The City of Stockton (City) is now accepting applications for the Stockton Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Grant Program from organizations, entrepreneurs, start-ups, and small businesses.
Donor Name: City of Stockton
State: California
City: Stockton
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 06/30/2022
Grant Size: $400,000
Details:
This is the seventh year that the City of Stockton has conducted a competitive application process for organizations to apply for the Stockton Entrepreneurship Program. Types of assistance include consulting, training, innovation, provide coworking office space, preparation assistance of business documents, financial assistance, budgeting, workshops, promoting, etc., to create economic opportunity for the business community.
Funding Information
- Up to $200,000 available to support business service providers efforts. Organizations applying for the grant should provide new/existing services for entrepreneurs, start-ups, and small businesses within the City of Stockton.
- A maximum of $400,000 has been allocated for this program.
Eligible Activities
The intent of this NOFA is to obtain qualified applicants from organizations to provide business services to entrepreneurs and small businesses and from businesses with innovative ideas, projects, services, etc. This will also meet the goal and initiatives of the EDSAP, ultimately strengthening the entrepreneurship ecosystem for the City of Stockton.
Eligibility & Required Information
Organizations that apply for grants to provide business services to entrepreneurs and the business community, must meet the following eligibility criteria:
- Must be a business service provider or organization that provides assistance and support to entrepreneurs, start-up businesses, small businesses, etc.;
- The applicant must have a valid Business License within the Stockton city limits;
- Organizations must provide a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI), this is required to receive federal funding;
- Organizations must be able to meet spending deadlines;
- Organizations that received previous City of Stockton funding from the Entrepreneurship Grant Program must provide information on how the funds were spent; and
- Proposal must meet CDBG guidelines and provide business services to program beneficiaries of low and moderate-income (LMI) and are entrepreneurs, start-ups, and small businesses; self-certification forms are required with reporting.
For more information, visit City of Stockton.