Business Starting Grants

where can I get grants for small business and for a project for spine injured people in Tampa FL, USA?

it's a small business starting, the project for handicap people like spine injured is a new sport plus pet therapy with horses, and sport and medical research, i can't find the right office, organization.... and forms to ask for gov. grants. Thank you for answering

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1. Try http://www.grants.gov or you can go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) http://www.cfda.gov...hope this helps
2. try goverment grants or small businees grants
3. Contact the organization "SCORE". It's retired business professionals and they offer help with business planning and funding. Their services are free.
4. You can go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) http://www.cfda.gov and Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov - these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. Browse through the listings and see if you can find any grant that would support your purposes. Even if you buy books on "how to get grants" or list that supposedly has information on grants -- all of them are mere rehash of what CFDA has, albeit packaged differently. Note though that these grants generally support non-profit organizations, intermediary lending institutions, and state and local governments. Most of the federal grants are given to specific target groups with specific requirements (e.g. minority business owners involved in transportation related contracts emanating from DOT - Grant#20.905 Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Short Term Lending Program. Individuals especially for personal purposes are not eligible for federal grants. Grants are also often given to non profit groups or organizations involved in training or other similar activities (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 To apply for grants, go to Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov . They have everything you need to apply for grants. The first step is to register with Grants.gov and their registration process can be accessed from http://www.grants.gov/assets/ebizregchec... 1. Get a Data Universal Number System (DUNS) Number 2. Register with Central Contractor Registry (CCR) 3. Authorize your Organization's Representatives 4. Login as an E-Business Point of Contact (POC) You will first be asked to find the grant number of the grant that you wish to apply for. You can get this from the Catalog of Domestic Assistant http://www.cfda.gov which is the federal database of all grants. For private grants, you may want to check the Foundation Center's Foundation Grants for Individuals Online. It's a subscription based website ($9.95 per month) but their opening blurb only says that the database is ideal for "students, artists, academic researchers, libraries and financial aid offices." Entrepreneurs are apparently not one of them, so I take it they also don't have listings of private foundations who give grants to would-be entrepreneurs.
5. elf Reliance Center for Independent Living 8901 North Armenia Avenue Tampa, Fl 33604 813-375-3965 813-375-3972 TTY 813-375-3970 Fax www.self-reliance.org