June 15, 2020
The We’re All In Small Business Grant program is designed to help small businesses get back on their feet as they re-emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and Safer at Home, while also encouraging adoption of best practices to keep employees, customers and communities safe.

Funded by the federal CARES Act, the We’re All In Small Business Grant will provide $2,500 to 30,000 Wisconsin small businesses to assist with the costs of business interruption or for health and safety improvements, wages and salaries, rent, mortgages and inventory.

To be eligible, businesses must:
  • Be a Wisconsin-based, for-profit business
  • Employ 20 or fewer full-time equivalent (FTE) employees, including the owner
  • Earn greater than $0 but less than $1 million in annual revenues, and
  • Been in business in February 2020

The online grant application will be accessible for ONE WEEK ONLY from 8 a.m. Monday, June 15, through 11:59 p.m. Sunday, June 21.

Please contact Pam at the Chamber if you plan to apply and need a letter confirming that you were in business in February, 2020.
 
 
 
 
WMC COVID-19 WEBINAR
Returning to School this Fall
 
 
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
10:00 - 11:00 AM
Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC), its trade association partners and local chambers invite you to a business coalition update call. The webinar will feature leaders from Wisconsin's educational institutions, including K-12, technical colleges and universities. The speakers will highlight what school might look like this fall, and how they plan to reopen safely.
 

 
 AGENDA
 
10:00AM - Introduction: Kurt Bauer, WMC President & CEO
 
10:05AM - K-12 Update: John Ashley, Wisconsin Association of School Boards President
 
10:20AM - Tech College Update: John Will, Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College President
 
10:35AM - Colleges & Universities Update: Rolf Wegenke, Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges & Universities President, and Ray Cross, UW-System President
 
11:00AM - Adjourn
 
Due to large call volumes, attendees must register in advance, and attendees must listen via web. Attendees will not be allowed to call-in via phone for audio. Please follow the directions in your confirmation email.

QUESTIONS
 
If you have questions you would like answered in the webinar, please email them to Nick Novak at WMC .