This morning Stephen Chychota announced a gift card program to help local businesses during the pandemic.
Chychota phoned into the Al Morning Show to make the big announcement this morning.
“Super excited about this, we have currently 25,000 dollars in monies to put toward a gift card program. So, trying to support businesses heavily impacted by COVID and get some money directly to them in this way.”
$10,000 is coming from the chamber, another $10,000 is from the City of Dauphin, and $5,000 has been contributed by the Dauphin Community Foundation.
Chychota says they’re branching out to everyone with the program, but the details are still evolving.
“This is also a program that’s not just chamber member specific. But I think the program will allow that we’ll spend maybe a little bit more when we go to a chamber member location. Because they are putting money into us with their memberships and any other programs that they participate, so we’ll probably end up putting a little more back into the chamber members than non-chamber members. But, this pandemic branches to everyone, so we’ve got to look after everybody as best as we can. So, all businesses are included.”
The gift card distribution model hasn’t been determined yet and Chychota says to watch out for anything.
Chychota says they're open to having any other businesses or organization, that's doing really well right now, help with the program.
