Royal Caribbean Grant Application

Royal Caribbean Group Local Business Support Grant

Welcome! Please fill in the following information entirely for funding consideration. Please understand that filling out the following form does not guarantee funding. Make sure you have read the selection criteria before applying.

You are encouraged to participate even if you have received support from another funder or via fiscal incentives such as tax breaks. You can only submit ONE application per business. Completing this form will take 15-20 minutes.

About You

1. First Name(s) *

2. Last Name(s) *

3. Sex *

Female
Male
Other

4. Date of Birth

5. Phone Number/WhatsApp Number

Phone Country Code

Country Code

Cellphone Number *

Cellphone

6. Email Address *

7. Royal Caribbean contact person's name *

About your business

8. Business name *

9. Business license number or tax ID *

10. Business Address *

Address Line 1

City *

City

Country *

Country

Zipcode *

Zip/Post Code

11. Business Website URL

12. Twitter

13. Facebook

14. Instagram

15. Select which category best represents your business *

Explain business category

16. In which month and year was your business established?

Established Month *

Month

Established Year *

Year

17. When did you start to work with Royal Caribbean and/or its customers?

First worked with Royal Caribbean - Month *

Month

First worked with Royal Caribbean - Year *

Year

18. Describe in detail your relationship and services provided to Royal Caribbean and its customers before the pandemic. *

Include a complete description of frequency and type of service provided.

19. On average, how many Royal Caribbean tourists would you say you served weekly during high season, pre-pandemic? *

0-50
50-100
100-500
500-1000
More than 1000

20. How would you define your business before the pandemic considering the number of years in business, size and revenue? *

Seed/start-up (Your main priority is to find and obtain customers, develop a product or service, and build a brand identity).
Growing (You have a solid business model, your consumers know about your product or service. Your revenue was increasing before COVID-19).
Maturing (Rapid year-over-year growth and a solid core of employees).
Declining (Your business has seen several months of declining revenue and you had to let go employees).
Changing/reinventing (You found a creative way to keep your business afloat despite the external challenges).

21. Have you received any relief funding from another source? *

Provide details of the amount, funder, dates and objective. *

22. Do you have a relationship with the following stakeholders? Please check all that apply. *

Chamber of Commerce
Banks
Local professional network
B2B
None/NA

23. How many employees do you have, including yourself? *

1-4
5-9
10-19
20-39
40 or more

24. What percentage of your employees are from the local community? *

0-25%
26-50%
51-75%
76-100%

25. What was your business net revenue in 2019 in USD (approx)? *

26. What was your business net revenue in 2020 in USD (approx)? *

27. What percentage of your net income is dependent on cruise tourism? *

0-25%
26-50%
51-75%
76-100%

28. What is the primary challenge that you are facing with your business currently? *

29. What are other challenges that you are facing? (Check all that apply)

Lower sales/revenue
Debt
Bankruptcy
Operating with less staff
Not able to open due to local restrictions
Lower supply of essential goods/services
Other

Please explain.

30. How is your business primarily keeping afloat? *

31. What are other ways in which your business is keeping afloat? Check all that apply.

Sales/Services
Savings
Personal Debt
Loans
Private Funds
Public Funds

32. How did COVID impact your business? *

33. What have you done to keep your business afloat? *

34. Do you plan to provide services to Royal Caribbean and its customers in 2022? *

Yes
Maybe
No

About the Grant

35. Grant amount requested *

Please note that this amount should be consistent with your plan. The grants range between $3,000 to 75,000 USD. Size of the business, revenue, strategic value, and impact will be considered for validating the request.

36. What would be the primary use you would give to the funds received through this grant? *

Pay down loans
Invest in operating costs (such as rent, equipment, insurances)
Retain employees (payroll)
Other

Please explain:

37. How many persons would you help with this grant and in what ways? *

38. Let us know in less than 200 words how this grant will help you boost your business and ensure it is ready to resume supporting cruise activities. *

Submission Agreement

Thank you for participating! We will carefully review your application and assess it. If you are selected, we will reach out to you and you will need to provide evidence of the information stated on this application, including but not limited to the business' last 3 bank statements. PADF will be responsible for the decision based on the present criteria and their decision will be final. You will need to agree on the following statement:

I understand that my information will be used only for the purpose of this program. However, if selected, I agree on completing and sending a report with information about the usage of the grant I received and the impact it had for my business, as well as 3 to 5 representative images. I give my authorization to Royal Caribbean and PADF to use the information I provided on the usage of the grant and my images to promote their actions on their marketing channels. *

I accept

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