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Spring Clean Committee

SCIDpda in partnership with CIDBIA will host their 18th Annual Chinatown-ID Spring Clean on April 30, 2016 from 8am to 1pm. This event starting at 409 Maynard Ave S. will bring together volunteers from many local organizations and community members from Chinatown-ID community to work on cleaning up the neighborhood and assist small business owners with improvements to their businesses.

Friends of Small Business Saturday in Magnolia

to inform, educate and encourage the residents of Magnolia to shop at the small locally owned businesses

Friends of Block Party at The Station

Friends of Block Party at The Station will organize a music and arts festival showcasing South Seattle artists and small businesses (Block Party at The Station). It will be held on June 17, 2017, from noon to 8pm, along 16th Ave S, between S. Bailey and Roberto Maestas Festival Street. The festival will spotlight marginalized communities. A majority of festival performers will be women and LGBTQ artists of color. The festival will also showcase Beacon Hill as an immigrant community in order to challenge anti-immigrant narratives and rhetoric.

Toledo Public Library

The library will upgrade the community meeting room by adding technology and hardware to encourage new uses such as small business conferencing space and community education opportunities.

Friends of Small Business Saturday in Magnolia

The Magnolia Chamber of Commerce will engage the neighborhood to define a collective “Vision for Magnolia Village” and a set of actionable steps to help shape future development and growth.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

R21/R33 mechanism for innovative digital healthcare solutions to improve quality at point of care. Small businesses can apply as lead or partner with academic institutions.

Alabama Department of Commerce

The Alabama Department of Commerce supports small business growth through grants for business expansion, workforce training, technology adoption, and market development initiatives across the state.

Alaska Division of Economic Development

The Division of Economic Development supports small business growth in Alaska through grants for business planning, market development, export promotion, and rural economic diversification projects.

Arkansas Development Finance Authority (ADFA)

ADFA provides financing and grants for small businesses in Arkansas, supporting capital investment, job creation, and business expansion in both urban and rural areas of the state.

Breva

Quarterly $5,000 grants for small businesses. Simple application process through Breva platform.

Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority

Educate immigrant and refugee small business owners, youth volunteers, elders and other community stakeholders in the Chinatown/International District on how to use social media to improve economic development and to increase collaboration.

Seattle Griot Project

The Kwanzaa festival, held from December 29th to 31st at 2656 42nd Ave SW, Seattle, welcomes all with daily hours from 10 am to 7 pm. This free, 3-day public event prioritizes unity, self-determination, and cooperative economics within the Black community. Activities encompass small business showcases, enlightening financial literacy workshops, valuable tech training, cultural performances, and interviews for marketing. The event aims to empower, encourage entrepreneurship, bridge education gaps, and promote collaboration.

California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (IBank)

The Small Business Finance Center (SBFC) provides loan guarantees to small businesses, including those owned by veterans, disabled veterans, and businesses in low-wealth communities, to encourage economic growth.

State Treasurer's Office

CPCFA acts as a conduit issuer in the transaction. The bonds are issued to raise capital for revenue-generating projects where the funds are used by the borrower to make payments to investors. The conduit financing is typically backed by either the borrower's credit or monies pledged to the project by outside investors. If the project fails and goes into default, it is solely the borrower's responsibility to repay the bondholders. Eligible Facilities The following types of projects are eligible for financing: Provides financing to California business, irrespective of company size, for the acquisition, construction or installation or qualified pollution control, waste disposal, and resource recovery facilities  Provides financing to California businesses that meet the size standards set forth in Title 13 of the Code of Federal Regulations or are an eligible small business, which is defined as 500 employees or less, including affiliates, for the acquisition, construction or installation of qualified pollution control, waste disposal, and resource recovery facilities. Final determination of eligibility is based upon opinion of Bond Counsel and Tax Counsel pursuant to Federal Tax Laws. Types of projects, which may qualify for tax-exempt bond financing, include: Curbside collection facilities, Recycling facilities, Composting facilities, Materials recovery facilities, Transfer station Landfills, Waste-to-energy facilities, Qualified solid waste or hazardous waste disposal projects Waste recovery facilities, Water Furnishing Facilities, Wastewater Treatment Facilities. Potential Uses of Bond Proceeds: Buildings and equipment Machinery and furnishings Land Costs of architects, engineers, attorneys and permits Costs of bond issuance Federal Eligibility Requirements Restrictions on use of proceeds: 95% of proceeds must be used for the defined project 2% of bond proceeds can be used for costs of issuance 25% of bond proceeds can be used for land costs in certain cases A public Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA) hearing must be held before the bonds are issued To acquire an existing building, a minimum of 15% of the bond proceeds must be used to renovate the building The average life of the bond issue cannot exceed 120% of the weighted average of the estimated useful life of the assets being financed. Prospective borrowers should contact bond counsel to help determine if a proposed project qualifies under federal law. Financing is performed in conjunction with allocation from the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee (CDLAC). The allocation is required by federal tax law for private activity tax-exempt bonds to be issued. CPCFA Fees: Application Fee: .0005 (1/20 of 1%) of total application amount, not to exceed $5,000. Payable with initial application.  Administrative Fees: .002 (2/10 of 1%) of total amount of bonds issued utilizing volume cap allocation, minus the application fee. Please see the CPCFA Bond Program website for additional fees which may apply to the financing.  

