The Application/upload Link Will Open October 10 and Close at 11:59 Pm Est on November 10.

Diverse existing and new grant programs will be available through the DMPED cluster in fiscal year 2022 to back up economical recovery by providing support to businesses and entrepreneurs. Program details will be added here every bit they become available.

THE BRIDGE FUND (DMPED)
Previously referred to as Small Business Rent Relief & COVID-19 Small Business organization Relief Grant Program.
Small businesses are still recovering from acquirement losses experienced during the Public Health Emergency and are facing new challenges from new COVID variants. While many of these businesses have received relief funds from District and federal relief programs, they proceed to need fiscal support to ensure they tin can fully recover and remain viable in the future. The Span Fund will provide fiscal relief to small businesses that earned $5 million or less and experienced at least a 20% reduction in revenue during the Public Health Emergency related to COVID-19. This program volition prioritize businesses that have non received federal relief funds (Paycheck Protection Plan).

The Bridge Fund is a not-competitive grant programme that volition award eligible small businesses with consideration to core expenses, economic distress, location, length of revenue generating operations, and District resident employment. During the application review period, businesses that see the following criteria will receive priority review for eligibility and award amount:

• Businesses with no more than than $2.5 million in revenue each in 2019, 2020, and 2021
• Business organization that did not receive an award from the Paycheck Protection Program

Status: Open up
Application Period I: Open: Mon, January 24, 2022  | Shut: Friday, February 25, 2022 at 11:59 PM EST
Application Menstruum Two: Open: Saturday, Feb 26, 2022 | Deadline: Th, March 31, 2022 at 5:00 PM EST

Information Sessions:

• Sign up for an upcoming info session here!
• Monday, March seventh four:30-six:30pm at Art Enables, 2204 Rhode Isle Avenue NE
• Thursday, March tenth 2:00-4:30pm at Marshall Heights Community Development Corporation, 3939 Benning Road NE

COMMERCIAL PROPERTY Acquisition FUND (DMPED)
The Commercial Holding Acquisition Fund volition provide eligible businesses with down payment assistance of up to $750,000 or 25% of the sale toll, whichever is less, for the acquisition of commercial holding in the Commune.
Status: OPEN
Opened: Friday, November 19, 2021. Completed applications will be considered as funds are bachelor.

D.C. REBUILD Bail Programme
The District has teamed up with SMBX, a financial marketplace that connects pocket-sized business owners with everyday investors, to offer the Rebuild Bond Program for small businesses in D.C. to raise upper-case letter from their customs. Through the Rebuild Bond Programme, for a limited time, small businesses can utilize to issue Small Business Bonds™ with no origination fees. By issuing a Minor Business organisation Bond™, you lot can borrow capital from existing customers at competitive rates, retain your equity, and increment client loyalty. All businesses are encouraged to apply, especially those from communities that have historically been denied access to capital or which reside in Wards 5, vii, or 8.
Condition: Open
Opened: Thursday, September nine, 2021. For more information visit on.thesmbx.com/dc-rebuild-bond-program.

SPECIAL Consequence FEE RELIEF FUND (DMPED)
The Special Event Fee Relief Fund is a $three one thousand thousand to support events that celebrate the culture of the Commune of Columbia and support local communities. The Special Event Fee Relief Fund allows organizers of festivals and events to apply for financial assistance to cover up to 100% of fees incurred by the effect from the following agencies:

•  Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration (ABRA)
•  Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA)
•  Department of Health (DOH)
•  Department of Public Works (DPW)
•  Section of Transportation (DDOT)
•  Burn down and EMS Section (FEMS)
•  Metropolitan Police force Department (MPD)

Status: OPEN

VITALITY FUND (DMPED)
The Vitality Fund is a new tool that will enhance DC's competitiveness in alluring new, high-growth companies to the District past providing grants to employers with 25 or more employees that commit to locating in the central business concern district (CBD) and hiring and contracting locally.
Status: Active AND ONGOING

NEIGHBORHOOD PROSPERITY FUND (DMPED)
Neighborhood Prosperity Fund (NPF) incentivizes community development, economic growth, and job creation by leveraging local funds to provide gap financing for projects that attract private investment to distressed communities. Grant funds back up architectural and technology costs, construction costs, tenant improvements, historical preservation edifice improvements to maintain compliance with applicable laws, development analysis, rent abatement and/or tenant concessions for up to 3 years to stabilize market hire.
Status: OPEN
REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS (RFA) Release Date: Friday, February 25, 2022 Deadline Appointment: Friday, Apr 8, 2022 at 4:00PM ET

