Character Limit: 250

Character Limit: 250

Please provide a short (two or three sentence) executive summary about your project. What do you hope to accomplish? Character Limit: 300

The minimum grant offered is $100,000, and the maximum grant is $500,000. Character Limit: 20

Character Limit: 250

Character Limit: 250

Describe the geographic area to be served. Describe your programmatic focus. Describe how you will provide assistance to demographic groups or classes that have been disproportionately impacted during the pandemic or which have historically faced barriers to entrepreneurship. What are your organization's strengths and how will your organization use them to assist entrepreneurs? Character Limit: 5000

If you have or will have a physical location for services or training, where will the entrepreneur center or programming be located? Please list the name and address of the property owner(s). If the applicant has a lease, please provide details. Character Limit: 2000

What are you trying to accomplish? Will this be a phased project? What equipment will be provided to the public? Please provide adequate details. Character Limit: 10000

Describe how the public (entrepreneurs and small business owners) will be able to access your center and/or programming. What is the process? How will you market it? How will you staff it? Who will supervise your project? Character Limit: 8000

Describe how your entrepreneur program fulfills your organization's mission and how it fits into the region's economic development picture. Character Limit: 4000

Please describe what you feel are the needs of the innovation and entrepreneur community relative to your proposal. Did you conduct surveys or prepare an analysis? Please provide detail. You may upload documents in the last section of the application if necessary. If this is a continuation or expansion of an existing entrepreneur center or similar open lab, please describe the feedback you have received and how you plan to address it through your proposal. Character Limit: 10000

How many entrepreneurs do you project to assist over the course of your program? Character Limit: 8000

Character Limit: 8000

Describe your management team. Who will manage day to day operations, administration, public engagement, etc.? Please attach CVs or resumés. Character Limit: 5000

Please provide an estimate for the nature and number of jobs created and the permanent, post-construction jobs anticipated. Character Limit: 8000

You may upload letters of support below. Character Limit: 8000

Character Limit: 2000

Will evaluation be ongoing? How will you structure surveys or feedback platforms? How will you share feedback with other entrepreneur centers, initiatives, or relevant community leaders? Please note, applicants without sufficient plans to evaluate effectiveness of programs may receive reduced awards. Character Limit: 5000

If your annual report is to large to transmit through the grant system, you must contact Diverse Erie.