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Ogden Newspapers Establishes $1M Fund to Help Local Businesses Recover From Coronavirus

WHEELING — Ohio Valley businesses can now apply for a grant to help them recover from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Ogden Newspapers Inc., the parent company of The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register, has established a $1 million fund to help local businesses get back to full strength by subsidizing local marketing efforts through matching advertising dollars.

“These are difficult times for our Ohio Valley, and by offering this $1 million grant program, we’re hoping that we can help local businesses tell their story as they work to keep their doors open,” Perry Nardo, general manager of The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register, said. “We live here, and we work here; we know businesses and workers are hurting; we’re hurting, too. But if we can pull together as a community, we can weather this storm.

“Here at The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register, we want to do everything we can to help everyone get through the pandemic and get back to work. With these matching grants, we can help local businesses strengthen their brand as they work to rebuild.”

Ohio Valley businesses can apply for a matching grant of up to $15,000 today at ogdennews.com/community-grant. Applicants will receive a response to their application within one to two business days.

The fund is open to all locally owned and operated businesses impacted by the coronavirus, Nardo said, whether or not they are current advertisers. Grant money can be used for local print and online advertising in The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register and also at theintelligencer.net between April 1 and June 30, 2020.

Erikka Storch, president of the Wheeling Area Chamber of Commerce, said the grant program will be beneficial to local businesses. She thanked the Nutting family, owners of the Ogden Newspapers, for creating a program to assist small, local businesses as they work through a difficult time.

“What a wonderful and giving initiative by the Nutting family. I’m sure all locally owned and operated businesses in each of the company’s markets will benefit from this generous act,” she said.

“A community newspaper is only as strong as the community it serves,” Robert Nutting, CEO of Ogden Newspapers, said. “As a family-owned business operating for almost 130 years, we have learned that the only way to pull through the hard times is to stand with your partners and customers. We are proud to offer this assistance to the local businesses that form the backbone of our communities.”

For more information and to apply, visit ogdennews.com/community-grant.

Ogden Newspapers operates more than 40 daily newspapers across the country, plus a number of weekly newspapers and a magazine division.

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