Mount Prospect pilot
Is There Help to Fund This?
Bring a project. Leave with a verified Funding Brief.
There may be help. Let us separate money, financing, tax effects, free expertise, and negotiated assistance—then find out what must be confirmed before you commit.
Project file 01
What are you trying to fund?
Choose the closest ordinary project. Each guide crosses municipal, utility, county, state, federal, tax, workforce, financing, and advisory sources where the evidence supports them.
- Replace or upgrade HVACScreen the exact electric and gas measures before purchase, then separate incentives from repayable financing and owner-dependent property tools.
- Improve storefront or facadeEstablish location, use, ownership, permits, and approval sequence before treating the advertised Village grant or later property-tax effect as feasible.
- Renovate or build out an interiorSeparate permanent eligible premises work from equipment and operating cost, then test reimbursement, later tax effects, and repayable financing on their own terms.
- Make the business accessiblePlan compliant work first, then distinguish later federal tax recovery from upfront project financing and municipal navigation.
- Buy equipmentIdentify the exact equipment, energy effect, useful life, vendor timing, and repayment capacity before comparing incentives with loans.
- Reduce energy useStart with account-specific assessments, then screen each measure for incentive, owner-controlled financing, and confirm-first local help.
- Train current employeesDefine the skill gap, workers, provider, cost, and timing before seeking case-managed reimbursement or later apprenticeship tax value.
- Hire or create apprenticeshipsAlign the job, participant, training plan, registered-apprenticeship structure, and approval timing before the hire begins.
- Improve technology or cybersecuritySeparate planning and specialist help from the hardware, software, services, and working capital that may require repayable financing.
- Expand the businessBreak expansion into property, fixed assets, working capital, workforce, and advisory needs so each mechanism is tested against real facts.