Hello Everyone,
I’m always trying to teach you about government grants.
Do you know where all grants begin?
Take a guess?
Answer: election platforms.
When candidates are running for office, they say, “I want to do X.”
Once they win, the elected politicians look at each other and say, “wow we won!”
Then they say, “how are we going to do “X”?
One of the most popular tools they use to fulfill their promises is government grants.
They “dangle carrots” (i.e. $$$ called grants) to entrepreneurs or non-profits and say, “can you solve this problem?”
The entrepreneurial ecosystem should then kick into gear.
That is the theory anyway.
Here are the key lessons:
- When should you influence government policy? When the government is already formed? Maybe. But a much better time is when the candidates are looking for input on their election platforms!
- You need to be ready when the grant competitions open. I use LivePlan for my clients. It’s amazing.
- When new governments get elected, they change grants, so you need to be watching and apply fast.
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