{"id":123550,"date":"2026-02-25T23:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123550\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:58:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:58:22","slug":"small-businesses-can-now-apply-for-third-round-grant-funding-from-diverse-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123550\/","title":{"rendered":"Small businesses can now apply for third round grant funding from Diverse Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">From now through March 20, Erie residents can apply for Diverse Erie\u2019s 2026 small business mini-grants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Diverse Erie announced that they are going to be awarding another round of grants ranging from $5,000 to $25,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/low-income-seniors-may-soon-receive-food-deliveries-thanks-to-letter-to-congress\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Low-income seniors may soon receive food deliveries thanks to letter to Congress;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> Low-income seniors may soon receive food deliveries thanks to letter to Congress <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This program was designed to empower local small businesses of color who were impacted by the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThis is our third round, the two previous rounds, we awarded over $600,000 to 54 small businesses,\u201d said Gary Lee, chief administrative officer for Diverse Erie. \u201cWe\u2019re really excited because what studies have shown and what data has shown is when you invest with business of color, the whole community grows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To apply and get more details on eligibility, <a href=\"https:\/\/diverseerie.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From now through March 20, Erie residents can apply for Diverse Erie\u2019s 2026 small business mini-grants. Diverse Erie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,58028,2918,12516],"class_list":["post-123550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-gary-lee","tag-small-business","tag-small-businesses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}