Speaker pro
Tem Leland Yee hosts press conference on October 2
Speaker pro Tem Yee (D-San Francisco/Daly City) joined leaders
from CAMEO and Women’s Initiative for Self Employment
at the Crayon Box Preschool in San Francisco for a press conference
on October 28, to announce that October is Microenterprise
Development Month in California. Assembly Concurrent Resolution
(ACR) 76, authored by Speaker pro Tem Yee and sponsored by
CAMEO, dedicates October as Microenterprise Development Month
throughout California. The preschool where the press conference
took place is the site of a Women's Initiative graduate’s
business. Read Speaker pro Tem Yee's press
release.
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Speaker pro Tem Yee presents Catherine
Marshall a Resolution marking October as Microenterprise Development
Month. Women's Initiative Executive Director Julie Abrams also
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The Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco Region, and CAMEO organized an event on November
1 titled Banking on Microenterprise Development.
This was a forum discussion with bankers and Accion
San Diego on the benefits of partnerships, and how entrepreneur
training, counseling, and microloans create successful businesses
with healthy job growth leading to the creation of new banking
relationships.
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Assemblywoman Lynn Daucher
presents a framed ACR 76 resolution
to Patti Mason of Accion San Diego.
Catherine Marshall of CAMEO provides
an introduction to successful partnerships between bankers
and microenterprise organizations.
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Fresno
County Economic Opportunities Commission (EOC), the Western
Rural Development Center and CAMEO
This jointly sponsored event is a National
Coalition for Rural Entrepreneurship "Listening Session",
and was held in Fresno on Wednesday, October 5. Assemblymember
Arambula attended and presented Fresno County EOC with a framed
Resolution ACR 76 document.
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Microenterprise practitioners gather to provide input on
funding rural entrepreneurship during the USDA Listening Session
held in Fresno October 5. CAMEO and the Fresno County EOC were
co-hosts.
Assembly member Juan Arambula presents Vicki Hoyle
of the Fresno County EOC with the resolution naming October
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Accion
San Diego - San Diego
Patti Mason, President of Accion
San Diego, was interviewed on the Inside Business Radio
Show (KCEO AM1000) on October 4 at 9:40 a.m.
Click here
to listen to the broadcast.
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Lenders for Community Development - San
Jose
L4CD's 2005 Annual Meeting took place on Tuesday,
September 27 from 6 to 8pm at the San Jose Art Museum. The
meeting also marked their 10th Anniversary. To read an event
description and view photos of the event, click here.
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La
Cocina - San Francisco
To read an article about La Cocina's work in the San Francisco
Bay Guardian, click here.
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Asian
Pacific Islander Small Business Program - Los Angeles
The
6th Annual Asian Small Business Expo
Press
Release Excerpt:
ASIAN SMALL BUSINESS EXPO
OCTOBER 6, DOWNEY, CA
The Asian Small Business Expo is
the place to go for entrepreneurs in Southern California.
Forty exhibitors and a dozen workshops are available to provide
advice, business leads, and contacts for Asian small businesses.
This is also a kick-off event for the State’s first
Micro-enterprise Month, October 2005.
Assemblymembers Mark Ridley-Thomas and Judy Chu announced
the passage of Assembly Bill ARC 76, designating October 2005
Microenterprise Month. The resolution highlights the importance
of microenterprises to the California economy. Seventy-four
out of eighty Assemblymembers co-signed the Bill which was
introduced by Assemblymember Leland Yee of San Francisco.
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Press conference
with Assemblyman Mark
Ridley Thomas
Press conference
with Assemblywoman Judy Chu
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West Company
Early in October, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors
presented West Company with a congratulatory proclamation
based on its microenterprise development work in the county.
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Read
about JEDI's First
Annual Innovation Awards
in the Mt. Shasta News
Innovation in small and micro businesses was recognized and
celebrated at the Jefferson Economic Development Institute's
Innovation Awards Celebration at the Mount Shasta Resort on
October 21.“Not only do we celebrate every person who
chooses to operate a business here, but we also want to encourage
them to align their business practices with the things most
important to them and the values they hold. This is the path
to true prosperity,” said Nancy Swift of JEDI. Nancy
saluted what she termed “the bravery, resilience, contribution,
and innovation” of Siskiyou County's small and micro
entrepreneurial business owners, and indicated that the impact
they had was greater than many realize.
“Of all employers in the county, 25
percent have five or fewer employees, including themselves,
and 90 percent of all existing businesses in Siskiyou County
employ 10 or fewer people,” Swift told the audience.
“One significance here is about
who is creating opportunities in the county,” she added.
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On behalf of proprietors
Jenn and Chris Carr, company founder Michael Zanger accepts
the honorary business award for “Stewardship”
presented to Shasta Mountain Guides by JEDI board member Laurie
Bagley. |
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West
Company announces its Entrepreneur of the Month for October,
Sylvan Woods
West Company clients
Ruth and Michael Hunter started their redwood spa accessories
business, Sylvan Woods, in the early 1990s. The Hunters started
out manufacturing spa furniture in a small garage-like shop
at an industrial park, employing part-time people, and for a
time took lumber and building supplies to a Santa Rosa location
which employed people with disabilities. They employed college
students part-time, and worked around class schedules. Now they
fill up three shops at the Rose Industrial Park in Ukiah and
employ more than a dozen full-time employees. Back
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