Fund grants to provide capital and technical assistance to entrepreneurs impacted by the pandemic
Wells Fargo has announced $13 million in grants to Bay Area Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) to help small businesses stay open and maintain local jobs. The funding will help the CDFIs provide grants, loans, technical assistance, and business coaching for diverse entrepreneurs.
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COVID-19 vaccines are now widely available to strawberry farmworkers and other essential workers throughout California.
The California Strawberry Commission recently co-sponsored eight vaccine clinics that vaccinated more than 5,000 farmworkers in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties. Last month, the strawberry commission began working with Dignity Health Dominican Hospital and the local, Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau to co-sponsor the first large-scale vaccination clinic for farmworkers on the Central Coast.
Estados Unidos alberga a más de cinco millones de dueños de negocio minoritarios. El ocho por ciento de estos empresarios son hispanos, mientras que alrededor del cinco por ciento de todos los estadounidenses que trabajan por cuenta propia son negros y otro diez por ciento asiáticos.
America is home to more than five million minority-owned businesses. Eight percent of these entrepreneurs are Hispanic, while about five percent of all self-employed Americans are black, and another ten percent Asian.
- Las empresas locales sobreviven, prosperan en la pandemia
- Local businesses survive and thrive in pandemic reality
- Prácticas de seguridad optimizadas, clave para prevenir el COVID-19 en los ranchos de fresas de California
- Enhanced safety practices key to prevent COVID-19 on California strawberry farms