More federal coronavirus relief on the way for small businesses
Updated Jan 08, 2021;
NEW YORK (AP) For Nancy Sinoway, a second coronavirus relief loan would increase the chances that her dressmaking business will survive.
“I could use it for marketing, for new samples. I could use it as a lifeline,” says Sinoway, who designs and makes dresses for occasions like weddings and proms. She was flooded with order cancellations starting in early March as the virus spread and large gatherings and events were abandoned.
Sinoway got a Paycheck Protection Program loan last May and used it to pay her three employees. But the loan money fell far short of what she needed to maintain her Port Washington, New York, shop. She was forced to close it and move the business into her home.
Painters depict a young John Lewis in the mural I Am Speaking, at 49 State St. in downtown Rochester. The administration of Mayor Lovely Warren on Thursday unveiled plans to create a new “arts equity fund” aimed at ushering in “a bold new era of public art in Rochester.” The plan was announced during an unconventional State of the City address in which Warren did not deliver a speech, but rather released a short video and a 48-page booklet that outlined her vision for the city through a lens of “equity and recovery.” Her vision comes amid a pandemic that has decimated the bottom line for artists and arts organizations and a nationwide reckoning on matters of racial justice.
Gabrielle Plucknette-DeVito The newly established Wayne Harris Delta Environmental Education Endowment Fund will allow RIT to create an environmental education program at the Tait Preserve.
The citizen science nonprofit Delta Environmental is establishing a new endowment at Rochester Institute of Technology to create an environmental education program at the Tait Preserve of RIT.
Through the Wayne Harris Delta Environmental Education Endowment Fund, RIT will carry on Delta’s mission by incorporating environmental programming and curriculum, as well as forge new relationships with community partners in addition to maintaining partnerships established by Delta.
For nearly 50 years, Delta Environmental has promoted environmental awareness and provided water quality-focused environmental education within the local community. Founded by Wayne Harris in 1971 as Delta Laboratories, Delta has evolved from a noted environmental research and activism organization into the Adopt-A-Stre