A new Pennsylvania grant program known as CHIRP, which offers grants to hospitality businesses hurt by COVID-19 shutdowns, opens for applicants.

Small businesses in York County may see some relief soon, as they are now eligible to apply for a COVID-19 Hospitality Industry Recovery Program (CHIRP) grant.

In Allegheny County, over $15 million in CHIRP funds from the state were distributed to 642 businesses, preserving 8,620 jobs.

On Tuesday, March 2 Gov. Wolf announced plans for the disbursement of $145 million in restaurant relief via the Hospitality Industry Recovery Program.

Reading restaurants Mi Casa Su Casa and The Peanut Bar were among the most recent recipients of some of the state funding as part of the CHIRP program.

The state made about five million dollars available to York through what’s called the COVID-19 Hospitality Industry Recovery Program or ‘CHIRP’.

These 174 Berks food and hospitality businesses got CHIRP grants Grants ranging from $5,000 to $50,000 were awarded to restaurants, hotels and other hospitality businesses.

The stringent security measures SES followed in the CHIRP program may serve as “an information assurance template” for future hosted payload programs, Osterthaler said in a March 19 email.

Panelists discuss lessons learned from CHIRP program about information assurance, interagency cooperation.