Amid the tough times, downtown merchants and restaurants are sending a message of positivity, encouragement, hope and strength to our community through their creative and inspiring window displays. Here are some images:
The U.S. Small Business Administration provides help to small businesses with free business counseling, SBA-guaranteed business loans, home and business disaster loans, and federal contracting.
Fredericksburg’s Economic Development Authority (EDA) this week started taking applications from City of Fredericksburg (22401) small businesses for grants to help weather the storm of the COVID-19 outbreak. The application deadline is Friday.
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the University of Mary Washington Small Business Development Center is offering a free webinar series over the next two weeks to help businesses manage in these uncertain and rapidly changing times.
Bloomia is donating 350,000 stems of tulips for distribution downtown to add some “flower power” and cheer up our community in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. With the help of Fredericksburg Virginia Main Street Inc. and the City of Fredericksburg, tulips will be distributed from area restaurants and shops that are doing carry-out business, and from two pickup locations downtown.
To support restaurants that are offering takeout, curbside pick-up, and no-contact delivery, a promotion called “Virginia is for Restaurant Lovers Takeout Week” is planned March 30-April 5.
Fredericksburg businesses are the heart and soul of our community. They sponsor our sports teams. They provide jobs for our residents. They help us celebrate, grieve, laugh and cry. They feed and clothe us. They produce the tax revenue that lets us educate our children, provide clean water, pave our streets, make our City safe, build and maintain our parks, provide assistance to those most in need, and plan for our future. And now they need our help. A new website — fxbglovelocal.com — will help you provide that help.
The Bay Consortium Workforce Board has been awarded an $87,314 grant from Virginia to assist small businesses (fewer than 250 people at a site) with certain costs related to the COVID-19 crisis.
The Fredericksburg Nationals have introduced their new mascot to the community — Gus.
The Community Foundation of the Rappahannock River Region has activated The Community Relief Fund with an initial allocation of $55,000.
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