RESILIENCY FUND

To Apply for a Grant

If you are a local small Black owned business in Oakland, California and would like to apply for a Grant, the criteria follows…

1. Review the OAACCF Resiliency Eligibility Checklist to help the Advisory Council start the process of qualifying your business with identifying your business eligibility (fillable form here).
2. Review the Eligibility Requirements here. 
3. Completing the process online.
4. Current OAACCF Member, please present your Member ID
5. Non-Chamber Member, please apply for your Membership Here, www.oaacc.org.

All Chamber Applicants should be prepared to show a 2018 or 2019 business filing if they do not operate under the above requirements

Non-Chamber Applicants May apply later in the application process.  Each non-chamber awardee will be assessed whether a fee will be required, pending need, and on a case by case basis.

READ FULL CRITERIA AND ELIGIBILITY HERE

To Fund the Resiliency Program

Help the Oakland African American Chamber of Commerce Foundation (OAACCF) retain a viable part of our business community–the local African American small business owner.  The OAACCF, in partnership with its corresponding Advisory Council, has created a COVID-19 Resiliency Relief Program.  The monies raised under this program will be made available as interest-free grant relief dollars for these businesses, adversely impacted by COVID-19, and under the Federal orders of S.I.P. (Shelter in Place).

Funds to provide economic relief to local African American owned businesses, defined as 20 employees or less, have not trickled down to the African American community.

Qualifying “grantees” in this category (20 employees or less) will be vetted according to three of the OAACC eligibility requirements including: 

Demonstrate business legitimacy

• Provide any form of business documentation – website, business pictures, bank statements that include the business address and business name
• A valid business license dated 05/01/19 or earlier
• A valid identification card (driver’s license, passport, etc)
• A completed W9 form (if approved)
• Primary business operation in Oakland, California
• Sales from Square, CASH AP, Kabbage, and the like to document cash flow over a reasonable period of time