The City of Scranton is seeking grant applications for its Small Business Recovery Grant Program.
Donor Name: City of Scranton
State: Pennsylvania
City: Scranton
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/15/2023
Size of the Grant: Up to $25,000
Details:
To be eligible, capital expenditures must be detailed in the application and must directly respond to the pandemic, and be proportional to the demonstrated impact. They must also serve or provide benefits to City residents.
Funding Information
- Amount of Funding Available for Subrecipient Award: $3,000,000 total, shared with wage supplement grants depending on the number of applications received
- Award Amounts Available: Up to $25,000 or to an amount of need that may be clearly demonstrated by applicants.
Uses of funds
Funding may be applied for and used to support eligible small businesses impacted by the pandemic to mitigate financial hardships including, but not limited to:
- decreased revenue or gross receipts
- increased costs
- financial insecurity
- capacity to withstand future financial hardship
- challenges covering other costs
- ability to retain employees
- mortgage, rent or utilities, and other operating costs
- mitigation for social distancing, cleaning, barriers, and other health and safety investment/upgrades
Eligibility Criteria
Below are additional eligibility requirements that all small business applicants must meet for this program:
- Business is a “for-profit” business
- Must have 50 or fewer full-time and/or part-time employees
- Business must be physically located within the City of Scranton.
- Business is licensed to do business, in the state of Pennsylvania
- Must be registered and in good standing with the City single tax office as well as current with local taxes and trash fees
- Must not have any unpaid code enforcement liens or violations of any state, federal or local laws
- Must be current on all taxes including payroll, sales, unemployment, property, state, and federal
- No business owners, including all managing members and/or officers, have been convicted of financial crimes within the past three years.
- Provide proof of insurance to the satisfaction of the City prior to the receipt of any funding.
- The applicant has not received alternate Federal or State grant funding to cover these same costs and/or uses.
- The business is not a publicly traded company
- The business is not a franchise
For more information, visit City of Scranton.
