In the News

• Oct 22, 2020 - Governor Baker establishes new $50M grant fund to help struggling small businesses

• Oct 20, 2020 - Amherst Small Business COVID Recovery Grants Program - The town of Amherst has been awarded federal funds through the CARES Act to support local small businesses hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Oct 20, 2020 - Regional Small Business COVID Recovery Grants Program - The Pioneer Valley Planning Commission has been awarded federal funds through the CARES Act to support local small businesses hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Thom Fox interviews Samalid Hogan, MSBDC Regional Director on September 9, 2020 (22 mins)

• SBA to Make Economic Injury Disaster Loans Available to U.S. Agricultural Businesses Impacted by COVID-19 Pandemic

• Joint Statement by SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza and Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin on the Resumption of the Paycheck Protection Program...The Small Business Administration will resume accepting PPP loan applications on Monday, April 27 at 10:30 AM EDT from approved lenders on behalf of any eligible borrower.

• Baker-Polito Administration Announces Implementation Of CARES Act Unemployment Benefits For Self-Employed, Gig Economy And Other Workers

• SBA To Provide Small Businesses Impacted by Coronavirus (COVID-19) Up to $2 Million in Disaster Assistance Loans

• Samalid Hogan speaks on the Small Business Report - Sirius XM channel 141 (audio clip, 2:30 mins)

• Simply Grace LLC Named Microenterprise Business of the Year

• The MSBDC’s Allen Kronick Is Helping to Build the Next Generation of Businesses Leaders (audio clip, 26:33 mins)

• Workshop held at STCC for local entrepreneurs

• Small Business Development Center Network helps Western Mass. business grow

• Massachusetts Small Business Development Center hosts entrepreneurship roundtable in Springfield

• MSBDC client Stanley Kowalski III, founder of FloDesign, talks about MSBDC services on Connecting Point

• Watch a segment from WGBY's Connecting Point with staff from the Western Regional Office

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