Description:
Self-employment Development and Training: provides business start-up training and technical assistance to low-and moderate-income individuals. Businesses willing to hire low-and moderate-income workers can also qualify. Training includes business plan development, market feasibility, and financial assistance.
- Loan Packaging: Assistance in researching and packaging loans for your business.
- Lease/Purchase: Will purchase or build a facility designed to your specifications, then lease it to you with an option to buy. In return, CAP asks for job creation for low-and moderate-income individuals.
- Business Incubator: Affordable commercial and industrial space is available for new businesses at the Wautoma location. Incubators offer customized space suited to your business needs. Office services such as reception, fax, and copy services are also available at reduced rates.
- Technical Assistance When Applying For Government Loans and Grants: Provides counseling services to businesses or municipalities looking for assistance in researching, developing and applying for grants and loans from a variety of funding sources.
-Virtual Business Incubator: The Virtual Business Incubator (VBI) offers services typically found in a "live" incubator such as one-on-one technical assistance and a business library, in combination with electronic services such as on-one lending in an Internet-based "facility". The VBI also organizes many of the small business resources currently available to various Internet sites, into a "one-stop shop". Also available is an online bulletin board and chat.www.vbi.biz.