• Provides financing to help reach goals you would otherwise be incapable of reaching or would need to delay.
• Provides funding under terms that consider you to be an asset to the economy rather than a customer to make money from.
• Government programs are often accompanies by other benefits, such as mentors
• Consider entrepreneurship to be an asset rather than a risk, as is the case with banks
• Some are designed specifically to help the unemployed become self-employed, whereas private funding sources represent more debt
• Encourage, incentivise, and reward economic and socially responsible business behaviours, such as innovation, and green policies and operations
• Are responsible for directly and indirectly creating jobs
• Offer a much wider range of options and purposes than do private funding sources, including secondary benefits that may be attached to their terms (e.g., providing student consultants with job experience)
• Provide indirect and direct benefits to the community wherein the recipient business is located
• Many programs have upper limits for the amount of money they are willing to provide that go well beyond what any bank would offer a typical entrepreneur

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