My entreprenurial niece who lives and works in Vermont wants to open a
small business, namely a pizza parlor, and wants to know about State
(Vermont) or Federal grants that may be available to assist her in
that effort. I want to know if there are any such grant opportunities
available. I suppose that there are no pizza parlor-specific grants
available, so I will settle for grant opportunities for the creation
of small businesses which do not exclude pizza parlors.

Your best resource for obtaining the kind of money you need for this
business is a guy by the name of Matthew Lesko. You've seen him on the
television shows and all over the talk shows. He'll show you the way
to FREE government money for opening up a coffee shop, marketing a new
invention, and getting a GED (or a PhD.). I'm sure he's got something
up his sleeve for pizza parlours too.. Good luck.

Thank you for that Kokotbone. As a matter of fact I have an old
edition of one of his books. A big fat book with a red cover. I'll
take a look at a more current edition. Thanks again.