Luc Severe Small Business Recovery Grant

Are you a minority small business owner that has experienced financial hardship recently? Maybe due to recent federal funding reductions, tariffs, increasing food prices, or escalating commercial real estate expenses? You might qualify for a grant of up to $2,500.

The 2025 Application Window is Now Closed!

About the Program

The Luc Severe Small Business Recovery Grant was created to provide grant assistance to minority owned small businesses, micro-businesses and for-profit independent arts and cultural organizations located in Brooklyn who have experienced economic hardship or interruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  With rising cost due to inflation, the war in Eastern Europe and a myriad of global events impacting business, in 2022, we expanded the program to support Brooklyn's certified Minority and/or Women-Owned Business Enterprises (“MWBEs”) experiencing financial challenges is all areas.  To date we have given over 10,000 in grants to Brooklyn-based small businesses. 

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Find Out If Your Business Qualifies

 
Eligible applicants will be required to show loss of revenue or gross receipts and identify the conditions that have adversely effected business. To be eligible applicants must:

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Be currently registerd or in the process of registering as a Minority Women Business Enterprise (“MWBE”) licensed to do business in New York City or State and have a primary business address in Brooklyn.  

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Demonstrate at least a 25% loss in annual gross receipts in one of the past 4 years of compared to a previous period.  

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Demonstrate that the total business expenses on their 2024 business income return or financial statements are greater than the grant amounts.

Luc Severe

Bro. Dr. Luc El-Art Severe

Luc El-Art Theodore Severe, J.D. was the Vice President of Small Business and Workforce Development with United Way of New York City. In this role, Luc lead the efforts of economic vibrancy and vitality that fostered the creation of a citywide public-private network that connected post pandemic contracting opportunities and needs within the Black Communities to support a just and equitable recovery. Luc was a graduate of Morehouse College where he joined our beloved Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.  He later earned his Doctorate of Jurisprudence with a focus on Litigation from Thomas M. Cooley Law School. He was also matriculating in the Master of Divinity program at Union Theological Seminary School at Columbia University at the time of his passing. Additionally Luc was the Co-Founder of S.O.A.R. (Severe Opportunities and Access to Resources) and served as a Minster of Stewardship at Double Love Experience.

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