Dublin Chamber Receives $100K To Help Small Businesses

DUBLIN, CA — The Dublin Chamber of Commerce is receiving $100,000 in federal funds for its Emerging Business Community Outreach Program. The grants are part of $2 million for Tri-Valley projects secured by Rep. Eric Swalwell.

The funds will be used to help small and emerging businesses throughout the Tri-Valley expand. The grants will pay for additional outreach staff to focus on advancing small businesses, including small farms and businesses owned by women, minorities and veterans.

“Dublin and the Tri-Valley has an increasingly diversified business community, yet resources for new businesses are not evenly distributed,” Dublin Chamber President and CEO Inge Houston said in a statement. “The Omnibus Bill funding will allow the Dublin Chamber to extend its outreach to those key constituencies that are critical to the Tri-Valley’s future.”

“We thank Congressman Swalwell for recognizing the need to promote small and minority-owned businesses,” said Dublin Chamber of Commerce’s 2022 Chair Sue Stephenson. “And we look forward to more partnerships which will enhance our economic growth long into the future.”

Chabot-Las Positas Community College District’s East Bay College Agile Network – a partnership between Chabot-Las Positas and Cal State East Bay that aims to increase certificate and degree attainment programs for students of Las Positas College, Chabot College, and CSU East Bay – and Goodness Village Livermore’s Affordable Housing Project received $1 million.

More than $15 million was allocated to 15 local projects in District 15.