Post by: TEAM UMAG

3 more BACP events to attend in April

Title: B2B Grants for Restaurants, Hotels, and Creative Arts Businesses
Date: April 25
Time: 2:00 pm

Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) have announced $175 million in available grant funding through the Back to Business (B2B) program. Following state recovery for businesses totaling nearly $1.5 billion, the latest American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) – funded opportunity is designed to provide additional support for the hardest-hit sectors, including restaurants (B2B Restaurants), hotels (B2B Hotels), and businesses or organizations in the creative arts sector (B2B Arts). To provide hands-on support and raise awareness about the program, the State has mobilized a network of more than 100 community navigators across Illinois.

You can register for this event here.

Title: Chicago’s Alternate Response Pilot Program
Date: April 27
Time: 2:00 PM

Join the Chicago Department of Public Health to learn about the City’s first 911 mental health alternate response program. The Crisis Assistance Response and Engagement (CARE) pilot program launched in 2021 and is expanding in scope and geography in 2023. Learn about how these 911 response teams work with local businesses to serve residents in a mental health crisis, including in the downtown business district.

You can register for the event here

Title: ChiBizHub: Get Matched to Small
Business Support
Date: April 28
Time: 9:30 AM

ChiBizHub’s mission is to help Chicago entrepreneurs grow and succeed by providing small businesses with free, easy access to help you need, when you need it. ChiBizHub, operated by Allies for Community Business (A4CB), connects a large network of nonprofit service providers offering a wide variety of business-building services for small businesses. ChiBizHub matches these organizations to early, emerging, and established small businesses throughout the region who visit the site looking for help. Join ChiBizHub Manager and A4CB’s Manager of Business Connections, Katie Smith, to hear more about how you can get support via the ChiBizHub platform.

You can register for the webinar here.

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