First, I want to correct my last blog where I inadvertently omitted several members who were awarded SBA PRIME grants for 2010-11. Congratulations to all the PRIME award winners as follows: CEO Women (Bay Area) $47,060 El Pajaro CDC (Watsonville) $250,000 MEDA (San Francisco) $250,000 Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center (Bay Area) $150,000 Women’s Economic Ventures (Santa
CAMEO members throughout the state are putting government funds to work to stimulate new businesses and jobs for their communities. These organizations have shown leadership in their commitment to scale up their lending or business assistance programs to serve the increased demand– from businesses abandoned by the banks or struggling during the Recession, or by
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced $605,000 in grants and loans Thursday to the Valley Small Business Development Corp. to benefit rural businesses. Read more:
By Susan Brown CAMEO Rural Consultant I heard a part of the debate between Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman recently. Meg bemoaned businesses moving out of California because of our unfriendly business policies. She should check out this report Business Relocation and Homegrown Jobs by Jed Kolko, of the Public Policy Institute of California. Kolko
– Our second webinar produced in partnership with Small Business Majority. Hank Ryan explores how the clean energy sector offers economic opportunities for small and micro-businesses.
– David Chase of Small Business Majority on how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act affects small and micro-business owners in California, and how Business Development Services providers and microlenders can assist their clients.
Valley Small Business Development, a CAMEO member CDFI serving the Fresno and greater San Joaquin Valley region, forged a unique partnership with both Wells Fargo Bank and the Fresno Regional Foundation to facilitate a $1 million equity equivalent (EQ2) investment in small businesses. These funds will help an estimated 25-30 businesses, and create about 200
– Karen Waksman of Product for Profit discusses how micro-businesses and entrepreneurs can sell their products or inventions to retailers. A free webinar provided by CAMEO.
Everyone is looking for ways to create jobs in this Great Recession, and CAMEO is becoming a go-to place to find out how Micro Enterprise development can be a key strategy for mobilizing entrepreneurship and creating new jobs. Following are the highlights from briefings prepared for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, for the two Gubernatorial candidates, Meg
On July 12 I participated in the Federal Reserve’s Capstone Forum, along with several of our members – Selma Taylor, Kurt Chilcott and Roberto Barragan.—to make recommendations for moving capital to small and micro businesses. Despite the protestations by bankers that they had plenty of money to loan but no demand from “credit-worthy” small businesses,