 Hello, welcome this evening everyone Welcome How's everyone this evening? This 7 p.m. Eastern time Anyone on the West Coast? I know we're getting started. We got a couple minutes to go. We're gonna let some folks jump on today Anyone calling in from the West Coast? No, yeah Tell us who's in the building who's here? Damon Wright Maria. I see a queen Lee Who else is here who else is here welcome one welcome all This should be interesting I This is what we're gonna talk about today me See how I make this bigger for everyone All right, I was looking bigger All right, that's looking bigger calling it from Trinidad welcome Welcome welcome welcome Trinidad here who else let us know always always always let us know Tell us your business tell us your state tell us your city tell us what is it you're trying to do? We want to hear about your goals. You want to hear what is it that you're working on a man Eric with the EECK spelling of the name Hey, Elizabeth Trinidad welcome Callie all right Callie's checking in to the building Nice nice nice Good stuff. I think the stream yard is the problem. I always seem to have issues with this software But I do like it So I do like the software I Seem to have issues with it, but I do like the software So this is what we're talking about today the SBA and They're awardees of grant monies because why what happens if you don't let the SBA know That you're out there if you don't let these organizations know that you're out there. How is it Florida? Welcome. How was it that they're supposed to? Claim us count us and be able to give us funds and dollars there's several organizations that Continue to get money year after year and They always there they seem to be handing it out to the same people. So we want to talk about that today I think that for a lot of us we all learned about the SBA through the pandemic, right? So we all Maybe we've heard about the SBA But if you ask Some of the older people right that faced hurricanes like we were part of Hurricane Andrew I remember as a kid and Hurricane Andrew my mom Okay, I remember I was like 13 years old my mom had an SBA loan That we got approved to redo our roofs through a hurricane Andrew Does anybody else remember stuff like that when you were a kid? Do you remember your parents getting a SBA loan to fix up anybody in that was in a natural disaster as a child? Or was I the only one that suffered through a natural disaster as a child? Anybody else? Let us know your business Also, which city you're at state so we can know who to connect Michigan trying to get products into The stores. All right, Hannah I'm glad thank you for sharing that Katrina tell us about your business Eric. Tell us about your business Damon Wright was in Andrews. Well Yep Elizabeth Mitrani tell us about your business. Tell us where you're at We're gonna give people a few minutes to get the law gone. We're just having a conversation anybody the question is Anybody else As a child was part of any natural disasters. You remember being in a tornado flood Fire anything like that. Maybe I remember when I was a kid that my parents actually received the SBA loan and fixed their roof All right Pedro says yes Pedro was actually a tornado as a child in rural eastern Oregon All right. Yeah And so these SBA programs have been around for a long time. These are not new programs I keep telling folks just because now we're adults and we have businesses We have just learned about this stuff, but these things have been around a long time So I quickly what you grew up you was up in New York. You ought to have a natural disasters in New York Welcome Kenny. Welcome Welcome to the show today We're talking about SBA grants SBA funding Elizabeth Miami, Florida distribute promotional items Okay, sweet. There you go, Elizabeth. That's see what Elizabeth wrote is perfect. I want to see more of this Let me know who you are with city or in and tell us what you're trying to do When I want to have this conference this conversation that we're having is Really, it's not for me. This is for you. I know all of these things. I want to have this conversation to talk To you So I can specifically for the people that are on the call I want to be able to address your individual situations and circumstances. So again, I'm going to share Some list and we're going to go over some entities that are receiving funds But definitely again, like for example, Elizabeth says she wants to she's in Miami She distributes promotional items And so her target agencies are want those that are buying for recruiting purposes gift shops Kennedy space center So that's perfect So now when I'm talking I'm having a conversation Then we can talk to some of those things and something comes up that makes sense Then we can talk about it JT Davis. Perfect Virginia Beach brokerage and logistics. Thank you for that Anybody else anybody else want to share? All right cybersecurity provider software development sweet Love it. Love it. Love it. Love it Oh man, Kenny Lewis logistics industry Good stuff if you're Again, if you're in a logistics industry and you did not catch that clip that we had the other day With Demetrius and chris go back and watch it Steph the investor transitional housing, I know Stephie Stephie listen actual alani out in the west coast is doing transitional housing great programs Um, I've got a person here right now in south florida who told me about transitional housing and it's interesting is that um I just sold 13 I had 13 units I I literally just sold 13 units early this year that I had before I found out about this transitional housing program And I'm like listen if I had known about that I would have kept those units so, um Love what you're doing Steph keep it up. Good stuff. Uh, there's a lot of opportunity. Like I said, I've got a person here In south florida that was reaching out to me She she actually she only called me after she got in trouble because the uh, she had So like 30 or 40 people that were going to be displaced because of a bad landlord And so she called me uh with a need of help And that's when I found out what she did and then she had we had met probably two years prior And I said, why didn't you tell me that you do this stuff? I could have bought up another 30 units Um, and so I just sold them to double down on my youtube and on my government contracting business I just got I got out of the rules. I mean, I still have real estate But I I sold those particular units in that city. Um, just because it was um If I had known about the transitional housing program and how to take advantage of it I would have kept those units. So thanks for sharing stuff Who else who else Justin solid city business development and consulting sweet sweet sweet All right, we've got some people in the room today welcome mark My man two mk solutions consulting industrial construction good stuff. All right Look at that hold on Look at our queen lee right now. I've got a client respond to my first bid with him All right Nice nice nice. So I want to talk about this And uh, I just want to put some facts on the table for people out here And this is a report by the oig office of inspector general Uh, it says that in 2018 the sb a minister over 247 million dollars in grant And cooperative agreements to its resource partners and other non federal entities to provide technical assistance and training programs to develop small businesses 247 million dollars 247 million dollars so I the reason why I put that up there because I didn't I didn't even know they