For several years, Lanie has volunteered to play the piano and sing at a local nursing home. Now, Lanie has decided to get into the growing eldercare market. She created Music and Memories, a nonprofit corporation that would hire local talent to perform her own music productions directed toward this market. In order to write and produce several productions each year, Lanie needed start-up funds. An instructor at the local community college suggested that she begin by , because this effort would help introduce her idea to interested investors as well as suggest government grant applications that Lanie might pursue.