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Financial Services and General Government

Congressionally Directed Spending – Fiscal Year 2024

Listed below are the Financial Services and General Government projects Senator Blumenthal has submitted to the Senate Appropriations Committee. The Senate Appropriations Committee selects the final projects from the projects submitted by all senators. Therefore, neither submission of an application nor Senator Blumenthal’s approved list of projects are guaranteed for final funding.

Projects are listed in alphabetical order. 

Black Business Alliance - Milford, CT 

  • Amount Requested: $684,000
  • The Black Business Alliance would use awarded federal funds to support the acceleration of Black entrepreneurs and the small business community of Connecticut through a comprehensive strategy that includes wellness support, training and resources for participants. 
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

City of Derby - Derby, CT 

  • Amount Requested: $800,000
  • Federal funding awarded would allow the City of Derby to install a document management system.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

City of New London - New London, CT 

  • Amount Requested: $25,780,588
  • Funding awarded would support a parking and downtown revitalization project in New London, CT
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

City of New London – New London, CT 

  • Amount Requested: $1,507,440
  • Federal funding would allow the Town of New London to digitize municipal records. 
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

City of New London – New London

  • Amount Requested: $3,570,334
  • Federal Funding warded would allow the City of New London to improve the Stone and Timber Elbow Piers at Fort Trumbull Fishermen's Piers which support independent fishermen and small fishing businesses.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

ClimateHaven Inc. - New Haven, CT 

  • Amount Requested: $2,317,040
  • Funding would be used for Phase 3 of ClimateHaven’s facility buildout, which would allow them to serve more entrepreneurs who are working on innovate green technology solutions.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Collab Incorporated - Hamden, CT 

  • Amount Requested: $300,000 
  • Collab Inc. would use awarded federal funding to will allow them to serve up to 500 underrepresented entrepreneurs annually through their pre-acceleration and acceleration programs.  
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

ConnCORP - Hamden, CT 

  • Amount Requested: $4,000,000
  • Funding for ConnCORP to renovate two floors of vacant office space and to hire additional staff in order to serve more small business owners in Connecticut.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

CTNext – Hartford, CT 

  • Amount Requested: $785,000
  • Funding would be used to establish CT’s first employee-ownership network to support business owners who are nearing retirement and have a high share of BIPOC workers transition ownership of their companies to their employees.   
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Hispanic Federation - Hartford, CT 

  • Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  • Awarded federal funding would support the Hispanic Federation’s small businesses support program, which provides a wide range of technical services to strengthen the Latino small business community.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Housatonic Community College - Bridgeport, CT 

  • Amount Requested: $74,440
  • Housatonic Community College would use federal funds to run a one-time, ten-week business accelerator program in summer 2024.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

MakeHaven - New Haven, CT 

  • Amount Requested: $1,041,250
  • MakeHaven would use awarded federal funds to purchase additional technology and expand their existing space, giving entrepreneurs the tools they need to grow their ideas.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Massaro Community Farm - Woodbridge, CT

  • Amount Requested: $128,000
  • Massaro Community Farm would use federal funding to make renovations and improvements to their barn and farm infrastructure that would allow them strengthen and expand their small business.  
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

RiseUP Group- Hartford, CT 

  • Amount Requested: $750,000
  • Funding awarded would allow RiseUP to establish a digital arts and public art innovation lab in the Parkville neighborhood of Hartford.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Town of Cromwell, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,865,000
  • Federal Funding awarded for this project would allow the Town of Cromwell to install a document management system.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Town of Winchester – Winchester, CT 

  • Amount Requested: $96,000
  • Federal Funding awarded would allow the Town of Winchester to digitize all town records from before 1960.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

University of Bridgeport - Bridgeport, CT 

  • Amount Requested: $497,350
  • The University of Bridgeport would use federal funding to assist the reentry population in developing the entrepreneurial skills necessary to start a business.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.