'I'm Pregnant and My Business Just Collapsed'

I’ve spent the past five years building my own catering company, and before COVID-19 hit, things were really taking off. I do events for big corporate clients, and I was expecting to pull in about $100,000 in March — one of my busiest months ever. Then it was like a switch flipped, and everything was canceled in a matter of days. I rent my own kitchen space in New York, and there was no way I could afford to keep it running. So I had to close my doors, cut off gas and electricity, tell all my contractors that their work was canceled, and let my one full-time employee go so that he could collect unemployment. My landlord was super sympathetic and put my rent on hold for three months, which is really lucky. But who knows how long this will last. Are there any grants or relief funds for self-employed people like me? What about zero-interest loans that I can take out to restart things once it’s safe to do so? There’s a lot of overhead involved in catering, so it’ll be expensive to start over again. I just don’t know what to do. 

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