Monday 23 November 2015

Types Of Finance For A Project Funding Investment Group

By Brenda Warner


Today, there are numerous projects running word wide. These include NGO, private and government funded. The government invests in social developmental and high valued initiatives with no market value. Private initiatives are involved in profit creation and maximization. Some companies finance social responsibility activities that help the community. All ventures have to raise operating capital to star and run. This sometimes this is difficult. A project funding investment group is one of many organizations that source for finance for different ventures.

Grants are very cheap sources. Large corporations and individuals with high net worth donate this money. Research grants are more popular and easily available. This is because they help to fund many breakthroughs aimed at improving human life and condition. They include small and medium enterprises, development, market as well as medical. They help to finance much advancement in wildlife conservation, medicine, technology, service delivery and business. Other grants are environmental, training social development and education.

Loans are provided for undertakings but unlike grants, they must be paid back with interest. Most often they are provided against adequate security deposit and dependable earnings or returns. They are provided for all types of projects irrespective of profitable returns. Common sources include banks, monetary organizations and mezzanine. Bank loans are more popular because they provide flexible repayment terms. Monetary organizations include large bodies like the World Bank and International Monetary Funds.

Equity funding is not easily available to most projects because it has high rates of interest. The money is acquired for investing in profitable ventures and businesses. They have strict repayment policies. Angel investors are individuals with high net worth who look for opportunities to invest their money. These investments usually yield a lot of returns. Venture capital is medium term funds used to invest in the lucrative initiatives.

Asset backed finance is provided for growing businesses and huge corporations. It is secured by value assets. This acts as security to be claimed if money is not repaid. This funding is strict because it is purely for profit. It is availed as invoice discounting, leasing, factoring, trade finance and pension funds. It is used as a backup when other avenues for raising capital are not available like capital markets.

Business relationship funding is available where there is a joint effort in raising cash for a given project. This is only available in a situation where there is a shared interest. This occurs in joint ventures with a binding contractual agreement between companies. Others include partnerships, agencies, distributors and suppliers, trade investors as well as equity swop.

There are three categories of finances available. Restricted one is provided with austerity measures and guidelines. These must be followed, failure to which action will be taken. Foundation grants and government money comes with restrictions. The amount will only be used according to agreed expenditure areas. Unrestricted financing is free of restrictions and is used to run daily operations.

Bridge financing is a temporary solution that funds operations before money promised is available. This situation occurs when deficits occur as the organization waits new cash inflow. This is because of delays in releasing money to ventures. There are many different capital sources available to run projects.




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