Small Businesses to Receive Duke Energy Grants

Friday, May 15, 2020 01:40 PM EDT Updated: Sunday, May 17, 2020 11:19 AM EDT
By Wes Mills
Small Businesses to Receive Duke Energy Grants (photo courtesy of Duke Energy)

Plainfield-based Duke Energy Foundation is awarding a total of $200,000 in grants to economic development organizations to help small businesses in the state.

Indiana economic development groups and municipalities will receive $5,000 grants and will then identify businesses in need of the funds, according to the foundation.

“These are challenging times, and the COVID-19 crisis has been particularly difficult for small companies,” said Duke Energy Indiana President Stan Pinegar. “These grants will support those businesses that are the backbone of the Hoosier communities we serve statewide.”

Duke said the new round of funding is in in addition to $100,000 the Duke Energy Foundation previously awarded to help food banks and other community action groups across Indiana address hunger and other urgent needs during the pandemic.

The businesses range from a city of Madison program offering its downtown businesses rent support, to a Brownstown tool supplier that committed to retaining and paying its employees during the pandemic.

The recipients include:

  • Aspire Johnson County
  • Bloomington Economic Development Corporation
  • Boone County Economic Development Corporation
  • City of Fishers
  • City of Madison Economic Development
  • City of Westfield
  • Crawford County Economic Development
  • Greensburg/Decatur County Economic Development Corporation
  • Economic Development Coalition of Southwest Indiana
  • Economic Development Group of Connersville and Fayette County
  • Fulton Economic Development
  • Gibson County Economic Development Corporation
  • Greater Columbus Economic Development Corporation & Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce
  • Greater Kokomo Economic Development Alliance
  • Greater Lafayette Commerce
  • Greencastle/Putnam County Development Center
  • Greene County Economic Development Corporation
  • Grow Wabash County
  • Hamilton County Economic Development Corporation
  • Harrison County Economic Development Corporation
  • Indy Chamber & Indy Partnership
  • Jackson County Industrial Development Corporation
  • Jennings County Economic Development Commission
  • Lawrence County Economic Growth Council
  • Martin County Alliance
  • New Castle Main Street & New Castle-Henry County Economic Development Corporation
  • Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership
  • One Dearborn
  • One Southern Indiana
  • Orange County Economic Development Partnership
  • Owen County Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Corporation
  • Pike County Economic Development Corporation
  • Purdue Research Foundation
  • Radius Indiana
  • Shelby County Development Corporation
  • Terre Haute Economic Development Corporation
  • Town of Brownsburg
  • Town of Plainfield
  • Union County Development Corporation
  • Washington County Economic Growth Partnership

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