gave out that much money like I had no idea that the sba was dulled out that kind of though to companies and entities to help people like us Yes, so 247 million dollars is what the sba gave out to help basically Us small businesses right so but what's interesting is that If you google right and I did this If you google check this out leading factors for small business failure anybody would google that Let me zoom in If you google leading factors for small business failure failure What does it say right here at the top the most common small business fail include a lack of capital or funding? Let's go down All right top six reasons businesses fail Too little financing number three insufficient capital Hold on I just google anybody can google this you can do this at your own house. Don't think I've made these results Um business failure not seeking professional advice like a customer care lack of experience and accountability Failure to market leadership failure unprofit buzz poor financial management Right, so if we look at it capital plays a huge role in our success or our failure and so Today we want to talk about sba grants, but not all of the grant programs I just because again for the sake of time because they have so much that they do I want to focus on two programs this particular program here Where they award it prime grants to what they call to help emerging and micro entrepreneurs gain access to capital And there's another program here. I want to talk about state trade expansion program Which is for people who want to do exporting And the reason why I chose those two programs in particular is because A lot of us A lot of us have businesses And I don't think that we understand like for example Uh, where she is where is she at? Elizabeth So like for example, Elizabeth has promotional items And the government has programs That actually will pay you to do business with other countries to sell your promotional items And a lot of people actually sell products. So Some of these programs there's not enough Okay, let me let me just say this before I go on hold on. I'm gonna ask a question. Let's go into a question phase How many people How many people watching this are aware of the rental assistance program? How many people now not saying that you had to receive it, but you heard of the rental assistance programs? Anybody out there heard of the rental assistance programs with the government Show of hands. Yes, you heard of the rental assistance programs Where the government actually put money into a pot to provide renters with assistance when they had the The moratorium ended. Yes. Anybody heard of that those programs rental assistance? Yes. Yes. Nope. Nope Do you realize that with that rental assistance program that they only spent about one fourth of the money? Maybe a fifth of the money Anybody know that do you know that they've only spent one fifth of the money in rental assistance programs? And they're having to take the money back Hold on. Let me pull that up Hold on I'm gonna pull that up because I want to pull it up. Let me just Share with you this one Florida has dispersed 2% of rent aid as eviction moratorium has ended Florida 2% hold on make sure let me make sure you can see that on my screen. Oh, sorry Let me pull the screen back up Go back All right Florida spurs 2% of their rental aid as eviction moratorium has expired 99 million and rental assistance for florians returned Most rental assistance funds not yet dispersed This figure shows 1.7 billion dollars in funds intended to prevent eviction 89 percent of the funds have not been dispersed 89 percent More than 2 billion federal rental assistance went unused money Unused money 80 Okay, let's 65 to 80 something percent unused money And so it's funny because as we're sharing this This is the same thing that happens across the board to a lot of these programs is that people are not Going after this stuff and it's being unused this just happens to be something that Uh, it's a big impact and it's it's to me Um, it's something that you could see like it's it affects all the folks out there Um, the money just sat there Just it just sat there grant money This was at loans. These were grants This was grant money Means not you don't have to pay it back grant money sat unused Look at that I mean, it's just staggering the amount of money that We sat back and we let go and it's it's it's appalling because What do you want the government to do? Look as of august 25th Fed report most rental assistance still has not gone out yet several states for jen texas Have been praised for moving quickly to get the photo money out, but many others still have not as august Okay, 89 hadn't been spent as of september 24th. What's today october 13 a few weeks ago 2 billion still is not being used Treasure department start outlining ways to now to reallocate these These particular monies they're gonna they're gonna reallocate the funds By the way, hey, make sure if you're joining us now hit the like button as always I can't see how many people like button, but always when you come on hit the like button And let us know that you're here also don't forget to share with me Your business your city and state as well as what you're trying to do because again I want to um I want to be able to talk to you and have a conversation with you Specifically those people who took out the time to join us today on this live session So let me know who you are Let me know what your business is or what you're trying to do and also a city or state as well Thank you and hit the like button Um So my man, okay This is funny my man T. I'm trying to say I'm not an example My tenants bought flat screen TVs and dodge chargers and decided to move out without paying. I'm still waiting on that cheese Yeah, I actually so a funny thing is one of my tenants we uh We actually were able to use one of those programs to get her to pay Some backhoe rent that she owed me and she's section eight. So really uh all she had was like the supplemental piece of it Which again depending on the months ranged from like 200 to 400 is her portion And then the government pays the rest and she still was behind But we did use that program to catch up. And so I I actually Have I told my sister and some other people that I know that are landlords To have their people apply and so trj if you would have actually Had the tenants apply for that those funds they could have Reimbursed you for however many months they sat there So but just just one example of what's happening out here with the money So let's let's jump into it. Uh, let me know who's out here. I want to get into it. Let's talk about These particular programs That the government has so the sba awarded this and let me just make it bigger All right, we're going to talk about this particular program the 5.2 million dollars that was awarded This past september, which is last month To and we're going to talk about the people who received those awards the entities who received them So here's the list by the way anyone can pull this up. So this is I share public information. I like public data just because Why it's anyone can go back and fact-checked it. It's not my information What's up, brian hamster? Anyone can go back and fact-check this information and see how You can actually do this do your own research and verify This is the list of grant awardees in 2021 Let me make sure is it big enough. Let me zoom in All right. So if you're in these states This is the list of winners. I just drop I'll drop this