September 17, 2018 EditionEdition

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🔒Amid talent shortage, tech industry spotlights growing firms

Q&A talks to Bruce Carlson, CEO of the Connecticut Technology Council, which recently unveiled its 2018 Marcum Tech Top 40, an annual recognition of the fastest-growing technology companies in Connecticut. […]
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🔒Marketers say CT businesses ignoring growing Hispanic population

Marketers say businesses are ignoring the Hartford region's growing Hispanic population.
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🔒REALTORS’ benefit raises money for Coalition on Housing and Homelessness

The Greater Hartford Association of REALTORS recently held a fundraiser for the Coalition on Housing and Homelessness....
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🔒Making your sales proposal a winner

To put the importance of sales proposals in proper perspective, they are more than a vehicle to convey your message. They are your message.
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🔒Eversource gives out free lamps to UConn freshmen

For the fourth consecutive year, Eversource partnered with the University of Connecticut to provide 3,800 free LED...
Nonprofits

🔒Nonprofit Notebook —September 17, 2018

Capital Workforce Partners (CWP), the state's workforce development board in north central Connecticut, said it received a...
Health Care

🔒The path to economic growth in CT

We've recently seen the work of something called the Commission on Fiscal Stability and Economic Growth, a taskforce consisting of 14 CEOs who worked on identifying and coming up with solutions to the structural problems facing state government.
Economic Development

🔒Cities, towns vie to test drive CT’s autonomous vehicle program

Several cities and towns are vying to test drive the state's autonomous vehicle pilot program.
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🔒Geno Auriemma’s charity golf tournament announces new donation

Geno Auriemma's Fore the Kids Charity Golf Tournament announced a $200,000 donation to Connecticut Children's Medical Center's new Infusion and Dialysis Centers and the Division of Orthopedics. The next annual tournament will be held at the Hartford Golf Club on June 24, 2019.
Economy & Labor

🔒Workforce development funding under threat

Although funding to train opportunity youths and low-skill adults has steadily declined in recent years, Jim Boucher, chief strategy officer for Capital Workforce Partners in Hartford, is growing confident those dollars could be revived.
Energy

🔒Could clean energy become an election issue?

A new poll commissioned by the Sierra Club has found strong support for clean and renewable energy among Connecticut voters across the political spectrum.
Small Business

🔒LiquidPiston Pres. Shkolnik embarks on crowdfunding campaign

On the heels of receiving a $2.5 million contract from the Pentagon for the second phase of a project to build lightweight engines, LiquidPiston Inc. President Alexander Shkolnik said the startup has embarked on another round of fundraising.
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Manufacturing

🔒CEOs: Workplace culture key to wooing Millennials

What's most important to Millennial workers? Three Connecticut small business executives said recently that salary is further down the list than you might think.
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🔒Steps to become a ‘do it yourself’ mogul

“You Are A Mogul: How to Do the Impossible, Do It Yourself & Do It Now” by...
Banking & Finance

🔒The incredibly shrinking community-bank sector

The darker side of merger-and-acquisition activity was on display with the recent announcement that Farmington Bank will shed more than a quarter of its workforce after its $544 million buyout by Bridgeport-based People's United Financial Inc. closes later this year.
Economy & Labor

🔒‘Untapped’ talent engage skills training for better employment

Connecticut's untapped talent pool engages skills training for better employment.
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