A - Z Index

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Adjustment to Blindness (ATB) training

• Adjustment to Blindness Training — Adjustment to Blindness Training gives individuals with a vision loss the skills necessary to work competitively and live independently.

Adult Career Pathways

• Office of Adult Career Pathways — Provide adults who traditionally face multiple barriers to employment to be successful in securing long-term family sustaining wages.

Adult Direct Appropriations

• Adult Direct Appropriations — Authorizations by the legislature to spend money from the state treasury for purposes established in law.

Adult Support Services Competitive Grant Program

• Adult Support Services Competitive Grants Program — Provides grants to organizations that provide support services for individuals.

Angel Tax Credit

• Angel Tax Credit — Provides incentives to investors or investment funds that put money into startup and emerging companies focused on high or new proprietary technology.

Architectural Barrier Removal Tax Deduction

• Tax Credits — Businesses that accommodate people with disabilities may qualify for tax credits and deductions.

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Blind, Services for

• Self-Employment through the Business Enterprises Program — Provides appropriate training and support to assist Minnesotans who are legally blind to become self-employed in their own vending businesses.
• State Services for the Blind — Provide the tools, training and technology to help people who are blind, low vision, DeafBlind or experiencing vision loss.

Border Cities Enterprise Zone Program for business

• Border-Cities Enterprise Zone Program — Provides business tax credits to qualifying businesses that are the source of investment, development, and job creation or retention.

Border Cities Enterprise Zone Program for government

• Border-Cities Enterprise Zone Program — Business tax credits to qualifying businesses that are the source of investment, development, and job creation or retention in the zoned cities.

Border-to-Border Broadband Development Grant Program

• Broadband Grant Program — Used to fund the build out of infrastructure to promote the expansion of broadband service to areas of the state that are unserved or underserved.

Bridge to Career Pathways

• Bridge to Career Pathways — Individuals seeking to improve or obtain new skills to earn an industry recognized credential, in an industry identified as in demand within their region.

Broadband

• Broadband Grant Program — Used to fund the build out of infrastructure to promote the expansion of broadband service to areas of the state that are unserved or underserved.
• Office of Broadband Development — Helps Minnesotans understand broadband options available and work together to improve availability and use of high speed broadband services.

Business Enterprises Program

• Self-Employment through the Business Enterprises Program — Provides appropriate training and support to assist Minnesotans who are legally blind to become self-employed in their own vending businesses.

Business First Stop

• The Minnesota Business Vitality Council (MBVC) — Streamlines the process for complex business startups, expansions or relocations that involve issues that overlap multiple state agencies.

Business Guidebooks

• Small Business Assistance Office — Overview of all the services provided by the Minnesota Small Business Assistance Office.

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Child Care Community Partnerships

• Office of Child Care Community Partnerships — Supports and promotes the expansion of quality child care statewide and accessibility to child care for underserved communities.

Child Care Economic Development

• Child Care Economic Development — DEED will award grants to be used to implement solutions to reduce the child care shortage in the state.

Clean Water Revolving Fund

• Infrastructure Funding — Helps communities finance the construction of basic infrastructure needed to protect public health and safety and pave the way for economic growth.

Clean Water State Revolving Fund

• Clean Water State Revolving Fund — Helps communities build or upgrade wastewater treatment plants to comply with discharge standards in the federal Clean Water Act.

Cleanup Revolving Loan Program

• Cleanup Revolving Loan Program — Provides low-interest loans through the EPA to cleanup contaminated sites that can be returned to marketable use.

Community Wealth Building Program

• Community Wealth Building Program — Makes low-interest loans to community businesses that are at least 51% owned by targeted populations.

Contact Us

• Contact Us — Visit us in-person. Or phone us. Or email us. Engage us in conversation via our social media accounts. Read our news and subscribe to our news feeds.

Contamination Cleanup and Investigation Grant Program

• Contamination Cleanup and Investigation Grant Program — Helps communities pay for assessing and cleaning up contaminated sites for private or public redevelopment.

COVID-19 Disaster Recovery National Dislocated Worker Grant (DWG) for service providers

• COVID-19 Disaster Recovery National Dislocated Worker Grant (DWG) — The purpose is to provide disaster-relief and humanitarian assistance employment to minimize the employment and economic impact of COVID-19.
• Special Initiatives and Grants — Information on special grants awarded to the state of Minnesota.

