COVID-19 with a new grant program.The Downtown Winnipeg BIZ Connect Grant is intended to help downtown businesses support each other in service areas ranging from marketing, to HR, to finance and legal services.Kate Fenske, BIZ CEO, told 680 CJOB the grant offers a way for small business owners to access services they might not be able to on their own, and it supports two downtown businesses with one grant.“We were trying to figure out how can we support as many biz as possible downtown with the limited resources we have,” said Fenske.“It’s really targeted to help those small businesses that are doing everything they can right, but maybe they don’t have the experts or the support that they need to just take it that one next step.