Small businesses in need of workers can hire an intern and receive pay reimbursement of up to $4,800 per intern through the Paid Internship Assistance for Employers program at Central New Mexico Community College. The program aims to give students real-world working experience as it connects businesses to a talent pipeline of potential future employees from CNM.
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Resources for Creative Entrepreneurs Suffering Hardship
Suppose a disaster, illness, or other hardship disrupts your ability to work as a creative entrepreneur. In that case, you can apply for emergency relief funding or support services based on your artistic field.
Continue readingNew Mexico MEP Helps Company Go Lean
In 2014, Adam Wagoner attended a Lean 101 workshop conducted by Denise Williams, Northwest Region Innovation Director for New Mexico Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), when it hit him that lean strategies would be a good fit for Largo Tank’s longstanding company culture of promoting from within and encouraging professional development among workers.
Wagoner is an owner and vice president of Largo Tank and Equipment, a three-location manufacturing and service facility for truck-mounted equipment, fire equipment, truck tanks, and tank trailers in the Four Corners region.
Largo’s focus is welding and mechanical service work on all types of semi-trailers, tankers, and truck-mounted equipment. The company holds an American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) U-stamp for pressure vessel manufacturing and an R-stamp for pressure vessel repairs.
Continue readingVAPG Grant Awards Up To $75,000 For Feasibility Studies
The portal to apply for a Value Added Producer Grant is open until April 17, 2025, but agriculture producers and food manufacturers should prepare now to apply. The VAPG program, funded and administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development, awards up to $75,000 for feasibility research and planning and up to $250,000 for operating expenses to individual businesses and organizations engaged in adding value to agricultural products.
Continue readingApply to Free Business Support Program
Arrowhead Center, in collaboration with the U.S. Economic Development Administration, is accepting applications until January 31, 2025, for its newest free business support program. BizSprint San Juan is for existing and aspiring business owners in San Juan County.
Continue readingSki Lift Pitch Offers $10,000 Grant
Nine pre-seed and series-seed New Mexico startup businesses will compete for $10,000 at this year’s Ski Lift Pitch on February 4 at Taos Ski Valley. Organized by Activate NM and powered by CNM Ingenuity, the Ski Lift Pitch brings together New Mexico’s best startups and world-class VC funds for a fun-filled day on the slopes. The competitors have already been selected, but entrepreneurs can attend to learn what a successful pitch looks like.
Continue readingNonprofits in Need: Borrowing Can Be Tool for Financial Stability
A nonprofit isn’t in business to enrich its shareholders, but it still needs revenues and incurs operating expenses while pursuing its community service mission. It, too, can experience cash flow problems or require considerable cash to fund a capital project or expanded services.
When that happens, the nonprofit faces many of the same choices a for-profit business does, though it draws from different funding sources.
While a for-profit business can offer investors a chance to share in the company’s fortunes by buying stocks, for example, a nonprofit relies on stakeholders who are motivated by public interest rather than self-interest.
Continue readingBusiness Grants for Technology Acceleration
The New Mexico Economic Development Department is accepting applications for an Advanced Energy Award Pilot Program (NM AEAPP) grant award of up to $1 million to accelerate the development and commercialization of technologies in the Advanced Energy Sector.
Continue readingUNM Business Summit Aims to Inspire
Entrepreneurs who missed hearing inspiration from Victor V. Hwang, founder and CEO of Right to Start, last fall in Albuquerque have another chance on Tuesday, January 14, 2025, when Hwang headlines the UNM Business and Economic Summit at the Lobo Rainforest building in Albuquerque.
Continue readingMilitary Entrepreneurship Summit
The Military Community Entrepreneurship Summit will take place in Las Cruces on Dec. 3, 2024. The full-day summit offers essential business resource information to military entrepreneurs. Participants can tap into expert-led breakout sessions, networking opportunities, and the experience of veteran business owners.
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