Eastside Community Chamber

https://www.michiganbusiness.org/relief/

To be eligible to receive grant funding, businesses must be in one of the industries listed below:

• Restaurants, bars and other food and beverage service providers
• Travel and tourism destinations including lodging providers and hospitality businesses
• Live event venues and movie theaters
• Conference and meeting facilities
• Ice skating rinks, indoor water parks and bowling centers
• Gyms, fitness centers and indoor recreation facilities

Because this Initiative is funded through federal CARES Act dollars distributed by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to the Michigan Community Development Block Grant program , businesses must satisfy the HUD National Objective for job retention in order to receive funding.

The business must document that at least 51% of positions will be held by low to moderate income persons or in the case of microenterprises (five or fewer employees) that the business owner is a low to moderate income individual. This information will be requested by the Grant Administrator following the PMSBRI Application and only from businesses whose application meets all other initial screening criteria, including applications that are “first in” to the extent that funding is available.