businesses

  • Free coaching program helps CA small businesses thrive

    Small businesses drive California’s economy, and the data is now in from the first year of a program that offers free business coaching. The SCALE program – which stands for “success, capital, access and leadership for entrepreneurs” – is a statewide initiative created by the California Office of the...
  • Una gran fuente de empleos está en riesgo con Trump: el financiamiento para las pequeñas empresas

    Levi Sumagaysay CalMatters Las pequeñas empresas de California (empleadores de más de la mitad de la fuerza laboral del estado) se enfrentan a lo que algunos propietarios, expertos y defensores dicen que podrían ser inmensas consecuencias negativas de la serie de órdenes ejecutivas del presidente Donald Trump. La congelación...
  • Funding for small businesses — a big source of jobs — at risk under Trump

    Levi Sumagaysay CalMatters California’s small businesses — employers to more than half the state’s workforce — are staring down what some owners, experts and advocates say could be immense negative consequences from President Donald Trump’s slew of executive orders. Trump’s embattled federal funding freeze and anti-diversity push have seeded...
  • COVID Relief Grants Open to CA Small Nonprofits, Businesses Through June

    Selen Ozturk Ethnic Media Services While COVID relief grants have phased down nationwide since the end of the federal health emergency declaration, California has announced a new one. Through June 30, small nonprofits and businesses with 26 to 49 employees in 2021 or 2022, and who paid COVID sick...
  • County Looks to Expand Hazardous Waste Disposal Program for Small Businesses

    The County of Santa Clara SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CALIF. — The County of Santa Clara Household Hazardous Waste Program is expanding access to a service that provides a simple and cost-effective way for small businesses to dispose of hazardous waste. The Very Small Quantity Generator (VSQG) disposal program is a drop-off...
  • Loan Window Opens for California Small Businesses

    Small business entrepreneurs in California have new access to billions of dollars’ worth of funding to be offered with an explicit eye toward reaching communities too often shortchanged by the financial sector in the past. At a press conference Sept. 20, the U.S. Treasury Department announced having approved California’s application for...
  • Grant Program Seeks CA Community Improvements to Fund

    LOS ANGELES — Starting February 17, 2021 local governments and nonprofits across California have the opportunity to apply for grants from AARP, to fund projects that make their areas more livable. The fifth annual Community Challenge Grant is accepting applications now through April 14. Jenny Aleman-Zometa, program director for...
  • Programa de subsidio busca mejorías para financiar comunidades de CA

    LOS ANGELES — A partir de hoy, los gobiernos locales y las organizaciones sin fines de lucro de todo California tendrán la oportunidad de solicitar subsidios de AARP, para financiar proyectos que hagan que sus áreas sean más habitables. La quinta beca anual Community Challenge está aceptando solicitudes desde...
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