iPlume Funding System™: Businesses & Entrepreneurs

Course Details

  • COURSE TYPE

    Asynchronous (learners can complete the course at a time that suits them)

  • LEARNING HOURS

    Approximately 10 hours of self-paced learning. Additional time to develop your own application will vary. This course provides 60 days of access.

  • COURSE AUDIENCE

    Canadian entrepreneurs, founders, sole proprietors, startups, established businesses, social enterprises, and cooperatives seeking funding or financing. Suitable for first-time applicants and experienced business leaders who want a practical process for evaluating opportunities and preparing stronger applications, proposals, and funding requests.

What's Included

  • Practical Training: Step-by-step learning to help you find, assess, plan, and apply for funding.
  • iPlume Funding Finder™: Discover funding opportunities aligned with your applicant profile and priorities.
  • iPlume Funding Coach™: Get AI-supported guidance to develop ideas, draft responses, and review your work.
  • Funding Workspace™ + Funding Planner™: Keep your information, application content, workplan, and budget organized in tools you can continue updating.
  • iPlume Expert Review: Receive professional feedback on one completed application or practice application before taking your next step.

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

  1. Identify your business’s funding priorities, stage, strengths, and readiness.
  2. Compare funding and financing options, including grants, contributions, loans, tax credits, wage subsidies, and investment.
  3. Find and shortlist opportunities using the iPlume Funding Finder™.
  4. Evaluate eligibility, strategic fit, timing, contribution requirements, cash flow, repayment, and ownership implications.
  5. Develop a credible business case connecting your proposed investment with market evidence, activities, costs, and intended results.
  6. Create an aligned workplan and an activity-based budget.
  7. Draft clear, evidence-based applications, proposals, or requests using your business’s voice and responsible AI-supported guidance.
  8. Review the complete package and organize approved content for future use.

Course Topics

  • Business funding readiness and priorities
  • Grants and contributions
  • Loans, tax credits, and wage subsidies
  • Investment, accelerators, and awards
  • The iPlume Funding Finder™ powered by Fundica
  • Eligibility and strategic fit
  • Decision-maker requirements
  • Contribution requirements, cash flow, repayment, and ownership implications
  • Customer and market evidence
  • Business cases
  • Workplans
  • Activity-based budgets
  • Responsible AI and the iPlume Funding Coach™
  • Application and proposal writing
  • Supporting documents
  • Review, submission, and reusable funding content

Choosing Funding

Course page titled "BUILT IT | Complete the Opportunity and Funding-Fit Check". A numbered list of text leads to an item that reads "Choose Pursue, Clarify First, or Do Not Pursue, and record the rationale for your decision."

Build Your Request

Course page titled "Build for the Decision Maker". The page content is displayed in four tabs: "Grant or Contribution Request", "Loan Request", "Investor Request", and "Tax-Credit Submission". The tab "Grant or Contribution Request" is open.

Expert Human Review

Course page titled "Use Expert Review". Page text includes "Your purchase includes one professional iPlume Expert Review of your first completed application or proposal before submission."

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Need Support?

For questions & technical support related to this course, please contact:

funding@iplumewriting.com
Price: $1,499.00
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