Credit Enhancement Program

• Credit Enhancement Program — The Credit Enhancement Program helps cities and counties reduce the costs of borrowing to build certain public facilities.
• Infrastructure Funding — Helps communities finance the construction of basic infrastructure needed to protect public health and safety and pave the way for economic growth.

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Data Center Sales Tax Exemptions

• Data Center Sales Tax Exemptions — Minnesota offers sales tax exemptions to companies that invest qualifying amounts in data centers.

Deafblind, Services for

• State Services for the Blind — Provide the tools, training and technology to help people who are blind, low vision, DeafBlind or experiencing vision loss.

Demolition Loan Program

• Demolition Loan Program — Helps development authorities with costs of demolishing blighted buildings on sites having future development potential but no current development plans

Disability Determination Services

• Disability Determination Services — Evaluates claims for disability benefits using SSA guidelines. The program provides benefits to persons with disabilities who are not able to work.

Disability Employment Specialists

• Work with an Employment Specialist — Our Employment Specialists can help your business tap into the pipeline of talent that workers with disabilities can provide.

Disabled Access Credit

• Tax Credits — Businesses that accommodate people with disabilities may qualify for tax credits and deductions.

Discrimination Complaint

• Discrimination Complaint — If you need to file a complaint of discrimination.

Dislocated Worker Program

• Dislocated Worker Program — The Dislocated Worker Program offers employment and training services for eligible workers. Minnesota operates both a state and a federal program.
• Office of Dislocated Worker and Federal Adult Programs — The Dislocated Worker Program offers employment and training services for eligible workers. Minnesota operates both a state and a federal program.

Dislocated Worker Program for job seekers

• Dislocated Worker Program — Services are designed to help workers who have been laid off overcome difficult barriers and get back to work as quickly as possible.

Dislocated Worker Program for service providers

• Dislocated Worker Program — The Dislocated Worker Program offers employment and training services for eligible workers. Minnesota operates both a state and a federal program.
• Office of Dislocated Worker and Federal Adult Programs — The Dislocated Worker Program offers employment and training services for eligible workers. Minnesota operates both a state and a federal program.

Displaced Homemakers Program

• Homemakers Returning to Work — We help people who have worked mainly in the home develop the marketable skills needed to find and maintain a job.

Drinking Water Revolving Fund

• Infrastructure Funding — Helps communities finance the construction of basic infrastructure needed to protect public health and safety and pave the way for economic growth.

Drinking Water State Revolving Fund

• Drinking Water State Revolving Fund — Helps communities build drinking water storage, treatment and distribution systems that comply with standards in the Safe Drinking Water Act.

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EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program

• EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program — Intended to stimulate the U.S. economy through job creation and capital investment by offering foreign investors a permanent resident visa.

Emerging Entrepreneur Loan Program

• Emerging Entrepreneur Loan Program — Created to support the growth of minority-owned and operated businesses and to create jobs in economically distressed areas of the state.

Employer Reasonable Accommodation Fund

• Employer Reasonable Accommodation Fund — Employer Reasonable Accommodation Fund

Employment with DEED

• Work at DEED — Explore how to become a DEED employee.

Energy Transition Office

• Energy Transition Office — Established to advise Energy transition issues and to establish transition programs, economic initiatives, and transition policy.

Equity

• Office of New Americans — Help state government bring together New Americans, employers, local governments, nonprofits & other partners to create welcoming communities.

Extended Employment Program

• Extended Employment - Long-Term Job Supports — Long-term support to help you work and advance in your career.

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Federal Bonding Service for businesses

• Federal Bonding Program — Fidelity Bonding is no-cost employee dishonesty insurance that protects employers against employee theft of money or property.

Federal Bonding Service for job seekers

• Workers with a Difficult Job History — Provides individual Fidelity Bonds to employers for new or current employees who may be denied coverage by commercial carriers.

Federal Rural Development Financing

• Federal Rural Development Financing — Loan, loan guarantee and grant programs to help farmers improve energy efficiency and expand their markets and to help rural businesses and economies grow.

