"The founder of the company that makes Samuel Adams beer had so much trouble launching his business and getting bars to sell his craft beer that he decided to help other fledgling firms after he achieved success.

Two years after Jim Koch donated $250,000 to New York-based microlender Accion USA, creating the Brewing the American Dream Fund, employees of Accion and the brewer brought their "speed coaching" program to Connecticut for the first time..."

Read the whole article from the Hartford Courant here