for-profit businesses Archives - COVID-19 Handbook for the Creative Sector

Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Program

by US Small Business Association (SBA)

The Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program provides emergency assistance for eligible event and performance venues, opening for applications an April 5.

Type: funding-program
Topics: Facility & Venue Operations
Sector: Festival & Event Industry, Music Industry, Performing Arts Sector, Visual Arts Sector

Pandemic Relief Grants for Small Organizations

by ArtsWA

ArtsWA is pleased to offer general operating support to small non-profit and fiscally sponsored arts groups and organizations with a minimum one-year-history of providing continuous arts programming prior to pandemic mitigation mandates. Application Deadline: April 30, 2021.

Type: funding-program
Topics: Business Planning & Admin, Facility & Venue Operations, Relief Funding

Relief for Latinx Artists and Organizations

by National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures

NALAC will distribute $2,500 grants to Latinx artists and cultural workers and $5,000 grants to Latinx arts organizations facing critical financial emergencies. Western US Application Deadline is May 12, 2021.

Type: funding-program
Topics: Relief Funding

Legal and Capacity Building Resources

by Communities Rise

Communities Rise is providing a range of legal and capacity building resources and support to Washington based organizations and small businesses during the COVID-19 crisis.

Type: resource-directory, service-program
Topics: Advocacy & Organizing, Business Planning & Admin, Relief Services, Rent Housing Utilities

2021 Arts Resources Table

by Arts Action Fund

The table provides information on all of the new and expanded federal resources for artists and arts organizations as a result of the economic aid package enacted on December 27, 2020.

Type: tipsheet/factsheet
Topics: Business Planning & Admin, Facility & Venue Operations, Relief Funding, Relief Services, Unemployment

Free Learning Platform for Women Entrepreneurs

by US Small Business Administration

Ascent is a free learning platform for women entrepreneurs created by the SBA.

Type: service-program
Topics: Business Planning & Admin

Free PPE For Bars & Restaurants

by King County Department of Health

The SSTAR Program provides free COVID-19 protection supplies to bars and restaurants.

Type: service-program
Topics: Business Planning & Admin, Health & Wellness, Relief Services

New Economic Relief Funds for the Arts Webinar

by ArtsU

Two-part webinar series to cover arts funding opportunities via the “Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act” (Economic Aid Act).

Type: webinar/livestream
Topics: Advocacy & Organizing, Business Planning & Admin, Relief Funding

Federal Cultural Pandemic Relief Info

by Cultural Access WA

Inspiration League has a very useful breakdown of what the Pandemic Relief package looks like for the arts sector. Check back regularly for updated information.

Type: article/gallery, tipsheet/factsheet
Topics: Business Planning & Admin, Relief Funding

Federal Resources for U.S. Small Businesses

by Federal Resources for Small Businesses

The official federal resource website for U.S. small businesses affected by COVID-19 (Coronavirus).

Type: resource-directory
Topics: Business Planning & Admin, Relief Funding, Relief Services

Grant for Black Womxn and Non-binary Entrepreneurs

by SoGal

In addition to the $5K and $10K grants awarded monthly, SoGal Foundation has also partnered with Howard University to award (5) $2,000 cash grants to Howard University student entrepreneurs.

Type: funding-program
Topics: Business Planning & Admin, Learning & Development, Relief Funding

COVID-19 Business Resources

by Business Health Trust

This resource guide contains checklists, example policies and resources on where to get updates related to coronavirus as updates occur as well information about employee benefit programs.

Type: resource-directory, service-program
Topics: Business Planning & Admin, Health & Wellness, Relief Funding, Relief Services

Face Masks for Small Businesses

by Business Health Trust

We will provide 46,000 masks/face coverings to Washington businesses.

Type: service-program
Topics: Health & Wellness, Relief Services

Loan Support for Small Businesses

by Kiva

Expanded eligibility, larger loans, and grace period loans for U.S. Small Businesses.

Type: funding-program
Topics: Business Planning & Admin, Relief Funding

Business Playbook: Resources & Research

by Ascend Cities Playbook

This website provides valuable resources and insight from UW Consulting and Business Development Center on how to cope with and recover from COVID-19 in various industries.

Type: funding-program, resource-directory, service-program, webinar/livestream
Topics: Business Planning & Admin, Relief Services

Business Impact NW Resource Directory

by Business Impact NW

Business Impact NW Resource Directory with topics including but not limited to coaching, classes and access to capital to community small businesses, Bridge Loans, Paycheck Protection Program Loans, and more.

Type: funding-program, resource-directory, service-program
Topics: Business Planning & Admin, Relief Services

Comcast RISE

by Comcast RISE

Comcast RISE, a multi-year commitment to provide marketing, creative, media, and technology services to Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC)-owned small businesses.

Type: funding-program, service-program
Topics: Business Planning & Admin, Relief Funding, Relief Services

Executive Speaker Series: Road to Recovery – Arts & Culture

by Seattle Chamber

The Executive Speaker Series showcases the many economic sectors that are vital to the stability and growth of the Seattle metropolitan region. This webinar shares updated guidance for museum openings and virtual options from arts organizations.