LOCALLY Fabricated MANUFACTURING GRANT (DMPED)
The Locally Made Manufacturing Grant program supports local businesses that are located in a Great Streets corridor that engage in light manufacturing by providing funding for uppercase or tenant improvements of commercial holding with a designated industrial use. This grant is intended to abound the District's local business economy, eternalize manufacturing, and strengthen supply chains within the city.
STATUS: CLOSED
REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS (RFA) Release Appointment: Fri, February 25, 2022 Deadline Date: Friday, March 25, 2022 at 4:00PM ET

Virtual Information Session:
Monday, March 18, 2022 at x:00AM
Register here

EMPLOYER PARTNERSHIP TRAINING GRANT (DCWORKS)
The Employer Partnership Training Grant will provide eight-12 grants to eligible employers or business organizations to provide training to assistance ensure they take the talent they require for their businesses to abound and thrive, and ensure DC residents have the skills and credentials to access and progress in in-demand careers.

Status: Open Access Awarding Here!
Endmost: April xv, 2022

Information Session

• March 2, 2022 11:00am - 12PM EST
• RSVP by email to [electronic mail protected]
• Info Session Zoom Link Here

More Data:

• Recording of the Employer Partnership Grant Information Session
• FAQ
• Employer Partnership Grant Powerpoint
• Addendum

For more than information visit dcworks.dc.gov

DREAM PITCH 2022 (DSLBD)
The 2022 Dream Pitch programme is a cohort-based training for microbusinesses in Wards 7 and 8.
Status: Airtight
Airtight: April 1, 2022
View additional information here.

ASPIRE (DSLBD)
This program provides critical training for returning citizen entrepreneurs wanting to establish or maintain a business organisation.
Status: Closed
Airtight: April 1, 2022
View additional data here.

EQUITY IMPACT ENTERPRISE GRANTS (DSLBD)
The Department of Small and Local Business Development (DSLBD) is excited to denote this Observe of Funding Availability (NOFA) for its Equity Impact Enterprise Grants and that DSLBD volition be accepting grant applications from eligible resident-endemic small and economically disadvantaged certified business organization enterprises (CBEs) closing April 22, 2022.
Condition: OPEN
View additional information here.

BID PLACEMAKING & RECOVERY FUND (DMPED)
This fund will back up iii catalytic projects in Concern Improvement Districts that will advance economic recovery through placemaking efforts.
Launch Timing: Wintertime 2022

Small MEDIUM Business organization GROWTH FUND (DMPED)
SMBGF will target growing District businesses by supporting big scale capital letter improvements, large equipment purchasing, and technological enhancements to businesses.
Launch Timing: Apr 2022

DITCH THE DISPOSABLES: GRANTS FOR REUSABLE FOODWARE (DOEE)
DOEE volition provide grants to support food-serving businesses and other entities interested in transitioning from disposable to reusable food service ware. Funding can be used to buy dishwashers, reusable food service ware, or hiring third-party food service ware providers. More information can be constitute here: doee.dc.gov/disposables.
Launch timing: Leap 2022

ENCORE Projection (OCTFME)
The Encore Projection will back up our creative community, specifically supporting DC effect producers and organizers by getting them dorsum to piece of work doing what they do best, hiring DC talent and creating events and activities that contribute to the vibrancy of our great city. The Encore Project volition subsidize consequence production costs at venues covering each quadrant of the city, giving event organizers the opportunity to apply to produce events with reduced costs.

Launch Timing: Spring 2022

Opening: Mon, April 25, 2022
Endmost: Mon, May 16, 2022

Encore Program applicants will exist selected by an equitable and inclusive lottery procedure that volition select the recipients for each customs date and location.

More data and a complete list of details for the Encore Plan will be bachelor presently.

CANNABUSINESS ASSISTANCE (DSLBD)
This program will back up District residents, particularly returning citizens and veterans, with offset-upwardly entrepreneurial resources to enter loftier barrier-to-entry cannabis industry.
Launch Timing: TBD

DC Customs Evolution CONSORTIUM GRANT (DSLBD)
This program will provide funds to further build the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Ward 8.
Launch Timing: TBD

PUBLIC RESTROOM Pilot (DSLBD)
This plan will provide funding to participating businesses that make their restrooms available costless of accuse to any person, regardless of whether the person patronizes the business.
Launch Timing: TBD

