Small Grants To Fund Your Home or Small Business
by Miriam Buhr
Are you interested in finding money to fund your business? I came across The Amber Foundation Grants that WomensNet.Net started in 1998.
WomensNet.Net is a community of entrepreneurial women who seek to help other women who are attempting to start their small, home, or online business. This group of women felt it honorable to set up a grant to remember a 19-year-old young woman who died in 1981.
According to their site, “the purpose of the Amber Grants is to help other women achieve the dreams that Amber could not in her short time with us.”
The small $500 grants are awarded quarterly and require a $5 application processing fee along with the completion of an online application. The monies given are encouraged to be used for the upgrade of equipment, pay for a web site, etc. They consider that often these “small but essential expenses can make the difference between getting started or being forever stalled.
No repayment is required or expected, although it is hoped that you will pass on the kindness by mentoring & helping others along the way.
Although the grant program is run as a foundation to the extent that [they] accept applications and award grants, all grants come from private not government or solicited donations or funds.”
Take a look at this funding source and this resource and community of women. According to the WomenNet.net site, they boast that award-winning and nationally-renowned business author Marcia Layton-Turner has joined this group of entrepreneurs. So there is lots to explore on this site.
