For the past 18 years, the Waterbury Regional Chamber's Health Care Council has taken time during its annual meeting to honor area health care professionals and related organizations who have gone above and beyond in making impacts in the health care field.
This year, on August 15 during a mornin
SOUTHBURY — The Waterbury Regional Chamber launched its new affiliate, the Southbury Chamber, during a press conference on Wednesday, August 17, at Chatfield True Value Hardware. The newly formed chamber
Waterbury will spend $1.5 million offering matching grants of up to $100,000 to help outfit downtown retail spaces for new and growing businesses.
The Board of Aldermen, on Monday, approved spending a portion of the city’s federal COVID-relief funds on the new program. The grants are meant to heal a downtown business district that suffered after large employers including Post University, Webster Bank and others sent staff to work from home at the outset of the pandemic.
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Whether you are a small business, a national corporation with a footprint in the area, work from home, or if you are a nonprofit, belonging to a Chamber of Commerce makes sense in order to remain informed, resilient and competitive. As the area’s premier business advocacy organization, the Waterbury Regional Chamber, and our two affiliates, the Naugatuck Chamber and the Watertown Oakville Chamber, have been a driving force, a valuable resource, an important network and a promotional vehicle for its members since our founding in 1889. All together, we serve more than 900 members across more than 14 towns in the region and the state.
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The Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development has just launched a new initiative, CTforMe.com, to showcase to young professionals why our state is a worthwhile place to live, work and play. The state recognizes that a highly skilled, media-savvy workforce – millennials – is key to the economic recovery of Connecticut.
What’s another way to play an active role in this recovery? If you are a business owner, I encourage you to join in on this initiative by taking part in a summer youth employment program that will help build this necessary workforce to keep our economy thriving. Through a partnership with the Northwest Regional Workforce Investment Board, the Waterbury Regional Chamber is encouraging area employers to register as a summer worksite as part of the NRWIB’s summer youth program. This program allows low-income youth and young adults between the ages of 14 and 21 to be assigned to a business or organization for a six-week period b