Type: webinar/livestream
Topics: Business Planning & Admin, Facility & Venue Operations, Learning & Development

Shop Your Block

by Office of Economic Development

Shop Your Block connects you to local retail small businesses in Seattle. Use the retail map to search for retailers near you by business name, neighborhood name, or product keywords.

Type: resource-directory
Topics: Food & Shopping, Learning & Development

Economic Development COVID-19 Resource Guide

by Why Renton

Renton Economic Development Division COVID-19 Resource Guide.

Type: resource-directory
Topics: Business Planning & Admin, Relief Funding, Relief Services

Mental Health Funding for Front-Line Organizations

by The Upswing Fund

The Upswing Fund for Adolescent Mental Health is a collaborative fund that provides timely resources to organizations that focus on the mental health and well-being of adolescents who are of color and/or LGBTQ+ in the United States—populations that face urgent needs during the pandemic but too often lack access to the care they need.

Type: funding-program
Topics: Health & Wellness, Relief Funding

Small Business Requirements and Resources (SBRR) COVID-19 Impact Webinar

by Business WA Small Business Guidance

This two hour webinar provides an important overview of some of the state responses, resources and other impacts affecting small businesses.

Type: webinar/livestream
Topics: Business Planning & Admin, Facility & Venue Operations, Relief Services

WA Teaching Artist Training Lab

by Pacific Northwest Ballet

Are you a teaching artist or arts educator interested in deepening your skills and practice to provide effective arts-based education? The TAT Lab Core program is a 6-month professional development learning community that is based on the philosophy that reflective practice and thoughtful planning are essential to effective educational experiences.

Type: webinar/livestream
Topics: Business Planning & Admin, Learning & Development, Youth & Families

Foster/Law School partnership to offer free legal consults, negotiation training to BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and women small business owners

by University Of Washington Foster School Of Business

Helping BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and Women-Owned Small Businesses Survive and Thrive Post-COVID-19, free legal consults will be offered virtually every other Wednesday evening for the next few months.

Type: service-program
Topics: Business Planning & Admin

Financial Resources for Washington Residents Impacted by COVID-19

by Washington State Department of Financial Institutions

The Washington State Department of Financial Institutions has developed a list of financial resources for Washington consumers impacted by the Coronavirus.

Type: resource-directory
Topics: Business Planning & Admin, Relief Funding, Relief Services, Rent Housing Utilities, Unemployment

The Coronavirus Pivot: Customer Discovery Strategy for Your Business

by University Of Washington Foster School of Business Blog

This session will cover ways to look at serving customers in different ways -based on the business you have today. To survive and grow businesses will need to find new customers and new ways to reach customers. This workshop will present strategies to identify and win new customers and clients.

Type: webinar/livestream
Topics: Business Planning & Admin

Cash and Debt in Good and Bad Times

by University Of Washington Foster School of Business Blog

This workshop will explore how to maintain business liquidity over the next 12-24 months while the economy gradually re-opens.

Type: webinar/livestream
Topics: Business Planning & Admin

Negotiating with Employees, Vendors, and Other Business Partners

by University Of Washington Foster School of Business Blog

This workshop will help business owners to hone their negotiating skills on written and unwritten contracts ranging from employee sick leave to rent payments to landlords and from payments from corporate customers to loan terms with creditors.

Type: webinar/livestream
Topics: Business Planning & Admin

Business Resiliency Toolkit

by America's SBDC Washington

The Washington Small Business Development Center's Toolkit includes a guide, plan, recommended procedures and events for resiliency during emergencies such as COVID-19.

Type: resource-directory, webinar/livestream
Topics: Business Planning & Admin

Pulling Off a Million Dollar Virtual Event

by Ariel Glassman

This webinar takes the viewer on a guided tour of the CH CARES event and Campbell Hall’s transition to a virtual format. Topics include: tools and technology for streaming and fundraising; audience development and the event’s revenue model for the event; how we built momentum with our communications plan; and the construction of a compelling live-streamed program.

Type: webinar/livestream
Topics: Business Planning & Admin, Learning & Development

Audience/Target: for-profit businesses

by US Small Business Association (SBA)

by ArtsWA

by National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures

by Communities Rise

by Arts Action Fund

by US Small Business Administration

by King County Department of Health

by ArtsU

by Cultural Access WA

by Federal Resources for Small Businesses

by SoGal

by Business Health Trust

by Business Health Trust

by Kiva

by Ascend Cities Playbook

by Business Impact NW

by Comcast RISE

by Seattle Chamber

by Office of Economic Development

by Why Renton

by The Upswing Fund

by Business WA Small Business Guidance

by Pacific Northwest Ballet

by University Of Washington Foster School Of Business

by Washington State Department of Financial Institutions

by University Of Washington Foster School of Business Blog

by University Of Washington Foster School of Business Blog

by University Of Washington Foster School of Business Blog

by America's SBDC Washington

by Ariel Glassman

Covid-19 Handbook

for the creative sector

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