Welcome to all women and minorities everywhere. This link off the site is just for you. It is our pleasure at mauisun.org to bring as much information to you as possible to help you in your future endeavours. We will be bringing links to government agencies and local agencies to help you get ahead as much as possible. Information of all types will be added to this link in the future so refer back here often. As always, you can also refer to the discussion board for any questions you have, or specialized help you may need. My company is considered majority female minority owned, What that means is my company is 51% owned by my wife and 49% owned by me. She is also 50% spanish which makes it a minority owned company. We contract to the military and it is considered civilian contracting. We go through the normal channels of bidding on government work like all other companies. Once you manage to get your first contract, no matter how small it is, you are onthe fast track to future government contracts. There is also small business loans available to all, to provide startup money. Most loans start in the 50,000 range and increase from there. There are also philanthropist grants, which is free money, to get your ideas rolling into a sound business. This and more we will endeavour to bring to you on this area of the mauisun.org site. Feel free to contact me at anytime for personal help. There are also admins and moderators from the site discussion board willing to help at all times. Good luck to all of you........mauisun

---

"The state and federal government sponser loans and grants to minority owned
businesses. The places to begin are your local
1. State Department of Economic Development
2. City of residence. Some cities provide block grants and sales tax
abatements.
2. Small Business Adminsitration
3. Their current banking partner who would probably administer any lending
from SBA and potentially can open the door to a venture captital company.
4. U.S. Department of Commerce (very slow if not persisent)

If you are seeking start-up or venture
capital begin with a local community business bank.

Keep in mind that a good source of capital is minority owned business tax
credits. Sometimes these are transferable so they may be sold to another
party at discount.
Federal grants are aplenty and can be obtained by contacting specific
sponsering agencies by simply applying. Most entitlement opportunities go
unclaimed and funding eventually expires.

These must be personal contacts made by a sincere and prepared professional.

My advice is to always start on the local level. Be wary of individual
investors wanting to give you money. What seems like a gift or no strings
attached often ultimately results in years of litigation and thousands of
dollars due to the companys' failure to meet the indivduals expectations or
because of a hastily prepared investment agreement.

With any capital investment make sure an attorney and a CPA review all
contracts, terms and responsibilities prior to cashing any checks!"

Varies Links:

Nonprofit

First Gov

Grants

SBA

4 Anything

Some resources for female small business owners:

Smallbiz

Working Diva (menu of links on the left)

---

Some varied info for you to review for ideas and examples of others doing this.

Kankakee

Autism Society

Ga-ddcouncil

Goodwill

Loans and Grants.

Grants for nonprofits and others.

Laws and acts that may apply.

Legislation

ylawxp

REHABACT

regs-2

Miscellaneous Information

Manuals

Erziehungswissenschaft

z0000710

dircsa.org

Social Firms Group

More to come in the future just keep checking back