We’re All Innovating Contest celebrates small business creativity amid COVID-19 pandemic

WEDC is sponsoring the We’re All Innovating Contest to recognize and promote the creative ways startups and small businesses are adapting to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The contest aims to provide funding for both new and existing companies that have introduced innovations responding to direct health and economic impacts of COVID-19; launching new innovations, including business models and best practices for operating during COVID-19; and providing access to capital statewide, including rurally located and ethnically diverse entrepreneurs. Deadline to apply is Oct 18th. Click here to read more.

We’re All In Small Business Grants (Second Round)

Applications open Oct. 19 for second round of We’re All In Small Business Grants. WEDC will distribute an additional $50 million to small businesses hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic in the second round of We’re All In Small Business Grants, which open for applications Oct. 19. Click here to read more.