Financial assistance is key to making small business assistance programs work. The following are reasons why technical assistance providers may want to pursue financial assistance opportunities.  Financial assistance:

• Enables technical assistance providers to better establish a relationship with the small business community.
• Helps accomplish the goals of small business assistance programs.
• Promotes compliance with environmental regulations and best management practices.
• Increases contact between the technical assistance providers and the businesses.
• Returns monies originally paid into funds of the public agencies by the business community to those businesses for accomplishing goals important to both parties.
• Provides financial support to accomplish work that the private sector finds impractical to support.