We’ve had some slightly over-enthusiastic, well-intentioned but misleading posts made on social media that, unfortunately, are misrepresenting the MGCC grant we were awarded in December. Here are the facts:
We were awarded $100,000 to work with various partners in the city to help small businesses in Lynn cope with the challenges of COVID. Details of that grant are here: The MGCC Small Business Technical Assistance Grant Program
We originally worked with Lynn Main Streets to put the proposal together and have included several other Lynn organizations to implement the project. To date, we’ve had an amazing amount of support and interest from the small businesses in Lynn, especially the target group: businesses owned by women, minorities and veterans in low-and moderate-income and underserved communities.
The program was intended to start in August of 2020, but the inevitable delays within MGCC led to it launching in December. It’s slated for final wrap-up on June 24th. A second round of awards was announced in March of 2021, and we’re waiting to hear how we did. That program would reach into December of 2021.
As with most grants, there is a very specific project proposal which was created last year by the team, and accepted by MGCC. There’s not a lot of room for changes or re-direction – in fact, that would put the entire program at risk. We’ve got to do what we said we’d do. That said, we’ve been enormously successful implementing our project, and hope we can continue.
To read more, here’s a story on the Daily Item: BRICKYARD COLLABORATING WITH LYNN BUSINESSES
We also posted about it back in January: Time to Get to Work! To see what we’ve done, see this post: The Brickyard COVID Response: The Project List
Thanks for all the support and help, and we encourage anyone with suggestions or ideas to contact us!
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