InnovateLI – Newsletter coverage of Long Island Community Foundation grant

Spreading it around: A Long Island Community Foundation grant will help three regional business boosters diversify critical small-business support.

The LICF has awarded $42,500 to the Long Island Association’s Small Business Support Program, which launched in 2022 to network entrepreneurs with VCs, grant-makers and other vital resources. Together with the Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce and the Long Island Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the Support Program will develop “an action plan that will serve as blueprint for implementation,” according to the LIA, featuring quarterly joint-membership meetings, high-level roundtable discussions and consulting services for a diverse assembly of regional businesspeople.

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