Boost Your Shop’s Social-Media Presence by Applying to Our Get Social Grant Program
November 1, 2022
If you are looking to boost your small business’s social-media presence, the Downtown Alliance has launched Get Social. The program is an opportunity for 10 Lower Manhattan storefronts to receive seven free sessions with a social media consultant and a $1,500 advertising grant. If your small business is accepted into the program, the Alliance will work with you and a social-media manager to identify your goals, develop strategies to enhance your social-media presence, organize an all-paid photoshoot of your business and launch a paid advertising plan with $1,500 distributed to you in two installments during the course of the program.
This program is an effort to help you make your storefront more accessible to a broader range of customers and to develop your online skills as a business owner. Sessions will begin in January, 2023, and run through March, with a follow-up session offered between March 31 – June 30, 2023.
Please note an additional Get Social cycle will be offered in Summer 2023. If you would prefer to have consulting sessions from May – July instead, please consider applying when applications open next spring.
To apply for the current grant, fill out the application below. (Mail-in paper applications may be requested from the Downtown Alliance Director of Storefront Business Engagement.) The deadline for submission is November 30, 2022. By signing this application, the winner agrees to be featured in marketing and promotional materials for the Downtown Alliance. Only small businesses that are located within the boundaries of the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Business Improvement District are eligible. Please review the terms and conditions before submitting this application.