Film Production Tax Credit

• Film Production Tax Credit — Provides an assignable 25% tax credit for film, video, or digital media projects that expend at least $1,000,000 in eligible production costs.

Financing a Business

• Financing a Business — Startup, operate or expand. Most business owners must find the money to make things happen. Targeted financing programs and guidance on financing.

First Stop

• The Minnesota Business Vitality Council (MBVC) — Streamlines the process for complex business startups, expansions or relocations that involve issues that overlap multiple state agencies.

Foreign Labor Certification

• Hiring Foreign Workers — The Foreign Labor Certification Program allows employers to hire foreign workers as permanent or temporary employees.

Funding sources for businesses

• City, County, and Regional Funding Sources — Local governmental units provide some assistance to entrepreneurs. Assistance may include financial services, loan packaging, technical assistance, etc.

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Getting to Work Competitive Grant

• Getting to Work Competitive Grant — Provide motor vehicles, motor vehicle repairs, or provide loans for motor vehicles that assist eligible individuals in obtaining or maintaining employment.
• Getting to Work Program — Designed for nonprofit organizations to establish and operate programs that provide, repair or maintain motor vehicles to assist eligible individuals.

Go MN!

• Go MN! — Go MN! is a program through VRS which helps individuals with disabilities explore opportunities in Minnesota’s growing transportation industry.

Governor’s Committee on the Safety, Health, and Wellbeing of Agricultural and Food Processing Workers

• Governor’s Committee on the Safety, Health, and Wellbeing of Agricultural and Food Processing Workers — Created as the COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated the challenges faced by agricultural and food processing workers.

Governor’s Council on Economic Expansion

• The Governor’s Council on Economic Expansion — Established to catalyze progress toward an equitable, inclusive, sustainable, and resilient economy.

Grant and Contract Opportunities

• Grant and Contract Opportunities — Solicitation announcements of competitive grant and professional/technical (PT) services contract opportunities are posted here.

Greater Minnesota Business Expansion Tax Refunds

• Greater Minnesota Job Expansion Program — Provides sales tax exemptions of up to 12 years to eligible existing businesses.

Greater Minnesota Child Care Capacity Partnerships

• Greater Minnesota Child Care Capacity Partnerships — Partnerships with Minnesota Initiative Foundations support community planning efforts that sustain & increase access to child care in their service areas.

Greater Minnesota Child Care Facility Grants

• Greater Minnesota Child Care Facility Grants — Grants to keep or enhance jobs, increase the tax base, or expand or create new economic development in the area in which the grants are made.

Greater Minnesota Public Infrastructure Program

• Greater Minnesota Public Infrastructure Grant Program — Helps stimulate new economic development, create new jobs and retains existing jobs through investments in public infrastructure.

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Higher Education Career Advisors Pilot

• Higher Education Career Advisors Pilot — Partnering with public school districts to assist high school students in choosing careers and the education and training required for those careers.

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Independent Living

• Living Independently — We offer services statewide to help you live independently and to function in your home, at work and in your community.

Individualized Training Pathways

• Individualized Training Pathways — Post-secondary partner or Union Apprenticeship and an active employer partner to further support participants within the specific industry trainings.

Innovative Business Development Public Infrastructure (BDPI)

• Innovative Business Development Program — The Innovative Business Development Public Infrastructure (BDPI) program provides grants to local governmental units on a competitive basis statewide.

International Business Services Directory

• International Business Services Directory — Find Minnesota companies with expertise in a host of international business services.

International Trade Representatives

• About the Minnesota Trade Office — Learn about the Minnesota Trade Office's duties, staff, and key partners.

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Job Creation Fund

• Job Creation Fund — Provides up to $1 million in grants to approved businesses after specified job creation and capital investment goals are achieved.

Job interview preparation

• The Job Interview — Tips for preparing for a job interview.

Job Opportunity Building Zone (JOBZ) reports

• Job Opportunity Building Zone (JOBZ) Reports — Annual business subsidy reports submitted by state and local government agencies for Job Opportunity Building Zone (JOBZ).

