State of Wisconsin COVID Relief We’re All In Small Business Grant Information WEDC Launches ‘We’re All In’ grant initiative and will start accepting on-line applications on June 15th. The program will provide $2,500 grants to 30,000 small businesses. It is designed to help small businesses get back on their feet amid the COVID-19 pandemic while also encouraging them to adopt best practices to keep employees, customers and communities safe. Funded by the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and announced by Governor Evers on May 18 We're All In Announcement, the grants will help small businesses with the costs of business interruption or for health and safety improvements, wages and salaries, rent, mortgages and inventory.
A business may apply for the We’re All In Small Business Grant if it:
- Was in business in February 2020. Businesses that started in 2020 are not eligible;
- Is Wisconsin-based and for-profit;
- Employs 20 or fewer full-time equivalent (FTE) employees, including the owner; and
- Has more than $0 but less than $1 million in annual revenues.
Businesses will not be eligible for the grants if they are:
- Part of a national chain, unless the business is a third-party franchise;
- Industries covered by other Wisconsin CARES Act Coronavirus Relief Fund programs are ineligible for this program. These are:
- Crop Production
- Animal Production or Aquaculture
- Lessors of Residential Buildings and Dwellings (https://doa.wi.gov/Pages/LocalGovtsGrants/COVID-Grants.aspx)
To prepare for the online application process, businesses should be ready to upload the following documents to the WEDC application:
- 2018 or 2019 federal tax return for business. (If you started your business in 2020, you are not eligible for this grant.)
- Signed W-9 form available at https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-w-9
- An email or letter of acknowledgement from a community organization indicating your business was in operation in February 2020.
Please click here for more details. https://wedc.org/programs-and-resources/wai-small-business-grant/
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