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Funding stories Published May 18, 2026

The grants you can actually get vs. the ones you can’t

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A huge share of program funding is for non-profits and charities, not businesses. Chasing the wrong ones wastes the one resource you can't get back: time. Here is how to tell, in two minutes, whether you can apply directly, need a partner, or should walk away.

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The grant nobody told me about

For eight years we hired the same way every summer. Pay full wages, lose a third of our margin June through August, hope the fall rush made up for it. Then a customer mentioned Canada Summer Jobs and the math fell apart. We had been leaving $18,000 a year on the table. This is the application, the awkward conversations, and what I would tell myself eight years ago.