The Mayor and City Council has authorized the City to provide up to 50 small businesses located in the city limits with $5,000 in business assistance awards using funds the City received as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, known as ARPA. This program is limited to small businesses, only with a maximum of 25 full-time employees.
Préstamos de emergencia COVID-19
A medida que evolucionan los desarrollos en respuesta a la propagación de COVID-19, sabemos que muchas pequeñas empresas tienen preguntas sobre las implicaciones dentro del lugar de trabajo, y las opciones de financiación que ayuden a impulsar sus negocios durante este momento difícil. Ofrecemos consejos, recursos e información sobre nuevas oportunidades de financiación y desarrollos de políticas que compartiremos en nuestro sitio web y a través de presentaciones en línea. Estaremos publicando actualizaciones diarias en ésta página con información útil sobre las formas en que las pequeñas empresas pueden prepararse para el impacto de COVID-19 en sus negocios y en sus comunidades.
City of Conyers
Conyers Georgia Small Business Grant
Area served: Conyers, Georgia Audience: Small Business Owners
City of Orlando
Business Assistance Program
The Business Assistance Program (BAP) is a matching grant program designed to encourage small businesses to locate, expand or redevelop in the City of Orlando. The program requires eligible business owners to pay 50 percent of the fees assessed against the business, while the program fund pays the remaining 50 percent up to $20,000.
Area served: Orlando, Florida Audience: Small Business Owners
Riverside County Economic Development
Riverside County ReStart Loan Program
The County of Riverside and Ampac Business Capital are partnering to provide emergency and ongoing capital for small businesses in Riverside. Loans may be given for $15,000 to $30,000.
Area served: Riverside County, California Audience: Small Business Owners
California Office of the Small Business Advocate
California Small Agricultural Business Drought & Flood Relief Grant Program
The California Small Agricultural Business Drought & Flood Relief Grant Program will provide relief to small agricultural businesses that experienced a decline in annual gross receipts or gross profits due to drought or flood conditions. Group 3 will be allocated to qualified small agricultural businesses that do not file their 2022 tax returns until 2024.
Area served: California Audience: Small Business Owners
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Louisiana
Hispanic Owned Business Grant - Louisiana
The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Louisiana (HCCL) and Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation (HCCF) in partnership with Entergy are thrilled to announce a dedicated fund to award Hispanic Owned Businesses disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters with grants that will assist them to offset the losses and move forward. Grants are $2,500 - first come, first served.
Area served: Louisiana Audience: Small Business Owners
Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA)
San Francisco Women's Entrepreneurship Fund
The The San Francisco Women’s Entrepreneurship Fund provides mini-grants of up to $5,000 to San Francisco women-owned small businesses for projects and upgrades that will have a transformative impact on the business’ ability to grow. The Fund is established to improve the small business environment for women entrepreneurs in San Francisco and encourage collaboration between women entrepreneurs and local technical assistance providers.
Area served: San Francisco, California Audience: Small Business Owners
Black Cooperative Investment Fund
Black Cooperative Investment Fund
Black Cooperative Impact Fund (BCIF) is a 501(c)3, community-based organization that provides zero-interest microloans to the Black business community with a specific focus on communities in the Southern California region. Their vision is to provide a dedicated, reliable, and perpetual source of capital to create assets and build wealth for, and within, the Black community, while also serving as a catalytic force for building a critical mass movement of change based on economic imperatives.
Area served: Southern California, California Audience: Small Business Owners
City of Long Beach
Microenterprise Loan Program
The Microenterprise Loan Program is designed to support Long Beach small businesses with loans between $25,000 to $100,000 available. To schedule a meeting to learn more about this program, please contact the City's BizCare Hotline at 562-570-4249.
Area served: Long Beach, California Audience: Small Business Owners
Maryland Department of Commerce
ExportMD Program
Maryland companies that receive an ExportMD Award are eligible for up to $5,000 in reimbursement for expenses associated with an international marketing project. Applications due first of each month.
Area served: Maryland Audience: Small Business Owners
Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development
The Kentucky Small Business Tax Credit Program (KSBTC)
The Kentucky Small Business Tax Credit program offers between $3,500 and $25,000 per year for small businesses that have hired and sustained at least one new job in the last year and/or purchased at least $5,000 in qualifying equipment or technology. The new employee must have been on the payroll for at least one year and earn at least $10.88/hour.
Area served: Kentucky Audience: Small Business Owners