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Labor Market Information

• Data — Nothing tells a story like numbers. And here is where we let them do the talking. Here you’ll find data and data tools.
• Data for Government — State and local governments can use data to make smarter decisions. Our tools and experts can help your community.
• Tools for Career Planning — Before you pick a major, head down a career path or start a job search, our data tools can help research the options and see which opportunities stand out.

Layoffs - Workers

• For Workers Facing a Layoff — If you've been laid off through no fault of your own, eligible to receive UI, and unlikely to return to your previous occupation or industry, we can help.

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MBVC

• The Minnesota Business Vitality Council (MBVC) — Streamlines the process for complex business startups, expansions or relocations that involve issues that overlap multiple state agencies.

Migrant and Seasonal Farm Worker Program

• Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers — Whether the job is on or off the farm, our Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Service can help farm workers and the employers who hire them. Contact our Agriculture Outreach Representative near you.

Minnesota 21st Century Fund

• Minnesota 21st Century Fund — Special loans available to Minnesota's mining industry.

Minnesota Business First Stop

• The Minnesota Business Vitality Council (MBVC) — Streamlines the process for complex business startups, expansions or relocations that involve issues that overlap multiple state agencies.

Minnesota Business Vitality Council

• The Minnesota Business Vitality Council (MBVC) — Streamlines the process for complex business startups, expansions or relocations that involve issues that overlap multiple state agencies.

Minnesota Council on Disability (MCD)

• Other State Councils — State councils on disability that work with Minnesota's Vocational Rehabilitation Services programs.

Minnesota Economic Recovery Jobs Program

• Minnesota Economic Recovery Jobs Program — This program provides training and creates career readiness and work experience opportunities for young adults in the seven-county metro area.

Minnesota Economic Trends

• Minnesota Economic Trends — Minnesota Economic Trends is our quarterly magazine that provides expert analysis of the state's labor market, industries and economy.

Minnesota Expanding Opportunity Fund Program

• Minnesota Expanding Opportunity Fund Program — Minnesota Expanding Opportunity Fund Program

Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP)

• TANF Youth Innovation Project — Partnership between DHS, DEED, and MAWB provide structured work experiences and introduction to career pathways to youth receiving MFIP benefits.

Minnesota Foreign Trade Zones

• Minnesota Foreign Trade Zones — Used to store foreign or domestic goods, re-package materials, assemble products, manufacture or re-export goods without paying Customs duties.

Minnesota Forward Fund

• Minnesota Forward Fund — Grants and loans to businesses making large private capital investments in new and existing industries for which federal funding requires a state match.

Minnesota Investment Fund (MIF)

• Minnesota Investment Fund (MIF) — Provides financing to help add new workers and retain high-quality jobs on a statewide basis. Focus on industrial, manufacturing, and technology-related.

Minnesota Job Service

• Minnesota Job Service — Job Services focus is to deliver services to help job seekers find work and help employers find and retain qualified employees.

Minnesota Job Skills Partnership (MJSP)

• Training Grant Programs — Works with businesses, educational institutions and nonprofit organizations to train or retrain workers, and expand work opportunities.

Minnesota Trade Office (MTO)

• Exporting and Trade — MTO, our international business unit, provides training and expertise small and midsized companies need to export goods and services worldwide.

Minnesota Youth Program for job seekers

• Minnesota Youth Program — The Minnesota Youth Program serves low-income and at-risk youth ages 14 to 24 who lack academic and "applied skills" considered critical for current and future workplace needs.

Minnesota Youth Program for service providers

• Minnesota Youth Program — Provided through a network of public and private nonprofit youth service providers, CareerForce locations, & partnerships with local education agencies.

MN Family Resiliency Partnership

• MN Family Resiliency Partnership — Assists individuals who have spent a number of years in the home providing homemaking services & have been dependent upon financial support of another.

MN RETAIN Program for service providers

• Minnesota RETAIN — To provide intervention strategies for workers to stay or return to work as soon as medically possible after an injury or illness impacts their employment.

MSFW

• Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers — Whether the job is on or off the farm, our Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Service can help farm workers and the employers who hire them. Contact our Agriculture Outreach Representative near you.

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National Federation of the Blind (NFB) Newsline

• News by Phone or on the Go — News by Phone or on the Go

Native American Business Loan Program

• Native American Business Loan Program — Supports the development of Native-owned and operated businesses and promotes economic opportunities for Native peoples throughout Minnesota.