pdf link in the group Here's the list of organizations that were handed funds And so again, we are referencing this particular program The emerging micro entrepreneurs gain access to capital. So What am I supposed to do with this? Uh, here it tells you right here that these 27 organizations were awarded 5 million dollars Prime support these nonprofits as they help low-income entrepreneurs get financing To establish and expand their small businesses by providing direct technical assistance or capacity building training Or other organizations that provide capital to underserved small businesses. So if you Are in any one of these states Then you should be talking to these particular entities Does anybody on here recognize any of these names? Don't worry. Maurice. Don't feel bad. Don't worry. Elizabeth. Don't feel bad We just I'm just looking at fiscal year 2021 Anybody recognize any of the names on here? No All right We're gonna we're gonna go through some of the the entities. In fact, let I think I have a couple pull up here This is actually communities unlimited. I pulled them up This is that particular that's the first organization to list and look thinking a lot of funding So, er, why do you tell us to go talk to these people? I'm gonna tell you why one is Let me make this smaller One is they're in your backyard They're local These entities are local to you. So whereas, uh Even though you're attempting to do business with the federal government because they're a local entity They're like they're more likely to be community people that you can have a conversation with They're more likely to be community people that you know someone that knows someone that knows someone there Right. And so if they're already getting these funds and if we take for example this particular organization Not only are they getting funds from the sba Look, they're getting funds from a whole lot of other people which includes the usda They includes the crest foundation Uh, robert wood johnson foundation higher purposes So to in my opinion um, when I Work with companies or entities who know nothing about government contracting, right? You guys have the privilege of watching me on youtube But people who like for example my guy who is my auto repairman. He knows nothing about government contracts, but These types of organizations are the ones that help him They're the ones that give you the mom and pop grants that are 5k 10k That you don't have to pay back you go through a couple training classes And then they'll award you 5,000 7,000 whatever, you know, maybe two three thousand dollars But it's money that they will give you to help you Whatever buy laptops invest in software Whatever it is that you need So No, these they're free. This is they're free of charge part of the agreement that they have with the government is to Actually offer Hold on and I'll show you How this works Um part of their agreement the government is the grantees are required to do 50 and matching funds or in-kind contributions So ultimately that's really 10 million dollars doesn't seem like a lot. However When you're dealing with an organization that's locally based All right, like this is communities unlimited. Here's their number. Here's the contact us button to call When you're dealing with organizations that are community based They are likely to help you see they've got loans 1,000 to 100,000 They're likely to help you Actually and getting those funds All right, thank you for that. Let me make sure I zoom in for people All right better. So, um Let's go back to the list. I'm gonna pull it back up Let me drop this 2021 list in the chat for people Uh when you ask when your question says how much per hour, where does that mean? How do you scale to one on one with them? Um easily you visit their website and they are the intention is they're supposed to be helping All of us small businesses like ourselves Uh get access to funds and capital So let's see for example this particular organization. This is community is unlimited Let's see what do we serve services blog training resources research about About us, let's see There's an annual report There's the staff Look at that CDFIs CDFIs community these are community development financial funds Look, they've got 16 million assets. They've made 45 million dollars in loans Uh Here you go. Here's the number right here Fayetteville There he is I'm telling you that this is one of the best things that For me for small business starting out. This is one of the this is by far Better than you yourself trying to apply for funds because these organizations, they know how to get the money They're very very good at it. They've been doing it for years And they have they not only do they get access to these funds They get access to a whole lot of other government dollars So they can tell you about programs that even I don't even know about because this is what they do Let's go to the 2020 list. Maybe that'll be more favorable some people Look our our family the community's united. They're up there again. Community's unlimited Anybody from the south let's see anything in the south No All right, north carolina mountain biz capital There in north carolina Anybody else tennessee is that south enough? Nope No All right, i'm gonna drop this list in the chat for folks anybody knows anyone on this list Yes, no, maybe so anybody Oh my man said how much Uh, how much good the government contracts with me. Yeah, we have uh So for us give us a call seven eight if you want to work with our team Here here's our phone number Give us a call And we could talk about what is that you need? illinois nothing from illinois Nope. Nope. Damon says nope. Nope their state. Nope Huh interesting. All right, let's go let's go to 2019 still nothing, huh pennsylvania four from california We got two from indiana Louisiana texas Nope Nothing from illinois all right so Um, I tell you what t rj. Let's do this Nope, no florida All right. Well when we buy What we'll do when we finish up talking today I'm gonna go find you someone And your state tell me your city that you want me to look for and i'll find you someone All right dc We'll find you someone in your states all right Anybody else see anybody see someone they could talk i want to anyone here someone from california Anyone know Who's my guy from california? Where's my was it eric were you the one california? All right My man's asking are there requirements so Hold on Are there any particular requirements and tonio freeman? So the requirements depend on the organizations, right? So whatever their requirements are those the requirements that you have to meet let's say What somebody said dc is dc on this list? Nope. Let's go back Let me show you how this works. All right. So we got on dc Creative credit billers alliance. All right. Let's look them up in dc So let's go here Let's pull up credit billers alliance credit billers alliance All right, there's credit bills alliance All right, there's cra community membership community access So What I would do is I would reach out the credit billers alliance Here's the numbers Those where they're at I will call them and find out what programs do they have That apply to you So I would actually give them a call and I find out. Hey I noticed I was on a webinar the other day and on that webinar it talked about that you were the recipient of Some micro entrepreneur Grants from the sba My name is so it's a such and I was wondering what type of programs Do you have out there for small businesses like myself? I