{"id":65675,"date":"2026-05-12T21:22:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tvdelmarva.com\/wp\/delaware-awards-1-15m-to-local-small-businesses-in-edge-grant-competition\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:22:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:22:51","slug":"delaware-awards-1-15m-to-local-small-businesses-in-edge-grant-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvdelmarva.com\/wp\/delaware-awards-1-15m-to-local-small-businesses-in-edge-grant-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Delaware Awards $1.15M to Local Small Businesses in EDGE Grant Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Delaware small businesses celebrated major victories Tuesday evening as Governor Matt Meyer and the Delaware Division of Small Business revealed the recipients of the Spring 2026 EDGE 2.0 Grant Competition.<\/p>

The competitive funding program, which represents the Division’s premier pitch competition designed to foster business development and expansion opportunities, distributed nine awards worth a combined $1.15 million to local entrepreneurs.<\/p>

Delaware Technical Community College’s Owen Campus in Georgetown served as the venue for Tuesday night’s awards ceremony, where business owners learned their fate in the state’s flagship funding initiative known as EDGE – an acronym representing Encouraging Development, Growth and Expansion.<\/p>

The announcement generated considerable enthusiasm among attendees as the state continues its commitment to supporting small business growth throughout Delaware.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Governor Matt Meyer and the Delaware Division of Small Business revealed the recipients of the Spring 2026 EDGE 2.0 Grant Competition on Tuesday evening. Nine Delaware small businesses received awards totaling $1.15 million during a ceremony held at Delaware Technical Community College’s Georgetown campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":65674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[834,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tvdelmarva.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/news-1778635370908.png?fit=600%2C432&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbtNqq-h5h","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49093,"url":"https:\/\/tvdelmarva.com\/wp\/delaware-small-business-grant-competition-set-for-dover-this-month\/","url_meta":{"origin":65675,"position":0},"title":"Delaware Small Business Grant Competition Set for Dover This Month","author":"Admin","date":"April 8, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Seventeen entrepreneurs will compete for Delaware's EDGE 2.0 grants at Delaware Tech in Dover on April 30-May 1. 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