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Apply for a Grant

Improve your business while helping your community. The Dialogs eBusiness Community Grant program is an opportunity for you to strengthen your ebusiness and to provide local budding talent with much-needed real-world creative and technical experience. We created this grant program to help business communities grow, but we don't stop there. As we grow Dialogs nationally, we don't want to our presence in local economies to be a burden. We will utilize local talent to work on your project. Dialogs expertise flows into your community without draining financial or intellectual resources. Talk about a winning combination.

A Grant Program Like No Other

You need to improve your online tools as well as your business processes to compete. For nearly twenty years, Dialogs has been solving this problem for our customers.

Students entering the workforce for the first time need experience to get hired, but they need to get hired to gain experience. The same is true for more seasoned workers who are re-training in a new field. This program helps solve this problem, too. Grant projects will employ talent in the local area of the grant recipient.

When businesses move into new areas, they can do as much harm as good to the local economy by sucking resources out of the area. That is not how we want to operate. We want to be an active participant in the growth of your business community.

The Dialogs eBusiness Community Grant could be the most important business decision you make this year. Join us as we help rebuild the economy one community at a time.

Welcome to the Launch of Our Pilot Grant

This is the pilot phase of our grant program – limited to businesses and organizations in the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City Corridor. Currently, any for-profit, non-profit, or educational/governmental entity in Linn and Johnson counties, Iowa or the Greater Corridor area may apply for a grant. Preference may be given to applicants who can demonstrate that improving their ebusiness tools will benefit their neighborhood or the local economy. Tell us where you would like the eBusiness Community Grant Program to reach out to next.

Why the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City Corridor?

The Cedar Rapids Corridor was selected as our pilot community based on having a good mix of organizations with potential suitable ebusiness projects; a good agency and web development business base to partner with; excellent intern candidates from college partners like Kirkwood Community College; and proven community collaboration to benefit all, exemplified by the recovery and renaissance experienced since the 2008 flood disaster.

Apply Now

If you are interested in the eBusiness Community Grant program, and you meet the qualification requirements, complete the form below. Contact Mark Schmidt, eBusiness Community Grant manager, if you have any questions about the grant program or eligibility.

This grant cycle is only available in the Cedar Rapids Corridor. After we complete this pilot grant cycle, we will do a bit of fine-tuning and then open up the program to additional areas. When we do, we will allow you to request your community to be added to the list of communities in this program. If you are interested in updates on this grant program, please contact us.

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eBusiness Tools and Processes Checklist

Check all appropriate boxes to indicate which of these business tools you already have, if your existing tools need upgrading, and which solutions would be helpful to your business but you do not currently have.

HAVE (H) = solution you are currently using.
UPGRADE (U) = solution you are currently using that needs to be updated, revised, or enhanced.
ADD (A) = solution you need but do not have.
DO NOT KNOW (D) = do not know about this solution.
NOT NEEDED (N) = do not need this solution.

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Dialogs believes that equal opportunity is important for the continuing success of communities. Therefore, we have a policy of inclusiveness, diversity, and equal opportunity. This policy applies to all employees, volunteers, members, clients, and contractors. Thus, we want to ensure that applicants for the grant also comply with our policy. Please indicate below your acceptance of this policy and intent to follow it.




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Nondiscriminatory Policy

The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that the applicant company prohibits discrimination against any person, persons, and businesses on the basis of race, gender, color, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, or veteran or military status.

Further, I affirm my company's commitment to include at every level of its work all segments of the community without regard to (including but not limited to) race, gender, color, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, or veteran or military status.


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