do this. This is not that makes sense. Antonio Yes. No, maybe some All right. Yep. I think there were a couple from new york I'll pull it back up What else texas? Yep, new york is on there business outreach network in new york There you go. That's new york There you are This is not reach network about us. Give them a call talk to them. Uh, find out what programs they have There you go. Look micro loan loan There you go That's it. I cleanly who else Who else Tennessee is tennessee on the list. Let me see Yep, tennessee is on the list right here Uh pathway lending tennessee Now i'm going to tell you something which is funny. Um When I do these things Right and I make these videos. I make these calls here pathway lending Trust that small business and I get your success. They're part of the vbot program pathway women's business center 30 million medical district investment fund exclusive real estate development Pathway lending there you go. Here's the email. Here's there's different locations tennessee. We got you California there's a bunch of california. I think california you stole the show with the most People entities we've got california associates for micro enterprise opportunities we have These three here. We've got fresno community development center main street launch indian dispute resolution center vermont slosson ldc So california you've got plenty of choices in california And then you got women's economic ventures and tmc development working solutions in california What else mississippi? Oh, I don't know about mississippi All right. Good. You're good. Um Let me do this. Let's by the way, make sure to hit the like button on this as we're talking and having conversation Uh, let's go through Now let now what if happens if you don't see your estate? Um Let's go in here and let's talk about a couple things So one of the things that this is just one particular program by the way Just so that everyone knows this is one program A lot of times if you look at the names of these programs, there's some commonalities. So community development corporation cdcs You'll see community development cdfis Let's see Right, you'll see this cdfs And so you a lot of times Your local cities have community development corporations and cdfs in your area The other thing that you can do is you can look up others other sba programs out there That award funding. So see here cdfi network So let's say Just for s and giggles Let's look up on here Someone said miami, right? So let's say miami cdfi All right, so here you go Miami Bayside Foundation So that's that would be the equivalent organization That gives out funding now. Let me tell you about Miami Bayside Foundation, which is really cool Miami Bayside Foundation actually, I know them and probably Hold on Thank you, Brian. I appreciate that. Yes, we are expanding always expanding reach the small businesses wanting to grow within the government That's correct. Awesome So the Miami Bayside Foundation is actually If you are in miami, right? Because I think who asked about miami. Where's who asked about miami? Where you at? I saw someone said miami. Oh, elizabeth. All right, elizabeth said miami, please Elizabeth, do you know Miami Bayside Foundation? You better say yes I'm sure you do. Uh, Miami Bayside Foundation is actually Bayside we all know Bayside, right? So Miami Bayside Foundation Okay, Damon to Miami too as well, right? So Damon, you know Bayside. Everybody knows Bayside Yes, elizabeth, you know Bayside. Damon, you know Bayside? Yes. Yes. Yes. I'm waiting Ah, she's a fundraiser her former life. There you go So then you know Miami Bayside Foundation and one of the things that's really cool about Miami Bayside Foundation is I actually know personally because I'm from Miami as well. Uh, I actually know that Miami Bayside Foundation If you set up your office within a certain region of them, they will actually give you a $50,000 How do you call it non non? Non, I forget what's to I forget the word, but you don't have to pay it back They'll give you a $50,000 grant that you do not have to pay back If you move to a certain location within their area So I know that for a fact with Miami Bayside Foundation But for everyone else out there who's watching If you take the name of your city and google like cdfi or cdc These types of organizations will pop up. So let's look at Hold on I'm at I'm at Damon said, yeah, of course Uh, so let's look at let's go into Bayside Foundation What does it mean to be a cdf 5? Look what they do they offer scholarships here grants All right My basic foundation invitation only process Uh, do not step on solicit letters Um, they do grants grantees Let's go on here Now the cool thing is Damon and Elizabeth Because your boy is from Miami I actually know people who work with Miami Bayside Foundation and So what's interesting is that Do you guys remember I told you that this upcoming Sessions that we've got in our 2.0 course. We're going to have guest speakers So some of our guest speakers that will be attending and teaching our classes Actually partner with Miami Bayside Foundation and they teach some of the same the course work To the person who are receiving grant funds from Miami Bayside Foundation So You will get a chance to meet some of the teachers and instructors from Miami Bayside Foundation We're using some of their same instructors that were hired by them to teach our courses and our 2.0 class So you get the added benefit because I'm from Miami and so I know people from Miami and that makes sense um So Elizabeth to answer your question. Can that be paired with HUD? I don't know the answer to that you'd have to speak with the people at Miami Bayside Foundation and find out However, they do have their own They raise a lot of their own funds and so they have their own programs that they create. I don't know You can mix and match them, but yes So my man davis says I don't know why people keep opening their brick. That's right. David if you had Think about this way Most of us understand that like google facebook You get they get money from cities to open up You guys know that right? You know when google remember when amazon was deciding they want to move to new york or set up an office here That the cities were literally bidding to get amazon to move there and they were giving them funds to move there That's the same thing that i'm talking about. These are the same types of dollars just at a smaller level It's the same thing But like most programs if you don't know about it, then you're on the outside looking in so it's the same type of monies that google and amazon when when like alabama want to persuade these companies to come there They give them tax credits for 10 years plus. They give them They get donate land and they give them all these incentives to move their offices there This is the same thing with like the miami base site foundation And it's the same thing with other organizations Around as well. By the way elizabeth if you are a fundraiser. I want to talk to you so elizabeth We need to talk to you So connect with maria, please because we actually want to do some fundraising So we need we're looking for someone to help us with sponsorships So we're very interested in and working with someone who can help us with sponsors and fundraising for our group We would love to be on that list as well. Uh, let me show Some folks out here maria reach out to elizabeth So let me show let's give another example. So my man. So for example, all right fred say Said uh