2022 Honorees
Business Leadership Award
Maggie Drag
Founder and owner of Euro-American Connections and Homecare
When we come together as a community and put our differences aside, it’s amazing how much we can accomplish, grow and help affect change for our communities to prosper. Maggie Drag has been doing that for 36 years in the Connecticut area. She came here from Poland in 1986. She had no money, blueprints or business plans, but she was passionate about helping people. She was one of many Polish immigrants in the area with no employment opportunities. Maggie decided to do something about that. With a lot of hard work and honest interactions, she started her business on Broad Street in New Britain in 1989. Since then, Maggie has provided employment opportunities to over 7,000 people. Not only was she instrumental in providing employment opportunities, but she also has helped thousands of seniors with her exceptional, award winning home care services. Many of these seniors were of Polish decent. There were also numerous times that Maggie opened her home and provided a place to live to many immigrants who had no resources and no place to stay.
By not being afraid to make tough decisions to help the community, she has accomplished many things. Some of these accomplishments are:
· Member of an Entrepreneur Organization
· Awarded by the Chamber Of Commerce For Business Of The Year 2020
Awarded as the Employer and Provider of Choice for 5 Consecutive
coordinator of the student pilgrim trips to Polish Czestochowa in Doylestown, PA, organizer of the “Sybiraki in Connecticut” contest, coordinator of the “Zolnierze Wykleci” contest in New York, coordinator of the workshops in methodology for the Polish teachers in Connecticut, coordinator for the LOTE (Language Other Than English) exam, coordinator for the “Bo Lubie Jezyk Polski” (Because I like the Polish Language) activities, coordinator “Dzieci – Dzieciom” (Children for Children) activities at the Polish Saturday School in Derby, Connecticut, serves as a liaison for the Polish Schools and Polish organizations cooperation on the East Coast of the United States.
· Years by Homecare Pulse
· Member of a Private Care Association, Inc.
· Ranked at #7 from Greater Hartford as the Largest Woman Owned Business of the year 2015
· Ranked at #6 from Greater Hartford as the Largest Woman Owned Business of the year 2016
· Member of a National Association for Home Care and Hospice
· Member of Home Care Association of America
Maggie continues to lead in our community by being involved and daring to make a difference!