NSF

Remanufacturing restores worn or damaged products to like-new performance, extending the life of high-value assets while reducing dependency on costly replacements and lowering supply chain vulnerability. Many repairs still depend on technician judgment that is difficult to document and is increasingly at risk as experienced workers retire faster than replacements can be trained. Although robots offer the potential to alleviate workforce shortages, today’s programmed automation is largely limited to repetitive operations and cannot replicate human-level reasoning and adaptability required to manage the unique geometries, uncertain damage states, and evolving conditions inherent to repair workflows. This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project aims to create scientific and educational foundations for an integrated digital thread framework that enables autonomous, self-evolving cooperative robotic systems capable of additive repair. This project advances remanufacturing by moving from programmed automation toward cognitive automation, creating intelligent systems that leverage expert knowledge and continuously adapt to perform unique, customized operations across all remanufacturing steps. Further, this project will broaden participation through curriculum modules at the University of Connecticut, hands-on research and mentoring, summer programs with local schools and community colleges, and workforce development activities for manufacturers and small businesses. The overall research goal is to establish a mind-body-environment loop that integrates knowledge-based reasoning, physics-informed embodied interaction, and continuous environment-loop adaptation, to support adaptive repair actions and scalable deployment across emerging remanufacturing applications. Specific objectives include: (1) Develop a self-evolving, memory-augmented planning module to sense, diagnose, identify, and learn what processes are needed for the repair task, enabling generalizable context-aware reasoning. (2) Develop an embodied engine to decompose tasks, allocate subtasks to individual arms, optimize high degree of freedom motion plans, and execute non-planar slicing, ensure morphology-driven reconfiguration, and (3) Develop an adaptive digital twin for decision making based on multi-fidelity process data and physics-based simulation within a continuous environment loop, completing the mind-body-environment framework. Driven by the neuro-vector-symbolic architecture, this research integrates distributed sensory embeddings with structured symbolic knowledge, embodiment constraints and physics-based dynamics, and multi-fidelity simulation with experience-driven refinement. The resulting unified representation enables knowledge-driven reasoning, morphology-configured planning, and simulation-augmented adaptation. The system will be validated on multi-arm laboratory experiments and industrial case studies that include both reconstruction of damaged parts and modification to new specifications. This research advances foundational knowledge at the convergence of cognitive intelligence, embodied robotics, and advanced remanufacturing. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

Cascade Neighborhood Council

The Cascade Recycled Arts Project is being led by an emerging group of low income residents and small businesses that wish to become a resource for participation in arts and cultural events in the Cascade neighborhood. Planned activities include a boat sailing in June, participation in National Night Out in August, summer movie nights, and a 'Snowflake Fest' in December. The group will also host a series of bi-monthly, arts and cultural, events in the park that will encourage and incorporate the theme of upcycling and recycling.

Hip Hop is Green

Hip Hop is Green will host the first annual, free-of-cost, Cherry Street Block Party: a one-day community celebration on September 6, 2025 on East Cherry Street between 24th and 26th Avenues. The purpose of the Cherry Street Block Party is to build community and social cohesion for local organizations, artists, chefs, and small businesses who focus on uplifting and empowering Black and Brown families in Seattle’s Central District. The CD is Seattle’s historically Black neighborhood and has faced ongoing waves of gentrification. Luckily, there is a growing community movement to reclaim the CD as a hub for Black culture and resilience. Hip Hop is Green will produce the event, working collaboratively with a roster of 16+ partner organizations. Programming will include food demos and samples, wellness workshops, booths with information about community programs, and live performances. This project will be completed by October 31, 2025.

City of Detroit

The City of Detroit provides grants to nonprofits, small businesses, and neighborhood organizations for neighborhood improvement, affordable housing, commercial corridor development, and community programs benefiting Detroit residents.

City of Minneapolis

The City of Minneapolis provides grants to neighborhood organizations, nonprofits, and small businesses for neighborhood improvement, affordable housing, commercial district vitality, and community programming benefiting Minneapolis residents.

Salamanca

Small Business

Department of Defense

DoD SBIR Phase I awards fund feasibility studies for innovative defense technologies. Topics released monthly covering AI/ML, cybersecurity, autonomous systems, data analytics, and more. Requires U.S. small business with <500 employees. Post-reauthorization solicitations expected March-April 2026.

Department of Defense

DoD STTR Phase I requires partnership with a U.S. research institution. Small business performs 40%+ of work, research institution 30%+. Topics released monthly covering AI/ML, cybersecurity, autonomous systems, and more. Post-reauthorization solicitations expected March-April 2026.

Eastern Michigan Small Business Network

Grants for small businesses in Eastern Michigan to support growth, technology adoption, and business development.

City of Roseburg

Emergency Small Business & Microenterprise Assist