After months of lockdown and severely limited operations, business owners in California are now thinking about reopening to the public in a manner that is safe but that also helps them bounce back from the economic impacts of COVID-19. Business As It Could Be is a proposal from a group of San Francisco-based small business
Month: June 2020
Rural and Urban Lending During and After The Financial Crisis
In May 2020, the SBA Office of Advocacy published a report that compares bank lending data in rural and urban areas from 2007-2016. This report is useful to examine the progression of small business lending during and after the financial crisis, and what it means in terms of economic development for rural and urban areas.
Unemployment Insurance Help for the Self-Employed | PPP Updates
Read our statement in support of the black community. In this Must Know… Unemployment Insurance Help for the Self-Employed PPP Updates from SBA AEO to Manage $10 million Grant Fund Correction: An error in one of the charts in last week’s blog post on increased demand for member services has been corrected. This week’s Goodie highlights are two government
Sofia Lopez, Santo Hermano Pedro Boutique
Back in Antigua, Guatemala, Sofia Lopez had a small business. She sold items like pocketbooks, belts, and wallets on the vibrant main square. She always wanted to run such a venture and was achieving success. That is, until violence compelled her to leave her homeland a decade ago.
Listening Session: Federal, State, and Local Policy
We know that each of you are responding to the pandemic and implementing programs and procedures to help your clients and serve the small business community. Join our latest Listening/Sharing Session and Policy Update. We update you about the latest moves in federal policy with Ann Sullivan, our DC champion, and Mark Quinn, our Senior Advisor
Reopening: Policy, Numbers, and Programs
Read our statement in support of the black community. In this Must Know… Join our latest Policy Update and Listening Session TOMORROW at 1:00pm PDT. CAMEO Members See Dramatic Increase in Demand eBay’s Up & Running Program Because of changes in the legislative process, Advocacy Day 2020 will be postponed until late July/early August. This week’s Goodie highlight
PUA Legal Clinic for The Self-Employed
Note: The legal clinic has now ended, and we know not everybody received benefits nor had the same experiences while applying. We would like your feedback about the clinic and the PUA program. Please fill out this survey to let us know how it went for you. If you are still in need of assistance, one
CAMEO Members See Dramatic Increase in Demand
Thanks to Nancy Swift for her collaboration! With the economic fallout stemming from the pandemic and social distancing measures, we know that all our members have experienced an increase in demand from small business owners struggling to stay afloat. We likely won’t know the full extent of these shifts in demand for months or years
Statement from our CEO, Carolina Martinez
I’ve written draft after draft of this statement. Words do not flow and do not convey the feelings experienced in the last few days. Ensuring economic development opportunities for our minority and underserved business owners was our team’s priority during this pandemic, which already has affected the black community disproportionately; then the death of George Floyd