{"id":4728,"date":"2020-12-03T22:44:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T06:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/?p=4728"},"modified":"2020-12-03T22:44:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T06:44:40","slug":"small-business-relief-funds-application-dec-3-to-dec-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/small-business-relief-funds-application-dec-3-to-dec-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Business Relief Funds Application &#8211; Dec 3 to Dec 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-content\/uploads\/Covid-Grant.png?resize=320%2C184&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Emergency Covid Funds\" class=\"wp-image-4727\" width=\"320\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-content\/uploads\/Covid-Grant.png?resize=640%2C368&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-content\/uploads\/Covid-Grant.png?resize=300%2C173&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-content\/uploads\/Covid-Grant.png?resize=150%2C86&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-content\/uploads\/Covid-Grant.png?w=751&amp;ssl=1 751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From Lane County:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have some exciting updates regarding COVID-19 relief funds for small businesses that Lane County will be distributing!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The application will be available\u00a0starting at 5:00 p.m. tonight, December 3, and remain open\u00a0through Sunday, December 13.\u00a0The application will be available through Community LendingWorks at <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/smex12-5-en-ctp.trendmicro.com\/wis\/clicktime\/v1\/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fcommunitylendingworks.org%2femergency%2dgrants%2f&amp;umid=010c777e-b80d-4bca-8eaf-86e249c6b2cd&amp;auth=a2ef00019b10a93e5233604a492ab3229159862a-dc9495fcd21f83a28c7bfd7446d59177e08802ee\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>communitylendingworks.org\/emergency-grants\/<\/strong><\/a><strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>The application will be streamlined to take businesses approximately<strong>\u00a05 minutes to complete<\/strong>\u00a0online and will be managed by Community LendingWorks.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the application period closes, there will be a\u00a0<strong>two-phase lottery system<\/strong>\u00a0to ensure an equitable and fair distribution. Grants will be distributed in the following amounts, based on number of Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) employees:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Grant Amounts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sole proprietor\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $7,500<br>1-5 FTE\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $15,000<br>6-15 FTE\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $20,000<br>16-25 FTE\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $25,000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>General Eligibility Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The business was adversely affected in either one of the following two ways:<ol type=\"1\" start=\"1\"><li>The business was prohibited from operating as directed by Executive Orders 20-12 or 20-65; or<\/li><li>The business can demonstrate a one-month decline in sales of 25% or more, incurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, between March 1, 2020 and November 30, 2020, as compared against the same period of time in 2019.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol><\/li><li>Be located within Lane County, is headquartered in Oregon and has its principal operations in Oregon.<\/li><li>If required by Oregon law to be registered with the Oregon Secretary of State to do business in Oregon, the business is so registered<\/li><li>Businesses who have received federal dollars, through the Paycheck Protection Program or the Economic Injury Disaster Loan, are able to apply for and receive these grant funds<\/li><li>501(c)(3) Nonprofits are eligible<\/li><li>501(c)(6) entities are NOT eligible<\/li><li>The business had 25 Full-Time Employees (FTE) or less, as of December 31, 2019<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Lottery for Priority-Eligible Businesses, 75% of funding ($2,744,317)<\/strong><br>Includes businesses who meet the General Eligibility requirements above\u00a0<em>AND<\/em>\u00a0any of the following criteria:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Those businesses in the tourism, hospitality, and event sectors including (defined as restaurants, bars, wineries, breweries, lodging, caterers, and event rental companies)<\/li><li>Those that had to close due to either of the Governor\u2019s ordered Freezes (gyms\/fitness, indoor recreation, museums, indoor\/outdoor entertainment, indoor\/outdoor pools, sports courts, event venues, zoos, gardens, aquariums)&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Businesses that identify as women-owned, service-disabled, veteran-ownership, or minority-owned of 51% or more<\/li><li>Rural businesses<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0Lottery, 25% of funding ($914,772)<\/strong><br>Businesses must meet the General Eligibility requirements above. Any priority-eligible businesses who are not selected in the 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0lottery will be included in this lottery as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Community LendingWorks anticipates that businesses will receive funds the last week of December through mid-January.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Lane County: We have some exciting updates regarding COVID-19 relief funds for small businesses that Lane County will be distributing!\u00a0 The application will be available\u00a0starting at 5:00 p.m. tonight, December 3, and remain open\u00a0through Sunday, December 13.\u00a0The application will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/small-business-relief-funds-application-dec-3-to-dec-10\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4733,"href":"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions\/4733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santaclaracommunity.org\/scco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}