The Garrett County Commissioners have revised the criteria for the COVID-19 Business Grant Programs to allow more businesses to be eligible to apply.

Effective Monday, September 21, 2020, at 5:00 p.m., capacity for indoor operations at restaurants may increase from 50% to 75%.

The Western Maryland Consortium has been awarded a National Dislocated Humanitarian Assistance grant. The grant funds are available to small businesses in Allegany, Garrett and Washington Counities.

Tri-County Council for Western Maryland is offering businesses located in Allegany, Garrett and Washington counties low interest financing through Summit Financing Solutions' Revolving Loan Fund.

Maryland is in need of creative, outside of the box thinking to devise policies to help combat the economic strife that small businesses are facing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Tri-County Council for Western MD will receive a $1 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to administer loans that will provide critical gap financing to COVID-19 impacted small businesses.

Stage Three will be implemented in multiple phases with a flexible, community-based approach that empowers individual jurisdictions to make decisions regarding the timing of reopenings.

Best Practices for Business Reopening Webinars are focused on Professional Services, Personal Services, Manufacturing and Construction, and Hospitality and Tourism.

Seeking citizen input on community development & housing needs to be considered for submission on an application to DHCD & CDBG for funds awarded under Round 2 of the CARES Act.

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency is currently tracking an unknown malicious cyber actor who is spoofing the SBA's COVID-19 relief webpage via phishing emails.

Eligibility requirements for Round 2 have been expanded to allow nonprofit organizations with an annual operating budget over $5 million and more than 50 employees to apply for funding.

Eligible organizations may apply for funding up to $10,000. We will accept applications starting August 17, 2020 through August 24, 2020.

The grant funds are available to arts organizations & artists for losses sustained because of programming, operations, & events that have been modified or cancelled due to COVID-19.

Gov. Hogan is allocating $50 million to the MD Nonprofit Recovery Initiative to assist nonprofit organizations whose critical operations have been financially impacted by COVID-19.

The extension to the PPP gives business owners an additional time to apply for funding assistance. Approximately $130 billion out of the $660 billion allocated to the program remains available.