Music venues hopeful after SBA finally begins taking SVOG grant applications

Hope returned for struggling indie music venues and agents Monday wafter the SBA finally began taking applications for desperately needed Shuttered Venue Operating Grants (SVOG) after multiple false starts.

A little over two weeks ago, the SBA SVOG portal crashed on opening day before taking a single application.

Hypebot talked to several dozen venues and agents Monday afternoon who had completed the SVOG application process within 2 hours or less of the portal opening. While some found the questions unclear, few reported technical glitches.

Just completed a sample test run of the #SVOG application @SBAgov to see if content errors have been corrected. Looks good so far. (Note: @ArtsActionFund is not eligible to apply, just kicking the tires as a member service). Please let me know if you run into any problems.
— Nina Ozlu Tunceli (@Nina4Arts) April 26, 2021

It was super smooth sailing this time. It seems like everyone who has submitted so far is still waiting on confirmation emails and for the completed apps to get posted in the portal itself. But the system assigned app # and shows a confirmation screen at end.
— Jen Canole (@jecinri) April 26, 2021

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Bruce Houghton on 04/27/2021 in Live & Touring | Permalink | Comments (0)

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