Renew Rural America | Small Business
Strategies
- Business Planning 101: A clear primer on planning your business.
- Should I Start My Own Business?: Key points to help you decide.
- Small Business Financing: How and where to find money.
- Tips on Revamping Your Business in Hard Times
- How to Run Your Business On a Shoestring Budget: Tips for good financial management and proper planning.
- Top 10 Bookkeeping Mistakes: Bookkeeping is at the heart of a company’s success. What to avoid.
- Marketing: How to use marketing for big results.
Programs & Policy
- Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program: For training, technical assistance or for small loans.
- Rural Business and Industry Loan Guarantee Program: Helps rural businesses and entrepreneurs access credit.
- Rural Business Opportunity Grants: For rural communities with exceptional needs.
- Rural Business Enterprise Grants: Grants for rural projects that finance and facilitate development of small and emerging rural businesses.
- Community Economic Development Program: Grants to promote and support economic self-sufficiency for low-income communities.
- Rural Business Investment Program (RBIP)
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Training
- SBA Training Courses: The Small Business Training Network (SBTN) is a virtual campus providing quality and targeted online training to meet the information needs of prospective and existing small business owners. One has to register to take the courses, but there is no charge and you can go at your own pace.
- REAP Training Events Calendar: Check our frequently updated REAP Training Events Calendar.
- Nebraska Business Development Center: The Nebraska Business Development Center offers help and online courses, including the basics of selling goods and services to state government contracting offices.
Rural Enterprise Assistance Program
The Rural Enterprise Assistance Project (REAP) of the Center for Rural Affairs is committed to strengthening rural communities through small, self-employed business development.Resources include: