Can a for-profit business get a grant?
Many of my students are interested in learning how to write grants to support business efforts. Grant writing can certainly work for for-profit business enterprises. The tools and methods I teach in this A to Z course are directly transferable to a for-profit business grant and loan campaign. You will want to target your research to the corporate contributions departments of companies and government funding sources. Corporate contribution grants that provide funding for for-profits request roughly the same types of packages and proposals that they do from nonprofit organizations. So the process of researching potential funders and organizing a grant writing campaign for for-profits is virtually the same. One difference is that when you use the regional funding libraries and the Internet to research potential funders, you’ll want to search under small business grants and loans, economic development grants and loans, government contracts, and grants and loans to small businesses. For mor
