Start Small Campbell Grants

The Start Small Campbell Grant is a competitive small business grant offered by the Campbell County Department of Economic Development in Virginia. The program is designed to cultivate new successful businesses in Campbell County by providing an incentive for entrepreneurial training. The grant provides a fixed award of $5,000 to qualifying businesses, with grants available to up to four new Campbell County businesses per year. The program operates through two semi-annual grant cycles, making it a recurring local economic development funding opportunity. Eligibility is limited to businesses with a dedicated Campbell County location that are anticipated to produce recurring local tax revenue. An eligible business must be less than three years old or be opening its first Campbell County location. The business must also be current on all local taxes. Applicants should maintain a dedicated physical location in Campbell County and hold a Campbell County, Town of Altavista, or Town of Brookneal business license. A business that has not yet opened when it applies must have a signed lease and a committed opening date before a grant award will be issued. The source does not state that applicants must reside personally in Campbell County; the stated eligibility requirements focus on the location and status of the business. Applicants must complete several preparation and submission requirements. They must attend at least two qualifying workshops within the previous 12 months before the applicable cycle end date. Applicants must complete the SSCG Business Plan Template and provide one year of financial documentation, using the Financial Document Template instructions appropriate to the age or stage of the business. A projection statement for Years 2 and 3 is also required. These requirements reflect the program's stated goal of encouraging entrepreneurial training and ensuring that applicants have developed business and financial planning materials. Applicants must also complete a Business Plan Review with an SSCG Mentor. The review must be scheduled at least three weeks before the application due date so that there is sufficient time for the appointment and any necessary revisions. For the Fall 2026 grant cycle, the Business Plan Review is due October 2, 2026, and the final application is due October 23, 2026. The source does not provide a separate application opening date. Because the program operates through two semi-annual cycles, it is treated as recurring, although the source provides specific dates only for the Fall 2026 cycle. After completing the required preparation, applicants must upload all required application documents and submit the application through the Start Small Campbell Grant Application page. A confirmation email is sent when the submission successfully goes through. Campbell County staff will preview the submission to make sure all required elements were provided. The source explicitly states that incomplete applications will not be reviewed, making completeness an essential condition for consideration. The source identifies the grant as competitive but does not provide the detailed scoring criteria in the supplied material. It references FAQs addressing how the grant is scored and what makes a successful application, but the answers to those FAQs were not included in the provided source text. No individual program contact, program email address, award notification date, performance period, or required matching contribution is stated. The Campbell County contact information shown on the page is 47 Courthouse Lane, Suite 1, Rustburg, Virginia 24588, with the general telephone number 434-332-9500. The recurring semi-annual structure indicates that additional cycles are expected, but dates beyond the Fall 2026 cycle are not supplied.

Attend the informational meeting and qualifying workshops; use SBDC or Spark Innovation Center for business plan support; consult Claude Dixon for assistance; ensure application completeness to be considered.