This is a short webinar today at 4 that explains financial support available to farmers and food producers through the CARE act, federal support.
Also as I shared yesterday in the listserv, the link to an excellent booklet to guide one through the process. Here it is:
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In response to requests for guidance on helping food and farm businesses navigate the CARES Act financial assistance programs, the Wallace
Center is hosting an informal briefing Wednesday April 8 at 4pm EST. This call is intended for Technical Assistance providers, support organizations, and other advocates who are assisting small to midsize farmers
and food enterprises primarily working in local and regional value chains to access emergency assistance.
What: Rapid
Response Briefing: Helping Food and Farm Businesses Navigate CARES Act Financial Assistance Programs
When:
Wednesday April 8th at 4pm EST
Where: Zoom
As organizations across the country mobilize to address the unprecedented financial hardships that farm and food businesses
are faced with due to Coronavirus, many are wondering if and how the $360 billion in forgivable loan programs authorized under the Coronavirus
Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act can help. The Payroll
Protection Program and the Economic
Injury Disaster Loan Program are designed to give immediate financial relief to businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the administration of these programs is starting in real time, with new information
coming out daily, and confusion
remains over if and how these SBA Assistance Programs can help farms and food businesses.
In response to the many questions arising about who is eligible for these programs, how to help food and farm businesses access
this financial assistance, and how to advocate for the equitable and accessible delivery of this financial assistance, the Wallace
Center will host a Zoom call on Wednesday, April 8th at 4pm EST. During this informal brief, speakers Yolanda Stokes, Jeff Salzer, Aleta Botts, Todd Erling, and Wes King will:
Please register
for the briefing here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information
about joining the meeting. You will automatically be added to a waiting room after which our staff will admit you to the meeting.
Note that due to heightened security risks on Zoom, this meeting will be password protected.
Speakers:
Yolanda Stokes, Office of Disaster Assistance, Small Business Administration
Jeff Salzer, Northwest Arkansas District Office, Small Business Administration
Aleta Botts - Executive Director, Kentucky
Center for Agriculture and Rural Development
Todd Erling Executive Director, Hudson
Valley AgriBusiness Development Corp.
Wes King – Senior Policy Specialist, National
Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
Moderated by Susan Lightfoot Schempf, Associate Director, Wallace Center
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