Released on: August 29, 2008, 9:13 am

Press Release Author: The Connecticut Alliance for Business Opportunities

Industry: Non Profit

Press Release Summary: On August 18, 2008, the Connecticut Alliance for Business
Opportunities (CABO), Connecticut\'s first statewide gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender chamber of commerce, held their first event at the Pilot Pen Tennis
Tournament at the Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale.

Press Release Body: NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT - On August 18, 2008, the Connecticut
Alliance for Business Opportunities (CABO), Connecticut\'s first statewide gay,
lesbian, bisexual and transgender chamber of commerce, held their first event at the
Pilot Pen Tennis Tournament at the Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale.

Thirty members and prospects of CABO gathered in The Courtside Club - a semiprivate
suite overlooking stadium court on Monday evening, a week ago, to watch Alize Cornet
of France face Nicole Vaidisova of the Czech Republic in a rematch of their
first-round Olympic meeting in Beijing. Anne Worcester, the Pilot Pen Tennis
Tournament Director brought Jurgen Melzer of Vienna Austria, ranked 48th in the
world, and Bethanie Mattek, ranked 45th in the world for a quick meet and greet with
CABO members.

\"We are proud of the newly formed partnership between Pilot Pen Tennis and CABO.
Pilot Pen Tennis was happy to host the August CABO meeting at the tournament,\"
Worcester stated. \"We look forward to becoming the August meeting host site in the
years to come.\"

CABO\'s next event will be its monthly Business OUT Reach on September 24, 2008, from
6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Gershon Fox Room, 960 Main Street, Hartford, CT. For
directions, go to www.marquee-ct.com/contact_directions.htm for directions. The
featured guest will be Connecticut Comptroller, Nancy Wyman. More details will be
posted at CABO\'s website: www.thecabo.org.

CABO launched just shy of a year ago at a packed event held in New Haven at Bentara
Restaurant, one of the first businesses to join the alliance. Since its launch on
National Coming Out Day in October in 2007, CABO has enjoyed tremendous success,
joining the ranks of growing GLBT chambers of commerce in cities from Washington, DC
to Seattle, Washington, with a growing membership that now numbers over 125 members.
CABO is in the process of planning the one-year celebration event to be hosted
again at Bentara Restaurant. Details can be found on the website in the coming
weeks.

CABO was co-founded by Dena Castricone, a New Haven attorney with Murtha Cullina LLP
who sought opportunities to make business contacts in the local GLBT business
community, along with Eniko Mikle, Financial Advisor for UBS Financial Services,
Inc., of Fairfield, CT, and Lisa Moyles, owner of Moyles and Associates, Inc. of
Stratford, CT. Joining the co-founders, CABO\'s board of directors is now composed
of six additional innovative business people and leaders in the GLBT community: Kim
Wanamaker, owner of the green ROCKS Inn in Ridgefield, CT; Beth McCabe, Executive
Director of Schooner Inc. in New Haven, CT; Nick Prevost; Glen Pierson, Partner at
Loughlin FitzGerald P.C. in Wallingford, CT; Rosalie Dunn, owner of Westport
Therapeutic in Westport, CT; and Jenn Tracz of Travel Insured, East Hartford, CT.

CABO, the Connecticut Alliance for Business Opportunities, is Connecticut\'s first
and only Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Chamber of Commerce. CABO\'s
mission is to create, identify and enhance business opportunities for GLBT and
GLBT-friendly organizations, thereby fostering a more inclusive and vibrant
Connecticut economy. For further information, please contact us at info@thecabo.org.


Web Site: http://www.thecabo.org

Contact Details: Jenn Tracz
PO Box 9276
New Haven, CT 06533
jtracz@thecabo.org
4013688963