Community Resources
All entrepreneurs need a community and a plan of action.
We take an ecosystem-level approach to our work. Our goal is to ensure entrepreneurs have a system of enduring support — including connecting entrepreneurs to other free programs in the Greater New Haven community. See below for a growing network of verified service-providers ready and equipped to support entrepreneurs.
Academy for Small Business | LIBERTY BANK
The Academy for Small Business is a comprehensive training program. While the ASB offers small business owners this comprehensive training program, Liberty Bank also offers a $5,000 line of credit to qualifying small business owners in CT who complete the program! The ASB is all part of Liberty Bank’s effort to support economic growth in the CT communities they serve.
Contact: (844) 359-7402
IVES Square | New Haven Free Public Library
Ives Squared is a center for innovation and collaboration at the main downtown New Haven library that opened summer 2018. Ives Squared is designed to inspire and augment the vibrant civic and entrepreneurial culture of the New Haven community with the Tinker Lab, a makerspace; the Exchange, for co-working, entrepreneurship, and small business development; the Switchboard, for in-person questions and information; and a Café.
Their offerings include office hours with their Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Creative-in-Residence, numerous digital tools, and much more.
Contact: Jennifer Gargiulo, Manager of Ives Squared
The Black Business Alliance (BBA)
The Black Business Alliance (BBA) seeks to empower, guide, promote, enhance, collaborate and grow small- and medium-sized Black and minority-businesses throughout Connecticut and nationally by addressing the gap in business access to funding, educational resources, and statewide capacity building.
Their resources include supporting with access to capital and financing, hosting events to increase business networks, and business counseling.
Contact: Anne-Marie Knight, annemarie@bbusinessalliance.org
If you are a program or organization that would like to be added to this list of resources, email us at team@collabnewhaven.org.