ECDI Blog

As a small business owner, you’re wearing every hat. From marketing to finance and everything in between, there are hundreds of tasks to...

Spoil your dad this Father's Day with a delicious meal from a local restaurant. Here are some members of ECDI's Food Fort in Columbus,...

Have you run out of new shows to watch during your hibernation? We found some amazing films featuring Black Women Entrepreneurs perfect...

We want to create a safe space to share opinions and encourage neighborly discourse, in a time when folks' opinions can be very polarized.

New Women’s Business Center of Central Appalachia Will Provide Training, Assistance and Loan Capital to Women-Owned Small Businesses...

Join ECDI President & Owner of Dave's Artisanal Cheesecakes, as they discuss David's entrepreneur journey and how ECDI has played a role.

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner! Whether that fact makes you grin or groan, there’s no doubt that, after the year we just...

COLUMBUS – The Economic & Community Development Institute (ECDI), Women’s Business Center of Central Ohio (WBC) and ECDI clients won...

In the pre-COVID economy, women and minority entrepreneurs, by and large, enjoyed less access to business capital and opportunities than...

The organization scaled to reach 300% of capacity in three months. People of color were 70% of entrepreneurs served and 51% were women.