Canton Main Street Micro Grant application deadline of June 21st.

Canton Main Street is dedicated to making Canton’s downtown a vibrant and thriving center of the community. One of the four approaches used by the Main Street movement nationally, is Economic Vitality. To support this approach, it is Canton Main Street’s goal to help businesses located in our downtown district, and to bring new businesses in!

Canton Main Street wants to help entrepreneurs take steps towards opening new businesses in our downtown and to help new owners improve or expand existing businesses they’ve purchased. To this end, Canton Main Street will provide two $1,500 grants in calendar year 2023. The first $1,500 grant will have an application window from May 17th to June 21st, 2023, and be awarded in July. The Second grant will have an application window and guidelines to be announced at a latter time.

Entrepreneurs must demonstrate in their application how they intend to use the funds to facilitate opening a new business. New owners of an existing business must outline how the grant will help improve services, operations, and/or products.

This is a reimbursable grant program. No funds will be disbursed until the applicant provides receipts for the expenditures approved through the application.