SupplyRI would like to highlight our Business Adaptation Grant awardees for demonstrating a proclivity for the resiliency and adaptation necessary to weather the COVID-19 pandemic. The Business Adaptation Grant Program was designed to assist companies dramatically constrained and significantly impacted by the public health emergency resulting from the COVID 19 pandemic. The program successfully awarded $3.5 million in relief to approximately 109 local businesses.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on our small business community, forcing companies to do business in a completely different way. As part of our CARES Act Restore RI programming, we were able to provide funding to struggling businesses to support efforts to pivot their business models, developing new products and new ways to deliver services to their customer,” said Rhode Island Commerce Managing Director of Innovation Christine M.B. Smith. “From turning favorite restaurant dishes into consumer packaged products to expanding virtual platforms, these companies are finding ways to not only survive but to thrive for the long term.”