SSBCI Technical Assistance Program
Provides free legal, accounting, and finance advisory support to disadvantaged Connecticut firms through federal SSBCI resources.
The SSBCI Technical Assistance Program provides free in-kind professional services โ specifically legal, accounting, and financial advisory โ to Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Individuals (SEDI) and Very Small Businesses (VSBs) in Connecticut. The programme is funded through Technical Assistance dollars awarded to Connecticut Innovations by the U.S. Department of the Treasury under the feโฆ
Free in-kind legal, accounting, and financial advisory services for Connecticut-based Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Individuals and Very Small Businesses, funded through federal SSBCI.
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