Business Incubation Works
NBIA members now have an unparalleled opportunity to explain the importance of their programs and to gain financial support or maintain existing investments, if those are in danger.
With many government agencies cutting back on local investments — and corporate and foundation funds hard to come by — it’s vitally important that your stakeholders understand the value of business incubation, the innovations you commercialize and the jobs you create. The message is clear: Now is not the time to cut back on the nation’s foremost job creators.
This Web page — which we hope to expand as new tools and information become available — gives you the resources you need to increase awareness of business incubation generally (and of your program specifically), and to highlight the need to leverage investments in the nation’s entrepreneur support systems.
To download important information and templates, click on the links below:
Maintaining EDA funding
EDA reauthorization
Promoting business incubators as job creators
Business Incubator Promotion Act
Other Resources
- EDA seeks input on improving grant process (Added 7/26/10)
- Template letter to U.S. House of Representatives (MS Word, 48 KB) (Added 6/15/09)
- Template letter to U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies (MS Word, 47 KB) (Added 6/15/09)
- FY 2010 budget update (PDF, 23 KB) (Added 6/15/09)
- Help preserve federal incubator funding (PDF, 14 KB) (Added 3/30/09)
- Important information about EDA funding (PDF, 19 KB) (Added 3/18/09)
- EDA stimulus funding guidance (PDF, 20 KB) (Added 3/12/09)
- EDA stimulus funding guidelines (PDF, 20 KB) (Added 3/12/09)
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants guidebook (PDF, 20 KB) (Added 3/12/09)
- Guidance on EDA funding opportunities (PDF, 20 KB) (Updated 3/30/09)
- Contact information for EDA regional and state officials (PDF, 64 KB) (Updated 5/11/09)
- Frequently Asked Questions about EDA funding (PDF, 18 KB) (Added 2/17/09)
- Download Construction Grants Program Impact Assessment Report (PDF, 540 KB) (Added 2/11/09)
- News Release: Business Incubators Are Best Investment of Public Dollars, Study Says (PDF, 18 KB) (Added 1/27/09)
- Detailed findings from the EDA study of public works and infrastructure investments (PDF, 22 KB) (Added 1/27/09)
- Template letter to your stakeholders (MS Word, 44 KB) (Added 1/27/09)
- Template letter to Obama Administration team members (MS Word, 52 KB) (Updated 3/30/09)
- Template op-ed piece for your local paper (MS Word, 30KB) (Updated 3/30/09)
- FEMA Disaster Declarations for 2008 (Added 3/26/09)
- Recovery.gov (Added 3/26/09)
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Other facts and figures to utilize in your arsenal