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April 23, 2021
The program is through Venture North Funding and Development and help from the Consumers Energy Foundation.
More than $52,000 is currently available for the program.
Eligible businesses are those with 9 or fewer full time employees.
Venture North says they hope this grant helps small businesses that are continuing to struggle during the pandemic.
“When we are looking at business needs for the next few months, they need assistance with inventory purchases, they need to keep people on payroll until maybe their season starts to ramp back up again in june, july,” says Laura Galbraith, president of Venture North Funding & Development.
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Northern Michigan Entrepreneur: Becky Tranchell of Rose & Fern
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Venture North, a nonprofit based in Traverse City, invests in local businesses in a 10-county region, having provided more than $6 million in funding to entrepreneurs in Northwest Michigan, such as Becky Tranchell, owner of Rose & Fern. Venture North also manages the Regional Resiliency Program, which converts philanthropic donations into grants for small businesses hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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