The Women's Business Ownership Assistance grant offers funding for private, nonprofit organizations to aid women-owned or women-controlled businesses obtain capital to grow and promote their businesses. The grants are used by New York to create women's business centers to provide aid in management, finance, procurement, start-up concerns, marketing, mentoring and others as determined by the local center. These are five-year grants and are project specific.
The Women's Bureau grants are used to improve women's working conditions and their ability to earn more. It also helps employers provide more employment alternatives that are attractive to women. The grants are in the form of advisory services and counseling and not cash assistance. The grant can help a New York business make changes in the way it operates that are beneficial to women.
The microloan demonstration program uses direct loans and formula grants to help among others, women, operate their businesses. The Small Business Administration makes loans to New York private, non-profit and quasi-governmental organizations who are expected to make short-term loans up to $35,000 to help women-owned businesses with their capital needs. In some instances, the money is in the form of a grant rather than a loan.
The Healthy Start Initiative is designed to improve perinatal infant and maternal health with project grants that offer perinatal and women's health services, particularly for women and infants at higher risk for poor health. The programs are community-based in high-risk areas and can help a child and mother from before the child is born until he or she is two years old. The grants cannot be used to fund currently running programs in a community.