Good morning, Paul! Discovering success in entrepreneurship is a tricky highway, as everyone knows, however underneath the present circumstances in 2022 issues appear to be getting harder by the day. Whether or not it’s coming off the pandemic and attempting to get your ft again on the bottom that’s supplying you with bother or maybe it’s inflation or provide chain points, and the quite a few different points, small companies are dealing with at present. So we want all the assistance we will get.
One place to search out it: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Basis, together with founding sponsor FedEx, at present introduced the launch of the Small Enterprise Readiness for Resilience program. And that program is meant to offer monetary help to small enterprise homeowners impacted by a pure catastrophe. Now this program will distribute roughly 400 grants to eligible small companies over the following 4 years. And whereas small companies function the spine of native economies, they’re simply merely extra weak and extra more likely to fail than bigger enterprises when hit by challenges like pure disasters. They’re simply not as resilient. So applications like this one develop into extremely vital and a pure catastrophe on high of the havoc wreaked by the pandemic. Properly, that might spell doom for a lot of U.S. small companies.
Rob Glenn, vice-president of world resilience on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Basis, factors out that small companies make use of practically 50% of the U.S. workforce so it is a actually vital program to get behind.
“We’re proud to work with FedEx,” he says, “to assist small enterprise homeowners to construct better resiliency.”
If you wish to get what you are promoting on the listing of small companies that might qualify to obtain these grants, go to uschamberfoundation.org. Small enterprise grants generally is a lifeline that’s the distinction between devastating failure and survival. Be sure you make it some extent to use to this and different grant applications. We’ll do our greatest to maintain you posted of all new applications being introduced of great relevancy to our U.S. small enterprise homeowners.
I’m Jeff Sloan, founder and CEO of startupnation.com, and that’s at present’s Enterprise Beat on the Nice Voice of the Nice Lakes, WJR.
