Puyallup Washington.
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Here's the federal funding source for state-level support of small businesses, the Dept. of Commerce:
Access to Capital
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You're so close to Seattle what a great trajectory that would be. I'd put that in the grant/loan application. If the grant program is exclusively about Puyallup economic growth then maybe not.
Also if you hire unskilled labor, you can sign up locally to offer on-the-job training (subsidized) for dislocated workers. You hire good people laid off from jobs and receive compensation as well as tax breaks.
Apply for a small business grant because you're going to provide steady jobs and training and also offer jobs to dislocated workers. You could thus write in the half or full costs for 3-4 vehicles and equipment for 3-4 crews for this first round. Also request funding for a skilled dislocated worker to do your booking, accounts, office admin.
If you do a little work to tell your own meaningful story in the grant application and then add half a dozen data points about the local need for workforce development for the 18-23 year-olds (there is local data) or about job insecurity in the area, you application will be 10X stronger than expected.
There are at least 3-4 local unskilled worker agencies in the vicinity who you might want to partner with. They'd find, process, screen and send you job applicants and take care of the entire bureaucratic side of your giving job opportunities to laid off workers. It's likely that this partnership would add some punch to the grant application also. They'd receive more funding to be the bureaucrats and you'd receive funding to buy trucks.
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