COVID RELIEF FUNDS AVAILABLE

Local

• From the MA Dept. of Unemployment Assistance: “The federal government has also recently issued additional guidance on Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, a CARES Act provision that makes unemployment benefits available to individuals who are self-employed . . . . The PUA application is not available at this time, but DUA is working to make it available as quickly as possible. Once available, eligibility for PUA benefits may be retroactive to the week ending on February 2nd.”

• Small Business Loan FAQs.

• Intro to Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL).

• Intro to the Employee Retention Tax Credit.

• Interview with employment attorneys Elizabeth Mason and Jill Havens discussing unemployment basics and changes under the CARES Act and our companion summary for gig workers and self-employed individuals (updated 4/9/20)

• Intro to the SBA Paycheck Protection Program (updated 4/9/20)

• FAQs on MA House Bill H.D. 4935, moratorium on evictions and foreclosures.

• City of Boston Small Business Relief Fund 

• Covid-19 and “force majeure” clauses

• City of Boston Artist Relief Fund

• Massachusetts’s general Coronavirus Information page.

National

• The National Counsel of Nonprofits’s COVID-19 Resources for Nonprofits.

• UMass Amherst’s Arts Extension Service’s COVID-19 Resources for Artists, Instructors, and Arts Managers.

• The National Endowment for the Arts’s National Resource Roundup

• COVID-19 Freelance Artist Resources