August 22, 2016 EditionEdition

🔒Nonprofit Profile: Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters Inc.

The Connecticut Humane Society received a $70,000 grant from the Peter Grayson Letz Fund for Animals and the Environment, administered by the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut. The grant will provide […]

🔒REALTOR’s benefit supports ‘An End in Ten’ program

The Greater Hartford Association of REALTORS recently held a Middletown Stroll for Charity to raise funds for...

🔒Kelly leads Oral Fluid’s leadership ‘trifecta’

There are three men behind the company known as Oral Fluid Dynamics, but it's majority owner Robert...

🔒Three Community Leaders to be Honored by Leadership Greater Hartford

Leadership Greater Hartford (LGH) will honor the recipients of the 2016 Polaris Awards at their 40th Anniversary...
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🔒Minimum-wage hike has drawbacks

While Connecticut legislators take the summer off to campaign for re-election, some continue to tout potential future legislation that can only be described as anti-business. As General Electric relocates to Boston and Aetna leaves the door open to departure from Hartford, lawmakers should be very cautious about doing anything in the next session that would make it more difficult to run a big or small business in Connecticut.

🔒N. Britain’s Main Place Apts. sold at $4.7M

The 72-unit Main Place Apartments in New Britain sold recently for $4.725 million, brokers say.

🔒CT’s fiscal crisis presents reform opportunities

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”

🔒Voya Financial raises money for HARC

Voya Financial of Windsor presented a donation of $4,420 to HARC from their employees who made donations...
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🔒Tips for avoiding tunnel-vision management

“The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders See” by Max Bazerman (Simon & Schuster, $16).At work,...

🔒Small business lending on the rise in CT

During her 35 years with the Small Business Administration (SBA), Anne Hunt has seen some major companies grow from struggling startups to household names. “Nike, Apple, Ben & Jerry's and Columbia have all relied on SBA assistance at one time,” she said. Today, as the director of the Connecticut District Office, one of Hunt's top priorities is addressing what has long been the biggest challenge faced by small and microbusinesses: access to capital.

🔒Doherty finds growing niche in Hartford’s insurance ecosystem

Lisa Doherty's approach to her insurance business: Work hard, do things a little differently and have fun doing it.

🔒A new approach to net metering

Since 2004, more than 20,000 Connecticut homes have added solar panels, creating the equivalent of a 154-megawatt power plant spread across the entire state. This $696 million investment has not happened by accident. The state's high electricity prices and low-cost solar financing from the Connecticut Green Bank have been a recipe for the home-solar boom.
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🔒United Technologies hosts golf tournament for veterans

Pratt & Whitney's employee resource group, United Technologies Coalition for Veterans, recently hosted it's first-ever golf tournament...

🔒Farmington startup seeks mechanical solution to dry mouth

Hartford Business Journal's Series on Connecticut's bioscience industry continues this week with a look at Farmington startup Oral Fluid Dynamics, which is developing a dental implant to help people suffering from chronic dry mouth.

🔒New investment adviser rules stir industry shake up

Q&A talks with Gerald Goldberg, CEO and co-founder of West Hartford's GYL Financial Synergies, which recently renamed itself and split away from the independent arm of Wells Fargo Advisors.

🔒Growing Hartford startup lands Sacred Heart deal

Hartford's Wearsafe Labs, which began selling its mobile app-enabled panic button late last year and soon drew a more than $2 million funding round, has hit its next milestone.
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🔒State House Square resets loan maturity

Owners ofdowntown Hartford's State House Square office building have been granted a three-year repayment extension and a lower interest rate.

🔒CTL taps growing community-care demand

For Andy Tran and Jeff Farmer, a chance encounter at Farmington's Westfarms Mall led to a multi-state business that helps people with mental illness and acquired brain injuries who are on Medicaid, live independently, while saving the state money and creating jobs for caretakers.
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