Weatherization Grants

Upper Peninsula Prosperity Alliance | Food Service Establishment

“We are accomplishing keeping our doors open longer, keeping our staff on payroll and continuing to service our community with a safer dining experience during the pandemic.  We are the only restaurant in town, so it is imperative that we keep our doors open and continue providing food service.  Our mission through this grant is to shield our customers from infectious airborne particles and keeping our community safe while reducing the spread.”

South Central Prosperity Region | Gym/Fitness Center

“I was able to provide an outdoor personal training temporary structure utilizing a large party tent… The tent provides enough space needed for me and my trainers to perform training for our clients. It has also opened up many time slots that we never had before. This is MUCH needed during these troubling times for many small businesses, especially the fitness industry.”

Southwest Prosperity Region | Food service establishment

“We were able to outfit our patio with 6 enclosures for outdoor dining (4 domes, a carport, and a greenhouse), electric heaters for each of them, over 1400lbs of sand for anchoring everything down, and it helped cover the seemingly endless amount of propane refills to keep our existing fire pits going. Additionally, we were able to purchase a hypochlorous acid generator and UV cold fogger to thoroughly sanitize these enclosures in between guests, which we are SUPER excited about since we take the health and safety of our staff and customers very seriously!  We will also be able to use this to sanitize our dining room each night once we return to indoor dining.”

South Central Prosperity Region | Non-profit Entity

“With the LEO Winterization Grant we created a Winterization Grant program for businesses in downtown Charlotte. Businesses could apply for as much as $1350 to support outdoor dining. We had six restaurants apply for these funds and they were used for outdoor seating, tenting, and heating. Now we have outdoor seating for almost 100 guests in downtown Charlotte.”

“We produced Window Theatre, where our actors – who are married, and could perform safely together – performed behind our lobby windows and the audience watched from the parking lot!  The grant was used to purchase outdoor speakers so the audience could hear the performers and the sound effects to create a safe place free from traffic for our audience.”

“Outdoor elements (wind/snow) and safely directing guests throughout the property are our biggest challenge, hence all the cones, salt, safety equipment, cameras for various locations, etc.   We should be able to create a really nice, safe and socially distant outdoor experience for guests.”

“The grant funding will allow accommodation for events outdoors while restrictions were in place under executive order. We were able to still host gatherings following all necessary precautions.  This included the outdoor space to host the events, dance floors, lighting, and heating when applicable.  We were able to maintain some level of normalcy for our clients where many other similar businesses were just not able to accommodate.“ 

“With the MDHHS orders we found we had to be creative in keeping our business afloat. We decided to turn our normal front entrance into a drive thru. We purchased a speaker, changed are parking to make it a drive thru, purchased flags to advertise and purchased to Toast to accommodate online ordering.“