Attend DC COLLABORATIVE (DMPED & OP)
The Attend DC Collaborative volition support the development of a robust ecosystem of locally-owned pocket-sized food businesses in communities in the Commune where decades of disinvestment have left them underserved by grocery and other food amenities. To achieve this goal, the five partners of the Collaborative will provide flexible loans, catalytic grants, and targeted technical assistance to emerging and existing locally-owned modest food businesses in the District of Columbia, with a preference for businesses located in and owned by residents of neighborhoods identified every bit having loftier rates of food insecurity, unemployment and poverty, and/or lower life expectancy.
STATUS: Airtight FOR GRANT APPLICATIONS
Open: FOR TECHNICAL Assist
Opened: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 | Airtight: Tuesday, Nov sixteen, 2021
For more than information and to ask about loans and technical assistance visit www.capitalimpact.org/nourishdc.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT VENUE RELIEF FUND (DMPED)
The Fine art Venue Relief Fund is an $8 million grant program that volition provide fiscal relief to art venues that have continued to experience significant economic distress throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Status: CLOSED
Opened: Fri, November 19, 2021 | Airtight: Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 5PM EST
For all other inquiries related to the Arts and Entertainment Venue Relief Fund, contact [email protected].
Arts and Entertainment Venue Relief Fund Awardees

STREETS FOR PEOPLE (OP)
Streets for People will provide grants to Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) to activate public spaces in the Central Washington area. The program aims to catalyze economical recovery and support local businesses by attracting workers, residents, and visitors to a vibrant expanse of activated blocks, sidewalks, streets, and parks.
STATUS: CLOSED

INCLUSIVE INNOVATION EQUITY Touch FUND (DMPED)
The Inclusive Innovation Equity Impact Fund will back up District-based disinterestedness impact enterprises or businesses eligible to be equity impact enterprises with training and investment in the form of revenue or equity-based financing. An equity affect enterprise is a resident-owned, small business that it is at to the lowest degree 51% owned by an individual who is, or a majority number of individuals who are economically disadvantaged or have been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice or cultural bias. For more than information please visit  https://bit.ly/dcinnovate.
Status: Closed
Opened: October xx, 2021 3PM EST | Closed: January 28, 2022 3PM EST. Check back for addtional rounds!

Nutrient Admission FUND (DMPED)
The Nutrient Access Fund will increment equitable access to fresh, good for you, and affordable food by securing grocery stores and restaurants, fast casual restaurants and other food access points in areas with low food admission, with a focus on Wards 7 and 8.
We received an excellent response for the FY22 Round i. Round 2 has been cancelled to permit for a full, detailed, and thorough review of the recently completed round of applications.
STATUS: Closed

Peachy STREETS RETAIL SMALL BUSINESS GRANTS (DMPED)
Dandy Streets is the Commune'southward commercial revitalization initiative designed to support existing small businesses, concenter new businesses, increase the District's tax base of operations, create new job opportunities for District Residents, and transform 13 emerging corridors into thriving and inviting neighborhood centers. Acquire more at greatstreets.dc.gov.
STATUS: CLOSED
Opened: Monday, Dec 20, 2021 | Closed: Monday, Jan 31, 2022 at five:00PM EST

COMMERCIAL Food WASTER INNOVATION GRANTS (DSLBD)
This program will reduce food waste material in our commercial corridor dumpsters which draws in rats and other vermin causing secondary wellness impacts while reducing disposal costs for local food businesses.
STATUS: Closed
Opened: Dec 10, 2021 | Closed: Monday, February 14, 2022 at 2PM EST

EMPLOYER PARTNERSHIP TRAINING GRANT
The Employer Partnership Training Grant volition provide eight-12 grants to eligible employers or business organizations to provide training to help ensure they have the talent they require for their businesses to grow and thrive, and ensure DC residents have the skills and credentials to access and progress in in-demand careers.
Condition: Airtight

More information:

• View Asking For Application here.
• A virtual information session will exist offered on Dec 15 at 12 pm. To register or for questions most the grant, email [email protected].
• Data session here - Registration is non required.

Previous/Closed Business Funding Opportunities

THE BRIDGE FUND (DMPED)
Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Role of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development (DMPED) launched The Bridge Fund, a $100 million investment in businesses and workers grappling with the COVID-19 public wellness emergency in the hospitality, entertainment and retail sectors. The Span Fund is devised to assist pocket-sized business employers with maintaining operations and employees. Through The Span Fund, the District will strategically invest to sustain the hospitality, entertainment and retail industries to assistance mitigate the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on workers and businesses.

Another round of The Bridge Fund launched on January 24, 2022 to support economic recovery and long-term viability of brick-and-mortar eating place, retail & entertainment businesses even so grappling with the COVID-19 public health emergency.

