Group gauges COVID-19 impact on San Diego-area businesses owned by people of color, women, LGBTQ
SAN DIEGO — The Kim Center for Social Balance, a nonprofit focused on workplace gender equity, recently launched a project to survey business owners about the pandemic’s impact on their livelihood. The survey will gauge how COVID-19 shutdowns have affected small businesses, especially those owned by women, minorities and LGBTQ people. The idea is to offer local governments recommendations that will help guide recovery. It also will assess what services were available or not available to small businesses. The center is collecting information from San Diego County businesses intereste...