Someone to write a give up or backing propose funding for a home business within daycare.? Question: I have started a within home family daycare and

Question: I have started a within home family daycare and own heard almost free government monies for small businesses simply starting.
But I don't know how to get started and how to properly imbue out all forms.

Answers:
Unlike what you hear, it is hard to find grant to start a business. These are just myths that some see, but the fact is that federal establishment and even private foundations hardly supply grant money for a for-profit business such as daycare. And yes, grant mean PAPERWORK - lots and lots of it, that is to say why a cottage industry of grant writers be born.

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

Even if you buy books on "how to get grants" or catalogue that supposedly has information on grant -- all of them are mere rehash of what CFDA have, albeit packaged differently. But still the info is equal - hardly any grant for starting a for profit business.

On CFDA, here is a list of grant available for small businesses http://12.46.245.173/pls/portal30/CATALOG.BROWSE_BENEF_RPT.show - see if there's any for starting a daycare. THERE'S NONE.

10.053 USDA Dairy Indemnity Program
10.162 USDA Inspection Grading and Standardization
10.163 USDA Market Protection and Promotion
10.212 USDA Small Business Innovation Research
10.674 USDA Forest Products Lab: Technology Marketing Unit (TMU)
10.775 USDA Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvements Program
11.611 DOC Manufacturing Extension Partnership
11.612 DOC Advanced Technology Program
14.167 HUD Mortgage Insurance_Two Year Operating Loss Loans, Section 223(d)
14.412 HUD Employment Opportunities for Lower Income Persons and Businesses
14.506 HUD General Research and Technology Activity
15.630 DOI Coastal Program
15.635 DOI Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation
16.110 DOJ Education and Enforcement of the Antidiscrimination Provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act
17.207 DOL Employment Service/Wagner-Peyser Funded Activities
19.300 STATE Program for Study of Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union
20.500 DOT Federal Transit_Capital Investment Grants
20.907 DOT Minority Institutions
47.070 NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering
59.002 SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans
59.005 SBA Internet-Based Technical Assistance
59.006 SBA 8(a) Business Development Program
59.007 SBA 7(j) Technical Assistance
59.008 SBA Physical Disaster Loans
59.009 SBA Procurement Assistance to Small Businesses
59.011 SBA Small Business Investment Companies
59.012 SBA Small Business Loans
59.026 SBA Service Corps of Retired Executives Association
59.037 SBA Small Business Development Center
59.041 SBA Certified Development Company Loans (504 Loans)
59.046 SBA Microloan Program
59.049 SBA Office of Small Disadvantaged Business Certification and Eligibility
59.050 SBA Microenterprise Development Grants
81.079 DOE Regional Biomass Energy Programs
81.108 DOE Epidemiology and Other Health Studies Financial Assistance Program
93.361 HHS Nursing Research
97.065 DHS Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency

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

"The U.S. Small Business Administration does not offer grant to start or expand small businesses, although it does offer a general variety of loan programs. (See http://www.sba.gov/financing for more information) While SBA does volunteer some grant programs, these are collectively designed to expand and enhance organizations that provide small business regulation, technical, or financial assistance. These grant generally support non-profit organization, intermediary lending institutions, and state and local government."

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

Grants are also often given to non profit groups or organization involved in training or other similar comings and goings (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

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

http://www.cfda.gov
http://www.grants.gov
http://gtionline.fdncenter.org
http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol66/grants.htm
http://www.sba.gov/expanding/grants.html