{"id":12711,"date":"2020-08-19T17:31:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T22:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=12711"},"modified":"2020-08-19T17:31:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T22:31:50","slug":"bergen-county-cares-small-business-grant-program-open-for-second-time-thru-friday-august-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/bergen-county-cares-small-business-grant-program-open-for-second-time-thru-friday-august-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Bergen County Cares small business grant program open for second time thru Friday, August 21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>19 August 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HACKENSACK, NJ \u2013 Due to the success of the Bergen County CARES Small Business Grant Program for non-essential Bergen County businesses, Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco has extended the program and reopened the application portal for an additional week so that eligible business owners who missed the first opportunity can now apply. The application portal, which can be found at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bergencountycares.org\/\"> BergenCountyCares.org<\/a>, reopened Thursday, August 13\u00a0and will close Friday, August 21\u00a0at 5p.m. The Bergen County CARES grant program was established to help provide relief to small businesses straddled with expenses related to COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like before, businesses deemed \u201cnon-essential\u201d per the Governor\u2019s Executive Orders and forced to close as a measure to stop the spread of COVID-19 are eligible to receive up to $10,000 in financial relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To qualify for the Bergen County CARES Small Business Grant Program businesses must fall under the following criteria:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Businesses must have a physical location in Bergen County, NJ. This includes home-based businesses.<\/li><li>Businesses must have been deemed \u201cnon-essential\u201d within the classification of \u201cBusinesses Required to Close\u201d as per the Governor\u2019s Executive Order No. 104, dated March 16, 2020.<\/li><li>Only businesses with 1 \u2013 19 full-time employees qualify.<\/li><li>Sole-proprietorships; LLCs; LLPs; Corporations; and S-Corporations are eligible.<\/li><li>Businesses must have been open and operating on March 1, 2020.<\/li><li>Businesses owned by county employees and elected officials, as well as their immediate families, are not eligible.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Priority is given to businesses that have not received any Federal grant assistance, New Jersey Economic Development Authority or US Small Business Administration grants or other grant assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBy extending the program and reopening the portal with the same criteria as before, those non-essential businesses that didn\u2019t have the opportunity to apply can now do so,\u201d\u00a0said Bergen County Executive Tedesco.\u00a0\u201cI am also happy to announce that starting August 31, Bergen County essential businesses that meet the same criteria as non-essential businesses will be eligible to apply for financial relief up to $10,000 and can submit applications and be part of the small business grant program too.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Tedesco added that more details on the grant program for essential businesses will follow soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe know that all our businesses in Bergen County are struggling to survive. Their livelihood is essential to us, and we encourage them to apply for the financial relief we are able to provide,\u201d\u00a0said Bergen County Freeholder Chairwoman Mary Amoroso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bergen County CARES Small Business Grant Program is funded through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act Federal relief fund. All administrative questions can be sent to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:BergenCountyCares@co.bergen.nj.us\">BergenCountyCares@co.bergen.nj.us<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bergen County Cares small business grant program open for second time thru Friday, August 21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,2798,282,1787,469],"tags":[2799,2800,470],"class_list":["post-12711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-covid","category-help","category-in-nj","category-small-biz","tag-bergen-cpunty","tag-grant","tag-small-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12712,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12711\/revisions\/12712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}