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Small businesses have come to form an important part not only of the country’s consumer and other industries, but also of the economy as the whole. This is the primary reason why the USS governments feels a deep obligation to encourage and promote small businesses. Not only does the unemployment rate come down if people engage in their own business activity, and are self employed, these businesses also contribute to the economy as a whole. This is why obtaining grants for starting small businesses is never an issue under Small Business Administration (SBA) of 1953. 

Small Business Administration:

Small businessmen cannot directly approach the SBA for grants. SBA’s policy is not to provide funds to these small businesses directly. Rather, they offer grants and supports to those technical and financial organizations that support such small businesses. The small businesses get loans which have very mild and easy terms, with easy pay back facilities. Therefore, the small businesses themselves do not get any grants from the SBA, but merely easy loans from these support organizations which are under the SBA.

The terms on which these organizations offer support to small businesses are very easy. The small businesses, though, must have a proper business plan. There are no restrictions as to the use of the funds either. The businessman may choose to use them either to set up his business if he is just starting out, or for expansion activities if he has already been operating the business for some time.

Benefits of Grants from SBA:

A grant differs from the loan, as is commonly known. Unlike loans which will need to be repaid at some point of time in the future, no such condition applies with respect to a grant. Grants are meant to encourage small businesses to come up as well as existing small businesses to expand. However, the only condition that those who avail of the grant need to fulfill are those that certain specified and desired results must be shown in the business. Specific profit and income standards need to be met. These thins are worked our between the businesses and the organizations granting these funds.

Among small businessmen, some groups do get privileges over others in the availability of grants from SBA. Women, for example, are the largest beneficiaries. The government strives to promote them and help them set up and even expand their businesses. This has given rise to more and more women starting up small business as a means to sustain themselves, and sometimes even their families and dependents. Ethnic minorities also receive massive support from organizations under SBA in an attempt to promote and encourage them to secure a respectable means of sustenance for themselves.