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June 17, 2020
PPP Loan Forgiveness – New Guidance

The SBA has published a couple of new loan forgiveness applications the long form and the EZ form.  Along with those applications came instructions and it’s there that we will find some new information that is worth discussing....

June 17, 2020
PPP Loan Forgiveness – Schedule C With No Employees

For Schedule C businesses with no employees you get to use the new Form 3508EZ which is pretty simple.  I would expect that you should be getting 100% forgiveness. ...

June 17, 2020
EZ Loan Forgiveness Application for PPP Loans

The SBA just published a Form 3508EZ which is the PPP Loan Forgiveness Application, in a simpler, easier to use format.  It’s much shorter and it can be used for people in the simpler situations who are probably on track for 100% loan forgiveness....

June 5, 2020
Webinar Recording: PPP Loan Game Changer

Good news!  The House and Senate have now passed a bill which is expected to be signed by the President this week.  It makes huge changes to the PPP Loans and will have a huge impact on the PPP Loan Forgiveness.  One highlight is a change from 8 to 24 weeks but there are ...

May 27, 2020
To Survive the Current Crisis, Your Nonprofit Needs Multiple Revenue Sources

One of the strongest predictors of a not-for-profit’s long-term survival is multiple revenue streams.  Nonprofits need multiple revenue sources. Many organizations with only one or two found that out the hard way when they failed during the 2008 recession. The same is lik...

May 23, 2020
Plenty of Funding Still Available for PPP Loans – as of 5/22/2020

As of May 22, 2020, the Small Business Administration (SBA) was estimating that approximately $140 Billion dollars are still available in the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) for small businesses. If you were not submitting your application for the PPP loan due to rumors t...

May 20, 2020
Webinar Recording: PPP Loan Forgiveness – The Application

This past weekend the SBA released the PPP Loan Forgiveness Application. Join Boyum Barenscheer's COVID-19 resource team for this webinar as we dive into the application and how it changes the rules related to owner compensation, FTE counts, the 8-week covered period, non-pa...

May 18, 2020
Top 10 Things Nonprofits Need to Know About PPP Loans (as of May 18, 2020 anyway)

SBA came out with the PPP forgiveness application late Friday, which provides some of the guidance that we’ve been waiting for since the program started in late March. Plan to watch our webinar on Tuesday for more details....

May 13, 2020
Fixing Your PPP Loan That Was Too Low

Guidance on PPP loans has been a whirlwind to say the least.  Many people submitted applications based on the rules at the time, and then had the rules change after the fact.  The SBA just published new guidance on May 13thwhich will allow some of those situations to be re...

May 13, 2020
Proposals in Congress – What Might be Coming

Since the CARES Act passed in late March Congress has been silent. Now the Congress is starting to work on a new phase of legislation and potentially clean up some of the issues that came out of the CARES Act.  All of these are just proposals, but it will give you an idea o...

May 13, 2020
Good News from the SBA on PPP Certification

Good news from the SBA this morning on PPP loans.  They said that PPP loans less than $2 million will have been deemed to have made the required good faith certifications regarding the necessity for the loan request.  Below is the entire Frequently Asked Question guidance ...

May 13, 2020
Is Your Nonprofit’s Tap Running Dry?

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis has put enormous financial stress on many not-for-profits — whether they’re temporarily shut down or actively fighting the pandemic. If your nonprofit cash flow slowed down or stopped, your organization may need to do more than tri...