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On Tuesday, the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce hosted Sparkyard on their Leadership webinar series. Sparkyard connects a large network of primarily nonprofit service providers offering a wide variety of business-building services for small businesses. They facilitate the linking of these resource organizations to one another and to established, emerging, startups, and small businesses throughout the region.

Their network resource partners provide a wide range of business-related services, including:

• Business Planning
• Loans/Financing
• Investors
• Marketing/Sales
• Licenses/Permits
• Startups
• Product Development
• Training Classes
• Government Contracts
• Operations
• Incubator/Accelerator Programs
• Events

For more information contact Sparkyard at (682) 351-2563, or email them at info@sparkyard.co

All Fort Worth ISD schools are closed until further notice. Students will remain at home, receiving online instruction. Learn more at: https://www.fwisd.org/COVID-19

The City of Fort Worth issued a Stay at Home Declaration in response to COVID-19. The declaration went into effect March 24, 2020 at 11:59pm and runs through April 3rd. 

Individuals may leave their residence for essential travel/ essential activities. Here is a link to the City of Fort Worth COVID-19 website with declaration details: http://fortworthtexas.gov/COVID-19/

Are you looking for job opportunities? Workforce Solutions of Tarrant County can help. As employers are contacting them with immediate job openings, Workforce Solutions is posting job opportunities to its newly created Jobs Now! Page.  There are new openings from: Albertsons / Tom Thumb, Amazon.com, Android, FedEx Ground, Link Staffing, OnTrack Staffing, Oriental Building Services, Texas Workforce Commission, Utex Industries and Walmart.

If you are an employer who would like to have your openings added to this page, please email the Business Services Team at: business.services@workforcesolutions.net

The Texas Restaurant Association announced the establishment of the TX Restaurant Relief Fund (TRRF) to get immediate financial relief for these restaurants as they await federal relief and access to SBA disaster loans.  Learn more at: https://mailchi.mp/txrestaurant.org/txrestaurantrelieffund