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First REAP Deadline on Feb. 21

The Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) helps agricultural producers and rural small businesses complete energy projects. Offering both grants and loan guarantees, REAP helps eligible applicants conduct energy audits and feasibility studies, install renewable energy systems and make energy efficiency improvements.

The first deadline, for energy audits and for renewable energy development assistance, is Tuesday, February 21.

For more details, see the REAP NOFA in the January 20, 2012 Federal Register.

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Establishing a Shared-Use Commercial Kitchen, NxLevel program (Select Products, then Commercial Kitchen) - This CD-ROM details the planning, design and budgetary considerations for developing an FDA-approved, multi-tenant commercial kitchen. It can be ordered from the website.
Establishing a Shared-Use Commercial Kitchen Incubator: Feasibility Study, Boise State University/Idaho Business and Economic Development Center, 2005 - This study, conducted for the Clallam County Economic Development Council, includes market research, budget, layouts and management plan.
Kitchen Incubators and Other Food-Related Small Businesses, Iowa State University - This site includes Iowa food sales laws, start-up business plans, food safety information and information on small business contacts.
Kitchen Incubators for Commercial Cooks, Business Week.
Kitchen Incubator Program, Mesa County, Colorado, Incubator Center Guidelines.
La Cocina, San Francisco, California - Located in San Francisco’s Mission District, La Cocina was founded in 2004 to provide approved commercial kitchen space and assistance to food entrepreneurs, many of them low-income and all of them women, helping them start new businesses or grow their home-based businesses into stable ventures.
National Center for Home Food Preservation - This lists processed food business resources.
Shared-Use Kitchen Incubators in the United States, Culinary Incubator - This website is for small food businesses that are trying to find a commercial kitchen to cook their product.
The Starting Block, Hart, Michigan.

Links checked May 2011.

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