San Francisco Offering $5,000 To Small Businesses. The Catch Is ‘Women-Owned, Immigrant-Owned, Peopl

[rangerrebew]

San Francisco Offering $5,000 To Small Businesses. The Catch Is ‘Women-Owned, Immigrant-Owned, People-Of-Color Owned’ Are Being Prioritized

Published 21 hours ago

on December 30, 2020

By Michael Cantrell
 

The city of San Francisco is bound and determined to keep on helping divide the country by race with their new attempt at helping to relief the economic burden of the coronavirus shutdown, proving once again how totally stupid the radical left really is.

The city is offering $5,000 grants to small businesses that have been wrecked by lockdowns, which is a great idea. Except for the part where most of the cash being distributed is being used as a means to help the city reach its “equity goals.”

This means ““minority-owned businesses including women-owned, immigrant-owned, people of color-owned businesses,” and companies and businesses in certain “cultural districts” are being prioritized above everyone else.

https://flagandcross.com/san-francisco-offering-5000-to-small-businesses-the-catch-is-women-owned-immigrant-owned-people-of-color-owned-are-being-prioritized/

[rangerrebew]

Does this mean prostitutes are eligible because they are small businesses, maybe with no employees except herself?

[skeeter]

When will some judge have the integrity to shut these bigots down?

[PeteS in CA]

There are a couple of problems with this story. Here's SF's page about Covid grants: https://sf.gov/get-small-business-grant-resiliency-fund

1. Check if you and your business are eligible
Your business must:

Be a for-profit business
Have less than $2.5 million in gross annual receipts
Have 5 employees or fewer
Have closed or lost at least 25% in revenue since January 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic
Your family income must be in the moderate range of adjusted median income (AMI). Check your family income for the Resiliency Fund.

2. Start your application
We will ask you about your identity, business details, family income, and the impact of coronavirus on your business.
...
4. After the lottery
We will run the lottery on June 19, 2020.

After the lottery, we will contact applicants in lottery rank order.

We will ask you to provide financial documents to confirm your application information.

This may include:

Your most recent personal tax returns for your family income
Your business lease
Your bank statements, tax documents, or a report from your accounting software or point of sale system for your 25% decline in business revenue

1. No mention of owners' gender, immigration status, or skin color as a qualification or verification thereof.

2. "We will run the lottery on June 19, 2020."

Here's SF's page about another, more recent, grants program, https://sf.gov/step-by-step/get-help-paying-your-storefronts-covid-19-safety-measures :

Your business must operate from a storefront location in San Francisco that is open to the public.

Your business must be licensed to operate in San Francisco.

Your business must have less than $2.5 million in annual gross receipts.

Nonprofits can apply.

You should have permission from your property owner.

You need general liability and workers compensation insurance. We recommend coverage of at least $1 million per occurrence.
...
You must be a business owner to fill out the application.

On the application, we will ask for:

Business information
Business owner information, including demographics and household income
Date you started your business
Number of full-time and part-time employees
Type of work to be reimbursed for
Amount you plan on contributing to this project, beyond reimbursement
To be reimbursed for past work, you will need:

Type of work you did
Receipts
W9 form for your business
Permit number on job card, if the work required permits

Again, no mention of owners' gender, immigration status, or skin color as a qualification or verification thereof.

Absent verification from an actual news source, the OP article looks like clickbait BS.