{"id":842225,"date":"2025-04-20T09:11:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T14:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/20\/flint-launches-rescue-fund-for-small-businesses-recovering-from-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T09:11:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T14:11:36","slug":"flint-launches-rescue-fund-for-small-businesses-recovering-from-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/20\/flint-launches-rescue-fund-for-small-businesses-recovering-from-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Flint Launches Rescue Fund for Small Businesses Recovering from Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Published: Apr 19, 2025<\/span><\/span>
\nby Joshua Sophy<\/a><\/span><\/span>
\nIn Small Business News<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The City of Flint, in partnership with LISC Flint, has launched the Flint Small Business Rescue Fund, a one-time grant initiative aimed at supporting local businesses still recovering from the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Funded by American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) dollars, the program will provide reimbursement grants of up to $20,000 to 20 eligible small businesses located within Flint city limits.<\/p>\n

The application period opens April 18 and runs through April 30, 2025. Businesses must demonstrate qualifying expenses incurred between March 3, 2020, and October 31, 2023, to be considered. Eligible expenses include payroll, rent, utilities, equipment purchases, and other costs directly related to pandemic recovery.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough prayer, planning and partnership, we will continue to strengthen economic outcomes,\u201d said Mayor Sheldon Neeley. \u201cSmall businesses are the heartbeat of the Flint community, and they deserve every opportunity to thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to LISC Flint Executive Director Juan Zuniga, the fund is designed to aid businesses that endured difficult economic conditions during the pandemic. \u201cThe Flint Small Business Rescue Fund represents a critical investment in our local entrepreneurs who kept going through some of the toughest economic conditions we\u2019ve seen in decades,\u201d Zuniga said. \u201cThis City of Flint provided funding is about resilience, recovery, and restoring community wealth from the ground up.\u201d<\/p>\n

To be eligible for funding, businesses must:<\/p>\n