On Tuesday, Noblesville Mayor Chris Jensen announced the 45 local establishments receiving of the second round of Noblesville Small Business Resilience Grants. The grant checks were distributed on Wednesday.
The grant was created to help small businesses and organizations with unmet immediate needs such as maintaining payroll, paying rent and utilities, paying for personal protective equipment and sanitation supplies, and covering other expenses to remain operational and serve customers and clients. Based on demonstrated need, the grants provided up to $10,000 per small business impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and $5,000 to local businesses who opened within the last year or received funding from the first round.
“COVID-19 continues to impact our local business and how they operate safely, which is why we offered a second round of grants,” Jensen said. “We want to make sure our local businesses have the tools they need to continue to keep our residents employed, to serve residents in the safest way possible, and to stay open for business.”
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The city’s small business grant program intends to help those businesses that may not be eligible for other assistance or that have immediate needs beyond that which can be met by other federal and state assistance programs.
“I encourage residents to continue to support local businesses and if you are looking for places to support, I recommend our cityofnoblesville.org/LoveNoblesville website, which has a business services database and other resources,” Jensen said. “Together we can fight this pandemic and come out the other side stronger than ever.”