mississippi. Well, louisiana. We just showed louisiana on here, but i'll do mississippi just as an example. So let's say Mississippi CDF All right Let's see anything mississippi Mississippi CDF is in mississippi community development financial institutions mississippi You got a whole lot of them. Let's see if there's any That actually give out grant funds All these look like banks in mississippi um Dang mississippi. Y'all don't have nobody helping y'all out. Hold on Hold on Me look let me look mississippi I saw louisiana on that list Mississippi looks like all their money's going to banks River hills bank bank this bank that bank that bank this bank that All right. Hold on mississippi. I'm not giving up on you yet. Hold on Hold on Hold on Give me a give me a city I don't even know cities in mississippi um Hold on I like this. It's a good challenge All right, here you go the live fun in mississippi There you are live fun Bam Look at that. There you go the live fun right there certified cdfi in mississippi All right In terms of louisiana we already had someone on louisiana One of these lists. Let's see There right there Social entrepreneurs of new new orleans There you go All right Yes, t rj said i need to be i need to move all right, um So Just showing you how if you're if you don't see your name on that list your entity name on any of those lists And if you're just joining us, uh, we put the links in there. I'm going to drop the link again Where you can find a list of the grant awardees And This is the this is what we're referencing the article. Let me give you that list here So then that way even if you came back Later on and you won't do this research for yourself Here's the list that you can download and again The reason why we're sharing this information is because so so this is a lot different than if you apply for like Edel or ppp This is local based people community people Entities where you can even if you don't qualify today if you were on that call With uh when we're on the call with sheena and stephanie on the day even if you don't qualify right now in this moment You figured out what the requirements are How does set your business up to qualify go back and restructure it and then you qualify for that money later So even if you just do your research Investigate ghost ghost it down to their offices talk with them find out What does it take to to qualify and then you go back and restructure your organization so that you can qualify for these funds We don't want people out here making excuses For why they can and can't do things in fact On that tip my man jetco solutions Okay, this one my podcast guest he gave me this cup And see what it says All right, so we don't want y'all making excuses for why you can't do something. So again I want to share this information out there so people could start doing their research Let's talk about let's go on to the next program before we get too deep into this one. Uh, this particular program And it's interesting because I've attended a couple of import export events and even though CDBG DR and PR from HUD nice Yeah, CDBG funds typically are for cities and municipalities We don't they don't allow small businesses to get CDBGs And for us Kevin hold on a man. Hold on. Let me show Kevin on here. All right. Oh Kevin Now I see you you do look like eric My man Kevin you do look like eric now So Kevin so interesting enough about CDBG dollars um A lot of times like for example in miami south florida the CDBG dollars it goes to Unincorporate date counting they hog up all of that money those funds and they don't let us in So we don't actually get access to any of that money. We don't get to play with it They control it they manage it and then the county and the state municipalities They do their own projects with CDB dollars. So Um, but yes and other places maybe the counties aren't that greedy But miami day eats up all of our CDBG dollars Um, but yeah, now I see you closer up on camera. You do look like eric or you guys look alike I don't know who's the older brother. Who's the younger brother? um Hold on haddiesburg. So kevin says there's huge grants in portorico. Uh, we could definitely look that up um And we could do that research afterwards But I want to make sure I get through this other program because I think that a lot of people out here Particularly those who are selling products. I just For me for the life of me I always I kind of believe that we don't know about all of these things and so I want to help You to see and realize and understand what's out here. So this particular program state trade expansion program out here, uh, was Says it was an international program marketplace since 2011 Learn how to export participate foreign trade emissions The I think one of the best programs that The sba has and our government has is our import export program is by far one of the best programs out there And I'll tell you why they actually Will give your business money. Let's say you're selling a product to another country They will issue credit to your supplier So that you can sell that product to them and they will pay you our government will pay you To supply to them and then give them the credit but the government you get the money So if you're if the buyer on the other end, let's say you're selling to uh, the bahamas We're selling to dominica republic And they don't the our government will pre-approve that other person on that entity for credit and then issue you the actual money so this is program is amazing Um to say the least but again, it doesn't apply to everyone But I just want to share with folks out there really quickly What it looks like and who are the players and participants because again if these people are receiving Federal dollars for this stuff You should know who they are and even if today you're like you're like well, this doesn't apply to me today And the future Maybe your friend maybe a colleague somebody that talks says something in your ear And you start to connect the dots and you go. Hey, I remember this guy crazy guy on youtube He was telling me about this money and I didn't know anything about it So in this particular program, I believe all states should have recipients of the program So we're not going to go through them quickly. I just want to show you Uh, arizona arkasaw california, colorado Connecticut All right, so I believe all states should have this particular program Look at you eric I called you eric. Look at kevin Puerto Rico all right, so Um, this is the program we're talking about they've 33 organizations underserved communities Uh, this is a whole another program. We're not going to talk about this But I will just for the sake of having it on the screen and letting someone grab the url We'll go ahead and mention that now Let's go back to the other programs that we were mentioning cdfi Someone asked and this is a very good question. Hold on. I like this. Where are you at? Where are you at? Yes, hit the like button All right So it's interesting that you said that Uh, most are the grants out there to purchase a house. So actually when you look at cdfi Right the cdfi funds and the incubators are lenders to you can buy real estate with them Uh, let's see if we could find a definition for you Here kevin provides capital young cdfi to support portfolio growth and prepare applying for large investments our loans 100 to 250 thousand Available to member organizations This particular one does micro lending But let me go into cdfi's here because that's the program that you're