where can I go to fund funding for my small business bakery, i plan to open outside of san francisco in a year
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First step is to prepare a business plan so you can thoroughly think through the resources you need and the strategies to make your venture a success. You will need it to present to potential investors or loan providers.\n\nYou can find a free sample business plan for a bakery at Bplans.com\nhttp://www.bplans.com/spv/3181/\n\nThen, consider if you can get funding from SBA. Read the guidelines on how to get SBA loan: http://www.sba.gov/financing/\n\nFor other sources of financing, you may want to read various articles here http://www.powerhomebiz.com/financing/financing.htm
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Start baking for friends and family to get your reputation and referrals started.  Find a licensed kitchen that will allow you to use their facilities.  Learn about what it takes to license a kitchen and the investment.  Bake lots of cakes and come up with your own style.  I don't think you need a formal education to market your personal services for events.  Just start doing it and get the word out.  Business cards are cheap.
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Be careful.  There are always "experts" out there who will take your money and steal your idea or recipe.  \n\nI suggest you visit your local Health Department and SBA organization first and see what is involved in doing it all yourself. You may be able to lease a commercial kitchen at night when their business is closed.  That way you don't have the huge expense of setting up your own kitchen and still have the stainless steel sink etc.  to meet all the health standards.  You can buy the bottles and stoppers off the internet and create labels and order forms on your computer.  It would be easy to test the market.\n\nOur homebased business began in the garage and grew to gross over a million a year for awhile.  We started by marketing at retail trade shows like "the Harvest Festival" and later wholesale trade shows like the San Francisco International shows at the Moscone Center.  They have food/condiment sections.  If you are good enough someone who mass produces will approach you and in the meantime your investment is just for the booth at the show and the product itself.    In our case, we had approached some big outfits previously but they were not interested in us until they found us at the SF show.  I guess it lent some legitimacy to us.   This will also give you an idea of "potential income"  If one of those companies wants to buy you out, have an attorney who specializes in sales of businesses handle it.  He'll set the price by X amount of potential income that you are giving up by not running the business yourself.  Good Luck
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Two great recipients would be your local or state chapter of the American Diabetes Association (www.diabetes.org) and the Joslin Diabetes Clinic in Boston (www.joslin.org) - Joslin is the leading diabetes research and treatment organization in the country.\n\nHelpful suggestion - make sure you figure this out BEFORE your fundraiser, because it's illegal to do such a fundraiser without being able to tell contributors where their money will go.\n\nGood luck!
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Hello Aaron,\nHere are examples of what others are doing with their home-based businesses. Maybe it will help you.\n\nhttp://case-studies.first411.com\n\nGood Luck! (not necessary if your cakes taste GR8!)
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Are you looking for funding on a Tier 2 Mall in Karnataka, India???\n\nIf so, I might be able to assist you. Unless you are one of those Nigerian Scandal deals, in that case I know a good agent at the FBI I can refer you to.
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Go to your local public library and check the Foundation Directory for grants.
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First beleive in the cause in which you wish to support.  Take time in selecting a fundraiser.  Make sure that you have others to back you in this choice.  Make sure that it is honest.  You might want to set up a special account with your bank to deposit these funds and keep acurate records of such deposits.  Don't take money from the funds raised to pay off others.\nRunning a raffel gets sticky.  You must register, have the items already to be raffeled off.  Sell only tickets or such that go specifically for that event.  You must have a cut off date for the drawing and I would suggest that you have someone other than yourself doing the actual raffel.  Please check with your state to see if your charity is eligible to become a 501 (c) 3 non-profit charity or organization.  There is a lot of paperwork involved in becoming one and there are fees too.\nHaving a garage/yard sale is an easy one.  Ask others that are interested in this cause to donate items for this sale.  You will propably have success at this type of sale. Bake sales are good, but you better have a good location to set up and have some good items (goodies) to sell (eat). \nGood luck with whatever you choose to do.\nI run a non-profit charity that raises funds by yard sales and we accept donations year round for our cause. Feeding the community is what we do.  We supply food to persons who don't have any in the area in which I live.  We have gone from feeding 11 families to over 200 in less than a year.\nOnce again, Good Luke and may you be blessed for your efforts.
