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HEDCo & GHBDC work in tandem to stimulate economic development in the Hartford Metropolitan Area by collaborating with concerned public and private organizations to help start, finance, retain, and recruit small businesses within the region's core city, Hartford, and its fifty-seven surrounding cities and towns. HEDCo provides its small business clientele with business support needs that would be otherwise un-met or under-served. HEDCo efficiently partners with GHBDC to foster the community relationships crucial to sustained and broad-based economic growth and to provide small businesses throughout the region with alternative financing.HEDCo hires, retains and develops an experienced, professional staff, who individually understand client and local market needs and collectively provide successful development outcomes. Contact Information Vision The Hartford Economic Development Corporation will be the acknowledged leader in assisting small business within the City of Hartford to help them develop business plans, acquire financing and achieve sustained successful growth. HEDCo will provide creative energy and superior loan administration services to a strategically diverse set of partners including its sister organization GHBDC, the City of Hartford, Connecticut's Department of Economic and Community Development and multiple community-based development initiatives. HEDCo will be the steward for the leadership, professional skills and infrastructure necessary to the success of our Mission." HEDCo's roots are firmly planted in Hartford and will continue to be dedicated to the future of Hartford, its neighborhoods, its residents and its businesses. We look forward to the future with optimism. The Greater Hartford Business Development Center, Inc. will be the alternative lender of choice to the small business community within the Hartford Metropolitan Area. GHBDC will extend the reach and increase the success rate of regional economic development by seeking out under-served or niche markets and effectively assisting a diverse customer base. GHBDC will be increasingly recognized by both the communities it serves and the organizations which fund it for the effectiveness of its small business debt financing, its efficient and prudent loan program administration, and its creative collaborations with conventional lenders and the region's town, city and state economic development authorities. Services Clients Fee Funding
Hartford Economic Development
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