Business and Economic Development

Awarding women’s business grants

Invests in the professional advancement and career growth of high potential, professional women, with a particular focus on women of color who are further underrepresented in leadership positions

Will enable the company to validate key assumption(s) and catalyze the development of the business

Dedicated to recognizing women impact entrepreneurs at the forefront of scientific and technological innovation. Open to women entrepreneurs from any country and sector, this award highlights disruptive solutions built around unique, protected, or hard-to-reproduce technological or scientific advances that require heavy R&D, a long commercialization cycle, high capital intensity, technology risk, and complexity

To help jewelry entrepreneurs create a strategy to kick-start their careers

Strengthen the supports that allow minority and women-owned small businesses to become more financially sustainable and resilient by eliminating structural barriers to growth, and improving knowledge sharing, collaboration and innovation within the small business ecosystem

Offers rebate program on gas appliance purchase and gas discounts for qualifying businesses

By partnering with economic development agencies, electric cooperatives are supporting job creation and businesses seeking to start, expand or relocate

Enhancing small businesses with unique ideas

Rebate program for energy-efficient upgrades to energy-efficient equipment and save every day

Dare County Tourism Board’s Tourism Impact Grant (TIG) program was established to financially assist Dare County Governmental Units and other Non-profit Organizations with programs or services needed due to the impact of tourism on the County

Duke Energy provides free energy assessments to small businesses and recommends lighting, refrigeration and HVAC