St. George Small Business Development Center

Please take a look at our new Workforce Trainings (formerly Fast TraX) that will be offered in the next few months! We'd love to invite you all to join in on the classes, or share this info with someone that may be interested! Remember, this list is updating frequently (keep you eye on our website), and we can custom make training for any industry professional who is in need.

Please click on the link for the classes offered:

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St. George Small Business Development Center updated their website address.

⏰ This Weds! 🎈 Roadshow, Ribbon Cutting, Len's Farewell 🌟 - https://mailchi.mp/0744190b6bfe/sg-sbdc-celebrate-roadshow-ribbon-cutting-lens-farewell-14977692

SG SBDC 🍰 CELEBRATE! 🎈 Roadshow, Ribbon Cutting, Len's Farewell🌟 - https://mailchi.mp/7912ac409db6/sg-sbdc-celebrate-roadshow-ribbon-cutting-lens-farewell

Small Businesses in Utah 2020. What a year! Watch this inspiring short video to see how the SBDC's in Utah helped local companies survive... and thrive!

Come see what the St. George SBDC can do for you. Always confidential, no-cost, professional consultation.

https://vimeo.com/601556732

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SG SBDC ⏰ EVENTS & 🎯 RESOURCES - LATEST NEWSLETTER!

Click Here: https://mailchi.mp/8a82b10aea9d/sg-sbdc-events-resources

📢 Sign up for a FAST TRAX Class at Dixie Tech!

🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️Open to everyone, FastTraX Training classes develop professional and industry skills in a quick timeframe. Course completers receive a Recognition of Training certificate.

Click here to register! https://portal.dixietech.edu/Portal/Courses or email [email protected] for more info. 📞 You can even connect and request a class ✅

🛡️ PPP LOANS 🛡️ Program borrowers: Did you take out a loan of $150,000 or less? You may be eligible to apply for direct loan forgiveness through SBA's online portal!

▶️ Find out if your lender is participating and apply for forgiveness.

https://twitter.com/SBAgov/status/1427286526292021252?s=20

SBA on Twitter “🛡️ Program borrowers: Did you take out a loan of $150,000 or less? You may be eligible to apply for direct loan forgiveness through SBA's online portal! ▶️ Find out if your lender is participating and apply for forgiveness: https://t.co/KNKifREG6t https://t.co/I2zroIK...

When disasters strike ⚡🔥🌀, SBA disaster assistance can help your business rebuild and recover 🔧🔨

This includes recent flash flooding, drought, and COVID. Come and talk to our consultants to see if your business qualifies for low cost loans. As always, no charge and confidential.

https://twitter.com/SBAgov/status/1419687905572839433

SBA on Twitter “When disasters strike 🔥🌀🌪️⛈️, SBA disaster assistance can help your business rebuild and recover 🛠️ ▶️ Learn how to apply: https://t.co/LM4fnIHXC0 https://t.co/57JBr4TxDM”

⏰ REMINDER! Deadline for 🍔🍷🥣 Restaurant Revitalization Fund grant is TODAY at 6 PM MT. Apply now!
INFO: sba.gov/restaurants
PORTAL: https://restaurants.sba.gov/requests/borrower/login/?next=/

𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆! SBA will begin accepting applications through the application portal starting at 12pm ET. The application portal will remain open to any eligible establishment until all funds are exhausted.

https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid-19-relief-options/restaurant-revitalization-fund

🍴🍷🍕 Restaurant Revitalization Fund Grant - REGISTER NOW! - https://mailchi.mp/53a9e4ab6721/restaurant-revitalization-fund-grant-register-now

🛡️ PaycheckProtection Program loan
📝 Economic Injury Disaster Loan
🎟️ Shuttered Venue Operators Grant
🍽️ Restaurant Revitalization Fund

Find out criteria must be met when considering to apply for different pandemic relief options:
https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid-19-relief-options/cross-program-eligibility-sba-covid-19-relief-options

As always, St. George SBDC is ready to help at no cost, with full confidentiality. Taking care of business.

