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COVID-19 RESOURCES
The most important information you need to know right now about the Federal Coronavirus Relief Bill (CARES Act), which will support small businesses through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and through an expanded form of SBA’s Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDLs).
Facebook $100M Small Business Grants Program – $100M in cash and ad credits |
U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship’s Guide to the CARES Act |
PPP Extension & Increased Flexibility: Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020 & Other Updates |
Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Updated January 11th, 2021 |
Verizon Small Business Recovery Fund (focus on entrepreneurs of color, women-owned businesses and other enterprises in historically under-served communities) – increased by $2.5M to $7.5M |
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Small Business Grant (via $1M grant from Sam’s Club) |
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Save Small Business Fund ($5000 grants) |
Opportunity Fund (specializes in money lending to small businesses owned by women, immigrants, and people of color): Assistance for Small Business Owners Affected by COVID-19 |
Hello Alice’s Business for All Grant: grants up to $50,000 to support business growth, including $10,000 emergency COVID-19 grants to help small businesses in crisis |
The HELM: Your Complete Guide to Emergency Funding: Everything Female Founders Need to Know |
Lioness Magazine: COVID-19 Resources For Entrepreneurs |
Tools & Resources
- Deck Development Guides from corporate storyteller Donna Griffit
- Founders for Change Diverse Investors List
- Forbes’s Midas List
- Launching for Revenue Guides & Worksheets from the Amazon best-seller by Jennifer LeBlanc
- Women 2.0 Book List
- Where Startup Funding Really Comes From (Infographic)
Know Your Numbers
Groups & Networks
- Changing Tides Movement on Facebook
- Founders for Change
- Female Founders Community on Facebook
- Female Founders Unite on Facebook
- Female Founder Office Hours
- Google Launchpad
- Guild
- Hello Alice
- Lean In Circles
- NAWBO
- UPWARD chapters across the U.S.
- Watermark (San Francisco Bay Area)
- Women in Technology International (WITI)
- Women’s Startup Lab