Important Notice:

A total of 100 female small-business owners across the state of Texas were selected to receive $10,000 grants as part of our $1 million AssistHER COVID-19 Emergency Relief Grant Program. We received more than 5,000 applications from businesses as diverse as restaurants and daycare centers to health care providers and cleaning services. The AssistHER grant is no longer available.

 

AssistHer Emergency Relief Grant

The purpose of this grant is to help sustain your business while you are under economic hardship due to COVID-19. The funds can be used for technology upgrades or other items needed to change or adapt your business model. Operating expenses (excluding payment of sales tax, payroll, purchase of food for consumption, penalties and fees, and charitable donations).
Grant Amount: $10,000
 

Who Can Apply?

Eligible businesses must satisfy all of the following conditions:

• Existing woman-owned businesses (at least 51% directly owned and controlled by one or more women who are U.S. citizens) may apply.
• The business must be a for-profit corporation, partnership, LLP or LLC, or sole proprietorship. Not-for-profit corporations or similar nonprofit entities are not eligible.
• The business must be suffering an economic hardship due to COVID-19.
• If the business or business owner owns the premises from which the business operates, all property taxes must be current.
• All sales taxes, payroll taxes and other taxes must be current.
• Businesses must be located and/or operated within the state of Texas.
• The business, business owner and applicant must not be involved in any pending or current litigation.
• The business, business owner and applicant are operating with all required permits and licenses and are conforming to all required laws.
• The business owner must not have any felonies or conviction of a crime of dishonesty or breach of trust.

 

Application Process

Complete the AssistHER COVID-19 Business Emergency Relief Grant Application. All of the following must be included with the application.

• Grant applications will be accepted electronically ONLY, not to exceed ten pages (application included), and will be assessed for funding on a rolling basis until available funding is expended. Please combine all materials into a single PDF and submit to smantaro@twu.edu. Any applications that are incomplete, contain multiple documents, or not in a PDF format will be rejected.
• Proof of woman-owned and controlled documentation must show at least 51% ownership and could include any woman-owned certification, sole proprietor/assumed name filings, LLC or LLP documentation, certification of organization, articles of incorporation, partnership agreement or bank signature card. If one document alone doesn’t show this, send the corresponding agreement with it.
• All questions must be answered, and all required information and documentation must be included; when submitting an application, the applicant must attach documentation for all expenses they want the grant to cover (for example operating costs, proposals from a vendor, quotes or estimates, invoices, etc.). These could be provided on a spreadsheet, cash flow statement, IRS Tax filing, P &L or Income Statement. Incomplete applications will be automatically rejected.
• The purpose of this grant is to help sustain your business while you are under economic hardship due to COVID-19. The funds can be used for technology upgrades or other items needed to change or adapt your business model and operating expenses (excluding payment of sales tax and payroll, advertising, purchase of food for consumption, penalties and fees, and charitable donations).

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