What Does $1,000 in Seed Capital Buy? Emerging Lessons from the SET Program’s Offer of Microgrants for Business Start-Ups

Mary Anne Anderson, Samia Amin, Irma Perez-Johnson and Caroline Massad Francis

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Abstract: This brief describes early findings on the implementation of seed capital microgrants within the Self-Employment Training program. This pilot program tested strategies to support dislocated workers (unemployed and underemployed) who want to start their own businesses.

Keywords: Self-Employment Training (SET); pilot program; dislocated workers; self-employment; unemployment; seed capital; microgrant; entrepreneurial training; microenterprise development; small business; entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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