The Technical Assistance Program 

Powered by Network Kansas, administered locally by Montgomery County E-Community

If you've had a connection with Montgomery County E-Community, IBRC, we have some technical assistance funding to help you with certain expenses. Your connection can be through participation in any one of these:

• E-Community Gap Financing Loan Program
• Entrepreneurial Mindset class
• SEED class
• Just about any other business related activity, seminars, lunches, or gatherings that I had anything to do with since 2012.

Grants up to $1,000 may be awarded with a max rate of $150 per hour to providers.

Please review the information below and contact me if you have a need that might be a fit. Jim Correll 620-252-5349 or jimc@ibrcenter.org. Click here to download the Technical Assistance Program flyer. 

What Does It Mean to Provide Technical Assistance?

Technical assistance (TA) refers to the education and guidance provided to entrepreneurs and small-business owners to help them start, grow, and scale businesses. 

TA helps build the capacity of organizations in order to operate effectively, then to leverage or access capital, and generally help entrepreneurs achieve their business goals. Network Kansas has traditionally supportedEntrepreneurial Programming, which is delivered to a wide audience and designed to support a community of entrepreneurs on a specific subject or method. TA allows entrepreneurs to work individually or in small groups, with very specific technical providers, achieving impact by providing targeted resources to meet an entrepreneur's specific needs.

Program Overview

• Must be a for-profit business including:concept/start-up, existing, struggling & thriving
  
• Must be a pre/post funding client or program participant
  
• Grant dollars prioritize technical assistance in these three areas, however exceptions and special cases can be made.
  
• • Financial
  • Legal
  • Accounting 
• Business must be located in a participating E-Commmunity
  
• Application must be approved prior to the TA being performed
  

Classifications for and Examples of Technical Assistance

Legal

• Business formation - registration, license, certifications
  
• Preparing contractual documents
  
• Support for succession/family planning
  
• Patents
  
• Preparing contractual documents
  
•  Support for succession/family planning
  
• Patents
  
• Adopting corporate governance documents
  
• Compliance 
  
• Obtaining capital from investors - developing-financial instruments, investment term sheets, shareholder rights 
  

Accounting

• Payroll/record keeping training
  
• Quickbooks training
  
• Business bank account basics
  
• Preparing audits
  
• Preparing financial statements (special purposes only - not monthly)
  
• Advisory services - or training regarding accounting practices
  

Financial Advisory

• Establishing banking relationships
  
• Grant application submission/writing
  
• Financial Advisory analysis
  
• Identifying sources of credit/capital/grants
  
• Financial Advisory models/business plans
  
• Financial Advisory guidance/management
  
• Identifying Financial Advisory impeding factors
  
• Cash flow
  
• Preparing presentations for potential investors