Wednesday, August 31, 2011

SBA Brings Matchmaker Conference to Tampa to Connect Small Business

SBA Brings Matchmaker Conference to Tampa to Connect Small Business Manufacturers with Export Specialists

Release Date: August 29, 2011
Contact: David Hall (202) 205-6687
Release Number: 11-47
Internet Address: http://www.sba.gov/news

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Small Business Administration will host the second of its Export Matchmaker Trade Fair & Conference series in Tampa, Fla., on September 14. The program is designed to provide small business manufacturers and suppliers an easy and inexpensive means for exporting their products by matching them with trade intermediaries from across the country.

“One of President Obama’s goals in the National Export Initiative is to double U.S. exports in five years,” said SBA Administrator Karen Mills. “In these challenging economic times, and with 96 percent of the world’s population living outside the U.S., it just makes sense for Florida’s small businesses to export.”

These trade intermediaries – export management companies, export trading companies, foreign sales brokers and agents – are export specialists that will either buy a company’s products and sell them in foreign markets or represent a company’s products abroad through a distribution agreement or similar contract.

Engaging with an export management company or export trading company can be the most cost-effective means for small businesses to either begin exporting or expand export sales, because they do not need to commit additional personnel or resources to the effort. In fact, indirect marketing via trade intermediaries can make exporting as easy as making a domestic sale.

The Tampa event follows the first Matchmaker conference conducted last year in Jersey City, NJ. The SBA is encouraging trade intermediaries from across the country, as well as foreign buying missions and other trade facilitators such as foreign consulates and bi-national chambers of commerce, shippers, and other trade-related service organizations to meet with small business manufacturers and suppliers at the event.

The conference is cosponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Commercial Service, the Florida District Export Council and the Florida Small Business Development Center Network. For more information and to register for the event visit: www.sba.gov/exportmatchmaker-florida.

Registration Opens for 29th Annual MED Week Conference

Registration Opens for 29th Annual MED Week Conference

Release Date: August 31, 2011
Contact: Tiffani Clements (202) 401-0035
Release Number: 11-48
Internet Address: http://www.sba.gov/news

WASHINGTON – Registration for the 29th annual Minority Enterprise Development (MED) Week conference that will bring business leaders and top minority business owners to Washington in September is now open, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced today.

The MED Week conference, hosted jointly by SBA and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency will take place Sept. 27-30, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.

The theme for this year’s MED Week event is “Emerging Industries & Markets: A Blueprint for Success,” and its focus will be on helping minority-owned small businesses expand their operations and establish a presence in the global marketplace while helping them weather current economic climate.

“MED Week celebrates the accomplishments of outstanding minority entrepreneurs and leaders and provides a platform for small, minority-owned businesses to learn about business growth strategies, receive premier training and networking opportunities,” said SBA Administrator Karen G. Mills.

“MED Week is more important than ever before as minority-owned firms are seen as a valuable asset and significant source of job creation for the country,” said MBDA National Director David Hinson. “Business owners, corporations, federal agencies will all be in attendance seeking to be a part of the solution to ‘Win the Future’ for America.”

Keynote speakers include Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan. Corporate executives from Honda, General Motors, Chrysler, Northrop-Grumman, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin also will participate in industry-specific workshops on increasing supplier diversity. The conference also will include sessions on high-speed rail construction projects, public utilities and green business.

SBA will present workshops on improving access to its lending and government contracting programs, and increasing business growth by using social media. SBA will participate in a roundtable entitled “Doing Business with the Government.” There will also be a business expo and tradeshow, business-to-business matchmaking sessions and a Small Business Town Hall to discuss the Small Business Jobs Act. For more information on MED Week workshops, or to register for the conference, visit www.medweek.gov.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

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Monday, August 8, 2011

SBA & Agility Recovery Solutions Host Free Webinar Social Media Strategies for Business Disaster Recovery

SBA & Agility Recovery Solutions Host Free Webinar on
Social Media Strategies for Business Disaster Recovery

Advisory Date: August 5, 2011
Contact: Carol Chastang (202) 205-6987
Advisory Number: MA11-16 I
nternet Address: http://www.sba.gov/news

WASHINGTON – A major disaster has devastated your community, and landlines are down. Will you be able to use Facebook or Twitter to keep your employees, customers and vendors aware of your status? How will you distinguish good information on post-disaster social media channels from the scams?

