However, I have to admit this pandemic hit us hard. The past three weeks have been absolutely chaotic with 40% of our expected revenue was gone overnight. With the slow, ineffective action from our federal government, many of us small business owners are left in a panic, picking up the pieces while large corporations are given historically huge bailouts. The institutional inequities in our country continues to reveal itself.
I’ve been on Zoom calls after Zoom calls trying to stabilize and secure our funding, hopped on over 50+ webinars trying to do as much research as possible to gather the important information to sustain our company — only to come to the conclusion that all of this information is still unclear and muddy. Now the very familiar ‘survival mode’ has been fully activated.
So for all of the other womxn of color founders out there, who are in survival mode like myself, I’ve listed funding opportunities for us to apply for and to advantage of. Since we can’t rely solely on these government loans or the banks, we can at least lean on our communities to pull together helpful resources as much as we can. Check out these available grants below: