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Grants for northern Michigan small business relief from COVID-19 to begin in April


Grants for small businesses with nine or fewer full-time employees recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic will again be available through the Regional Resiliency Program (RRP) administered by Venture North Funding and Development. (WPBN)
Grants for small businesses with nine or fewer full-time employees recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic will again be available through the Regional Resiliency Program (RRP) administered by Venture North Funding and Development. (WPBN)
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NORTHERN MICHIGAN (WPBN/WGTU) -- Grants for small businesses with nine or fewer full-time employees recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic will again be available through the Regional Resiliency Program (RRP) administered by Venture North Funding and Development.

“Just as we see signs of progress, the challenges of COVID-19 continue. The comeback will be a long haul for many small businesses that lost revenues, margins, cash reserves, customers and employees,” said Laura Galbraith, President of Venture North. “The cost of losing a business in our rural communities is immense. We estimate there are 17,000 small businesses with nine or fewer employees in our ten-county region. We know many have not benefited from the Federal stimulus. With the guidance of local leaders, we want to allocate Resiliency grants and technical support to small enterprises that are the heartbeat of northwest Michigan’s communities.”

RRP grants will be available in the ten-county Venture North region: Antrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Leelanau, Manistee, Missaukee and Wexford Counties. In 2020, the Regional Resiliency Program made 200 grants in the Venture North region with over $500,000 donated or awarded to the program.

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