St. George Small Business Development Center updated their info in the about section.

🥗 Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF) 🥂
⏰ Webinar Trainings ⏰
The U.S. Small Business Administration will host two webinars:
* Tuesday, April 27
* Wednesday, April 28

It will cover the Restaurant Revitalization Fund program details and how to submit an application. (For restaurants, food trucks, mobile food carts, caterers, bars, snack bars, bakeries, brewpubs, wineries/distilleries, inns, etc.)

The webinars are limited to the first 20,000 registrants, however, both will be recorded and later posted on SBA's YouTube channel.

Register for one of the webinars below.

Tuesday, April 27 | 2:30 p.m. EDT
Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sba-restaurant-revitalization-fund-application-portal-training-registration-152174027613?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

Wednesday, April 28 | 2:30 p.m. EDT
Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sba-restaurant-revitalization-fund-application-portal-training-registration-152284048689?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

The webinar will cover:
- Program details
- Supplemental documents
- Application process
- Who can apply
- How to apply
- When to apply
- Set asides
- Funding amount
- Allowable use of funds

For more information about the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, visit sba.gov/restaurants

💰 NEW EIDL LOAN! "Supplemental Targeted Advance"

The Supplemental Targeted Advance provides the smallest and hardest hit eligible businesses with a supplemental payment of $5,000 that does *not* have to be repaid. Even if you have previously received the original EIDL Advance in the full amount of $10,000, you may be eligible for the Supplemental Targeted Advance if you meet eligibility criteria. The combined amount of the Supplemental Targeted Advance ($5,000) with any previously received EIDL Advance or Targeted EIDL Advance ($10,000) will not exceed $15,000.

Completing the Targeted EIDL Advance application is a requirement to be considered for the Supplemental Targeted Advance, and SBA is reaching out directly to those who may qualify.

Before applying, make sure your small business meets all the following eligibility criteria:

* Is located in a low-income community. Use this mapping tool ( https://sbaeidl.policymap.com/newmaps #/) to see if your business is in a low-income community as defined in section 45D(e) of the Internal Revenue Code. The business address must be in a low-income community to qualify, so SBA encourages you to check the map before you apply; and

* Can prove more than a 50% economic loss during an eight-week period beginning on March 2, 2020, or later, compared to the same period of the previous year. Applicants need to provide gross monthly revenue (all forms of combined monthly earnings received, such as profits or salaries) from January 2019 to the current month-to-date; and

* Has 10 or fewer employees. This includes sole proprietors, independent contractors, private nonprofit organizations, and others that usually qualify for the EIDL program. (However, agricultural businesses, such as farmers and ranchers, are not eligible for the Supplemental Targeted Advance. Farmers and ranchers may still apply for loan assistance through the COVID-19 EIDL program.)

NOTE! All application decisions or requests for additional information will be sent from an official government email account ending with .gov. Do not send sensitive information via email to any address that does not end with .gov.

All application decisions will be communicated via email. If approved, you will receive an email notification and a direct ACH deposit to the bank account provided in your original application for the Targeted EIDL Advance

SVOG PORTAL NOW OPEN!
Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Program
The application portal reopened today, Mon April 26, at 10 a.m. MDT.

https://www.svograntportal.sba.gov/s/

⏰ PORTAL OPENING! 🎥 🎼 Shuttered Venue Operators Grant SVOG - https://mailchi.mp/d2e5e286ecd1/portal-openingshuttered-venue-operators-grant-svog

📢 ALL the COVID-19 Relief Updates ~ State & Federal - https://mailchi.mp/edb91c3472fa/all-the-covid-19-relief-updates-state-federal

APR 20 ZOOM 💃 Shuttered Venue & 🍲 Restaurant Revitalization 💰 - https://mailchi.mp/74da4dafe2c1/shuttered-venue-restaurant-revitalizationupdates

