This is John Batchler. Conversation with Gene Marks, Small Business columnists for the Guardian,

Philadelphia Inquirer, and other publications about a small business grant, small business administration

grant for STEM, science, technology, electronics, mathematics. We're looking at developing

with a grant up to,

Gene mentioned, as high as 100,000 starting at 10,000.

So for entrepreneurs, for the Steve Jobs of the 21st century,

a grant for your startup, at the Small Business Administration,

it was held up for a long time, Gene says,

by, you know, Congress, whatever. But it's now open for business. STEM, more of this tonight.

So there's a couple of different loans that are out there. The most popular is the small business

innovative research grants. And there's another grant program as well.

They're really designed for small businesses that are science and technology.

They give out grants anywhere from, you know, 10,000, 50,000, 100,000 to very, very small

startup companies that are working on NASA and technologies.

A lot of times they're combined with deals where they share the rights or they turn over

the rights of the technology to the government, sometimes not.

But it's a great way of funding for very small businesses that are in the technology space.

This funding got held up because of Doge and during the budget talks last year,

but now there's been new legislation, really being afforded, really championed by the

small business committees in both the Senate and the House. And I give them a lot of credit.

And it looks like, you know, that now the House and the Senate have passed the bills to get this

funding back underway. I'm sure the president will sign them bills to get this funding back underway.

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