Wilmington — M&T Bank remained Delaware’s top Small Business Administration (SBA) lender in 2020, reflecting the bank’s continued commitment to helping small businesses, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Delaware, M&T approved 44 SBA 7(a) loans ...
WILMINGTON – Faced with stark data on how hard small businesses were hit amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the leader of the state’s business group on the Pandemic Resurgence Advisory Committee believes the next step should ...
More than three dozen Delaware companies received federal loans that they said would enable them to retain at least 250 jobs each for at least eight weeks, according to data released Monday by the U.S. ...
Delaware is beginning to see greater benefits from the federal program intended to bolster small businesses through the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, as more than 4,800 businesses have netted funds roughly halfway through the ...
Donald Chupp is the 2019 SBA Small Business Person of the Year. The 49-year-old (as of April 30) Chupp runs Dover-based Fireside Partners, which helps 130 companies – most of them outside of Delaware – respond ...
The U.S. Small Business Administration will make digital tools and resources available to entrepreneurs through a public-private partnership with tech giants like Amazon, Box, Facebook, LegalZoom, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Zenefits. Through SBA’s Small Business Tech ...
The SBA is seeking input and comments on certification of women-owned small businesses and economically disadvantaged women-owned small businesses in connection with the Women-Owned Small Business Federal Contract Program. SBA is planning to amend its regulations ...
Moving Meetings Forward With Virtual Meeting Coordination Services - They’re valuable. They’re essential. Time to level up your meetings. I think it’s safe to say that, by now, nearly everyone has experienced a virtual meeting. And many businesses will attend, for the first time, one of their industry’s conferences in a virtual environment. These past few months have been a real test for the virtual meeting platform – […]
What was a defining factor in navigating COVID-19 for nonprofits? - Collaboration. Plain and simple. Leaning in, linking arms, and rising together. That is what I did with my counterparts Stu Comstock-Gay at Delaware Community Foundation, Cynthia Pritchard from Philanthropy Delaware, and Michelle Taylor of United Way of Delaware. While we all support the nonprofit sector, we do so from very different lanes. Yet, when COVID-19 […]
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