New Americans

• Office of New Americans — Help state government bring together New Americans, employers, local governments, nonprofits & other partners to create welcoming communities.

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Office of Adult Career Pathways

• Office of Adult Career Pathways — Provide adults who traditionally face multiple barriers to employment to be successful in securing long-term family sustaining wages.

Office of Broadband

• Broadband Grant Program — Used to fund the build out of infrastructure to promote the expansion of broadband service to areas of the state that are unserved or underserved.
• Office of Broadband Development — Helps Minnesotans understand broadband options available and work together to improve availability and use of high speed broadband services.

Office of Dislocated Worker & Federal Adult Programs

• Office of Dislocated Worker and Federal Adult Programs — The Dislocated Worker Program offers employment and training services for eligible workers. Minnesota operates both a state and a federal program.

Office of New Americans

• Office of New Americans — Help state government bring together New Americans, employers, local governments, nonprofits & other partners to create welcoming communities.

Office of Public Engagement

• Office of Public Engagement — The Office of Public Engagement (OPE) at DEED serves as a bridge between the agency and the diverse communities of Minnesota.

Office of Public Service

• Office of Public Service — The Office of Public Service exists to create a unified statewide strategy for expanding access to public service so that Minnesotans have clear pathways into service and toward in-demand careers with family sustaining wages.

Office of Youth Development

• Office of Youth Development — Information on Minnesota's programs for youth employment.
• Workplace Safety for Youth — State and federal child labor law information, as well as other resources for keeping youth safe on the job.

On-Ramp to Career Pathways

• On-Ramp to Career Pathways — Targets individuals interested in earning a certificate and improving their employability.

Opioids - The Minnesota Initiative (OMNI) for service providers

• Opioids - The Minnesota Initiative (OMNI) — Opioids - The Minnesota Initiative (OMNI) project is a workforce development initiative which seeks to address the state's opioid crisis.
• Special Initiatives and Grants — Information on special grants awarded to the state of Minnesota.

Opportunity Zones

• Opportunity Zones — Tax incentives in low-income urban and rural communities nationwide to draw long-term investment to areas that are in the most economic need.

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Paid Leave

• Paid Leave — Paid Leave offers payments and job protections that make it possible to care for yourself or a family member.

Pathways to Prosperity Competitive Grant Program

• Pathways to Prosperity — Programs and services designed to provide workforce development and training opportunities to economically disadvantaged adults.

Phosphorus Reduction Program

• Point Source Implementation Grant Program — Provides grants to units of local government to assist with the cost of wastewater treatment or storm water projects.

Point Source Implementation Grant Program

• Infrastructure Funding — Helps communities finance the construction of basic infrastructure needed to protect public health and safety and pave the way for economic growth.
• Point Source Implementation Grant Program — Provides grants to units of local government to assist with the cost of wastewater treatment or storm water projects.

Policies and Guidance

• Policies, Rules, and Regulations — State and federal regulations that underpin our work.
• Policy and Guidance — Service providers rely on DEED policies to ensure their services comply with federal and state laws and rules and with DEED policy requirements.

Promise Act Grant Program

• Promise Act Grant Program — This program, through a series of statewide partner organizations, will award grants to eligible businesses in specific communities.

Promise Loan Program

• Promise Loan Program — Provides loans to businesses located in communities adversely affected by racial discrimination, civil unrest, and other challenges.

Public Engagement

• Office of Public Engagement — The Office of Public Engagement (OPE) at DEED serves as a bridge between the agency and the diverse communities of Minnesota.

Public Meeting Notices

• Public Meeting Notices — Meetings of DEED-affiliated advisory groups are open to the public.
• Upcoming Events — Important conferences. Career Fairs. Seminars for your business. We have a lot to offer. View all of our upcoming events.

Public Service

• Office of Public Service — The Office of Public Service exists to create a unified statewide strategy for expanding access to public service so that Minnesotans have clear pathways into service and toward in-demand careers with family sustaining wages.

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Radio Talking Book

• Radio Talking Book — This free, closed-circuit news service broadcasts current newspapers, magazines and best-selling books 24/7 on special radios we provide to clients.
• Radio Talking Book — This free, closed-circuit news service broadcasts current newspapers, magazines and best-selling books 24/7 on special radios we provide to clients.

