If you’re looking to fund a growth initiative, the two most common ways to do it are through grants and loans. While there are some similarities between a grant and a loan, they are actually very different methods of paying for your growth projects. In this blog, we’ll explore similarities, detail how grants differ from

To understand the answer to this question, it is important to recognize that grants fund outcomes.  Outcomes are what will change as a result of a company getting a grants.  For for-profit companies, examples of outcomes include job creation, capital investment, upskilling employees, and increasing the market for goods made from recycled products.   If

In the non profit world, the answer to this question is pretty simple (foundations, primarily).  However, this is a significantly more complex question for the manufacturing and business community, primarily because the sources vary by state and type of project(s) the manufacturer executes.   Here is a non-exhaustive list of the typical sources of manufacturing

Small, medium and large.  So many things come in sizes.  Fountain drinks.  Clothes.  Starbucks Coffee (even though they don’t use the normal words!).   Similarly, grants come in various sizes and categories as well.  Here is a deeper explanation of small, medium and large grants, from my humble perspective. Small Grants –  I consider small

DoorDash. GrubHub. Uber.   We live in a world of instant gratification.  That’s why I am not terribly surprised when I get the question, “If you find us a grant opportunity, will we be able to apply and get the money right away?”  And, the answer is yes…and no.   When our grant professionals do

This is a question our clients commonly ask when requesting our assistance. While I understand that lawyers take a percentage of their awards as compensation for their work, there are three sound reasons why grant professionals like those on the team at Lakeview Consulting cannot take a percentage of the grant as payment for writing