Articles
Read our articles listed below for answers to frequently asked questions from our members.
How to Access Grant Funding for Expansion or Relocation of Your Business
By: Micki Vandeloo, GPC There are many reasons why companies expand or relocate, including: An increase in revenues and/or market penetration sufficient to justify additional production capacity Increased proximity to key customers Increased access to employees Perceived “corporate friendliness” of one state over another From a state’s perspective, as in-state businesses expand or out-of-state businesses
Utilizing Workforce Development Grants to Grow and Train Your Team
By: Micki Vandeloo, GPC In today’s competitive economy, the companies that win have a well-trained staff. But it is hard to be a winning company if you are spending your company’s profits training your employees. How does a company balance its need for profitability with the need to train its employees? This article will detail
Frequently Asked Questions About Training Grants
By: Micki Vandeloo, GPC While our team at Lakeview Consulting has vast experience finding and writing proposals for both federal and state grant programs, we are particularly specialized in helping companies obtain training grants for their own and their customers’ operations. For example, we regularly help a large industrial distributor find and access grant funding
Top Trends for Manufacturers in 2023 and Beyond
By Micki Vandeloo, GPC As we prepare to enter the last two months of 2022, I have seen some exciting trends that will impact the manufacturing community for the remainder of this year into 2023, and for decades to come. These trends will address some of the biggest challenges facing manufacturers and enable manufacturing to
How to Receive Government Funding for Job Creation
By Micki Vandeloo, GPC In the world of real estate, the key to success is “location, location, location”. In the world of economic development incentives, including grants, the key to success is “job creation/capital investment, job creation/capital investment, job creation/capital investment”. Admittedly, this is more of a mouthful than the real estate equivalent, but it
Grow Your Skilled Workforce with Apprenticeship Incentive Grants
By Micki Vandeloo, GPC According to the Department of Labor, the number of new apprentices in the United States has grown by 67% since 2012. In 2021, there were 22% more active apprentices than the previous 10-year average (593,000 versus 484,000)[1]. Why is this the case? Apprenticeships have long been utilized for construction trades. However,
