Historically Underutilized Business Zones

The Small Business Administration has established the Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZone) Empowerment Contracting Program wherein they aim to provide federal contracting assistance to eligible small business corporations which are located in underutilized business zones so as to improve their employment opportunities, investments, and their area’s economic development. The Small Business Administration will identify which businesses are eligible to receive HUBZone contracts and will then maintain a list of qualified HUBZone small businesses which federal agencies can then use to locate them.

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What You Need To Know About Grants.Gov

Grants.gov features over 1,000 grant programs from 26 different federal grant-making agencies in the United States. Most of the grants that are found on Grants.gov are mainly for organizations and institutions, only a few of them are for individuals.

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Small Business Administration Background

The Small Business Administration was established in 1953. Since that time the agency has dispensed millions of dollars in loans and loan guarantees, contracts, consulting assistance and other programs for small business across the United States.

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What You Need To Know About GovLoans

GovLoans is a website created by the United States Government to serve the public’s gateway to government loan information. At present, GovLoans hosts information on loan opportunities from five loan making agencies.

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Grants from the Department of Health and Human Services

In 1979 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was established in an effort to protect the health of all Americans and to provide essential human services to everyone, especially to those who are least capable of helping themselves.

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CDBG for Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Villages

The Community Development Block Grant for Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Villages is a program of United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD),

HUD is a Cabinet department in the Executive branch of the US federal government, which work is focused in the development of strong, sustainable, inclusive communities, as well as quality affordable homes for the all the citizens of America.

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Community Development Financial Institutions

CDFI’s could be community development banks, community development credit unions, community development venture capital funds, micro-enterprise development loan funds, or community development corporations.

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Grants From the Department of Housing and Urban Development

HUD makes it its mission to strengthen the country’s housing market by bolstering the economy and protecting actual and potential consumers by meeting the need for quality affordable homes, making use of housing as a platform for improving one’s quality of life, and finally, building inclusive and sustainable communities that are free from discrimination.

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