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Backing Small Businesses.

Main Street America and American Express have offered grants to locally significant small businesses, but applications are currently closed.

Offered byMain Street Americaverified 2026-07-10

Overview

What it does.

The 2025 round provided $10,000 grants. The official page invites businesses to subscribe for future-round information but does not confirm that another application is open.

Best for: A locally important Chester small business prepared to document community reach and a specific resilience or growth project.

Eligibility

Who and what may qualify.

Eligible applicants

  • Locally significant small businesses meeting a future round's rules

Eligible uses

  • Projects promoting sustainable growth, long-term resilience, and local impact in the documented 2025 round

Application

How to start.

  1. Do not use the closed application.
  2. Subscribe to official small-business opportunity updates.
  3. Prepare business, community-impact, and project documentation for any future round.

Timing: The official page states that the grant application is closed and provides no next deadline.

Planning notes

Limits to account for.

  • No current grant round is open or guaranteed.
  • Future eligibility and uses may differ from 2025.

Future guidelines will control other funding combinations.

Evidence

Official sources.