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News from the Goolag Since 2006 ~ A survival guide to the creative apocalypse: We follow issues and opinion important to professional creators. Data is the new exposure.

Tag: Small Business Administration

Written by Chris CastleApril 11, 2021April 11, 2021

Here to Help: Small Business Administration’s Shuttered Venue Operator’s Grant Portal is Still Down

The SBA SVOG applications are a disaster but rest assured–it’s Washington so no one will be held accountable.

Written by Chris CastleApril 8, 2021April 8, 2021

SBA Inspector General Report: Serious Concerns About SBA’s Control Environment and the Tracking of Performance Results in the #SaveOurStages/Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Program

The SVOG program is turning into a classic Washington disaster.

Written by Chris CastleDecember 22, 2020

Update: @nivassoc Press Release on Passing of Save Our Stages Legislation

Save Our Stages Act just passed as part of the COVID-19 Relief Bill!  Thank you for helping to #SaveOurStages! You responded in an overwhelming fashion. NIVA thanks those across the country who sent 2.1 million emails to their elected officials expressing their support for the Save Our Stages Act. All 535 Congresspeople heard from their […]

Written by Editor CharlieApril 13, 2020April 13, 2020

Save the Date: April 16, UGA Artist Rights Symposium II Music in the Time of the Virus

The second Artist Rights Symposium is back at the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia at Athens.  Instead of a two-day in person event, the Symposium is going to be one topic a week for April and may extend into May and June.  The panels will be recorded and videos posted.  Videos […]

Written by Chris CastleMarch 28, 2020March 28, 2020

Small Business Administration Disaster Loans for Artists and Songwriters

Artists often overlook the fact that they are running a small business and they do it old school–if you don’t make, you don’t make.  Cash basis taxpayers.  And speaking of taxpayers, the time of year you realize that you are running a small business is right about now at tax time. So in the current […]

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