• Depending on the area of the business, the local Small Business Administration can be contacted to find out about potential assistance.
• The federal Paycheck Protection program allows small businesses to take out loans of up to $10 million. These loans can be forgiven "if a business maintains its payroll for eight weeks at employees’ regular salary levels and uses the loan proceeds for qualifying purposes". A list of banks that are accepting Paycheck Protection applications can be found here.
• Facebook is offering a grant to many small businesses. They have $100 million worth of grants in total and the number of accepted businesses has not been disclosed. Information can be found here.
• Google is offering funding in the form of Google ad credits. No sign-up is required, the credits are automatically added to Google Ads business accounts.
• Alice and Verizon have partnered to offer emergency COVID-19 business grants of up to $10,000.
• Salesforce is offering qualifying businesses a $10,000 grant to help them during the pandemic. Aside from being impacted by COVID-19, the requirements include being a for-profit company, having between two and fifty employees, being in business at least two years, and having between $250,000 and $2 million in revenue.

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