Alberta Small and Medium Enterprise Relaunch Grant (SMERG)

Alberta Funding for small- and medium-sized businesses impacted by COVID-19

If your Alberta business has the following:

- experienced a revenue drop of at least 30% as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic; and

- was ordered to close or curtail operations from Nov 6 2020 by the public health orders

you could apply for the government grant of up to $20,000 for existing businesses (established before February 29, 2020), or up to $15,000 for new businesses (began operations between March 1, 2020 and Oct 31, 2020)

 

Determine the revenue drop rate:

-  Existing businesses must demonstrate a revenue reduction in April 2020 or May 2020 in comparison to April 2019, May 2019 or Feb 2020

- New businesses must demonstrate a revenue reduction of at least 30% in November 2020 or December 2020 in comparison to any month between March 2020 and October 2020

 

How to apply:

Please check out this short video:

 

Application deadlines: March 31, 2021

Learn more about this grant: https://www.alberta.ca/sme-relaunch-grant.aspx#toc-2