{"id":150899,"date":"2026-03-28T13:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/150899\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:23:09","slug":"lehigh-u-gets-700k-to-help-area-businesses-times-news-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/150899\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh U. gets $700K to help area businesses \u2013 Times News Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published March 28. 2026 09:01AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Department of Community and Economic Development Secretary Rick Siger announced that the Shapiro administration is supporting small businesses across Pennsylvania through the Historically Disadvantaged Business Assistance (HDBA) Program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The funding will support the creation of 10 microgrant programs that will help small businesses with costs to start or to expand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Lehigh University received $700,000 to support small businesses throughout Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Schuylkill, Carbon and Monroe counties. Contact your local Small Business Development Center to inquire about eligibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published March 28. 2026 09:01AM Department of Community and Economic Development Secretary Rick Siger announced that the Shapiro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-150899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150899","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=150899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}