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Rebound Roundtable: Small Business Owners Discuss Pandemic Struggles, Successes
Small businesses have struggled mightily during the pandemic. In the series “Rebound,” small business owners documented their struggles during the pandemic. Now, they have come together to discuss what they learned over the past six months.
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South Florida Travel Basketball Business Rebounds Amid Pandemic
Next Step Training, a program based in Weston, has had to face many challenges amid COVID-19 — but through hard work, persistence and dedication, they’ve found ways to keep their business alive.
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On The Rebound: ‘By the Time the Fall Gets Here We're Going to Run Out of Money'
What’s the next move? What’s the right step? For small business owners looking to pivot and keep their businesses afloat those are just two of countless critical decisions that will mean the difference between survival or shuttering their doors for good. In our series ‘Rebound,’ we spotlight a handful of small business owners across the country dealt a crippling...
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On The Rebound: How These Small Businesses Are Finding Renewed Purpose in a COVID-19 Environment
What’s the next move? What’s the right step? For small business owners looking to pivot and keep their businesses afloat those are just two of countless critical decisions that will mean the difference between survival or shuttering their doors for good. In our series ‘Rebound,’ we spotlight a handful of small business owners across the country dealt a crippling...
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‘You're Playing With Our Lives': For Businesses on the Rebound the Next Step is Always the Most Critical
For Jeannine Cook, the proprietor of Harriet’s Bookshop in Philadelphia, concerns of late have gone beyond her bookstores survival and toward her own personal safety after receiving a slew of threatening emails.
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‘Learning From This Experience': Small Businesses Deal With Uncertain Future
The Seacoast Repertory Theatre pushes for legislation to help the arts, Luella’s Southern Kitchen tries to keep their staff employed as budgets tighten and L.A. Dogworks continue to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic by instituting new changes.
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Rebound: Behind the Scenes as Businesses Try to Bounce Back from the Pandemic
Forced to shutter their doors when COVID-19 hit, small businesses across America were faced with a tough question: “How do we survive?” As shutdowns and restrictions continue to create hurdles for small business owners all over the country, there’s been no shortage of creativity. From a small local theater in New Hampshire streaming burlesque shows online, to a Brooklyn...
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‘Learning How to Balance': Small Businesses Attempt to Juggle Budgets, Community Work
As COVID-19 restrictions are lifted in certain parts of New York state, Stratis and Robert grow frustrated with the government’s response to reopening indoor dining in New York City. Over in Philadelphia, Jeannine deals with a hateful e-mail from an anonymous bigot. Dwayne and Gabe prepare for a basketball tourney in Weston, Florida.
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‘Walking Into The Dark, Together': Small Businesses Find Glimmers of Hope Amid Pandemic
In an effort to improve revenue during COVID-19, Seacoast Repertory Theatre is making an unusual change: The struggling theater is putting on three shows at once instead of just one.
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‘Walking Into the Dark Together': Small Businesses Learning to Pivot
The Seacoast Repertory Theatre struggles financially as they pivot to small in-person and online performances, Luella’s Southern Kitchen deals with some changes to the supply chain and L.A. Dogworks discuss the financial implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and how they are trying to find ways to stay afloat, keep their staff working and evolve.
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‘Things Have to Change': Small Businesses Face Systemic Racism
Harriett’s Bookshop, Brooklyn Chop House and Next Step Training discuss being Black-owned businesses during the pandemic and trying to raise awareness about social justice.
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‘Figuring It Out As We Go,' Small Businesses Searching For Ways to Survive
Get to know the owners of Luella’s Southern Kitchen in Chicago, L.A. Dogworks in Los Angeles and the Seacoast Repertory Theatre in Portsmouth, N.H., as they tell us about their struggles during COVID-19 and how they have been working hard to stay afloat.
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‘We've Got to Continue to Evolve': South Florida Basketball Training Business Rebounds Amid Pandemic
Dwayne and Gabe Pean have been competing their entire lives. Whether it was playing card games like rummy or spades with their father, or seeing who could finish a book the fastest, the two brothers were always in some sort of head-to-head competition. That mentality followed them onto the basketball courts of youth centers across the country, where they found…
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‘Is This The Right Thing to Do?' Small Businesses Across America Find Ways To Thrive Amid Pandemic
A pandemic. A social justice movement. A nationwide call for change. Small businesses in America are operating during unprecedented times – but they aren’t letting COVID-19 stop them. How are they doing it?
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Has Your Small Business Been Impacted by COVID-19? We Want To Hear Your Stories
COVID-19 has impacted small businesses in many ways. Some have shuttered their doors completely. Others have changed their workflows to accommodate for changes brought about by coronavirus. And others simply don’t have the funds available to keep their businesses afloat after shutting down for several weeks and months. As the country slowly starts to reopen, we want to highlight...