A few nice business grants images I found:
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Image by USDAgov
Northeast Kingdom grant recipients signed grant agreement documents for their Rural Business Enterprise Grant awards to spur economic development throughout Caledonia, Essex, and Orleans counties. From left to right: Patricia Sears – Newport Renaissance Corporation; Kate Williams – Northern Forest Canoe Trails; Ron Merrill Country Riders Snowmobile Club; Jon Freeman – Northern Community Investment Corporation; Gloria Bruce, Northeast Kingdom Travel & Tourism Association, and Monty Fisher, The Center for An Agricultural Economy. Steven Campbell from USDA Rural Development discusses document, while Molly Lambert, USDA Rural Development State Director (in back) looks on.
Renel Saint Juste, baker, beneficiary of business grant, Haiti
Image by Oxfam International
"People were complaining there was nowhere to buy bread in Corail. I was a baker before the earthquake, so I started this business. The money from Oxfam has helped me to buy a large oven so that I can increase the amount of bread I make.
"There is a big need and demand for bread from both the camp and the surrounding area. The bread that is baked sell out before the morning is over. The large oven is not working yet as we are still installing it. At the moment I make 5,000 bread rolls a day but with the new oven I should be able to make between 60-85,000 a day, in 2012.
"This program has done a lot for me. After the earthquake we thought life was over for us then Oxfam came and gave us this help. We’d lost everything and Oxfam really shouldered us and showed us there was hope because we didn’t have any work to do and we didn’t have any vision to gave us hope. Before we opened the bakery people had to travel far for bread but the bread I was producing wasn’t enough.
"Oxfam answered our needs. Before we couldn’t send the children to school because we needed money for transport. Now we are earning some money, we can send the children to school, buy clothes and give money to others. We are employing other people as well. At the moment we employ 7, and when the big oven is working we’ll employ 5 more... A total of 12! I say ‘we’ because we’re like a group working on this it’s not just me."
More on Oxfam's response in Haiti
Jackson-Kadoka economic development10152012
Image by USDAgov
With the assistance of a South Dakota USDA Rural Development Rural Business Enterprise Grant (RBEG), the Jackson County-Kadoka Economic Development Corporation is closer to its vision of assisting residents and businesses in achieving their full potential to increase economic security. The grant will allow the development corporation to establish a revolving loan fund to grow and retain local businesses. (left to right) Tim Potts, South Dakota, Rural Development Area Director; Rusty Olney - Corporation Member; Kadoka Mayor Harry Weller; Rich Bendt - Corporation Member; Elsie Meeks - Rural Development State Director; Eileen Stolley – Corporation Member; JoBeth Uhlir - Director of Operations; and Dale Christensen - Corporation Member.
