PG&E Contributes $500,000 to Restaurant Resilience Fund to Strengthen Businesses for the Long-Term
April 09 2021 - 12:30PM
Business Wire
Restaurants in Six Counties Can Apply for
Pandemic Relief through New Grant Program
Beginning next week, restaurants in six Northern and Central
California counties can apply for a $3,500 grant to help them
rebound from the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The
California Restaurant Foundation’s (CRF) Restaurants Care
Resilience Fund is accepting applications April 11-18, 2021.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) contributed $500,000 to
the fund to assist small restaurants struggling in the wake of
stay-at-home orders and other pandemic restrictions that have
affected their businesses.
Grants are available to California resident-owned restaurants
with 50 or fewer employees in these Northern and Central California
counties: Alameda, Fresno, Kern, Sacramento, San Francisco, and San
Joaquin.
The Restaurants Care Resilience Fund is focused on long-term
resilience for small restaurants that have struggled the most
during the pandemic. Special consideration will be given to
minority- and women-owned businesses. In addition to the $3,500
grant, restaurants will receive one year of small business support
services.
“What’s really unique about our Resilience Fund is that it
supports the business as well as individual restaurant workers,”
said Alycia Harshfield, Executive Director of the California
Restaurant Foundation. “A portion of the funds raised will provide
grants for cooks, servers, dishwashers and more who face unforeseen
hardship and have nowhere else to turn. So yes, we’re helping
restaurants keep their crew on payroll, while also offering a
safety net for when things get tough.”
To qualify, restaurants must be currently open and have had a
revenue loss of more than 20% from 2019 to 2020. Funding is
intended to be used on payroll and related expenses such as
increasing hours and bringing on new hires.
“Many local restaurants are cornerstones of their towns and
communities, and they have suffered tremendously during the
COVID-19 pandemic. These small businesses provide jobs, help
families celebrate important milestones, and fuel local economies.
PG&E is supporting the Restaurants Care Resilience Fund to help
restaurants keep their doors open, and we’re continuing to help
these and our other business customers recover from the financial
effects of the pandemic,” said PG&E Executive Vice President
and Chief Customer Officer Marlene Santos.
Assisting Small and Medium Businesses
PG&E remains committed to serving its Small and Medium
Business customers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the
pandemic began, PG&E has:
- Implemented a moratorium on service disconnections for
non-payment for all business and residential customers.
- Offered flexible payment plans to support customers.
- Suspended all collection activities including notices and
calls. Customers who are currently on payment plans will continue
to receive courtesy reminders.
- Launched Time-of-Use rate plan outreach, contacting customers
who would benefit from the new rate plan and save money.
- Provided resource information to all business customers,
including PG&E resources and external support for businesses
including the U.S. Small Business Paycheck Protection Program and
California state support programs.
- Provided newsletters and direct mail information on COVID-19
resources.
- Conducted outreach to eligible customers to enroll in a
discounted rate for businesses struggling to stay open.
For more information on PG&E Small and Medium Business
customer support, visit pge.com/smbsupport.
Supporting Nonprofits Battling COVID-19
PG&E’s $500,000 contribution is part of the $1.25 million it
is contributing in 2021 to nonprofit organizations assisting
vulnerable individuals, families and communities, as well as small
businesses, as they cope with the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19
pandemic. Contributions are focused on nonprofits addressing food
insecurity, minority- and women-owned small businesses, general
community relief, utility bill assistance and youth
programming.
PG&E's continuing support for the customers and communities
it serves builds on the $1 million in funding provided to
nonprofits supporting COVID-19 relief in 2020 from PG&E and The
PG&E Corporation Foundation. These charitable contributions are
shareholder-funded, not funded by PG&E customers.
About PG&E Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a
subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is a combined
natural gas and electric utility serving more than 16 million
people across 70,000 square miles in Northern and Central
California. For more information, visit pge.com and
pge.com/news.
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