Funds will be disbursed via four programs:

• Restaurant Bridge Fund – $35 million – Awarding Airtight
• Retail Span Fund – $15 million – Application Closed
• Entertainment Bridge Fund – $20 million – Awarding Closed
• Hotel Bridge Fund – $30 million – Application Closed

View the Chart of Example Eligible Business Types to see which Span Fund program your business concern may exist eligible for.

Span Fund Recipients

• View grant recipient list hither.

STREATERY Winter Fix GRANT PROGRAM (MONC)
The Mayor's Office of Nightlife and Culture provided a 1-time grants to restaurants that offered outdoor dining in the District. Streatery Winter Gear up Grant Programme funds may exist used for outdoor dining winterization purposes and to maintain outdoor dining operations.

• Streatery Winter Set Grant Recipients (equally of 11/12/2020)
  Searchable/Sortable List of Recipients
• Streatery Wintertime Ready Grant Plan FAQs
• Streatery Winter Prepare Grant Programme & Outdoor Dining Guide
• Winter Tent and Portable Heater Permitting | A Stride-by-Step Guide
• The Dwelling house Depot D.C. Streatery Winter Set up Catalog

2021 CITYWIDE ROBUST RETAIL GRANTS (DSLBD)
A robust retail sector is critical to maintaining the vibrancy of DC neighborhoods, but due to the market realities of the past twelvemonth, retail businesses are under threat of business refuse and closure. Thus the 2021 Robust Retail Citywide grant(south) support existing DC-based retail businesses maintaining operations and viability during the current small-scale business organization crisis.

DSLBD awarded upwardly to $7,500 per business to 106 businesses from the full $800,000 in available funding for the Fiscal Yr 2021. This grant will be operated every bit a reimbursement grant, awarded via lottery, to DC retail businesses that take met all eligibility requirements by the last deadline.

Applications for the 2021 Robust Retail: Citywide grants closed January 28, 2021 at 2:00 PM EST.

• Acquire More than About the 2021 Robust Retail Grants

DC SMALL Concern RECOVERY MICROGRANTS (DMPED)
COVID-19 has had a profound touch on local businesses and organizations, and the DC Government understood that relief was needed right away. The DC Small Business organization Recovery Microgrants Program, administered by the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development (DMPED), was created by the COVID-xix Response Emergency Amendment Act of 2020 on March 17, 2020 just days after the public wellness emergency was declared in the Commune of Columbia.

In administering this program, DMPED chose to provide relief to as many eligible DC businesses as possible. Xc-five percentage of applicants were determined eligible and were issued an award notification. Microgrant award amounts were objective and based on operation costs, revenue, number of District resident employees and concern tenure. The grant allowed businesses to comprehend employee wages and benefits, (including fringe benefits associated with employment, such as health insurance), accounts payable, fixed costs, inventory, rent, and utilities.

The microgrant amounts varied based on business type: $1,000 was granted to independent contractors, sole proprietors, cocky-employed; $2,500 was the minimum for all other awards and the boilerplate award is approximately $6,000, maximum award is approximately $fourteen,000.

The COVID-xix Response Emergency Amendment Human activity of 2020 required DMPED to share microgrant program information to the public by June 1. Below y'all will detect the microgrant procedure timeline, full report of grantees, and other interesting data sets from the program and related press releases. All information is based on information as of 2/xi/2021.

The application period closed April 1, 2020.

Press

• Mayor Bowser Expands Funding for DC Small Business Recovery Microgrants Program, April 29, 2020
• Mayor Bowser Launches Application for New $25 Million Microgrant Program, March 24, 2020

DC Small Business Recovery Microgrant Interactive Dashboard

Beneath is the DC Small Business Recovery Microgrant Interactive Dashboard which includes a summary of grant awardees displayed by Ward and broken downward into classes of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

Public Link: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/a810e8a2cf0a479d8e9a4ac6d5cf7d14

DC Pocket-sized Business organization Recovery Microgrant Recipients

• View the DC Pocket-size Business Recovery Microgrant Recipients Listing (Full List) Report here.

Breakup of DC Small Business Recovery Microgrant Applications

Annotation: The difference in the applications received vs. businesses awarded are applicants who declined the grant, were non-responsive, or ineligible.

DC Modest Business Recovery Microgrant Conditional Awards by Ward
(Updated Feb 11, 2021 to reflect geocoding of addresses)

Due to the lower volume of applications received from Wards 7 and 8, DMPED worked with DHCD and customs-based organizations to open a supplemental grant programme, which awarded 183 businesses. These 183 businesses are included in the table to a higher place.

SMALL Concern RESILIENCY FUND (DMPED)
The Small Concern Resiliency Fund is a part of the District'southward efforts to see the existing and hereafter COVID-xix related needs for District's small-scale businesses to help businesses keep operations while protecting people, assets and presence.

