Claudia Viek’s column in American Banker
March 16, 2012: Claudia Viek explains how to get small businesses ready to borrow.
Claudia Viek’s column in The Washington Post
February 3, 2012: Claudia Viek explains how the SBA needs to support micro-businesses because they are the job creators.
CAMEO quoted in Restaurant Magazine.com
January 2012: Claudia Viek talks about how CDFI’s are filling the role of banks for the under $250,000 loan market.
CAMEO op-ed in The San Diego Union Tribune
9/4/2011: Kurt Chilcott (CDC Small Business Finance) writes, “If one out of every three of these businesses hired one employee, our economy would recover. Strengthening very small businesses is key to generating jobs.”
CAMEO op-ed in San Jose Mercury News
8/9/2011: Carmen Herrera (El Pajaro, CAMEO Board) writes about the need to integrate support for very small homegrown businesses in the Lt. Governor Newsom’s economic development plan.
CAMEO op-ed in Sac Bee
7/26/2011: Claudia Viek, CEO, CAMEO writes about creating small businesses is a key job-generating strategy.
May 2011, CAMEO CEO Claudia Viek at the San Diego Microfinance Summit
Claudia discusses new innovations in microfinance with Gina Harman, CEO of ACCION Network, and Maika Hemphill, North America Portfolio Manager at Kiva International.
CAMEO CEO Claudia Viek – Opinion piece in SFGate!
What do CAMEO, the Brookings Institution, and the Public Policy Institute of California all have in common? Read Claudia Viek’s opinion piece here to find out! A pragmatic solution for Governor Brown to stimulate home grown businesses!
Policy Update::
Our CEO, Claudia Viek, and several Bay Area CAMEO members, recently met with Mark Herbert, Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s local policy staff, who asked us to frame our priorities. CAMEO proposed a bold recommendation for $1.25 billion to assist our State’s unemployed to become self employed. A briefing with the Congressional Labor & Education Committee to show how WIA funds could support Self Employment was also proposed.
Read the full letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
CAMEO Quoted in San Francisco Chronicle.
Claudia met with Meg Whitman’s campaign representative on 8/11/2010 and Attorney General Jerry Brown’s campaign representative on 8/18/2010 to discuss their Jobs Platforms and the need to support Micro Business development. The SF Chronicle quoted Claudia and our member Jorge Corralejo in an article detailing these candidates’ positions on job creation, in the Sunday, Aug. 8 edition.
Microfinance groups help small businesses grow.
Hot off the Press: Check out this great article in the SF Chronicle that confirms that CAMEO members are indeed stimulating new businesses, creating jobs and moving capital into distressed communities.
CAMEO’S Shufina English in the San Francisco Chronicle!!
This opinion piece was the lead article in Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle. Shufina perfectly captured the rationale for why we need to invest in entrepreneurship during this great recession. Read the article below.
Ramp up entrepreneurship education, training
Viewpoint: Put Tarp Money to Work for Small Businesses
American Banker
Friday, October 23, 2009
By Jorge Corralejo and Claudia Viek
Credit to small businesses has been substantially curtailed since 2008, yet these businesses are far more responsible for domestic job creation than the banking industry or corporate America as a whole.
The national unemployment rate is officially 9.8%. But the real unemployment rate, including discouraged and part-time workers who want full-time jobs, is moving closer to 20%, according to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. And for our nation’s 91 million Latinos and African-Americans, the real unemployment rate in some states exceeds 30%. Read the rest of the article.
CAMEO Members and legislative leaders discuss creating more jobs in Rural areas.
The Conversation: Micro business provides one answer to problem of underemployment.
Buzz up! By Claudia Viek.
Published: Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009 – 12:00 am | Page 2E The Sacramento Bee.
Last Modified: Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009 – 8:26 am
Californians are hurting. Lost jobs, lost hours, lost wages and lost investments are stealing away dreams.
But what they are finding out about themselves can change California’s economy.
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