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Norcross offers small business grant program

Norcross is scheduled to adopt the FY 2021-22 budget and millage rate at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 2. during the city council meeting, also held at city hall. (Courtesy City of Norcross)
Norcross is scheduled to adopt the FY 2021-22 budget and millage rate at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 2. during the city council meeting, also held at city hall. (Courtesy City of Norcross)
By Jillian Price
Aug 20, 2022

The city of Norcross, in partnership with Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs, is investing $600,000 of American Rescue Plan Act funding into a small business grant program.

The grant program will help small businesses negatively impacted by COVID-19 retain employees and pay operating expenses. Grant awards given to the businesses will be based on their 2019 annual revenue, according to a press release.

Qualified businesses can use the grants to help pay rent, payroll, insurance, utility bills and other operating expenses, the announcement said.

Applications for the program will close on Aug. 21.

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Jillian Price covers local news for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She is a graduate of Baylor University and the University of Texas at Austin. She joined the AJC in 2022 and mainly covers Gwinnett County cities.

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