Selection Criteria:

Applicants must first confirm, based on their zip code, that their primary physical location is within a Distressed Community.

Grant Selection Criteria:

Applicants must then complete an application form (“Application”), which requests:

• Information about your business:
• Your full name;
• The full name(s) of the business owner(s);
• Name of business (must match exactly the name associated with the Employee Identification Number “EIN”);
• Website;
• Email address;
• Phone number;
• Physical address;
• Mailing address (if different from physical address);
• Industry; and
• Number of employees, including business owner(s) (full time or part time; do not include contractors who receive a 1099);
• W-9 Form

Narrative questions:

• How you will use the grant; and
• Any other information about your business or the challenges it has faced.

• Certification that your business does not have sufficient assets, insurance, or other resources to recover from losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic;
• Certification that your responses to the questions are truthful to the best of your knowledge and that you are prepared to provide supporting documents.
• Certify that it will not use the Grant funds to engage in lobbying or political activities;

Grant Selection and Notification Process Process:

Grants will be awarded weekly, on a rolling basis, based on available funds. Grant Award Recipients will be informed within two business days of the decision to award the Grant. Qualified Applications that are not granted funds on any given week will be kept in consideration for following weeks, with the same criteria applying until funds are exhausted.

Grants will be paid by the following process:

• Applicants will be notified via mail that they have been selected as a grantee. They will receive a link to the payment partner.
• Grantees will be asked to enter EIN and email address for verification.
• Grantees will select payment methods from the following: a). Direct Deposit – grantee will enter bank name, routing number and bank account, and will need to upload a copy of a voided check or a deposit slip for the account, showing the name of the business. b) Email address must be the same email affiliated with the application. Check will be issued to the business’s name. c) Mail – grantee will enter mailing address. Mailing addresses may be different from business addresses. Check will be issued to the business’s name.
• Grantee will upload the business’s W-9
• Grantees will sign certification that the information submitted is accurate. Depending on the disbursement method selected, payment will be made within 3-7 business days.

General Rules:

All applications must be submitted online. Only those applications submitted through the online application process will be accepted. Applications received by any other means will not be considered. No application can be individually acknowledged, returned or withdrawn after submission.