looking for Is cdfi's i'm going to close this other windows cdfi's so remember I told you google the name of the city and the state with the word cdfi Because they're the ones that are being they're distributing all the money that the sba is giving them So just want to kind of re-marking that. Um Let's go in here So this is what you're looking for a community development financial institution cdfi is a class of financial institutions that cater to underserved And low-income communities that participate in sba seven loans from the community advantage program of the 250 thousand dollars Um, and then they're actually This program in particular cdfi's are the ones they use to give you access to capital to buy real estate So that's the program that you're looking for Is the cdfi program that's the one that you're looking for mo sauce for real estate investments, which is what we're sharing all right Hello, I'm here to find finding so I can launch my organization my goal is to help Others find the calm clarity creatively for the businesses. All right Nice. Thank you luanda for that Very nice. Um, tell us how we can help you today South carolina, I think we showed south carolina was on the list earlier If you're just joining us The conversation we're having is about the and I just dropped that in there The three the five point two million dollars and awardee for micro emerging grants for small businesses I pulled up the list on the screen or the Entities that were actually awarded the grants so that you can go out and if they're in your state You can talk to these organizations About how you can have access to some of these funds They also just keep in mind that if they're on this list, they're they're more than likely receiving funds from multiple sources So not only is it they're being funded by the sba, but they're being funded by private organizations And public institutions as well. So you'll see a lot of the organizations on this list That are being funded by multiple organizations outside of the sba because part of what they have to do is they have to have What's called matching funds in order to exist and grow? I'm trying to think if I could see See community development corporation those It's another one that let's pull this up They run the list Oh, I don't want to look at their profile. Sorry hold on Let's go in here pv development corporation It's funny because I actually hate this crane this big it makes it hurts my eyes Uh I don't see them pv community development corporation apostle texas I don't see a website for them But they're on here They receive 75 000 I don't see a website Let's look at the people's fund in texas You see what I mean these people don't even have a website It's so funny because they don't even have a website, but yet they receive grant funding from the government And some of us cry about websites and we we like they care about websites Hey, look at that So this is what i'm telling you you see how those people fund receive money from capital one App sumo us bank pnc region foundation So these organizations are getting money from all over the place and they're in your backyard. So definitely You want to find who they are and talk to them because again, they have money they have programs They can help connect you with opportunity They're not they're not just there to help provide funding But they're there to also connect you with opportunities to grow and build your small business So I like to say you know when people talk about local This is where I like to say this is where I would start local when it comes to the actual dollars because you can all of us Watching if the requirement is to set up your a business account with capital one or pnc or us bank In order to qualify or be eligible for the money. Can't we all do that? Yes. Yes. Can't we all do that? If the requirements are for the people fund that you've got to put your move your bank account to this community bank In order to receive Eligible grant dollars. Can we all agree that that's something that is easy and within our control? That's why I want to share that all right A man says eric would be too ambitious to buy for a 50 to 100 million dollar contract for cloud computing As a starting small business um To say ambitious Is not even the right words to say foolish Crazy insane is more fitting appropriate um a 50 to 100 million dollar contract um, maybe you guys didn't see what we talked about earlier today um And kevin wasn't called but if you look at today We were on with the senate house committee on how the small businesses There's a decline in small businesses by 40 percent And how google and some of the large organizations are Actually bullying small businesses These types of contracts particularly for something like cloud computing amazon has cloud services uh box You name it the biggest corporations the trillion dollar behemoths all have cloud computing services so to think that um, that that's even possible um is Would be Let me see what my man kevin says kevin's usually pretty insightful uh With no past performance you're better off trying to team and provide value efforts So kevin is very he's very diplomatic about his approach and he's right However, what i'm gonna say is that even if let's say They gave you the contract You wouldn't even know how to do a 50 or 100 million dollar contract You don't have the staff. You don't have the manpower. You don't have the people um It's just so much stuff that goes into it Even a five million dollar contract would be a lot for starting out small business Who's never worked in this marketplace if you've never done government contract before a five million dollar contract is Is even considered insane Yeah, yeah the iris bully story was insane correct nah you're welcome, but but I what what I will say this I don't want to knock you because What I want what I would say is find out what the requirements are on that contract if you study and learn it Then just like what we're teaching here I actually tell people that part of my recommendations is to study what these contracts look like and what the requirements are So when you're assembling you're a team Then you know what all of the players you need and the key elements you need to construct Uh a winning team for a 50 million dollar contract And now as you are building your business and growing it you have Sort of like a goal in mind of where is that you want to at your your heading towards and so now You could keep in mind all the players that you need in order to attack a 50 or 100 million dollar contract That's what I did and to be honest with you like right now where I'm submitted on three projects that are 200 million because I had that intention and I knew what that team need to look like and so I worked on building that team So that I could participate and so again, I'm going to get a small sliver But I'm going to be it's like investing in a multi, you know, like say you invest in a 30 million dollar complex Yeah, you may put up only 200,000, but you're part of a 30 million dollar deal. That's similar to what I'm doing So you could definitely use it as a way to study and find out what your team should look like In order to participate in that opportunity Um Can you explain the google situation look confusing? Um, so that was actually on an earlier call today that the senate housing committee Um that we had and it's it's in my youtube. It was a live session But just in short for just to answer your question What happened was google there was a