Business Resources
Visit St. Pete/Clearwater will continue to compile a list of business tools. resources and information related to COVID-19 as it becomes available. Please check back regularly. Also, please take a few moments to review the video below on how to update and enhance your presence on Google - because ensuring that your business information is accurate and timely is one of the most important things you can do during this challenging time.
Find information on the Covid-19 CARES Act here.
Funding Initiatives
- Pinellas CARES Small Business Grants: Providing a one time $5,000 grant to help offset the significant, temporary loss of revenue to qualified businesses. CARES Small Business FAQs.
- IRS Tax Relief
- Facebook Small Business Grants Program
- Mainvest Main Street Initative
- JPMorgan Philanthropic Investment: Addressing humanitarian and economic challenges, supporting vulnerable and underrepresented communities, small businesses and existing nonprofit partners
- James Beard Foundation Relief Fund: Micro-grants to independent food and beverage businesses in need
- Small Business Endurance Grant: One-time, $1,000 grants to eligible small businesses located in the city of Tarpon Springs
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce Save Small Business Fund: Help for small businesses who are struggling during COVID-19
Small Business Tools
- Google Crisis Resources for Small Business: Resources to help your small business manage through uncertainty
- Short Time Compensation Program for Employees: A voluntary employer program designed to help employers maintain their staff instead of temporarily laying off employees
- First Responder Meal Wheel: Purchase meals for first responders. Member restaurants are put into Wheel of Names and a business is randomly selected to get the ORDER!
- EDGE Guide Feeds Healthcare Workers: Teaming up with one local restaurant and one hospital or healthcare provider per day to raise money to provide daily meals for healthcare workers.
- Yelp's Tips for Businesses: COVID-19 Response Tips
- TripAdvisor Restaurant Resources: Helpful resources for your restaurant during the COVID-19 crisis.
- Expedia's Revive & Recover: Available to hoteliers in Pinellas County
Arts & Culture
- American for the Arts Economic Impact Survey: 5-minute survey designed to collect information about the financial and human impacts that the spread of the coronavirus have had on arts and cultural organizations
- Pinellas County Arts & Culture COVID-19 Impact Survey
- American for the Arts Resource & Response Center for COVID-19
