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Resources
Exit Planning for Small Businesses
Exit Planning Resource offered by the Northwest Colorado Small Business Development Center (SBDC).
Exit planning is essential to your current business strategy. Through the SBDC, learn how to think about the real value of your business and understand the basics of business valuation. This program combines on-demand modules that can be completed at your own pace with no-cost, one-on-one consulting to guide your exit strategy. The SBDC offers monthly Exit Planning Office Hours through the Northwest SBDC – a Q&A-style virtual meeting to answer questions about what exit planning is and prepare you to meet with a consultant. Search the Upcoming Training Calendar to find the next session. You can also sign up for the Northwest SBDC newsletter to be informed of virtual training dates.
Tips to Help Small Businesses Prepare for the Holidays
The Small Business Administration (SBA) announced the first-ever Season of Small Business campaign this week. On the heels of another transformative year for small businesses, the Season of Small Business campaign encourages all Americans to support small businesses throughout the holiday season.
SBA also has tips to help small business owners prepare for the holiday season.
Funding & Technical Assistance
NWCCOG Regional Grants Navigator
NWCCOG has a Regional Grants Navigator on staff to assist with identifying appropriate grant opportunities, reviewing grants prior to submission, or helping to gather letters of support. Feel free to reach out to him for assistance: Jonathan Godes, NWCCOG Regional Grants Navigator - jgodes@nwccog.org.
Federal Opportunities
Rural Business Development Grant
Deadline: February 28 | Details here. USDA Rural Development. This grant supports business opportunities or business enterprise projects in rural communities. Organizations eligible to receive funding include rural towns, communities, state agencies, authorities, nonprofits, public colleges and non-profit cooperatives. Projects must be consistent with local community and economic development strategic plans. Funds may be used to establish business support centers or to finance job training and leadership development in rural areas. They may also be used to repair or modernize buildings; finance feasibility studies or business plans; or purchase equipment to lease to small or emerging businesses.
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) - Deadline Feb 29
Deadline: Feb. 29, 2024 | Details here. Grant program for hazard mitigation activities. FEMA will extend financial assistance to eligible BRIC applicants for a range of activities, including capability and capacity-building initiatives to enhance workforce expertise, hazard mitigation projects that bolster public safety and resilience against a variety of natural hazards, and management costs, which help offset administrative expenses associated with mitigation measures and projects.
State Opportunities
Community Business Preservation Program
Deadline: Jan 19, 2024 | For more information, contact Leslie Hylton-Hinga; leslie.hylton-hinga@state.co.us. Colorado Creative Industries. This program provides grants of $10,000-$50,000, as well as up to two years of training and consultation support, to groups of geographically proximate and culturally similar businesses that are facing displacement pressures and that hold cultural, social, or historical significance in Colorado.
Other Funding & Technical Assistance Opportunities
Powering Climate and Infrastructure Careers Challenge
Deadline: Jan. 19 | Details here. This is an initiative of the Families and Workers Fund, a collaborative philanthropic effort to help create at least one million good jobs in the clean energy and infrastructure industries. Funding will be provided in two tracks: the Training and Career Pathways track, focused on scaling models to train, place, support, and retain a diverse workforce that meets the growing labor demand in clean energy, infrastructure, and related industries, and the Government Planning and Implementation track, focused on supporting government agencies and their community partners to plan for and implement good jobs and effective, inclusive workforce development.
The Bob Woodruff Foundation: Grants for Programs Serving the Military & Veteran Community
Deadline: Jan. 11 | Details here. Provides support for programs and services that serve the military and veteran community in the United States. The focus is on programs that improve the health and well-being of service members, veterans, and their families and caregivers; improve social determinants of health; decrease barriers to accessing physical and mental healthcare; increase accessibility to programming that fosters a healthy lifestyle; and enhance opportunities for veterans to thrive after service. Nonprofit organizations providing direct services to the military and veteran population are eligible to apply.
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