last week’s report that nearly a fifth of US venue owners who applied for the federal Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) were rejected, the Small Business Administration (SBA) has now invited those affected to appeal their outcomes.Billboard reports that venues turned away from the funding initiative – to which the US government has allocated over (£11.5billion) $16billion – will have two weeks to appeal their cases, during which time the funds, comprising up to $10million per grant, will be preserved.More than 3,000 venues had their owners’ applications for the SVOG rejected, with no formal reasoning provided as to why.
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