Eligible consulting and training services covered by the Program’s grant funding include: business plans and strategy; capital readiness and fundraising; expansion and revenue growth strategies such as export training, government and private procurement, e-commerce marketplace development and other business development strategies; marketing; management; operations; financial management; cybersecurity; production/manufacturing assistance and increased productivity strategies; innovation and tech transfer; business resilience such as emergency preparedness, disaster economic recovery, succession planning; among other areas.

CalOSBA seeks proposals that demonstrate collaboration and best practice sharing in the community and across ecosystem partners to build a stronger network of programs, services, and activities that benefit all California small business with a preference for underserved business groups.

These may include:

• Research and marketing focused on mapping the continuum of services, identifying any gaps that exist for underserved small businesses, partnering, and ensuring effective outreach to underserved small businesses.
• Identifying and scaling best practices including cross-network and ecosystem wide best practice sharing to ensure a standard level of small business service offerings across the state, especially with underserved small businesses.
• Building new partnerships and collaborations to better support underserved small businesses with experts in this area including minority, women and veterans’ business organizations, mission-based lenders serving underserved, and others that have effective outreach to underserved small businesses.

Allowable activities and expenditures under the Program can be found at https://cdn.calosba.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022-23-TAP-Program-Announcement-.pdf#page=7.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Eligibility Criteria" for clarification)

Estimated Total Program Funding: