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Doing Business in Missouri: Financing

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Understanding Financial Statements for Childcare Centers

Event date: June 8, 2023

Event time: | 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Saint Peters, MO

This training is a 3-hour facilitated, face-to-face workshop. Understanding Financial Statements is designed to help business owners know how to turn financial statements into useful management tools. This training will teach participants to identify ...

Understanding Financial Statements

Event date: June 13, 2023

Event time: | 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Sedalia, MO

Whether you own a small business, serve on a nonprofit board, or make financial business decisions, you will benefit from this workshop!Identify and understand key business information on profit and loss statements, and balance sheetsKnow how to ...

Give Yourself Credit

Event date: June 13, 2023

Event time: | 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Sedalia, MO

Credit-building workshops provide training and one-on-one assistance, establishing and improving credit scores. Registrants will also receive $25 gas cards at the workshop.Individual counseling sessions take place after the workshop's 30-minute ...

QuickBooks Online for Childcare Businesses

Event date: June 13, 2023

Event time: | 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Saint Peters, MO

This is a 3-hour facilitated, face-to-face workshop. Basics of accounting knowledge delivered by a QuickBooks certified instructor. Participants will learn how to track detailed income and expenses in QuickBooks Online. They will learn how to enter ...

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Missouri SBDC receives grant to help businesses in underserved communities

Published: Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021

The Missouri Small Business Development Centers received a $125,000 award for specialized training, business counseling and technical assistance for R&D-focused small businesses under the Federal and State Technology (FAST) Partnership Program.FAST ...

Missouri meat, poultry processors receive $16.7 million in grants with help from MU Extension partnership

Published: Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Nearly empty meat aisles are a burden producers, processors and consumers don’t want to face again. To prevent that, the Missouri Department of Agriculture (MDA) awarded $16.7 million to keep 150 meat and poultry processors ...

Managing Forward Series

Published: Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020

The Managing Forward Series are online courses to reinforce and strengthen your small business for the future. Hosted by the Missouri SBDC and facilitated by subject matter experts from the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of ...

Agricultural businesses can apply for EIDL now

Published: Monday, May 4, 2020

MISSOURI – On Monday, May 4, the U.S. Small Business Administration opened up Economic Injury Disaster Loan applications on a limited basis specifically for agricultural businesses. The application is available at www.SBA.gov/Disaster.At this time, ...

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Funding Agricultural Business Development With Federal and State Grants

Publication date: March 1, 2023

Grant programs allow agricultural businesses and farmers to seek funding that supports business development and may complement other business financing. Grant funding is intended to serve as a short-term infusion of funds to either plan a business or ...

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ARIS - Advancing Research Impact in Society

NSF-funded center that works with scientists and engagement practitioners to build capacity, advance scholarship, grow partnerships and provide resources to help them demonstrate the broader impact (BI) of research in their communities and society.

Federal grants

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SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans Available to Missouri Small Businesses

Small nonfarm businesses in 33 Missouri counties and neighboring counties in Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma are now eligible to apply for low‑interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). These loans offset ...

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Mid-America Trade Adjustment Assistance Center

Helping manufacturers in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska respond to import competition through cost share grant funding and support.

Missouri Procurement Technical Assistance Centers

MO PTAC helps businesses - including small, disadvantaged, veteran and women-owned firms - obtain federal, state and local government contracts.

Missouri Small Business Development Centers

Helping businesses at every stage from concept to startup, growth to renewal, mature to succession succeed through counseling, training and access to technology.

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