This toolkit helps businesses and entrepreneurs to quickly find helpful resources and advisors to survive, pivot, and grow.
Provides information on improving business resiliency, including obtaining loans, protecting credit, recognizing scams / fraud, complying with new health / safety regulations, and protecting against online threats.
Provides resources to assist businesses establish and improve their capabilities including Advertising & Marketing, Credit & Finance, Privacy & Security, and Industry rules & regulations.
Provides information, webinars, and access to mentors to help small businesses survive, recover, restart and thrive.
Provides information and webinars about Covid-19 implications in the workplace, funding options, and policy developments to help bolster small businesses during this difficult time.
Coordinates resources to help companies stay afloat and keep paychecks flowing to American workers and families; mobilize the business community to combat the pandemic; and help companies prepare for a safe, successful, and sustainable reopening of the economy.
Assists small business to start, grow, expand, or recover by providing access to counseling, capital, and government contracting expertise.
COVID19 has created a need for organizations and individuals to connect and collaborate remotely using conferencing tools.
Businesses and organizations need convenient, affordable, and secure online meeting and collaboration tools.
There are various widely-used online meeting and collaboration tools that are being offered for free for the next few months.
Cisco WebEx Meetings is available by signing up for a free WebEx personal account. The free WebEx Meetings plan offers meetings with 100 participants, HD video, screen sharing, and a personal room for use as long as needed. If you live in a country that is not eligible for free WebEx personal accounts, Enterprise Trials for Cisco WebEx are available. To find out more or to see which countries will have access to Cisco WebEx meetings, check out their help center.
Microsoft offers free and paid versions of its Microsoft Teams messaging and collaboration solution.
Free access to our advanced Google Meet video-conferencing capabilities for all G Suite and G Suite for Education customers globally has been extended to September 30, 2020.
From now until the end of 2020, Intermedia is offering free Intermedia AnyMeeting Pro video conferencing licenses for new customers.
Remote desktop access free for up to 3 months for healthcare providers, K-12 schools, nonprofits & municipalities (no commitment
To cope with the current COVID19 disruption, organizations and individuals require flexible mobile and remote work arrangements beyond their traditional workplaces, while ensuring confidential data and systems are protected.
Businesses and organizations need convenient, affordable, and secure remote access tools and management guidance
There are various remote access tools that are being offered for free or with discounts for the next few months. Before implementing remote access products, organizations should carefully evaluate their needs and priorities for protecting their data and devices against the effectiveness, ease of scaling capacity, ownership costs, and technology support overheads of vendor products
(See Protect / Remote Access section)
FTC’s guidance to small businesses about things to consider in securing remote access to your network
TrendMicro has provided free Tools, Apps, and Trials to protect your devices and online activity.
provides tools to securely access your important files, data, and applications from anywhere.
provides secure remote access tools with reduced pricing for a limited time to view or control PCs, Macs, and Linux machines
Microsoft has shared some best practices and product information to help organizations and employees remain productive without increasing cybersecurity risk
Information and guidance from trustworthy sources to help businesses rapidly and cost-effectively protect their employees, customers, and partners from the risks of exposure to communicable diseases such as COVID-19.
Businesses receive an overwhelming volume of constantly changing and questionable information, hindering their ability to respond rapidly and effectively.
Various government agencies and private organizations provide information and guidance to help businesses plan, prepare, and respond to community disease transmission.
During this difficult time of change and disruption, businesses and organizations must be productive and nimble while optimizing cash flow and streamlining operations.
Businesses and organizations need convenient, affordable, and secure online meeting and collaboration tools.
Business software and services companies are providing free and discounted products and tools (including conferencing, contact/staff management, financial management, marketing, planning, team productivity/collaboration), and upgrades to more advanced tools, to help organizations be productive during the pandemic.
ImpactCloud companies are mobilizing product, financial, and employee resources to help organizations respond to COVID-19.
This coalition brings together resources from multiple leading brands into a centralized platform to support small businesses.
TechSoup provides nonprofits, libraries, or foundations in the U.S. with donated or discounted software, hardware, and services.
Financial Applications
Productivity Suites
During this difficult time of change and disruption, entrepreneurs and businesses need to easily and rapidly launch new or scale promising businesses, while optimizing cash flow, staff, and operations.
There are various widely-used online meeting and collaboration tools that are being offered for free for the next few months.
E-Commerce
Payments
Federal, state, local, corporate, non-profit and trade association sponsored resources that may be available to assist your business.
Find loans backed by the US government and other funding options. Learn about emergency loans and tax relief available to businesses through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
Find information about access to funding, e-learning guides, and mentorship. "COVID-19 Business for All Emergency Grant" is still open for applications from small business owners for up to $10,000.
Free online tool helps to: 1. check your eligibility for federal assistance (PPP, EIDL), 2. calculate your maximum possible loan amount, 3. calculates the loan forgiveness amount.
Find assistance to the small business community with grants and loans.Financial Services Opportunity Fund: Find assistance for Small Business Owners affected by COVID-19
Find temporary CARES SBA relief programs to address the COVID-19 outbreak.
Find assistance for Small Business Owners affected by COVID-19
Find grants from private organizations and federal agencies for small or women-owned businesses.
Find information about small business loans, retirement, and healthcare to empower entrepreneurs to prepare for the impact of COVID-19 on their business and community.
Find support for nonprofit organizations who serve small businesses, particularly businesses owned by underrepresented individuals - a group disproportionately affected by the pandemic - to provide needed capital, offer technical support, and develop long-term resiliency programs.
Resilience best practices, tools, and training to address preparedness issues while building in the flexibility to handle potential business interruptions.
This toolkit is designed with the small business in mind, and provides a concise, accessible, action-oriented, easy-to-use guide to creating a resiliency plan for your business.
Guidance for entrepreneurs to address marketing, operations, cost, and revenue challenges in creating business continuity plans.
Provides small business disaster planning and preparedness resources and tools spanning education, planning, testing, and disaster assistance.
IBHS’s OFB-EZ (Open for Business-EZ) free toolkit can help you build a business continuity plan so you can prepare, respond and recover.
Guidance on preparing for various natural disasters or emergencies, business preparedness resources, and a 4-step approach to creating a Business Continuity Plan.
Establish the risk profile of an enterprise and the level of vulnerability to COVID-19 in terms of its impact on People, Processes, Profits and Partnerships, and develop an effective risk and contingency system for the business.