The Resiliency Fund-City of Dayton- Community Opportunity Grant Fund


The Resiliency Fund- Operational Emergency Relief Grant Fund is designed to support black and brown minority businesses that need funding to help stabilize and/or address an immediate hardship in their business. The focus of these funds is to support smaller minority businesses that are continuing to operate and plan to operate for the remaining calendar year of 2024 in the City of Dayton (Corporate Limits)

This Operational Emergency Grant level is $2,500.00 for eligible businesses.

There will be 15 total applications accepted and ONLY 12 applications will be randomly selected for this period. (Once the application pool is filled the application portal will be closed)


Eligible Black and Brown minority business applicants will submit the required documentation through the application portal that will be provided. Submission of this application does not guarantee approval or selection. All applicants that receive funding will be required to work with a partner Technical Assistance provider. Please review the required documents needed if selected. Please submit the required information as requested.

Only choose one grant offering to apply for each month eligible. If you are not selected, you will have to complete a separate application for each month that you apply. If you are selected to receive a Resiliency Fund Grant Award, you are NOT ELIGIBLE for any other future grant offerings in the calendar year.  



The Resiliency Fund is provided by the Miami Valley Urban League (MVUL) and is administered by the Greater Cincinnati Microenterprise Initiative (GCMI).



All communication for these Grant offerings will be by email only initially. Please submit communication through the application portal or application portal email address.