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🌪 SBA Disaster Support for NC Businesses


The Small Business Administration (SBA) offers critical disaster support resources to help North Carolina businesses recover and rebuild following natural disasters.

  • Whether it's hurricanes, floods, or other emergencies, the SBA provides financial assistance, low-interest loans, and expert guidance to small businesses, nonprofits, and homeowners.

  • These resources aim to reduce the economic impact of disasters, enabling business owners to protect their operations and livelihoods while aiding in long-term recovery efforts across the state.

  • Confirm your eligibility here.

Types of available disaster loans

  • Home Disaster Loans: Loans to homeowners or renters to repair or replace disaster-damaged real estate and personal property, including automobiles.

  • Business Physical Disaster Loans: Loans to businesses to repair or replace disaster-damaged property owned by the business, including real estate, inventories, supplies, machinery and equipment. Businesses of any size are eligible. Private, non-profit organizations such as charities, churches, private universities, etc., are also eligible.

  • Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL): Working capital loans to help small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture, and most private, non-profit organizations of all sizes meet their ordinary and necessary financial obligations that cannot be met as a direct result of the disaster. These loans are intended to assist through the disaster recovery period.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online for a disaster loan. Please call us at 800‐659‐2955 or schedule an in-person appointment if you have any questions.

What DHS and FEMA are doing

What the U.S. government is doing

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Gastonia, NC 28052

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