Here is the most up-to-date information I have related to the Coronavirus and programs that could potentially help your business.

Information and applications are available for the CARES Act SBA loans (that may be forgivable if used for rent, health insurance or payroll expenses).

PLEASE CONTACT YOUR BANK OR EXISTING FINANCIAL INSTITUTION TO FIND OUT IF THEY ARE PROCESSING LOAN APPLICATIONS.

This is fast becoming the age of ZOOM and GOOGLE (both offering free online video chart platforms). 

Some of our friends have come up with clever ideas to get together despite the Coronavrus pandemic.

Thought about hosting a virtual happy hour with your friends online? How about a virtual dinner party? 

Here is the latest information available on COVID-19, the CARES Act to help businesses and individuals and resources (and fun) to help us get through together.

Please do everything you can to stop the spread of COVID-19. You are protecting our entire community by keeping yourself safe and secure in your home.

All Pasadena Chamber of Commerce networking events and activities for April, 2020 have been cancelled. This includes our Luncheon Alliance, Connection Breakfast and Pasadena Chambe After Hours Social and Mixer.

Congress passes $2 trillion stimulus package - will it help you?

The stimulus package is offering small businesses S.B.A.-backed loans to pay for basic expenses. They would not have to repay portions that were spent on paying employees, a mortgage, rent or utilities. The banks lending the money would be reimbursed for those portions by the Treasury Department, which is receiving $377 billion to fund the program.

Covid-19 Coronavirus Update-here is the latest information, help, assistance and more

Here is the most succinct and readily available analysis of the stimulus package

First, a little advice (from my own experience): If you have regularly scheduled email blasts, please check that you still want to send those and that the message is appropriate to the current situation, especially as it relates to business closures, safer at

Support your fellow Pasadena Chamber members. Below is information on restaurant members. Please get take-out, buy gift cards, do what you are able to help them stay open and in business. Likewise, many of your fellow Chamber members are reeling from closures, stay at home orders, lack (or complete loss) of business.

It is vitally important that we all heed the directives to stay home and/or maintain a safe distance from others.

At the Pasadena Chamber, our staff is working from home. If you are able, please do the same.

The Pasadena Chamber is still open. We are not taking any face-to-face meetings, hosting public events or ceremonies. We are also not able to accept walk-in visitors at our offices or meet members in our homes.

The Pasadena Public Health Department and the County of Los Angeles have revised their Safer at Home orders.

The Pasadena Public Health Department revised its Safer at Home order. Now excluded as essential businesses are personal grooming services. Hair and nail salons, barbers and others in that industry are ordered closed. Golf courses are also ordered closed throughout Los Angeles County.

Here is the revised list of essential businesses:

Huntington Hospital is in dire need of blood donations. The need for blood is ongoing, and we now experiencing a severe blood shortage. As the only trauma center in the entire San Gabriel Valley, we rely on your generosity in order to help us keep a full supply of blood. Your support is extremely valuable as it makes a huge difference in meeting the health needs of our community.