New Haven foundation partnership to increase minority business funding
Minority and women-owned businesses in the Greater New Haven area will benefit from a new financing arrangement.
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Business Education Workshops and Seminars
How to Negotiate with Your Suppliers
6/24/2021
Learn how mastering the business basics of negotiation can lead to improved margins, lower expenses and competitive advantages.
How to Validate Your Business Idea (Before You Jump Off into Thin Air)
6/30/2021
Learn the amazingly easy steps that make up the craft of idea validation and the tricks to keep from telling yourself what you want to hear.
Create Your 90-Day Action Plan
7/7/2021
Are you prepared to grow your business under the “new normal?”
Invest four hours over two days in this nationally-conducted workshop and feel more confident and ready to meet the uncertain but inevitable challenges of the year ahead.
Get the training and knowledge you need to run a business right here at CEDF.
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Success stories
In the Words of Our Clients
Our video played at the organization's 25th Anniversary Celebration of Success reception on Oct. 2, 2019.
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Business Resource Navigator role to support CFGNH lending initiative
Doreen Abubakar has joined CEDF to increase the organization’s activity and visibility in Greater New Haven.
Underwriter Valliere joins CEDF team
Lisa Valliere has joined CEDF as a Senior Underwriter to take over the duties of Tom Lenahan who retired in May.