Bridgeport Labs, Inc

Bridgeport Labs is Bridgeport’s premier minority non-profit enterprise, organized as an economic development corporation to operate as an industrial, technological, educational, research, public health and philanthropic entity

Bridgeport Labs, Inc is represented by a local, community based and diverse Board of Directors who represent Bridgeport's minority commitment to empowerment

• Establish clean energy investment in municipalities through US DOE approved technology to promote energy resiliency, affordability, scalability and security in underserved communities
• Pilot the State of Connecticut's MESA (municipal energy security authority) clean energy legislation in partnership with NAACP to secure workforce development and job creation for underserved people to include qualified ex-offenders
• Assist business people wanting to remain, locate or expand the cities and region of Connecticut
• Coordinate its activity with city governments so to a clearly defined approach of attracting, locating, assisting, and serving job creating activities within the cities themselves and the region
• Engaging in activities by itself and in cooperation with other agencies, organizations, and institutions designed to promote and improve the living and working environment of the municipalities and State of Connecticut
• To encourage and promote employment opportunities through workforce development for the underemployed and unemployed
• To seek and secure funding, investment and grants for businesses interested in relocating and establishing their businesses in Connecticut in minority driven communities and economically depressed or blighted areas
• To aid, seek and/or provide technical assistance to business that have experienced difficulty in obtaining financial assistance because of their location in such areas or such minority composition
• With public health activities to include testing for public safety purposes, more specifically but not exclusively to promote and facilitate organizations and companies to engage in partnership to provide testing for the public safety of the people of Connecticut and for other diagnostics, screening, testing and tracing of viruses and/or other health related issues that may appear in the public
• With public education activities to include chartering, licensing, certifying minority public education through onsite and remote educational resources
• With public cooperation and/or partnership with State and US Federal agencies which seek to provide resources for economic, community, housing, technology, energy, port security and promote US good will and foreign trade