Introduction

County Resources (SF)

County Resources (SF)

  1. General resources:
    1. For the most up-to-date information, see: https://sf.gov/check-if-business-essential and https://sfchamber.com/resources/small-business-resources/.
  2. Financial resources:
    1. The San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development is regularly updating its website with a list of available financial resources, including local, state, and federal loans, grants, insurance, and fee/service payment deferrals, see: https://oewd.org/businesses-and-nonprofits-impacted-covid-19.  
    2. The San Francisco Small Business Revolving Loan Fund (RLF), administered by Main Street Launch, is providing loans from $10,000 to $250,000. If interested, please contact Karla De Leon at (510) 830-3226or karla@mainstreetlaunch.org to schedule a 20-30 minute eligibility phone call, see: http://mainstreetlaunch.org/san-francisco-launch/ and https://oewd.org/grant-and-loan-programs.
    3. The Emerging Business Loan Fund (EBLF) offers loans ranging from $50,000 to $250,000 to qualifying commercial projects. The purpose of the Emerging Business Loan Fund is to originate commercial loans that support high impact businesses and projects with the potential to increase economic activity in San Francisco as well as create jobs for low to moderate-income individuals. Community lender, Main Street Launch, manages the Emerging Business Loan Fund for the City and County of San Francisco. If interested, please contact Karla De Leon at (510) 830-3226 or karla@mainstreetlaunch.org to schedule a 20-30 minute eligibility phone call, see: https://oewd.org/grant-and-loan-programs.
    4. The San Francisco Small Business Recovery Loan Fund is a new loan program designed to provide zero percent interest loans to San Francisco small businesses. This new loan program supports not only existing but new businesses by providing working capital, with the goal of reaching businesses left out of existing relief programs and those who face greater barriers to accessing capital, see: https://www.connect2capital.com/p/californiarebuildingfund/.
    5. The SF Shines Deigns Grant program provides access to professional design services to storefront business to help them with design, permits, and other technical services make improvements to their space. The program is designed to ensure small businesses continue to thrive and create vibrant and safe neighborhood commercial corridors, see: https://sf.gov/apply-free-design-services-your-small-business-storefront.
    6. The Storefront Vandalism Relief Grant provides financial relief to restore small businesses impacted by deliberate actions that results in the destruction or damages of storefronts. This program offers either $1,000 or $2,000, depending on the total cost incurred to repair physical damages and is available on a first-come-first-serve basis, see: https://oewd.org/store.
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