Redevelopment Grant Program

• Redevelopment Grant Program — Helps communities with the costs of redeveloping blighted industrial, residential, or commercial sites and putting land back into productive use.

Re-Entry Grant

• Pilot Re-Entry Grant — Provides employment and training services to individuals who require assistance in returning to or entering the workforce.
• Special Initiatives and Grants — Information on special grants awarded to the state of Minnesota.

Reporting Services

• Reporting Services — A reporting services page for MNIT-DEED.

Research and Development (R&D) Tax Credit

• Research and Development Tax Credit — Minnesota's research and development tax credit doubles the size of the credit and also expands the credit to include more business entities.

Reservist and Veteran Business Loan Program

• Reservist and Veteran Business Loan Program — Provides business loans to companies affected by employees called to active military duty and to individual veterans who have returned from active duty.

Rulemaking

• Rulemaking Activity — We adopt rules to implement or make-specific a law applicable to DEED to help formulate policy necessary to administer legislatively created programs

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SEED Capital Investment Program

• SEED Capital Investment Credit Program — Provides tax incentives for investing in innovative business located in Minnesota border cities.

Senior Community Service Employment Program

• Older Workers — We help people age 55 and older who meet eligibility guidelines get the on-the-job training and current work experience they need.

Senior Community Service Employment Program for service providers

• Senior Community Service Employment Program — The Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), aims to assist unemployed individuals aged 55 and above with low incomes and limited job prospects.

Shared Vision for Youth Activities

• Shared Vision for Youth Activities — Funding sources can be used to create a seamless array of services to meet the needs of participants for comprehensive, intensive & long-term services

Shared Work Program for job seekers

• Shared Work Program — The Shared Work program offers an alternative to layoffs for employers facing a temporary downturn in business.

Shovel-Ready Program

• Shovel-Ready Site Certification — Certified sites are more attractive to companies and site-selection consultants looking for locations for business startups, expansions or relocations.

Small Business Administration (SBA) financing programs

• SBA Financing Programs — Financial assistance programs provide access to debt and equity primarily from banks or other private sources.

Small Business Assistance Office (SBAO)

• Get Help From Our Experts — Our business consultants have got you covered at most any stage with expert advice and analysis to help you avoid -- or recover from -- costly mistakes.
• Small Business Assistance Office — Overview of all the services provided by the Minnesota Small Business Assistance Office.

Small Business Assistance Partnerships

• Small Business Assistance Partnerships — Partners represent & empower success of businesses owned & operated in Greater Minnesota.

Small Business Development Centers (SBDC)

• Small Business Development Centers — Minnesota's network of Small Business Development Centers has nine main regional offices and several satellite centers statewide.
• Small Business Development Centers Overview — Minnesota's network of Small Business Development Centers has nine main regional offices and several satellite centers statewide.

Small Business Partnerships Program

• Small Business Assistance Partnerships — Partners represent & empower success of businesses owned & operated in Greater Minnesota.

Small Cities Development Program

• Community Development Funding — Help cities and counties with funding for housing, infrastructure and commercial rehabilitation projects
• Small Cities Development Program — Helps cities and counties with funding for housing, infrastructure and commercial rehabilitation projects that benefit people of low and moderate incomes.

Small Community Wastewater Treatment Program

• Infrastructure Funding — Helps communities finance the construction of basic infrastructure needed to protect public health and safety and pave the way for economic growth.
• Small Community Wastewater Treatment Program — Provides funding to communities replacing non-complying septic systems & straight pipes with new individual or cluster subsurface sewage treatment…

Southeast Asian Economic Disparities Relief Competitive Grant Program

• Southeast Asian Economic Disparities Relief Competitive Grant Program — Projects that work to eliminate racial disparities and large economic gaps between white Minnesotans and Minnesotans of Southeast Asian communities.

Starting a business

• Starting a Business — Starting a business in Minnesota is not a single decision but a series of them, each one an important step on the road to a successful launch.

State Rehabilitation Council

• State Rehabilitation Council — The council helps guide decisions about the state's vocational rehabilitation services program.