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Start my baking business.
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try getting permission from the business, if you donated a portion to charity they might let you.
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I suggest you work for a similar organization first.  Get into learning the process of writing grant proposals, how to gain funding, and study their business model so you can do something similar.
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A Bakery. If you eat the products regularly you can start off small and grow bigger overtime.
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The best routes to take are to research the process of starting a business as well as the industry you're interested in.\n\nI recommend checking out the SBA, Entrepreneur, The Start Up Journal & Nolo. All 4 are great informational resources for the new/small business owner. I posted links for you in the source box.\n\nAssociations may be a good avenue to explore as well. These organizations will address many of the thoughts, questions and concerns you'll inevitably have as well as many you haven't anticipated yet. See the source box for some relevant links. \n\nResearch, research, research – this cannot be stressed enough. Read as much as you can about the industry. Here are some book titles that are relevant:\n\nCatering Specific:\n* How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business, 5th by Denise Vivaldo\n* How to Run a Catering Business from Home by Christopher Egerton-Thomas\n* Start and Run a Catering Business by George Erdosh\n\nBakery Specific:\n* How to Open a Financially Successful Bakery by Sharon Fullen, Douglas R. Brown\n* The Baker's Trade: A Recipe for Creating the Successful Small Bakery by Zachary Y. Schat\n* Baking for Profit: Starting a Small Bakery by George Bathie\n\nIndiana Specific:\n* How to Start a Business in Indiana by Entrepreneur Press\n* How To Incorporate and Start a Business in Indiana by J. W. Dicks\n\nThere are plenty of free informational resources out there. Check the source box for links to articles.\n\nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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some funding source in usa here.it's help you hope\nhttp://www.freewebs.com/getyourloan
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look for NGOs that have 'microfinance projects', they are targetted for small-scale businesses.  Also look for credit unions in your area, they are accessible savings schemes for low-income people.
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It is hard to find grants to start a business. Unlike the myths that some perpetuate, federal government and even private foundations hardly give grant money for a for-profit business.\n\nNonetheless, you can go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) http://www.cfda.gov and Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov - these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. Browse through the listings and see if you can find any grant that would support a for-profit venture.\n\nEven if you buy books on "how to get grants" or list that supposedly has information on grants -- all of them are mere rehash of what CFDA has, albeit packaged differently. But still the info is the same - hardly any grants for starting a for profit business.\n\nEven SBA does NOT give out grants. From the SBA website http://www.sba.gov/expanding/grants.html \n\n"The U.S. Small Business Administration does not offer grants to start or expand small businesses, although it does offer a wide variety of loan programs. (See http://www.sba.gov/financing for more information) While SBA does offer some grant programs, these are generally designed to expand and enhance organizations that provide small business management, technical, or financial assistance. These grants generally support non-profit organizations, intermediary lending institutions, and state and local governments."\n\nMost of the federal grants are given to specific target groups with specific requirements (e.g. minority business owners involved in transportation related contracts emanating from DOT - Grant#20.905 Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Short Term Lending Program \n\nGrants are also often given to non profit groups or organizations involved in training or other similar activities (grant 59.043 Women's Business Ownership Assistance that are given to those who will create women's business center that will train women entrepreneurs \n\nFor private grants, you may want to check the Foundation Center's Foundation Grants for Individuals Online. It's a subscription based website ($9.95 per month) but their opening blurb only says that the database is ideal for "students, artists, academic researchers, libraries and financial aid offices." Entrepreneurs are apparently not one of them, so I take it they also don't have listings of private foundations who give grants to would-be entrepreneurs.
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there are free goverment funds.try starting out at the shelters voluntering and someone may know of other funds.