We are hosting various online webinars providing our SVO members access to business resources, as well as discuss upcoming policy changes that affect business operations. We have invited political and industry experts to lead our webinars to make you our members are up to speed with all of the legislative updates that relate to COVID-19. In case you miss one, you can watch our webinar recordings here!

餐厅振兴基金 is an SBA grant program that will provide restaurants, bars, and other similar places of business that serve food or drink with funding equal to their pandemic-related revenue loss up to $10 million per business and no more than $5 million per physical location. Recipients are NOT required to repay the funding as long as funds are used for eligible uses no later than March 11, 2023.

2020年底, 国会通过了, 特朗普总统签署了, a new law that provides for additional relief related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This law, 综合拨款法案, 2021 (CAA, 2021), includes a second draw of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans (PPP Second Draw Loans) and updates to the original PPP loan. It also allows businesses to deduct ordinary and necessary expenses paid from the proceeds of PPP loans.

There's a new program coming soon, so please put this on your radar. The U.S. 中小企业管理局 is currently working on the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Program. 这个新计划在最近的经济刺激法案中获得通过, adding to the mix of business-relief programs designed to address economic losses due to the coronavirus pandemic. The bill sets aside $15 billion for the program and qualifying venues can get up to $10 million in grant money. 他们还不接受申请, but you can begin evaluating the eligibility requirements and sign up for updates through the U.S. 中小企业管理局.

November 30, 2020 州长纽森 announced the following immediate support and relief: 1.)为受新冠疫情影响的企业减免税收.) 5亿美元用于小企业新冠疫情救济赠款.)为加州重建基金增加12美元的资金.5 million.

11月20日开始, 2020年，纽森州长启动加州重建基金, which includes non-forgivable loans for micro-business owners backed by the iBank at 4.25%. The California Rebuilding Fund is a loan program to support California’s small businesses—especially those located in economically disadvantaged and historically under-banked areas of the state. Businesses who employed 50 or less full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) and had gross revenues of less than $2.2019年有资格申请的人数不超过500万人. Full eligibility requirements are included in the Business Requirements tab.

Today, 10月5日, the 圣克拉拉县 Public Health Officer has issued a Revised Risk Reduction Order, which will go into effect when the County moves into the State’s Tier 3 (the Orange Tier). 根据经修订的减少风险令, all businesses in the County will be allowed to operate so long as the State order allows them to operate, 包括室内用餐和室内聚会.

2020年的大流行起到了明显的创新加速器作用, 因为公司不得不争相适应远程工作, 以及它带来的挑战.When CEO Satya Nadella presented Microsoft’s quarterly earnings to Wall Street at the end of April 2020, 在全球大流行期间, he said he had witnessed “two years’ worth of digital transformation in two months: from remote teamwork and learning, 销售和客户服务, 到关键的云基础设施”.作为一家总部设在米兰的公司, Italy—one of the areas that was first and worst affected by the Covid-19 outbreak—we realized early in the fight against the virus that it would change the way we work, learn and, 不幸的是, 互动和社交, for good.Here are some of the innovation challenges we have worked with our clients to tackle, 以及我们一路走来学到的教训.

Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a new system to monitor the coronavirus in California, revamping the state’s watchlist for its 58 counties into color-coded levels that should simplify the process of reopening. 这个新系统, also known as "CA's Blueprint for a Safer Economy" is the next evolution of the state's COVID-19 response. Every county is now assigned to a color tier based on its rate of new cases & 积极性决定哪些部门可以运作. Here on this new site you can type in your county and look up what activity is allowed. 在这个新的框架下, 美发沙龙, barbershops and indoor malls are allowed to operate indoors under the state's new system, 但截至8月31日，产能仅为25%. 请继续阅读更多信息...