SANTA ANA, Calif.—Orange County microbusinesses, like street vendors and mom-and-pop shops, who began operating before 2020 and were “significantly” impacted by the COVD-19 pandemic can now apply for a one-time $2,500 grant until mid-March. “These are the people that were left behind in those other funding opportunities, and we’re really trying to make an effort to ensure that they are first to get served under this grant,” Carma Lacy, director of Workforce and Economic Development for Orange County, told The Epoch Times. The Microbusiness COVID-19 Relief Grant Program was created last year by California’s Office of the Small Business Advocate within the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development. It aims to prioritize those micro-businesses in the state’s 58 counties who didn’t qualify for other pandemic era grants, such as the 1.2 million California businesses that received loans through the Paycheck Protection Program or additional funding through the CARES Act. …