A new grant has opened up in part from the Jeff Lawrence Innovation Fund, and FuzeHub, a nonprofit organization that serves as the statewide New York Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NYMEP) center, supported by Empire State Development’s Division of Science, Technology & Innovation - NYSTAR. This COVID-19 Manufacturing Grant will be spread across six companies who will share in a total of $400,000 in grant money available to produce N95 masks and manufacture ventilators.

Companies must be based in New York State, have fewer than 500 employees across the entire firm or enterprise worldwide, and must meet other requirements.

The grant is designed to aid existing New York State small- to medium-sized manufacturing companies that can meet prevailing FDA requirements and can quickly accelerate production of personal protective equipment and respiratory care equipment that has been depleted due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

These grants serve as a resource to assist manufacturers with increasing capacity in current operations as well as to pivot production in an effort to build and assemble these critical need items: specifically, N95 respirators and ventilators.

There Are 2 Award Tracks

$50K Awards to four companies: Goal is to increase manufacturing capacity of qualifying personal protective equipment, specifically N95 respirators.

$100K Awards to two companies: Goal is to increase manufacturing capacity of qualifying respiratory care equipment, specifically ventilators.

Apply online here. Deadline is Friday, April 17, 2020.

This opportunity was promoted in the Dutchess Business Notification Network.