{"id":14296,"date":"2025-02-04T08:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T13:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/?p=14296"},"modified":"2025-02-04T08:36:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T13:36:34","slug":"grants-for-qualified-women-owned-small-businesses-in-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/grants-for-qualified-women-owned-small-businesses-in-connecticut\/","title":{"rendered":"Grants for &#8220;Qualified Women-Owned small businesses in Connecticut."},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong><em>\u00a0**WBDC shared this information which we think may be helpfully to some of Our Members<\/em><\/strong>.<\/div>\n<h2><strong>Women\u2019s Business Development Council offers grants of up to $10,000 to qualified women-owned small businesses in Connecticut.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Ignite is designed to help women-owned businesses grow! Grants between $2,500 and $10,000 will be awarded for clearly defined projects that will have a measurable impact on the business, its growth and profitability.<\/p>\n<p>The grant funds\u00a0cannot\u00a0be used towards operating expenses (e.g.\u00a0inventory, on-going marketing expenses, salaries), real estate improvements (e.g.\u00a0construction costs), reimbursement for past purchases or debt repayment.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants are required to have invested at least $2,500 into their business in the last 12 months, unless located in a distressed municipality.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bloomfieldchamber.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=54fce16ce6c8779b728a399a1&amp;id=36b998a84b&amp;e=5f25300780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/bloomfieldchamber.us18.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D54fce16ce6c8779b728a399a1%26id%3D36b998a84b%26e%3D5f25300780&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1738761687686000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3WiqmHiK8-cBxAEAysfNWC\">Apply Now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The deadline to submit an application is March 10th, 11:59PM.<\/p>\n<p>This is a competitive process and WBDC may not be able to fund all applicants.<\/p>\n<p>To Know More about <strong>Women\u2019s Business Development Council<\/strong> please visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ctwbdc.org\/about\/mission\/\">https:\/\/ctwbdc.org\/about\/mission\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1349\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1349\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Sunset.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Sunset-130x98.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Sunset-185x140.jpg 185w, https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Sunset-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Sunset-628x471.jpg 628w, https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Sunset-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Sunset.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;East Windsor &#8220;Where the Sun&#8221;Rises on Business and Community<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0**WBDC shared this information which we think may be helpfully  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":true,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14298,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14296\/revisions\/14298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastwindsorchamber.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}