The following agencies and programs are instrumental for the creation and sustainability of Micro Enterprise development: Small Business Administration (SBA) PRIME (Program for Investment in Micro-Entrepreneurs) Provides assistance to various organizations that help low-income entrepreneurs who lack sufficient training and education to gain access to capital to establish and expand their small businesses. Microloan Program
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Support For AT&T Disabled Vet Program
This afternoon, Claudia Viek and Shufina English will testify at a PUC hearing on the benefits of AT&T’s grant to our Disabled Vet Program. Below is the Press Release issued by CAMEO member, National Asian American Coalition. PUBLIC UTILITIES HEARING ON AT&T/T-MOBILE MERGER Minority, Business, Church and Consumer Groups Urge a Focus on Job Creation,
2011 Annual Meeting Resources
The energy and engagement of the 60 people who came to The 2011 Annual Meeting was inspiring. See below for a recap and resources as promised. Please share with your colleagues. RECAP Day 1: Glenda Humiston (USDA) explained how rural communities can build a value chain in agriculture by increasing processing resources such as cold
Phil Borden Biography
Dr. Philip Borden has advised businesses, nonprofits, universities, professional associations, governments, and elected and appointed officials on small business development, strategic and tactical planning, business/nonprofit financing and funding, intellectual property, and policy issues on four continents. He has presented about 100 papers to professional and civic associations in the United States, China, Russia, Japan, Brazil,
Support CDFI Today!
From our friends at CDFI In the Senate… Get Your Senators to Sign the FY 12 CDFI Support Letter – Please Act Now Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) has called on his colleagues in the Senate to join him on a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee requesting $227 million for the Community Development Financial Institutions
Photos From AEO
From left to right: Row 1: 1) CAMEO and AEO colleagues at White House Briefing, 2) Pamela Patterson (West Company, CAMEO board), Shufina English (CAMEO), Marsha Bailey (Women’s Economic Ventures) and Catherine Marshall (CAMEO), 3) Debra DeBondt (Opening Doors), Judy Hawkins (CAMEO board), David Blicker (Opening Doors), Lorrie Williams (Women’s Initiative, CAMEO board), Shufina English
Unemployed? Try Self-Employment
Claudia put together a standing-room-only workshop that made the case for partnering with Workforce Investment Boards to provide entrepreneurial training to the unemployed. Several AEO members have embarked on new partnerships with WIBs – usually a non-traditional partner. This workshop demonstrated how to develop a deep understanding on how to: break into these established systems,
The Deputy of Small Business
Well, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Small Business, Community Development and Housing Policy at the U.S. Department of Treasury – but that title is way too long for a headline. How come federal government employees have such long titles? Anyway, Don Graves is the man behind the title and made a keynote speech about the
Power of One in Three
Hi everyone! Claudia, Shufina and I are at the AEO conference with a few hundred of our colleagues. This afternoon at lunch, the “Power of One in Three” was introduced. If one in three Main Street businesses created a business then we’d solve the country’s unemployment problem and the country would be at full-employment. It’s
CDC Approved for Community Advantage
Congrats Kurt Chilcott, Stacey Sanchez and Robert Villareal and the rest of the CDC Small Business Finance team for being one of the first six lenders approved for the SBA’s Community Advantage program. Yesterday, the SBA announced an initial group of six community-based, mission-focused lenders that can begin to accept and process Community Advantage loan