Business and civic leaders in Joplin, Mo., had a crash course in leveraging social media following the May 22 tornado that tore through the city, killing 160 people and damaging or destroying about 8,000 homes and businesses. Kirstie Smith, communications director of the Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce, and Mark Kinsley, creator of the Rebuild Joplin Facebook page, will join the U.S. Small Business Administration and Agility Recovery Solutions during a free webinar August 16 to talk about how they used social media tools to exchange critical information with local businesses. Social media consultant John Orlando will share practical tips for business owners to use to map out a business continuity plan that includes social media.

SBA has partnered with Agility to offer business continuity strategies for entrepreneurs via their “PrepareMyBusiness” website. Visit www.preparemybusiness.org to access previous webinars and additional preparedness tips.

The SBA provides disaster recovery assistance in the form of low-interest loans to homeowners, renters, private nonprofits and businesses of all sizes. To learn more, visit www.sba.gov/disaster.

WHO: John Orlando, John Orlando Consulting
Kirstie Smith, Communications Director, Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce
Mark Kinsley, Director of Marketing, Rebuild Joplin

WHAT: “Social Media and Disaster Recovery” will be presented by Orlando, Smith and Kinsley.
A question and answer session will follow.

WHEN: Tuesday, August 16, 2011, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EDT

HOW: Space is limited. Register at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/429536768

Friday, August 5, 2011

Small Businesses Have New Non-Profit Sources For SBA-financed Loans

Small Businesses Have New Non-Profit Sources
For SBA-financed Loans

20 First Community lending organizations selected to start making loans
up to $200,000 under new Intermediary Lending Pilot Program

Release Date: August 4, 2011
Contact: David J. Hall (202) 205-6697
Or Dennis Byrne (202) 205-6567
Release Number: 11-46
Internet Address: http://www.sba.gov/news

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Startups, newly established and growing small businesses now have a new source of financing backed by the U.S. Small Business Administration as 20 community organizations have been funded by SBA to start making loans up to $200,000 to qualifying small businesses.

Authorized under the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, the new Intermediary Lending Pilot Program will provide direct loans up to $1 million to 20 community organizations or intermediaries in fiscal year 2011, which in turn will use those funds to help finance small businesses, mostly in underserved markets.

Designed to expand access to capital to small businesses and drive economic growth and job creation, the program will fund 20 additional community lenders in FY 2012. The program has an additional year of authority in FY 2013 subject to appropriation by Congress.

“The Intermediary Lending Program is an important new tool to support businesses in underserved markets,” said SBA Deputy Administrator Marie Johns. “Partnering with community lenders will increase points of access to capital for startups and businesses that have been disproportionately affected by the recession.”

One goal of the pilot program over the next two-to-three years is to assess the intermediary model as an effective tool for increasing lower-dollar lending to small businesses and startups, particularly those in traditionally underserved communities.

The first 20 community lending organizations funded by SBA to participate in ILP are:

Organization
(Listed in Alphabetical Order) City, State
Ben Franklin Technology Partners Philadelphia, PA
Biddeford-Saco Area EDC Saco, ME
Business Finance Group, Inc Fairfax, VA
Central Minnesota DC Andover, MN
Clay-Platte Development Corp. Kansas City, MO
Colorado Lending Source, Ltd. Denver, CO
Cooperative Fund of New England Amherst, MA
Fresno County EDC Fresno, CA
Grand Central Texas DC Austin, TX
Grow South Dakota Sisseton, SD
Mahoning Valley EDC Youngstown, OH
NC Minority Support Center Durham, NC
Ohio Comm. Dev. Finance Fund Columbus, OH
Pacific Community Ventures San Francisco, CA
PIDC Regional DC Philadelphia, PA
Rural Nevada DC Ely, NV
Seattle Economic Dev. Fund Seattle, WA
ShoreBank Enterprise Group Ilawco, WA
TELACU Community Capital Los Angeles, CA
UP Business Capital Marquette, MI

For more information about the ILP program, visit the program website at http://www.sba.gov/content/intermediary-lending-pilot. To locate your local SBA office, visit www.sba.gov/about-offices-list/2.