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For Immediate Release January 13, 2022 Contact: Anne Driscoll, anne.driscoll@scorevolunteer.org SCORE Southeastern CT to Host Free Q & A Panel on “Small Business Loans: Issues and Options” DATE: Thursday, February 10, 2022 TIME: 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET LOCATION: Live on Zoom REGISTRATION REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE: REGISTER NOW After registering, you will receive a confirmation with information on how to join the webinar. The Southeastern Connecticut chapter of SCORE, mentors to America’s Small Businesses, presents a free webinar on Small Business Loans: Issues and Options. This webinar will feature a panel of lending professionals from a cross-section of small business lenders. Small Business Loans: Issues and Options will explain the basics of borrowing money from these experienced small business lenders and enable you to ask your own questions during an extensive Question and Answer period. The panel will include Richard Balestracci, Vice President of Chelsea Groton Bank (a commercial lender and Small Business Administration (SBA) certified lender); Tanisha Baptiste, Economic Development Specialist from the Federal Small Business Administration (SBA); Ann Chambers, Director of Loan Programs from Southeastern Connecticut Enterprise Region (seCTer), and Jamie Welch, Assistant Vice President of Community Investment Corporation (CIC). The panel moderator will be Frank LaMonaca, Southeastern CT SCORE Chapter Chair; a retired executive with 38 years of experience in banking and financial services. SCORE is a nonprofit association that offers free and confidential advice on starting your own business or improving and growing your existing small business. Since 1964, SCORE has helped more than 11 million aspiring entrepreneurs. Each year, SCORE’s 10,000 volunteer business experts provide hundreds of thousands of free small business mentoring sessions, workshops and educational services to clients in 300 chapters nationwide. SCORE’s nine counseling sites in Southeast Connecticut include Guilford, Madison, Old Saybrook, Essex, Waterford, Middletown, Mystic, Norwich, and New London. For more information on upcoming free workshops and how to schedule a free small business mentoring session with our counselors, visit https://sect.score.org. Would You Like To Become A SCORE Volunteer? Your business knowledge and experience can help others start or grow a small business. Learn more about becoming a SCORE volunteer at: www.score.org/volunteer. ### Southeastern CT SCORE PO Box 283, Old Saybrook, CT 06475 Email: ScoreChapter@gmail.com Telephone: 860.388.9508
For Immediate Release
January 13, 2022
Contact: Anne Driscoll, anne.driscoll@scorevolunteer.org
SCORE Southeastern CT to Host Free Q & A Panel on “Small Business Loans: Issues and Options”
DATE: Thursday, February 10, 2022
TIME: 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET
LOCATION: Live on Zoom
REGISTRATION REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE: REGISTER NOW
After registering, you will receive a confirmation with information on how to join the webinar.
The Southeastern Connecticut chapter of SCORE, mentors to America’s Small Businesses, presents a free webinar on Small Business Loans: Issues and Options. This webinar will feature a panel of lending professionals from a cross-section of small business lenders.
Small Business Loans: Issues and Options will explain the basics of borrowing money from these experienced small business lenders and enable you to ask your own questions during an extensive Question and Answer period.
The panel will include Richard Balestracci, Vice President of Chelsea Groton Bank (a commercial lender and Small Business Administration (SBA) certified lender); Tanisha Baptiste, Economic Development Specialist from the Federal Small Business Administration (SBA); Ann Chambers, Director of Loan Programs from Southeastern Connecticut Enterprise Region (seCTer), and Jamie Welch, Assistant Vice President of Community Investment Corporation (CIC).
The panel moderator will be Frank LaMonaca, Southeastern CT SCORE Chapter Chair; a retired executive with 38 years of experience in banking and financial services.
SCORE is a nonprofit association that offers free and confidential advice on starting your own business or improving and growing your existing small business. Since 1964, SCORE has helped more than 11 million aspiring entrepreneurs. Each year, SCORE’s 10,000 volunteer business experts provide hundreds of thousands of free small business mentoring sessions, workshops and educational services to clients in 300 chapters nationwide. SCORE’s nine counseling sites in Southeast Connecticut include Guilford, Madison, Old Saybrook, Essex, Waterford, Middletown, Mystic, Norwich, and New London. For more information on upcoming free workshops and how to schedule a free small business mentoring session with our counselors, visit https://sect.score.org.
Would You Like To Become A SCORE Volunteer? Your business knowledge and experience can help others start or grow a small business. Learn more about becoming a SCORE volunteer at: www.score.org/volunteer.
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Southeastern CT SCORE PO Box 283, Old Saybrook, CT 06475 Email: ScoreChapter@gmail.com Telephone: 860.388.9508