DREAM BIGGER

With a JobsOhio Small Business Grant

Ready to grow your business? We’re here to help.
Qualified businesses can receive up to $50,000 forbusiness expansions, including facility investments,machinery and equipment, training, and more.

Who Should Apply?
To be eligible, your business must be:
At least 51% minority-owned, woman-owned,veteran-owned, or owned by an individual witha disability.

Every dollar matters for us, and every pieceof equipment we work with is very expensive.
It takes a while for people to notice youand believe in you enough to want to investand help you grow. For us, a lot of things
happened quickly, and one of the things
that happened quickly was the JobsOhio
Small Business Grant.

And/Or:Located in an eligible zip code. Eligible zip codes
can be found on the JobsOhio website.

Additional Eligibility Critera:
Annual revenues are between $100,000 and $25 million.
Receive a portion of sales from B2B transactions.
Operate within one of JobsOhio’s 10 target industries.
At least one year of operating history.
Retail operations and most professional services are not eligible.

LEARN MORE
Visit jobsohio.com/smallbusinessgrant
to view full program details.

Onome Scott-Emuakpor
Founder, Hyphen Innovations
Dayton, OH

SUCCESS STORIES
JobsOhio Small Business Grant

Since 2020, the JobsOhio Small Business Grant has helped over 500 businesses
across Ohio grow, fueling new jobs and opportunity in their communities.

The AKA Team:
Building Opportunities in Cleveland

Bake Me Happy:
Grant Helps Bakery Build B2B Business

Just a few years ago, Cleveland construction
company The AKA Team was bursting at theseams in their small office. The company needed
more space, but expansion capital was hard
to come by. The AKA Team secured $50,000
through a JobsOhio Small Business Grant tomove into a larger historic building on 55th andSt. Clair. The funds allowed AKA to fully renovate
its new space and buy much-needed equipment.

Bake Me Happy is a popular gluten-free bakery
in Central Ohio. As word spread about Bake
Me Happy’s delicious items, the demand forthe company’s unique, high-quality, glutenfree baked goods increased, and the businessexpanded into online sales and wholesale toother local establishments. To keep up with therise in sales, Bake Me Happy found a new, larger
location that could house both the business anda production facility, but it needed a little TLC
before it would be ready for business.

Almost overnight, The AKA Team was able to hire
20 new employees. The new office space gave
the company’s rapidly growing team room tocollaborate and drive results. It also provided
the critical framework AKA needed to compete
for major contracts. The JobsOhio SmallBusiness Grant assisted The AKA Team withcapital the company couldn’t find anywhereelse. It empowered the company to expand
quickly and start transforming the lives of new
employees through skilled trades positions.

To help fund some of the necessary updates
to the bakery’s new 4,000-square-foot facility,
Bake Me Happy’s owners applied for a JobsOhio
Small Business Grant. Through the support ofJobsOhio, Bake Me Happy was able to update
the new facility and continue its growth into theB2B space while keeping customers happy at its
two retail locations in Columbus.

Last updated July 2024

LEARN MORE
Visit jobsohio.com/smallbusinessgrant
to view full program details.