{"id":157,"date":"2020-04-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calchurches.planetpov.com\/impact\/index.php\/2020\/04\/17\/remember-the-ppp-loans-to-grants-its-already-out-of-money\/"},"modified":"2020-04-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T00:00:00","slug":"remember-the-ppp-loans-to-grants-its-already-out-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/2020\/04\/17\/remember-the-ppp-loans-to-grants-its-already-out-of-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember the PPP loans-to-grants?\u00a0 It&#8217;s already out of money"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0, 0, 0)\">Dear Friends:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0, 0, 0)\">We told you last week about the PPP\u00a0 Paycheck Protection Program, that would convert the Small Business Association loans to grants if used to protect the income of your employees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0, 0, 0)\">Today we have to tell you to wait on this; the entire program is out of funds.\u00a0 There have been no explanations why.\u00a0 We are waiting for someone to explain where the money has gone and why there wasn&#8217;t enough.\u00a0 If you started a loan, there&#8217;s no telling where it stands.\u00a0 Best bet is to check with your lender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0, 0, 0)\">However, Congress is demanding an explanation, and we think you deserve one as well.\u00a0 Please work with your House Representative, never mind the party, to insist on both an accounting of the funding and to equally insist the program be extended and sufficiently well funded.\u00a0 This is money for small business, for profit and non profit, and for employees.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not disposable but essential.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0, 0, 0)\">To contact your Representative and Senators, go to IMPACT activism pages\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.votervoice.net\/BroadcastLinks\/XEgXYthWa-IHCLCLGpCKZg\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0, 0, 0)\">The Senators are taking turns being in Washington DC, so contact the local office near you to see whether to call the national capitol offices.\u00a0 House district offices will, however, help you with the status of loans and advocacy, and they are a great place to start.\u00a0 You will find local phone numbers on the IMPACT links.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0, 0, 0)\">If and when we learn anything more, we will let you know. \u00a0<\/span>\u200b<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends: We told you last week about the PPP\u00a0 Paycheck Protection Program, that would convert the Small Business Association loans to grants if used &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/2020\/04\/17\/remember-the-ppp-loans-to-grants-its-already-out-of-money\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}