# Cooperative Business Development Mini-Grant Program

Investor in Lincoln, Nebraska

## About Cooperative Business Development Mini-Grant Program

The Nebraska Cooperative Development Center (NCDC), a program of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Agricultural Economics, is seeking applications for its 2024 Cooperative Business Development Mini-grant Program.

Cooperative Business Development Mini-Grants are available to groups who are pursuing/exploring a cooperative business model or are incorporated cooperatives (or other business entity operating as a cooperative) in rural Nebraska.

Characteristics of Cooperative include:

\-User-owner - the users of the business own and finance the business. -User-control - Users vote, democratically, to set major policies and to elect a board of directors composed of the cooperative’s users. -User-benefit – User benefit distribution is based on members’ use of the cooperative, not on the amount of capital they have invested.

Groups (including communities) that are exploring community-supported cooperative ventures are also eligible to apply for either Initial Development or Advanced Assistance.

\-Initial Development Assistance grants are designed for groups who are in the exploratory stages of development of cooperative or multi-owner businesses. -Advanced Development Assistance grants are designed to provide incorporated cooperatives or multi-owner businesses functioning or operating as a cooperative the ability to hire professional services or develop materials for the on-going development of their cooperative or multi-owner business functioning as a cooperative.

## People

- **Charlotte Narjes**, Assoc Exten Educator

## Key Facts

- **Location:** Lincoln, Nebraska
- **Investor Type:** Grant

## Investment Industries

- Grant
- Other

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