small business That and hold on let me put this back on the screen for those who are joining want to hear about the grant stuff So Let me just keep this on the screen real quick All right, perfect So company testified that google had bullied her after she Uh was successfully awarded. Yeah, I cleanly put it on there So there was a small business that responded to a sources sought for a technology solution for a government agency She then provided them with the solution She signed an nda And then they awarded her a sole source contract to actually do the work right because a so because a sources sought Is a RFI request for information is to say do you have a solution? So then in order for them to give her the solution they give her contract as a sole source So now she's providing the government with that solution Well, what happened was google then reached out to her To say hey, would you like to team with us on providing this solution? Um, and so what happened was she said no, I don't need you because this was our technical solution We don't need google maybe in the future If it because she's what she said was at that particular The technology that they were looking for the solution was going to result in a really big contract if it worked And so google already knew that and so what they did was google went back to that organization this federal agency and said That they have concerns about this particular company and why they were sole source of contract And this is a testimony. This is like actually testimony. It's it's documented. It's recorded. This is a testimony And so then the agency came to the lady and said, what did you tell google? And she says I didn't tell google anything because I had an nda So someone from google had an inside connection to the government And they were the ones that obviously gave google the inside tip that this particular person was solving a problem And so that's what happened So that's pretty much the the story from today. So it was yeah, it's it was it was crazy. It's crazy crazy crazy crazy crazy A man says kept seven sound effects programs folks. He can get where you are trying to go. It's very true Listen, I can take you to five million dollars a year after five million dollars I can tell you some other steps to do it, but I could take you up to five million dollars That's pretty much that's my commitment. I can get I can get everyone on this call up to five million Mojo, I'm trying to understand mil spec packaging to bid on dibs opportunities give a blueprint for success Can you offer training so mil spec is is very unique? We do have a student that we're going to release this podcast coming up probably the next month That is very successful and dibs and dla But mil spec is Really really specific That's a separate that's a that's required specialized training that we can't afford to focus on when so many people need like It's not it doesn't affect so it doesn't affect enough people for us to focus in on mil spec However, we do we do have someone that's very successful at dibs and dla They did 94 contract actions last year And someone close to a million dollars and dibs and dla bids So we do talk about that and we have someone that you can you can actually reference for that All right, what else? Because I was on earlier. So I wasn't actually playing on being here tonight I just kind of want to jump on share some information share some insight for folks um There's a specific website to find graduates my business in minnesota dealing with cdfi So yeah kyla like I showed you what I would do is personally So first of all like here kyla I think is it minnesota on that list? I see two All right, hold on because kyla asked a question Northeast entrepreneurs fund let's try that Sorry, hold on kyla. I got you Where are they at? I don't see a website for northeast entrepreneurs fund Hold on Maybe they changed your name to entrepreneurs fund or let me see if that's the same people Maybe they've changed your name All right, here you go Uh kyla are you close to any of these areas? Can you see my screen kyla Are you close to any of those? Oh, I'm sorry. I got your your thing is blocking it All right. Look at the bottom of screen and green. Are you close to diluth evalith grand rapids? Hey, bing kyla Look, this is what I'm saying. You see how Um You see this organization entrepreneur fund sba cdfi 10 000 jobs created. Look they lend a hundred million dollars. They serve 19 000 entrepreneurs Go talk to these people Go out talk to these folks. You're likely to know someone there So, um, there you go. All right original just pulled up my state interesting info. Good stuff. Love it All right It says dibs takes forever to register. Yes James do veterans get advantages? Absolutely veterans always get advantages always um So how's the government supposedly help us small business about wedging big corruption to the deal Yeah, jazz. I don't want to get into it's yeah, that's a tough one. Um I agree with you. All right kyla says grand rapid perfect. So kyla now. You know where to go Sweet. All right entrepreneur fund.org. I'm dropping it in the chat just for kyla See if you don't ask you don't receive boom um Yeah, so I think so jazz to answer your question on this this particular subject Really what I what happening is most of So, yes, the big guys are getting in the middle Of a lot of the opportunities, but for the stuff that most of us are going after you're not really going to feel the impact of any of these these multibillion dollar organizations, so The people that were on that panel today They all had like a hundred to 200 employees. So they're pursuing like that particular lady who we're talking about She was on 13 different contract vehicles g wax with the government So she's really not small like us anymore. She's small by definition But uh, she's probably a 25 30 million dollar company Maybe even a 40 million dollar company not that that takes anything away Not that google who's a trillion dollar company should be trying to beat her up but for for For you and I and the 77 people that are watching right now That's really not going to impact us because the stuff that we're going after is all probably in the 100,000 to Five million dollar range, right? And so that's the stuff that we go after 100,000 to five million dollar range And so for google is not going to come down to that level to to to attack us on that So we are kind of insulated for now when we get to the bigger levels Then it will probably fill the impacts more But at least right for right now, we're still kind of insulated from the the monster companies Actually taken over and and stomping in our territory All right, how can you get the list? Um, I just I sent the list earlier For that website So what we're going to do about illinois? Oh, my man said illinois. All right, hold on. Okay. I got you. I got you. I thought illinois was on the list No, you're right. It was indiana was on that list You're right All right No illinois. Okay. Okay. All right. All right, hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on illinois Department treasury Let's see We can find All right, this is how to become a cdfi That's not what we're looking for Okay, hold on illinois illinois neighborhood lending services in chicago Community investment corporation. Here you go. I'm a matter of fact. I'm just going to drop this in your list for illinois Yeah, there's illinois All right, there you go Start there All right, I got you. I wasn't going to let you leave you've