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Rochester’s Keep it Local, COVID-19 Innovators Grant Program

The City of Rochester has approved $50,000 in grant funds to help Rochester-based small businesses and organizations that are helping each other respond, adapt, and strengthen Rochester’s economy for the future. Destination Medical Center is making an additional $50,000 available for businesses located in the DMC/EDA geographic area.

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Project Impact(s): Economic Development, Funding, Governance/Public Policy, Pandemic

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Collaborators, Project Type, Impacts, Related Projects

 

Collaborators 

Lead Organization: City of Rochester, MN, DMC EDA, Rochester Downtown Alliance

Contact: TBD ; Email: TBD ; Phone: TBD

Known/Likely Collaborators: City of Rochester, MN ; DMC EDA ; Rochester Downtown Alliance

Potential Collaborators:

Related Projects

Impacts 

Major Impact:  COVID-19

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Economic Development, Funding, Governance/Public Policy, Pandemic

Level 2:

DMC Impacts:

Community Health Impacts:

Type of Project

Special  

 

 

Detailed Description

The COVID-19 crisis has presented many challenges to Rochester’s small business community and has also inspired quick and creative innovation and collaboration. The City of Rochester has approved $50,000 in grant funds to help Rochester-based small businesses and organizations that are helping each other respond, adapt, and strengthen Rochester’s economy for the future. Destination Medical Center is making an additional $50,000 available for businesses located in the DMC/EDA geographic area.

HOW IT WORKS:

A small business or organization within Rochester applies for the Keep it Local grant for a specific service to be paid to another small business or service provider (or team of providers) within Rochester. The projects should help a business respond to COVID-19 in the short term and grow in a new way in the long term. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Payments will be made to the applicant business, and applicant businesses will pay service providers.

Need help determining the best project for your business? Contact SCORE or SBDC for free or low-cost business coaching. 

APPLY:

Review the grant details and application process below and apply here. The next batch of application reviews will begin following a deadline of Friday, May 1, 2020.

 

List of local service providers

LINK

 

 

Strategy
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Metrics
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Last modified by allnode on 2024/02/20
Created by support on 2020/05/04

 

 

 

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Project Phase Definitions
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  2. Develop - program or application is being developed
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  4. Concept Phase - idea scoped out with enough details to give an early sizing and/or to build a proof of concept
    demonstration
  5. Pre-concept Phase - an early idea or a requirement.
About Beam

Community Beam (dmcbeam.org) is a registry of private and public resources (organizations, projects, initiatives, programs) that underpin economic and social developments of greater Rochester:

  • For the commercial sector, we tend to register startup activities (new companies and new commercial projects) that bring diversification and high-impact opportunities to the area.
  • For the non-profit sector, we wish to shine light on all the organizations and services that otherwise labor under relative obscurity.
  • Our hope is that dmcbeam.org will encourage cross-sector collaborations and creative solutions.

While there are a number of registries in the community, dmcbeam.org's  distinct value is to pilot a database with a data structure and categorizations that answer the questions such as: What organizations or projects/programs in our community that have purported relevance with some of the over-arching focuses put forward by initiatives such as DMC, J2G and Health Improvements?

This database could be used as one of the ways to explore the capacities of the community. If you are someone on an exploratory journey to learn about the greater Rochester community. dmcbeam.org could be an interesting first step.

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