Salt lake area chamber of commerce

The Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, doing business as the Downtown Alliance, received a $150,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA) Office of Entrepreneurial Development under the Women's Business Ownership Assistance program (CFDA 59.043). This federal grant award, with an end date of September 29, 2024, will fund the Chamber's efforts to deliver training, counseling, coaching, and other assistance to small businesses owned by women in the Salt Lake City area. The goal is to remove discriminatory barriers faced by female entrepreneurs in accessing critical business resources like capital. This grant builds on the Chamber's history of receiving over $2.6 million in Project Grants and Cooperative Agreements from the SBA's Women's Business Ownership Assistance program since 2019, including $700,000 in COVID-19 relief aid in 2020. The Chamber's latest $300,000 Project Grant award in 2022 will allow it to continue supporting women's entrepreneurship through 2025.