Open the door.The payoff is impact.
EDIP Participants are institutional-channel volunteers whose role naturally puts them in contact with grant-seeking businesses. The Economic Development Introduction Program is the platform's structured way to make ethical, disclosed introductions, with the right documentation and no personal compensation.
Institutional-channel volunteers
If your institutional role brings you into contact with grant-seeking businesses, through a small business development center, a chamber of commerce, a workforce board, a community lender network, or a similar channel, EDIP is the platform's way to make ethical, disclosed introductions that benefit the businesses in your channel.
On the platform
- Make disclosed introductions through your institutional channel to grant-seeking businesses who may benefit from the platform's certified strategists.
- Provide Affidavits of Intent and Institutional Disclosure Letters that establish the disclosure architecture making each introduction ethical and properly documented.
- Receive the annual EDIP Impact Report showing the aggregate impact of institutional-channel introductions.
Ethical introductions, measured in impact
Zero personal compensation
EDIP Participants receive no personal payment for introductions. The Zero Personal Compensation and Air Gap architecture keeps every introduction ethically clean and free of conflict-of-interest concerns.
The payoff is impact
The channels you care about gain access to certified grant strategy expertise that supports their own institutional missions.
Ethical and documented
Introductions are disclosed and properly documented, so they hold up to scrutiny and serve the businesses in your channel.
EDIP Participants operate under the EDIP Participation Agreement. Compensated referral is a separate role, described on the Referral Alliance page. The full set of operative agreements is on the How It Works page.
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Our assistant can explain the role, how it works, and how to get started, then point you to the right next step.
Want to make introductions that matter?
EDIP is institutional-channel volunteering: ethical, disclosed introductions that connect the businesses in your channel to certified grant strategy expertise.
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