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The NH International Trade Resource Center (ITRC), which helps the state's business community's be more competitive in the global market, is supporting a workshop for minority- and women-owned businesses in the greater New England area. The workshop will be conducted by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).

The Expanding Horizons workshop is the latest in a series that has educated more than 750 small and medium-sized business owners nationwide about investment opportunities overseas and how OPIC can help businesses take advantage of them. It will be held September 24 at the Westin Hotel at Copley Place in Boston.

Elizabeth J. Weber, co-founder and director of Edge Development Group, Inc., a business consulting firm based in Ridgefield, CT, will be the keynote speaker.

In addition to workshop sessions on OPIC products such as political risk insurance and financing for SMEs, the Boston event will feature a new session on OPIC support for renewable energy and clean energy technology projects, a new area of focus for the agency.

OPIC was established as an agency of the U.S. government in 1971. Its political risk insurance and financing help U.S. businesses of all sizes invest in more than 150 emerging markets and developing nations worldwide. Over the agency's 38-year history, OPIC has supported $188 billion worth of investments that have helped developing countries to generate over 830,000 host-country jobs. OPIC projects have also generated $72 billion in U.S. exports and supported more than 273,000 American jobs.

Visit OPIC online at www.opic.gov.