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(VTC) Microbusiness Marketing Leverage Program - Virginia Tourism Corporation You are here: Home / Grant and Funding Sources / (VTC) Microbusiness Marketing Leverage Program The next rounds of this program: Opens : June 23, 2026 Closes: July 30, 2026 For questions, please email VTCMLPGrant@virginia. org Reimbursable grant program to leverage existing marketing funds.
Requires a targeted and research-based marketing plan designed to drive tourism to Virginia.
Marketing Focus: Small business and shoulder season (September to May) marketing Who is eligible: Small tourism-related business with 20 or fewer full-time equivalent employees including boutique retail, restaurants, food trucks, small attractions, craft breweries, distilleries, wineries, boutique lodging and B&Bs, and events focused on shoulder season visitation Additional eligibility : Chambers of Commerce, NGOs, such as PDCs and Main Street organizations, may apply but the application must support microbusinesses and/or shoulder season visitation with a robust marketing plan.
If the Chamber, Main Street, or organization is an officially designated DMO appearing on this list www. vatc. org/dmolist then they may only apply in the VTC Vacation Starts with VA DMO MMLP Flagship program.
Match: 1:1 cash or in-kind How: Online application portal For information and questions, please email VTCMLPGrant@virginia. org * It is strongly recommended to read the Terms & Conditions before beginning the application. Sorry.
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Special Event and Festival Grant Program is sponsored by Virginia Tourism Corporation (VTC). This program offers grants for marketing and production of special events and festivals in Virginia. Eligible events must have at least two years of prior attendance since 2022 and a minimum attendance of 500 attendees, demonstrating a positive and significant economic impact on tourism and a marketing plan designed to drive visitation to Virginia.
Tourism Development Financing Program (TDFP) is sponsored by Virginia Tourism Corporation (VTC). The TDFP provides gap financing for the capital investment of new tourism product development. Economic Development Organizations (EDOs) must demonstrate a deficiency in local tourism product based on visitor demand, and developers must prove their project fills this deficiency.
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Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Programs Phase I is sponsored by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). The USDA SBIR/STTR programs support small businesses in creating innovative, disruptive technologies with commercial potential or societal benefit, including projects dealing with agriculturally-related manufacturing and alternative and renewable energy technologies. Specialty tubing could be relevant for agricultural equipment or renewable energy systems.