In this issue . . .
MARCH 2020
Coronavirus Resources New Podcast Member News New Members Ribbon cuttings
We’re here to support all businesses By David Eckmann, President/CEO ear members,
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Your team at the Greater Wausau Chamber of Commerce is working hard to support your changing needs in this challenging time. We are working remotely, ‘safer at home’, focused on developing resources and information important to you as you make important decisions for your business and families. Right now, in this moment, I implore each of you with 500 employees or less, to immediately review the links provided in this article and to begin to learn about the Small Business Administration (SBA) Disaster Loan process to address the Coronavirus pandemic. According to our partners at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, “The way lawmakers thought about this program when they were putting it together is they wanted to give small businesses as many tools as possible to keep people on their payrolls. It’s designed to help businesses keep people on their payroll particularly over the next two to three months.” The following links will provide you guidance on the process as well as SBA forms you may want to download and have on hand. Also important at this time is to be in communication with your community banking partners, credit union partners, and accounting professionals. Our banking and financial sector professional are very important partners in our community as we work through and emerge from this. We will emerge and we all must establish a foundation which allows us to launch our economy in an upward trajectory.
How Small Businesses will Benefit from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act U.S. Chamber’s Small Business Guide and Checklist SBA to provide Economic Injury Disaster Loans for coronavirus-related economic disruptions We continue to attend state and national conference calls and industry webinars gathering information important to all of you. As we learn information that is coming straight out of Washington, D.C. or Madison, we will get it to you immediately. Please know that we are here and available to you. If you have questions or need help, please reach out to us at info@wausauchamber.com. In the coming weeks, the Greater Wausau Chamber of Commerce will be working with various partners to establish a community empowerment campaign that will empower us to light a fuse that will charge and invigorate our local economy.
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