Christine E.B. Howard
About Christine E.B. Howard
Christine E.B. Howard is the founder and CEO of E.B. Howard Consulting, LLC, an NYS and SBA certified M/WBE that helps small businesses and organizations in the startup and innovation ecosystem find, apply, and measure outcomes on non-dilutive grant funding. Christine E.B. Howard is passionate about equal and equitable access to funding (dilutive and non-dilutive) for historically underrepresented founders of start-ups. It is her ambition to support the innovation ecosystem and promote inclusive economic growth. She believes inclusivity is imperative for innovation and building a strong and diverse economy where all our citizens thrive. She actively mentors and advises small businesses through programs like the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps™), Columbia Technology Ventures, Verizon Forward for Good Accelerator, NYSERDA's EIR Program, Startup Grind, and many others. She has also served as a pitch judge for start-up competitions like 43North, Female Founders in Tech & (FinTech and InsurTech) competitions, E^3 and NYBPC, and many others. She has served on several boards, including Buffalo/Niagara National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) and Ten Thousand Villages, and currently sits as a board member of The Upstate Capital Foundation, The Collaborative Center for Social Innovation, and Community Connections of New York, Inc. (CCNY). Her awards include being listed in the Haverling Hall of Distinction - Alumni Award in June 2019 and the Distinguished Alumni Award named as Parsons Community Service Award in October 2018 for her work with a small team of women business owners in addressing challenges encountered by the Minority and Women Business Enterprise (MWBE) processes in New York State. Christine is a proud alumnus of the Corning Community College and the University at Buffalo - the State University of New York, holding two Bachelor's Degrees and a Master's Degree. She has 15+ years of experience in developing non-dilutive funding resources, grant writing, designing evidence-based projects and activities, monitoring the implementation of those projects, and evaluating and providing feedback for continuous program improvement. Her firm is certified as a women-owned business with NYS, NYC, and SBA.