Here is how WBCUtah can help you and your business right now. Scroll down for information on available financial assistance and other resources.
Meet with Business Advisors via Zoom video or phone
Pulling from their own experience, our business advisors can help seasoned and aspiring women business owners alike. To get started, create a client profile and then request a session.
Meet Clancy Stone
Serving Northern Utah
Clancy will meet with you via Zoomvideo chat, whether you live in Tooele, Logan, Salt Lake City or Santaquin, and anywhere in between.
Counties Clancy serves: Box Elder, Cache, Daggett, Davis, Duchesne, Morgan, Rich, Juab, Salt Lake, Summit, Tooele, Uintah, Utah, Wastach & Weber,
Debbie Drake Serving Southern & Eastern Utah
Is your business in Nephi, St. George, Monticello or Cedar City, or anywhere in between? If so, Debbie can meet up with you in-person or get on a video chat.
Counties Debbie serves: Beaver, Carbon, Emery, Garfield, Grand, Iron, Kane, Millard, Piute, San Juan, Sanpete, Sevier, Washington & Wayne.
Training
All trainings will be conducted via Zoom videoconferencing until further notice.
Financial Assistance
We will keep updating this list as more financial resources become available.
Small business loans up to $15,000 with no credit check, 0% interest and no fees. There is a 6 month grace period to begin repayments.
The SBA provides low-interest disaster loans to help businesses recover from declared disasters like Coronavirus.
Facebook will be taking applications for small business grants. Go to the Facebook for Business website to sign up for updates and get details.
Salt Lake City businesses:
The city of Salt Lake is encouraging businesses to apply for this funding to help make payroll, to pay bills and to keep their operations going (available later this week).
The application will be open until Monday, March 23rd at midnight. They will evaluate completed applications only.
Helpful Resources
Here’s where you can find help and encouragement as you continue working on your business through this pandemic.
Utah’s Coronavirus Homepage
- Updated daily, your go-to page for business resources related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
United Way COVID-19 Community Response Fund:
- Rental assistance or mortgage payment assistance
- Rapid rehousing, shelter diversion, homeless shelters
- Crisis nurseries and childcare providers
- Healthcare services for vulnerable Utahns
- 2-1-1 Information and Referral
USU Extension COVID-19 Resources
- Remote work resources
- At home activities for kids
- Sanitization
- Food
We will be releasing special episodes of Women Own It podcast related to COVID-19. The first episode is already out, please subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
Check out the latest posts from our blog as we write about how your business can weather this storm.
Other resources:
Staying informed:
- Salt Lake County Health Department
- Utah Department of Health
- State of Utah Coronavirus Hotline: 1.800.456.7707
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)