2020 MGCC Grant Application - Further Action Required

LISC is a nonprofit organization coordinating a coalition of over 50 nonprofit partners offering general assistance to Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation (MGCC) Grant priority applicants. We are not acting on behalf of MGCC, cannot see your application, cannot confirm your application is complete, or guarantee that you will receive funding.

If you received an email from MGCC on February 7th, notifying you that the grant application submitted was (still) incomplete, you have until February 19th (Friday) to cure it. You will not see any indication of what is missing when you open your application, nor will you be able to edit the application. Please follow the instructions in the MGCC email and use Submittable MESSAGE to communicate with MGCC exclusively. Use the sample MESSAGE in the instructions HERE to ask MGCC team members for details of what documentations you need.

*** THE DEADLINE TO CURING YOUR APPLICATION IS Friday, February 19, 2021, 5:00 PM. ***

A team of 35 MGCC team members are there to respond to your Submittable MESSAGE. Please do not communicate to MGCC via regular email or phone calls. Turnaround time for MESSAGE communications is expected to be less than 24-hours. Don't wait. Find out what you need to provide in order to get funded NOW!

Check your application on Submittable.com for the documents below.

You will not see any indication of what is missing when you open your application. Check the uploaded documents section. We recommend, requesting and uploading any missing or incomplete documents as soon as possible. PDF

For Submittable instructions, click here.

For All Businesses

2019 Federal Business Tax Return
Filed return for 2019, including all required schedules.Make sure the returns you submit are not password-protected -- especially returns prepared by a CPA.
Certificate of Good Standing or Business Certificate(DBA)
You must have one or the other:
- For Corporations, LLCs and Partnerships: the Certificate of Good Standing is from the Secretary of the Commonwealth's office, NOT the Department of Revenue. Double-check your document here to see if you have the right one.
- For Sole Proprietors: The Business Certificate (DBA) from your city or town.
  If you didn't submit and don't have one of the certificates above, you must apply for one NOW to get it in time! You will need it to complete this application.
Business License
If applicable to your business or industry, submit a copy of your license to operate, business license or professional certification. If you are a day care and provided a business license instead of a DBA, that is not enough. You still need to provide a DBA.
IRS Form W-9
You can find it here. Remember to sign your W-9 before uploading it. Sole Proprietors: use your Social Security Number (SSN). Corporations: use your EIN.

For the "Businesses with 50 or Fewer Employees" Grant

2019 Federal Personal Tax Returns for All Business Owners
Filed 2019 form 1040 with all schedules for all business owners with 20% or greater ownership

For the "Businesses with 5 or Fewer Employees" Grant

2019 Federal Personal Tax Returns
File 2019 returns for each business owner, including all required schedules

Do NOT Worry About Adding These Documents:

Income Verification
Business Lease or Mortgage Bill
Invoices for Costs You Want to Fund

These documents are not required for this curing process.

How to Use Submittable.com

STEP 1: Go to the application portal: https://manager.submittable.com/login
STEP 2: Sign into your application. If you forgot your password, click "Forgot?" and you will get an email to reset your password
STEP 3: At the top bar, click on the "Submissions" tab.
STEP 4: Under "My Submissions" click on the name of your company (which should be underlined).
STEP 5: Click on the Forms tab (third from the left).
STEP 6: Scroll down to find your uploaded documents.
STEP 7: Identify missing documents.
Examples: Certificate of Good Standing or DBA (see above).
If you choose, you can download ALL of your uploaded documents, making sure they are up to date.
STEP 8: Review ALL of your uploaded documents, making sure they are up-to-date, legible, and complete.
For example: Check for all pages of tax returns with schedules, fix a W-9 without the EIN or with the wrong EIN.
STEP 10: Click on the purple button "Edit"
STEP 11: If needed, upload missing documents.
STEP 12: If needed, delete incomplete documents and upload new complete documents.
STEP 13: Once you have completed steps 11 and 12, you will be ready to complete your application.

For a PDF, click here.
PDF y instrucciones en español aqui.

Technical Assistance & Outreach Partners

We at LISC (Local Initiatives Support Corporation) are a nonprofit organization coordinating a group of nonprofit-organizations to help applicants of the MGCC Grant program. Our coalition of partners cannot see your application, confirm your application is complete, or guarantee you will receive funding.

In October 2020, Governor Charlie Baker announced $50.8 million in emergency funds would be made available for small businesses. An additional $668 million was announced on December 23rd, after over 11,000 applications were received for that grant program. Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation (MGCC) is administering these funds and other funds to businesses experiencing economic hardship and a loss of income due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

LISC with more than 40 community partners across the Commonwealth recognize the significant language and technology barriers many minority-owned businesses may face in applying for these grants. Business support organizations (BSOs) across the Commonwealth arelready to provide help to businesses for the MGCC grant application.

Launched October 2020

Contact

Doug Ling, LISC & Massachusetts Small Business Grants