The City of Bay City announces the 2022 Small Business Relief Grant Program. This grant program focuses on assisting small businesses that have been negatively impacted and continue to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Donor Name: City of Bay City
State: Michigan
City: Bay City
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 01/21/2022
Size of the Grant: $5,000 – $10,000
Details:
ARPA COVID-19 2022 SMALL BUSINESS RELIEF GRANT PROGRAM- The City of Bay City is launching the ARPA COVID-19 2022 Small Business Relief Grant Program to assist local small businesses recovering from the adverse economic impacts resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and associated Executive Orders, in particular, those most disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. The primary objective of the program is to provide assistance to small businesses to adopt safer operating procedures, weather periods of closure, and mitigate financial hardship resulting from the COVID-19 public health emergency.
Funding Information
This program is targeted to help businesses with less than 20 employees with COVID-19 related expenses and allows for grants up to $5,000 for businesses with 1-10 employees, and up to $10,000 for businesses with 11-20 employees.
Eligibility Criteria
- For-profit business located in City of Bay City jurisdictional boundary
- Business employees twenty (20) or less employees, including owner
- The applicant is 51% + majority owner of business
- The owner is 18 years or older
- Owner has or will have a valid SS #, EIN, Business Bank Account
- Owner/Applicant is not currently in bankruptcy
- Owner/Applicant is current with property taxes and City fees or has a payment plan in place with County and/or City as of January 21, 2022
- The business has or will have active liability insurance within 30 days
- Satisfied deliverables of other City-based funding requests (as applicable)
- Businesses and/or applicants must be current on terms of existing City financial assistance products as of January 21, 2022
- Not have a conflict of interest with the City of Bay City.
For more information, visit 2022 Small Business Relief Grant Program.