, the contest has grown each iteration, with the current $100,000 grand prize representing the largest single award offered through the program to date.

Workforce+ is a Performance Grant option that allows TVA to make an investment in competitive economic development projects focused on building a highly skilled and qualified workforce. Award amounts are paid directly to the company and are contingent on companies meeting the minimum requirements of the Performance Grant Program. Funding amounts are based upon approval of the company’s talent pipeline development plan.

The Motor City Match Cash Track provides Detroit-based businesses with gap funding grants of up to $100,000 to help close a project's financing gap and open a new brick-and-mortar location to the public. Administered by Motor City Match, the Cash Track is open to both new businesses opening their first Detroit location and existing businesses opening an additional Detroit location, with the average grant award totaling $50,000. Grants are need-based and are designed to fill the funding gap remaining after applicants have secured other capital, with the award typically not exceeding 50% of total project costs and requiring at least 10% owner equity. In addition to grant funding, the program supports applicants with financial planning and project management assistance, lender networking events that connect businesses to community lending partners, and facilitated introductions to help applicants close any remaining loan financing they may need. Awardees that open are also promoted through Motor City Match, DEGC, and Detroit Means Business channels, providing additional publicity for the business. Businesses already open and expanding within their current space are not eligible to apply.

The Wyoming Business Council Market Expansion Grant (MEG) helps defray costs for private Wyoming-based for-profit businesses participating in market expansion activities. The primary focus of this grant is to assist businesses in overcoming challenges associated with expanding into new markets outside Wyoming. Companies must be in good standing with the Wyoming Secretary of State, with an annual revenue of less than $5,000,000.

Provides funds to businesses through the four Ben Franklin Technology Partners for access to capital, business expertise, technology commercialization services to advance the development of new technologies and for the generation, conservation, and transportation of alternative and clean energy.