The Small Business organisation Resiliency Fund provided $3 meg in emergency operational funding and was open up to pocket-size, local businesses in the District of Columbia with 50 or fewer employees and independently owned restaurants without regard to employee-size.

Grant monies may exist used for:

• Business model strategy redesigning and pivoting
• Business continuity programme development
• Strengthening of digital retail experiences including complimentary east-commerce platforms and/or online shops to eternalize brick-and- mortar business
• New marketing efforts
• Personal protective equipment (PPE) and/or disinfection products.

Small Business organisation Resiliency Fund Grantees

• View grant recipient listing here.

LEGACY Business organisation SUPPLEMENTAL MICROGRANTS (DMPED)
Equally part of the District'southward coronavirus (COVID-19) recovery efforts, the Legacy Business Supplemental Funding designated approximately $iii.25 million of remaining funds from the Pocket-sized Business Recovery Microgrants Program to support businesses that have been operating in the Commune for at least 20 years.

DC Hope Customs GRANTS 2020
Mayor Bowser announced non-profit organizations in the Commune of Columbia are eligible to utilise for federal grant money, provided through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economical Security Act, to support community social distancing appointment and public health awareness outreach efforts.

The 2020 DC HOPE Community Grants provided a total of $10 1000000 in funding to support programs that accost the Commune'southward public wellness emergency priorities as it relates to coronavirus (COVID-xix) in the following areas:

• Increasing buy-in and participation in the District's Contact Trace Force
• Buy and distribution of personal protection equipment
• Social distancing protective measures
• Public health awareness
• Connecting residents to testing sites and health intendance providers

The recipients of the FY2020 DC HOPE Community Grant tin can be found at FY2020 DC HOPE Customs Grant Recipients.

DC E OF THE RIVER SMALL BUSINESS Economic RELIEF MICROGRANT PROGRAM FOR WARDS 7 AND 8 (DMPED & DHCD)
Following on Mayor Bowser's DC Small Concern Recovery Microgrants Program, the Section of Housing and Community Development launched an boosted grant opportunity specifically for small businesses in Ward 7 and 8.

The Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) made available approximately $800,000 in Community Evolution Block Grant (CDBG) funding allocated from the U.S. Section of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to eligible for-profit small businesses.

Businesses must demonstrate a demand for short-term working majuscule to retain jobs held past low- and moderate-income employees that may be lost due to business closures related to COVID-19. The program will provide support up to $x,000 for short term working capital to fund wages to avoid task loss acquired by business closures or reduction in business due to social distancing, rent, utilities, interim operating expenses.

Applications were accepted until ten am on Fri, May 29, 2020.

DC Child CARE PROVIDER RELIEF FUND (DMPED & OSSE)
As part of the District's coronavirus (COVID-19) recovery efforts, the DC Child Intendance Provider Relief Fund provided $v million in emergency operational funding to local child care facilities. Relief funds volition be granted to all licensed District kid care providers to ensure a supply of child treat families during the public health emergency and recovery menstruum.

The funding was authorized by "COVID-19 Response Emergency Amendment Human activity of 2020" constructive March 17, 2020 (D.C. Act 23-247) (and extended by the Coronavirus Support Emergency Amendment Act of 2020 (D.C. Human activity 23-0326), Coronavirus Back up Description Emergency Subpoena Deed of 2020 (D.C. Human action 23-332), Coronavirus Support Temporary Amendment Act of 2020 (D.C. Human activity 23-0334), the Coronavirus Support Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2020 (D.C. Act 23-0328), and the Coronavirus Support Second Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2020 (D.C. Act 23-0405), the "Fiscal Twelvemonth 2020 Revised Local Budget Emergency Act of 2020" (A23-351), and any subsequent emergency, temporary, or permanent versions of the Acts, and Mayor's Gild 2020-079 and Mayor's Lodge 2020-094.

DC Child Care Provider Relief Fund Report

All information is based on data every bit of 2/nine/2021. Last grant awarding is still in progress.

DC Child Intendance Provider Relief Fund Recipients

• View grant recipient list here.

Breakup of DC Kid Care Provider Relief Fund Awards

Note: The difference in the Child Care Businesses who were conditionally awarded vs. awarded are the providers who declined the grant, were non-responsive, or ineligible (i.east. permanently closed their facility).

DC Child Care Provider Relief Fund Awards past Type of Provider

DC Child Intendance Provider Relief Fund Awards by Ward

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Source: https://dmped.dc.gov/page/fy22-business-funding-opportunities

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