been on the call the whole time So I'm not going to let you leave it like an information um Bo says I watched your video about coming in as a consultant. You still think it's good and for business assets for your transportation Uh, so Bo, I would encourage you on transportation if that's your business Um to go back and watch the video that we did with chris Facy on how to get transportation contracts. Both of them don't have assets neither of them are assets They are both brokers. So yes, definitely You could do it. It does they don't have trucks. They don't have You know, so so watch that video with chris Facy Uh and dimetrius on what we posted literally it was last week. We did a live session on how to win contracts and transportation Um, they're doing it right now like today like they chris they the contracts that we're talking about were last month in a month before that these weren't last year This was last month He got called into action. Uh, one girl one truck charon She's doing it today for fema. So, uh, she happened to she started acquiring assets But when she started off she was more literally one girl one truck so All right, illinois is fixed I saw evanate funding site references to villas state learn something every show. That's right. That's correct That's right Hey 72 people watching. I hope that we all have 72 likes on my channel. Please give us 72 likes I'm on a pressure washing business. I'm trying to find where so look we're a bit on pressure washing contracts in south carolina Ah, man mo listen We have put out so many um Our bid opportunities board for pressure washing There is i'm going to tell you something and i'm happy that you put that in the chat We don't have enough people that actually do Pressure washing out there that are looking on government sites for pressure washing contracts And that's actually something else that came up today um on the call earlier today, which is that Small businesses themselves They're not showing up And so for example for you mo What I would be doing for pressure washing services I would be looking at sources thoughts and rfis on sam.gov And because the other people that are doing it are going to be large businesses They're going to respond for pressure washing and then they're going to call you to actually do the work When you could be to get the contract directly for pressure washing services And you could you don't have to be a middleman. You could be the actual contractor So I would look at rfis and sources thoughts on pressure washing Man, they're out there big time All right, what else? Ah, no problem. Welcome to the channel There's no pressure washing website It doesn't exist Oh, look, oh someone says post your pressure washing website. I'll hire you There you go Alabama, uh, I don't know if Alabama made the list Again, I didn't make the list. I just shared it. Uh, but again, you could go in here. Let's go back The same let's go to Alabama There you are Here here's Alabama There you go start there Alabama Uh, and again, you want to choose the organizations that you don't want to choose banks because banks are going to help you We already know that. Um Somebody like this Kamino loan fund People think it sba dollars. Those are the folks that you want to work with Let me see if alabama was on this list up here I think alabama was on one of these lists. Does anybody remember? Arizona And no they didn't make it here um But the link that I just dropped in the chat go there for alabama And let's go over here Where'd it go? Where'd it go? Sorry, I lost it Sorry, I don't even know. Oh here it is. All right, alabama. So what I would do If I was in alabama, I would look at let me see Let's just scroll through real quick Kamino loan fund I would reach out to them um This page is going really slow. Sorry guys These are all banks Anyone except a bank I'd reach out to I would not reach out anyone as a bank Let's see. Sorry the page is going really slow But this is the page to go to um look for organizations that are non banks and that's what I reach out to in alabama Welcome to the channel No problem. All right. I got 80 likes. Thank you Trinidad, I appreciate you All right, my man says google him at wilson clean pressure washing. What state are you in most sauce? Um, there's a lot of grants for retraining yourself and your staff big time. Um, we didn't we're not covering them in this show um My man says, what are you doing 2.0? Um We talk about government contracts. We don't actually talk about grants. We talk about winning government contracts How to position yourself in a marketplace? How to find buyers for your services? Where to go who you should be talking to What you should say and make sure that you're prepared and also the rules of understanding contracting so that you Can actually win a contract because if you win a contract and you can't perform it and you can't be profitable Then there's no point. So those are all things we talk about. We have weekly calls every tuesday where we Actually, we do q&a sessions. We do breakout sessions based on your industry We bring in guest speakers and we have advanced and beginning training sessions. So we Uh, essentially do mentoring mentoring over and above just our coursework in 2.0 All right, cool. All right, listen, i'm gonna sign off I just want to give people that information share where to find it at where to access it I hope that this helped some people out there. I really really love to hear your feedback I want you to go out there talk to these organizations And find out what are they telling you so that you can come back to me give me your feedback And then we can like I said, you want to position yourself Find out what the requirements are position yourself for those requirements so that you can come back the next year Or whatever the next time that they have applications and then you you become eligible So again, working with local people in your local area is definitely a way that I would advise when it comes to grants and loans because they're likely to to to understand Your city they understand your municipality. They understand the landscape. They understand What particular the communities in those areas? And so those are the the best Places that I would encourage any and all of us to start when it comes to looking for Actual money. So hey, thanks for sticking with us. Thanks for watching um, definitely um You know, there are opportunities for music production and composition. There's there's Opportunities for everything out there. So Yep, and like you said more cash to start can't hurt Anyone having more cash because like we saw in the beginning of the video The number one reason why small businesses fail. One of the top reasons is because of Money lack of capital lack of funding running out of money And I was taught that once you get to zero you're out So it doesn't matter if you've got a 20 million dollar contract Once you get to zero in terms of your bank account, you're essentially out of business So, uh, thanks for sticking around. Thanks for watching and tuning in today I hope that you are able to like share this information with people because again I always believe that you don't know who can in turn help you So if you share this with somebody that you think this would be beneficial for to watch Uh, that person may turn around and bless you with something that you didn't even know was coming So definitely share the content share the great work and look forward to talking with you guys next time. Thank you Good night