The Saratoga County Capital Resources Corp. has donated $10,000 to the Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce’s Save Our Locals campaign.
The funds will be used to create a help line for use by businesses in Saratoga County during the pandemic, as well as to create boosted social media posts and videos to promote hundreds of local independently owned businesses, officials said.
The Save Our Locals campaign will also include a new take out promotion to support area restaurants and an online gift card promotion to support local shops, stores, salons and spas, florists and home goods, wineries, breweries, hotels and any other Saratoga County business that sells gift cards online.
“The Capital Resources Corp.’s board of directors voted unanimously to support this Save Our Locals campaign,” said Anita Daly, corporation chair. “We all realize just how important it is to help our local independently owned firms across all of Saratoga County as they face restrictions and limitations to stop the spread of COVID-19.
“The leadership provided by the Chamber for all businesses across Saratoga County during this pandemic provided our board with the confidence to know that they will use these funds wisely to help the businesses we love to survive this crisis.”
The Chamber launched the Save Our Locals campaign in October.
“We were looking to raise at least $10,000 for the Save Our Locals campaign,” said Todd Shimkus, president of the Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce. “Every dime we raise will be used to promote and inform local businesses who need a boost during this pandemic whether they are a Chamber member or not.”
Local businesses interested in joining or taking advantage of the Save Our Local campaign can visit www.saratoga.org and to click the Save Our Locals button.
They can also send an email to info@saratoga.org to ask to be included in the boosted social media posts, the take out promotion or the online gift card promotion.
The Chamber’s local SCORE volunteers are also switching from providing virtual one-on-one counseling to startups to helping local businesses to adapt to the pandemic.
Local businesses can sign up to receive weekly emails about the Save Our Locals campaign and to stay informed as state protocols change or new programs are launched of value to businesses across Saratoga County.
The Saratoga County Capital Resources Corp. is a local nonprofit development company that provides low-interest rate, tax-exempt and taxable debt financing to nonprofits and other organizations. The activities of the Saratoga County Capital Resource cover all of the towns, cities and villages in Saratoga County.
The organization is able to assist existing non-profits and for-profit private sector organizations already located within the county, or organizations outside the county that want to move into Saratoga County or branch out to one of the communities within our borders.