State Rehabilitation Council for the Blind (SRC-B)

• State Rehabilitation Council for the Blind — Advisory body providing recommendations & a perspective from the low vision, blind, and deafblind community on programs and services SSB provides.

State Services for the Blind (SSB)

• Self-Employment through the Business Enterprises Program — Provides appropriate training and support to assist Minnesotans who are legally blind to become self-employed in their own vending businesses.
• State Services for the Blind — Provide the tools, training and technology to help people who are blind, low vision, DeafBlind or experiencing vision loss.

State Services for the Blind (SSB), Communication Center

• Braille, Audio, and E-text Transcription — We’ve got you covered with books and other printed materials transcribed into braille, audio or e-text.

State Services for the Blind (SSB), Senior Services Unit

• Seniors — Our Senior Services team has the tools, techniques, and training you’ll need to stay mentally and physically active and independent.

State Small Business Credit Initiative

• State Small Business Credit Initiative — Programs to assist small businesses

Statewide Independent Living Council (SILC)

• Statewide Independent Living Council — The council provides guidance with independent living services to people with disabilities.

STEP export assistance for small business

• Export Financing Programs — Check out our STEP grant program for small businesses and other finance options.

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Employment and Training (SNAP E&T)

• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Employment and Training Program (SNAP E&T) — Provide employment and training services to individuals receiving SNAP E&T benefits.

Support for Cannabis Businesses

• Support for Cannabis Businesses — Support for Cannabis Businesses

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TANF Youth Innovation Project

• TANF Youth Innovation Project — Partnership between DHS, DEED, and MAWB provide structured work experiences and introduction to career pathways to youth receiving MFIP benefits.

Targeted Community Capital Project

• Targeted Community Capital Project Grant Program — Utilizing these funds must result in providing, increasing, and/or expanding access to underserved communities or economically disadvantaged persons or groups.

Tax Credits for Businesses

• Angel Tax Credit — Provides incentives to investors or investment funds that put money into startup and emerging companies focused on high or new proprietary technology.
• Border-Cities Enterprise Zone Program — Provides business tax credits to qualifying businesses that are the source of investment, development, and job creation or retention.
• Data Center Sales Tax Exemptions — Minnesota offers sales tax exemptions to companies that invest qualifying amounts in data centers.
• Film Production Tax Credit — Provides an assignable 25% tax credit for film, video, or digital media projects that expend at least $1,000,000 in eligible production costs.
• Greater Minnesota Job Expansion Program — Provides sales tax exemptions of up to 12 years to eligible existing businesses.
• Opportunity Zones — Tax incentives in low-income urban and rural communities nationwide to draw long-term investment to areas that are in the most economic need.
• Research and Development Tax Credit — Minnesota's research and development tax credit doubles the size of the credit and also expands the credit to include more business entities.
• SEED Capital Investment Credit Program — Provides tax incentives for investing in innovative business located in Minnesota border cities.
• Tax Credits — Growing your business can be hard when you don't have the funding you need. Our tax credits programs can lift some of that burden off your shoulders.
• Tax Credits — Businesses that accommodate people with disabilities may qualify for tax credits and deductions.
• Work Opportunity Tax Credit — The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is a federal tax credit available to all businesses as an incentive to hire workers in certain groups.

Ticket to Work Program

• Counseling, Training, and Job Skills — Counseling, training and job skills services available through Minnesota's Vocational Rehabilitation Services office.

Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL)

• Point Source Implementation Grant Program — Provides grants to units of local government to assist with the cost of wastewater treatment or storm water projects.

Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) for job seekers

• Trade Adjustment Assistance — The Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program is available to workers who lose their jobs, hours or income as a result of increased foreign trade activity.

Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) for service providers

• For Counselors and Service Providers — Our programs rely on counselors and staff located across the state at CareerForce and contracted independent organizations.
• Trade Adjustment Assistance — Trade Adjustment Assistance

Trade Assistance Helpline

• Exporting and Trade — MTO, our international business unit, provides training and expertise small and midsized companies need to export goods and services worldwide.

