Letter to the Editor

Norfolk’s small businesses and nonprofits affected by the coronavirus pandemic may be eligible for onetime $5,000 grants from the state’s new $50 million CT CARES Small Business Grant Program. Funds will be disbursed by the end of this year.

Information about who is eligible is on the Department of Economic and Community Development’s website: https://portal.ct.gov/DECD/Content/Coronavirus-Business-Recovery/CT-CARES-Small-Business-Grant-Program. Applications should be available by Nov. 9. Home-based businesses and sole proprietorships are eligible.

Any Norfolk businesses and nonprofits that have not already received help from the state Coronavirus Relief Fund should follow up on this statewide program soon, since half of the funds are designated for the 25 Connecticut communities designated as “distressed.” Norfolk is not among them.

Good luck!

Sue Frisch
For the Norfolk Economic Development Commission