Sen. Harry Brown reminds eligible applications that a payroll grant program is still accepting applications. | Facebook
Sen. Harry Brown reminds eligible applications that a payroll grant program is still accepting applications. | Facebook
Sen. Harry Brown (R-Jacksonville) is reminding businesses and nonprofits in North Carolina impacted by COVID-19 to take advantage of a new grant program being offered through the Department of Commerce.
“If your business or non-profit organization experienced interruption due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, $15 million in federal relief money in the new Job Retention Grant (JRG) Program may be able to offer assistance,” Brown said in an Aug. 20 Facebook post. “Under the JRG program, businesses are eligible for grants of up to two months of the eligible entity’s average monthly payroll costs from 2019, plus an additional 25% of that amount, up to $250,000 if they haven’t already gotten support from another program like the Paycheck Protection Program.”
The North Carolina Department of Commerce website states eligible applicants include publicly held businesses, privately-held businesses that have at least one W-2 employee, and certain nonprofits such as charitable and educational corporations.
Applications for the grant program are being accepted through Tuesday, Sept. 1.
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