My First Attempt At Applying For A Grant

I should say we are at least going to try. I have been doing some research for MSBA on trying to figure out how to apply for a Cooperative Agreement with SBA. A colleague with MSBA was noticing that some of the websites we use for reference, for fellow Military Spouse Business owners, are partially funded with SBA through a Cooperative Agreement.

I called SBA to try to find more information on how to apply for a cooperative agreement and was confused by the answer that I got. I thought that I would then look up contact information for SBA's Corporate Office. Oddly there aren't many e-mail addresses for the various departments. I turned to Google in hopes to find an e-mail. I was having no luck.

Silly me then thought that I would go back to the SBA website and search the website for SBA cooperative agreement. In that search I found a word document on a grant that was currently open to apply for. I was pretty sure that from my understanding of what I was reading, we qualified to apply for this grant. The scary thing is that it closes in 5 days.

In further reading of the grant application I am understanding that in order to apply for a cooperative agreement with SBA you were really applying to a grant and awarded monies in the form of a cooperative agreement through SBA. I think I get it!

The magic will be to see if we can try to gather information that we need submit a request to this grant. Well if we don't make it this time we know we have the information for a future grant and to help us in applying for membership with The Military Coalition.

MSBA's current priorities:
1. Website reorganization
2. Grant submission
3. Future Grants and The Military Coalition application