Transportation Economic Development Infrastructure (TEDI) Program

• Application — Application process and timeline, including information sessions, for the Transportation Economic Development program.
• Eligibility — Must support: manufacturing, technology, warehousing and distribution, research and development, agricultural processing, bioscience or tourism/recreation
• Transportation Economic Development Infrastructure Program — This competitive grant program is available to communities for highway improvement and public infrastructure projects.

Transportation Revolving Loan Fund

• Infrastructure Funding — Helps communities finance the construction of basic infrastructure needed to protect public health and safety and pave the way for economic growth.
• Transportation Revolving Loan Fund — Provides financing to state, local and other government entities for transportation projects approved by the Minnesota DOT.

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Unemployment Insurance (UI) for job seekers

• Recently Unemployed — If you’ve recently lost your job, you have many concerns and one urgent question: What now? Don’t worry.

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Vocational Rehabilitation services (VRS)

• Research and Reports — Covering needs, performance and disability employment issues.
• Community Partners — Vocational Rehabilitation Services (VRS) relies upon a broad coalition of partners, vendors and contractors to provide services to our consumers.
• Counseling, Training, and Job Skills — Counseling, training and job skills services available through Minnesota's Vocational Rehabilitation Services office.
• Extended Employment - Long-Term Job Supports — Long-term support to help you work and advance in your career.
• Information for High School Students — We help students with disabilities plan the journey from school to what comes next.
• Living Independently — We offer services statewide to help you live independently and to function in your home, at work and in your community.
• Other State Councils — State councils on disability that work with Minnesota's Vocational Rehabilitation Services programs.
• People with Disabilities — Our Vocational Rehabilitation Services unit can help you prepare for, find and keep a job, and live as independently as possible.
• Policies, Rules, and Regulations — State and federal regulations that underpin our work.
• State Rehabilitation Council — The council helps guide decisions about the state's vocational rehabilitation services program.
• Statewide Independent Living Council — The council provides guidance with independent living services to people with disabilities.
• Work with an Employment Specialist — Our Employment Specialists can help your business tap into the pipeline of talent that workers with disabilities can provide.

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Water Infrastructure Fund

• Infrastructure Funding — Helps communities finance the construction of basic infrastructure needed to protect public health and safety and pave the way for economic growth.
• Water Infrastructure Fund — Provides supplemental grants and loans to help communities build water treatment projects that address existing environmental or public health problems.

Women's Economic Security Act (WESA) Competitive Grant Program

• Women's Economic Security Act (WESA) Competitive Grant Program — The Women’s Economic Security Act Competitive Grant program works to increase the number of women in high-wage, high-demand, nontraditional occupations.

Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC)

• Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) — A federal tax credit for private sector businesses as an incentive to hire workers in groups who consistently experience high rates of unemployment.

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)

• Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) — WIOA provides an expanded platform from which Minnesota can continue to grow and address workforce and economic development opportunities.

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Young Adult Program for job seekers

• WIOA Young Adult Program — Provides out-of-school youth between the ages of 16 and 24 and in-school youth between the ages of 14 and 21 with year-round employment and training services.

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Young Adult Program for service providers

• WIOA Young Adult Program — WIOA youth services are provided by a network of 16 Workforce Development Areas, serving all 87 counties in Minnesota.

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Adult Program for service providers

• WIOA Adult — WIOA Adult

Workforce One (WF1)

• Workforce One (WF1) — Web-based client management application used by state, city, county and non-profit providers to track employment and training services.

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Xcel Energy Power Up Program

• Xcel Energy Power Up Program — Will provide a workforce training pipeline for a variety of energy-related construction occupations.

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Youth at Work

• Youth at Work Competitive Grants — Information on projects funded through Youth Program competitive grants.

Youth Services

• Information for High School Students — We help students with disabilities plan the journey from school to what comes next.
• Office of Youth Development — Information on Minnesota's programs for youth employment.
• Workplace Safety for Youth — State and federal child labor law information, as well as other resources for keeping youth safe on the job.

Youth Support Services

• Youth Support Services — A competitive grant program to provide support services for individuals.

Youthbuild Program for job seekers

• Youthbuild Program — Provides specialized training for youth and young adults who are at risk of not completing or have not completed their high school education.

Youthbuild Program for service providers

• Youthbuild Program — Provides specialized training for youth and young adults who are at risk of not completing or have not completed their high school education.