LAST DAY! ⏰ Register for Social Media & Web Design - https://mailchi.mp/d0edd3f0ac9f/last-day-register-for-social-media-web-design

It's April! 🌷🌻And taxes are on the mind of small businesses owners everywhere. 💸 ✏️ Here is a link to the IRS online "Small Business Tax Workshop." Eight modules lead you through: Federal Taxes, Schedule C, Electronic Filing, Home Office, Employment & Payroll... and more. Online. No Charge. (MAY 17 is the extended deadline for taxes, ICYMI)
https://www.irsvideos.gov/Business/SBTW

JUST IN! ⏰ Updates on Loans & Grants 💰 PPP, EIDL, & SVOG - https://mailchi.mp/155fc433324e/just-in-updates-on-loans-grants-ppp-eidl-svog

The State of the 50+ Entrepreneur
Virtual Webinar
*Tomorrow*
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
12:00 PM-2:30 PM (MDT)

Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 30, the New York Fed in partnership with the AARP, will host a virtual event titled The State of the 50+ Entrepreneur. This event will bring together thought leaders, researchers, and policymakers, to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on older business owners and their firms, and what might be done to help their recovery.

During this webinar, Claire Kramer Mills, Ph.D., Assistant Vice President and Director, Community Development Analysis, of the New York Fed will present and discuss a new report that examines the state of older business owners and their firms, as well as challenges they have faced historically and amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

In addition, New York Fed President and CEO John Williams will participate in a moderated discussion with Nancy LeaMond, Executive Vice President and Chief Advocacy and Engagement Officer at AARP. The discussion, titled The Role Small Business Plays in Building Financial Resilience for the 50+, will be moderated by Nancy Marshall-Genzer, senior reporter at NPR Marketplace.

Click here to register and learn more:
https://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/events/regional_outreach/2021/0330-2021

💰 EIDL LOANS EXPANSION UPDATE! 😮
SBA is boosting the limits of "Economic Injury Disaster" (EIDL) Loans small businesses and nonprofits can borrow. *** More than TRIPLING the maximum amount eligible (from $150,000 to $500,000) + *** expanding the timeframe from 6-months of economic injury to 24-MONTHS. See the full details: ⚡

https://www.sba.gov/article/2021/mar/24/sba-increase-lending-limit-covid-19-economic-injury-disaster-loans

SVOC - Shuttered Venue Operators Grant WEBINAR - https://mailchi.mp/4e74cd971d51/svoc-shuttered-venue-operators-grant-webinar

SVOC - Shuttered Venue Operators Grant WEBINAR

March 17th is National "Best Kept Secret" Day, Business Classes, 8(a) Panel - https://mailchi.mp/85cf932d1bd5/march-17th-is-national-best-kept-secret-day

Today, we show some love 💙 for & the nearly 1,000 Small Business Development Centers across America. These SBA resource partners provide free training & counseling to owners & aspiring entrepreneurs.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1372177885985976329 (click for video)

SBA on Twitter “Happy ! 🥳 Today, we show some love 💙 for & the nearly 1,000 Small Business Development Centers across America. These SBA resource partners provide free training & counseling to owners & aspiring entrepreneurs. ▶️ Learn more: https://t.co/WO3eiIapxY h...

Women in Business - Scale New Heights!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1371918875323928577

SBA on Twitter “ ! 👩‍💻👩‍💼👷‍♀️👩‍⚕️👩‍🏭 Scale new heights 🏔️ with Ascent, our 🆓 online learning platform for entrepreneurs like you! 👉 Try it out: https://t.co/1MisR4M21Y https://t.co/ASKaH3CGXs”

WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES - Free Training from the SBA

Women own or co-own 45% of all businesses in the United States. These businesses represent all types of industries and are owned by all types of women. The majority are small, with great potential for growth in both revenues and job creation. That’s why we created Ascent and packed it with in-depth information to help you grow your business.

https://ascent.sba.gov/

ascent.sba.gov