I am opening a wedding chapel and want to fund it with gov. grants does anyone know how to go about this?

Question

Ok I am trying to starting up a wedding chapel with reception area, I plan on most of the funding coming from government grants, I dont know much about them or even where to go to start looking!!! I have never owned my own business before and I am finding it very difficult to get information on these grants!!! So if anyone knows anything about someone I could possibly talk to for information that would great!!!! Oh and any other advice would be greatly appreciated!!!

Answer 1

You stand a greater chance of getting a government-guaranteed loan through the Small Business Administration http://www.sba.gov/financing than a government grant. Read the SBA Financing page to learn about criteria needed for borrowing

It is hard to find grants to start a business -- most especially wedding chapels. Unlike the myths that some perpetuate, federal government and even private foundations hardly give grant money for a for-profit business.

Nonetheless, you can go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) http://www.cfda.gov and Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov - these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. Browse through the listings and see if you can find any grant that would support a for-profit venture.

Even SBA does NOT give out grants. From the SBA website http://www.sba.gov/mostrequesteditems/CON_FAQ2.html

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"The U.S. Small Business Administration does not offer grants to start or expand small businesses, although it does offer a wide variety of loan programs. (See http://www.sba.gov/financing for more information) While SBA does offer some grant programs, these are generally designed to expand and enhance organizations that provide small business management, technical, or financial assistance. These grants generally support non-profit organizations, intermediary lending institutions, and state and local governments."
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Here is a listing of federal grants for small businesses. See if there is any available for individuals for starting a business -- THERE'S NONE.
http://12.46.245.173/pls/portal30/CATALOG.BROWSE_BENEF_RPT.show

Most of the federal grants are given to specific target groups with specific requirements (e.g. minority business owners involved in transportation related contracts emanating from DOT - Grant#20.905 Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Short Term Lending Program

Grants are also often given to non profit groups or organizations involved in training or other similar activities (grant 59.043 Women's Business Ownership Assistance that are given to those who will create women's business center that will train women entrepreneurs

I suggest you read the following books to get ideas of how to finance your business:

Financing Your Small Business http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1572484500/powerhomebizguid
Small Business Financing: How and Where To Get It http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0808007386/powerhomebizguid
Financing the Small Business: A Complete Guide to Obtaining Bank Loans and All Other Types of Financing http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580626815/powerhomebizguid
The SBA Loan Book http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/158062202X/powerhomebizguid
Angel Capital : How to Raise Early-Stage Private Equity Financing http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471690635/powerhomebizguid
Financing Your Small Business (Barron's Business Library Series) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764124897/powerhomebizguid

For private grants, you may want to check the Foundation Center's Foundation Grants for Individuals Online http://gtionline.fdncenter.org . It's a subscription based website ($9.95 per month) but their opening blurb only says that the database is ideal for "students, artists, academic researchers, libraries and financial aid offices." Entrepreneurs are apparently not one of them, so I take it they also don't have listings of private foundations who give grants to would-be entrepreneurs.

Answer 2

Marriage was once typically a devout rite, a bond among a person and girl underneath the "eyes of god". It was once such a lot regularly performed for merging 2 kingdoms or households for wealth, land and estate earnings, and so forth. As might be played in a theocracy in which the church is the regulation, the wedding might be authorized as cutting-edge authorized marriage. So, a wedding technically can't arise for one that does not suppose in a god. A authorized marriage, or the bigger time period authorized union, is all approximately the regulation, and has not anything to do with faith. Either manner it's not one of the executive's industry and the authorized marriage must no longer exist. In the USA executive can don't have any have an effect on over faith, interval. Therefore in case your church is inclined to marry 2 guys, or 2 females, or 3, or a person and his goat, and so forth., the regulation has no manage over it. If a pair elects to devote to one another that is satisfactory. But it obviously should not be a authorized binding agreement. And must no longer require a license. You desire tax breaks? Incorporate. "Hey we've got bought a well factor going honey, permit's get legal professionals and judges worried in our courting." To each and every their possess. I consider it might be amusing, get married by way of Elvis at a force by way of.

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Answer 4

God is speaking to my heart about a house of prayer
A community Chapel, for hurting people an come for
Needed prayer,for family healing and a place for a needed
Meal for families out of work or just in need of love.
Can someone please tell me how to start
This prayer house?

Answer 5

They will not fund that type of project.