StretchLearn Course
A start-to-finish system for finding, qualifying, writing, and reporting on small business grants.
Course Overview
This course takes a non-technical small business owner from zero to submitted application using federal, state, foundation, and corporate grant pathways. You learn how reviewers actually score proposals, how to write each required section against evaluation criteria, and how to build a budget and reporting cadence that survives an audit. Every lesson uses named programs, real registration portals, and worked examples you can adapt.
Learning Outcomes
Identify five grant sources matched to your business stage and NAICS code
Complete SAM.gov and Grants.gov registration without rejection delays
Map every proposal section to the funder's published scoring rubric
Draft a need statement, methods, and outcomes narrative reviewers can score
Build a defensible line-item budget with justification and indirect costs
Run a post-award reporting calendar that prevents clawbacks and wins renewals
Curriculum Preview
Preview the course structure, see how the modules build on one another, and understand the path this program is designed to take you through.
Where real small business grants live, how to read eligibility before you waste time, and how to build a qualified pipeline instead of chasing every listing.
The registrations, documents, and capacity statements you need before any federal or major grant will accept your application.
Section by section, how to write each part of a proposal directly against the published scoring rubric reviewers use.
Build a defensible budget, submit cleanly, and run the post-award reporting that keeps your money and earns renewals.
Built for Application
This program is designed around progression: focused lessons, structured modules, applied resources, assessments, and a course rhythm that turns information into usable capability.