As the impact COVID19
is growing in society, many lives, families, and small businesses are facing
difficulties in managing their livelihoods. To overcome that federal government
of different countries has stepped up to help all the families and businesses
struggling to survive during the crisis.
Not only the federal
government but many top companies and philanthropists are offering various
financial aid and medical assistance to support families and small businesses.
If you want to know more about the impact of COVID19 on the advertising and marketing
industry check our blog on How
COVID19 Pandemic Is Affecting Marketing And Advertising Industries?
In this article, we
will be highlighting the funds and grants offered by various companies and
philanthropists to help the global nonprofit organization in fighting unwanted
coronavirus pandemic.
Financial Aid Offered by Top Companies and Philanthropist
Many world leaders
& philanthropists like Gates Foundation are joining hands to help the small
and medium-sized enterprises to fight against the crisis caused by COVID19
pandemic. Many states in the US have already started assisting small businesses
by providing aid like funds &
low-interest loans to back them during the crisis. Below are the list of
companies and organizations offering grants and a low-interest loan to help
families and businesses fight COVID19 Pandemic.
1. Facebook (Small Business Grant Program)
After the COVID19
crisis, many small businesses are struggling to manage their business and pay
their basic wages. To overcome that Facebook announced $100 million cash grand
for all the businesses across different countries to support their functioning
during the crisis. Businesses can also take advantage of Facebook Ads credit to
run their ads.
More than 30,000 small
businesses in 30 different courtiers will get the advantage of the small
business grants program, as Facebook is planning to distribute grants to
different countries depending on the impact of COVID19. The application for the
grant is not launched yet but soon Facebook will start giving applications to a
business struggling to pay their rent, employees and other debt bills. The
application will be out soon you can click here to Sign up for updates on the application.
Other than funds and
grants Facebook is introducing different types of free courses that will help
small and medium-sized businesses to many and run their business until the
crisis ends.
2. Google
On March 15 Google
announced a $50 million grant to fight the novel COvid19 pandemic. Including that they will be donating $5
million to the COVID19 solidarity fund for the world health organization
(UN).With the increase in the COVID19 cases, google offered aid to the many
small businesses, healthcare, science
and access to educational resources.
Google has taken major
steps to promote all the necessary information related to COVID19. Information like symptoms of COVID
19, vaccine updates, travel-related info, economy slowdown info and all the
safety measures a person should take to avoid Coronavirus. If you watch the
video then you can identify how google is using unconventional ways to spread
the awareness of the COVID19 pandemic.
Google is taking all
the necessary steps to delete all the videos on youtube exploiting fear about
COVID19. If any of the videos on Youtube promote avoiding medical tests then
the videos automatically get deleted.
While researching our
team came across news were people in the video asked COVID19 positive people to
avoid medical tests and follow their hypothetical prevention measures to get
rid of COVID19. To overcome these types of misleading content Google also started blocking all the ads
exploiting coronavirus. Read more on
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