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Saturday, April 17, 2004
SBA Expo
U.S. Small Business Administration -- News Release - Internet Address: www.sba.gov/news/SBA Announces Online Registration For National Small Business Week SBA Expo '04 Celebration, Conference Will Take Place May 19-21
WASHINGTON - Online attendee registration for the U.S. Small Business Administration's SBA Expo '04: Celebrating National Small Business Week opens today.
The annual celebration honoring the nation's leading small business entrepreneurs will be held in Orlando, Fla., May 19-21, 2004, at the Orange County Convention Center. Highlights of SBA Expo '04, co-sponsored by SCORE, "Counselors to America's Small Business," include the announcement of the National Small Business Person of the Year.
"This year's Small Business Week promises to be an outstanding event," Administrator Hector V. Barreto said. "SBA Expo '04 will honor America's small business owners and their contributions to our economy and our country. It will also be an opportunity for small business owners from across the country to gather together, learn from each other, compete for contracts, and participate in three full days of events that can help them grow their own businesses."
Interested small business owners, business organizations, and other individuals may now register for SBA Expo '04 events online at www.sba.gov/50. Exhibitor registration will be available by March 5. Complete information on Expo events is available on the SBA's conference Web site, and will be updated regularly with new event information. Registrants who complete the process by April 17 will be rewarded with an "early bird" discount.
Special events scheduled include a business expo, a business matchmaking event, business seminars, a town hall meeting, and award ceremonies honoring women entrepreneurs and state and national small business winners. SBA Expo '04 will also feature business industry leaders and speakers from trade associations, and state level and federal government.
For additional information about SBA Expo '04, visit the SBA Web site at SBA Expo.
NATIONAL BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION FOR NON-PROFITS
Originally reported by Bruce RushClosing Date: At the conclusion of the 2nd National Business Plan Competition on May 14, 2004, the 3rd National Business Plan Competition begins. The dead-
line for submission is July 16, 2004.
Amount: Four grand-prize winners will be awarded seed capital to launch or grow their ventures. Each will receive $100,000 and many days of technical business planning consultations to assist their organizations to move their ventures forward.
Four runners-up will each receive $25,000 in seed capital as well as technical business assistance. Additional awards may be given out pending additional funding from new sponsors.
SUMMARY: The Yale School of Management, The Goldman Sachs Foundation, and The Pew Charitable trusts have joined together to form The Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures. As its signature event, The Partnership runs the National Business Plan Competition for Nonprofit Organizations, open to non-profits seeking to start or expand successful profit-making ventures with substantial cash prizes and technical assistance offered to the winners.
For detailed information go to: Biz Competition
Is it Just Me Or Did Amirosa Stab Kwame in the Back!
In the Apprentice, Amirosa derails Kwame's chance to win the job with the Donald. Is this just an example of how people of Color or Blacks turn on each other for financial gain? May be I am being too sensitive, but Amirosa is the first person to cry racism or that someone is calling her the "N" word. But she fits into the old stereotype, that Blacks can't work together because they have a "crabs in the basket mentality". In other words, we can't advance collectively, because we are too busy pulling each other down - trying to get to the top! Personally this goes to show you everybody who claims to be a sister isn't a sister.Just Keeping it Real! Kamau
