Strategic Initiative(s) Alignment: Small Business Recovery
Type: Event, Support/Coordination
Year(s): 2018
In partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Puerto Rico Science, Technology, and Research Trust’s Colmena66 initiative, Economic RSF co-hosted Connect to Grow Small Business Summit at the University of the East in Carolina. Approximately 400 small businesses and entrepreneurs attended. The event educated local businesses on recovery funding, identified resources available to them to help prepare them for the 2018 hurricane season, and presented key success stories on how businesses overcame disaster-related challenges.