About & sources
A student civic action project
This website was created by Lucas Conroy and Elijah Alvarez for a civic action project. We are developing a practical funding checklist and asking Village of Menomonee Falls staff to review it and consider sharing it with business owners.
Our civic action goal
Ask the Village of Menomonee Falls to review our student-created funding checklist for accuracy and consider sharing it through its business resources.
The village has not reviewed, approved, endorsed, or partnered on this checklist, and we have not completed any outreach yet.
Most of this website provides general information useful to small-business owners anywhere. Resources that serve a specific area—Wisconsin statewide or the Menomonee Falls area—are clearly labeled with their geographic scope on the Explore Funding page.
Research sources
- Federal Reserve — 2026 Report on Employer Firms (Small Business Credit Survey)
Source of the national findings on why businesses sought financing (2025 survey).
- Wisconsin Public Radio — Wisconsin small-business growth and funding barriers
Supports the general discussion of funding and financial-planning barriers in Wisconsin. It does not show that those barriers caused specific local business closures, and we do not claim that.
Official funding information sources
All funding descriptions on this site come from these official pages. Links checked October 2026.