Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch and Daphne Dixon of Fairfield, an inaugural client of the Fairfield University Accelerator and Mentoring Enterprise (FAME), recently met at the business incubator site to discuss sustainability.
Throughout her career as an environmentalist, Dixon, a California native, has worked closely with sustainability leaders, businesses, organizations and communities to raise awareness about “resilient communities” and to promote green living practices.
Dixon founded the annual Fairfield County Green Faire, the Fairfield County Green Coast Awards, and is co-founder of the Green Market Exposition.
Dixon also founded Conscious Decisions, “a socially responsible business venture” that looks to bring “green to mainstream” by educating the public on sustainable and eco-friendly living practices. Her startup was one of three honored in November as the incubator”™s first participants.
Dixon and Finch discussed the latest sustainable energy products and services available to municipalities at a meeting also attended by Christopher Anastasi, sustainability coordinator for Bridgeport.
An effort to nurture startups and foster economic development, FAME is a collaboration of Fairfield University¹s Charles F. Dolan School of Business, the town of Fairfield Economic Development Department and Fairfield-based Kleban Properties (Nov. 11 FCBJ).
FAME, according to a Fairfield University release, “offers innovators like Dixon the tools they need from guidance to funding and prime downtown office space above the Fairfield University Bookstore to turn their ideas into realities.”
