Business Resilience

“We wanted to craft a program specifically to fill the gap that was left by the CARES Act,” said Lindsey Kimball, Director of Economic Development at Hillsborough County in Florida. On June 30, Hillsborough County launched three distinct small business assistance programs to form the Rapid Response Recovery Assistance Program (R3) to do just that.

Each program was designed to provide assistance based on the specific problems small businesses in Hillsborough County were experiencing. Whether it was a rapid infusion of capital, funding to hire more workers, or reimbursements to make your business safer, the R3 programs were created to help businesses keep their doors open after covid-19 forced them to close.

On April 22nd, 2014, IEDC presented this webinar on "Long-Term Recovery: Addressing Business Failures in Years 2-5." The street lights are back on, the debris has all been removed, and your community is on the road to recovery. Yet businesses ...

On January 28th, 2014 IEDC hosted the webinar on lessons from the field: small business recovery strategies after a disaster. Do you know what an economic development organization (EDO) should do first to help its small businesses after a disaster? ...

Both natural and man-made disasters can impact the fisheries industry. Depending on the nature of the disaster, fishing beds may not be impacted, while boats, equipment and other assets suffer damage. Or, the exact opposite can be true. While the ...