New funding is available through Cumberland County Community Development under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program to assist businesses affected by, or interested in helping address the effects of, COVID-19.
Applications are due May 11 at 4pm!
CDBG funding can be used to:
- Provide grants or loans to support new businesses or business expansion to create jobs and manufacture medical supplies necessary to respond to infectious disease.
- Avoid job loss caused by business closures related to social distancing by providing short-term working capital assistance to small businesses to enable retention of jobs held by low- and moderate-income persons.
- Provision of assistance to microenterprises. See section 105(a)(22) (42 U.S.C. 5305(a)(22)); 24 CFR 570.201(o).
- Provide technical assistance, grants, loans, and other financial assistance to establish, stabilize, and expand microenterprises that provide medical, food delivery, cleaning, and other services to support home health and quarantine.
For more information see http://www.cumberlandcounty.org/168/Applicant-Information.
