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Financial Services and General Government

Congressionally Directed Spending – Fiscal Year 2027

Listed below are the Financial Services and General Government projects Senator Blumenthal has submitted to the Senate Appropriations Committee. The Senate Appropriations Committee selects the final projects from the projects submitted by all senators. Therefore, neither submission of an application nor Senator Blumenthal’s approved list of projects are guaranteed for final funding.

Projects are listed in alphabetical order. 

Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Foundation— New London, CT

  • Amount Requested: $286,000
  • This project will provide funding for an entrepreneur academy and small business development services program.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Coalition for a Better Wallingford— Wallingford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $100,000
  • This project will provide funding for substance misuse prevention services.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association dba New England Air Museum— Windsor Locks, CT

  • Amount Requested: $333,000
  • This project will provide funding for the museum’s archival storage upgrades for increased public access.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Arts Foundation — Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $224,000
  • This project will provide funding for a statewide arts business development program.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Center for Employee Ownership — Old Lyme, CT

  • Amount Requested: $220,000
  • This project will provide funding for a program to promote employee ownership of businesses.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Community Outreach Revitalization Program (ConnCORP) — New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $500,000
  • This project will provide funding to support business development services.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Historical Society dba Connecticut Museum of Culture and History— Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for the preservation of Civil War-era documents.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut State Library— Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for the digitization and preservation of sensitive government records.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Connecticut Veterans Foundation, Inc.— West Granby, CT

  • Amount Requested: $328,000
  • This project will provide funding for a Veterans oral history project.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Governor's Partnership to Protect Connecticut's Workforce Inc. dba Governor's Prevention Partnership— Rural Towns in New London, Tolland, and Windham Counties, CT

  • Amount Requested: $775,000
  • This project will provide funding for substance misuse prevention programming.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Social Enterprise Trust, Inc.— Hartford and New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $250,000
  • This project will provide funding for cohort-based startup business support programming.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

StoryCorps, Inc.— Hartford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,500,000
  • This project will provide funding to conduct oral histories from family members of the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

The Black Business Alliance, Inc. — Milford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $2,238,000
  • This project will provide funding for programming to support entrepreneur-to-storefront pipelines.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Women's Business Development Council — Stamford, CT

  • Amount Requested: $1,000,000
  • This project will provide funding for an entrepreneurial education service program.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.

Workforce Alliance — New Haven, CT

  • Amount Requested: $799,000
  • This project will provide funding to create a Youth Creative and Career Entrepreneurship Center.
  • Click HERE to read the required certification letter.