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Hello,
I am excited to announce we are busy yet again writing grants. We are also involved in several events that are coming up.
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On February 12 Colleen Trask will teach
QuickBooks Bootcamp for Beginners
in collaboration with the College of the Redwoods.The partnership between the North Coast SBDC and the College of the Redwoods Business Training Center has been cultivated in order to provide pertinent opportunities to community members seeking to advance their business knowledge and skills. For more information about the training click here.
IDEO, a global design and innovation consultancy, will
introduce design thinking as a tool for business, and offer up specific cases.
The workshop will give you tips and techniques to bring design thinking to life
quickly, so that you can generate solutions to challenges you may be
facing today. IDEO was ranked the 5th
most innovative company by Fast Company.
Clients include: Bank of America,
Nike, Procter & Gamble and Kraft.
DETAILS: Thursday, February 25th.
New Humboldt Bay Aquatic
Center, Eureka. Welcome: 9:00 am Workshop: 9:30 - 11:30 am. Cost: $40. ($55 when
combined with luncheon). Learn more and RSVP: northcoastprosperity.com by 2/19/10. Space is limited.
The Business Leader Lunch is returning after a one-year hiatus to bring you an
insightful, thought-provoking program. IDEO leaders, Chris and Bryan, will
share how design can solve complex systematic problems across private, public
and social sectors. David Cremin, founder and managing director of DJF
Frontier, a venture capital firm based in Los
Angeles, will join IDEO to discuss how businesses and
new products get launched today.
DETAILS: Thursday, February 25th.
Avalon, 3rd and G Streets, Eureka.
Noon - 2pm
Cost: $30 ($55 when combined with the workshop.) Learn more and RSVP: northcoastprosperity.com
by 2/19/10. Space
is limited.
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A new program for businesses in the Eel River Valley.
Arcata Economic Development Corporation and the North Coast SBDC are partnering to offer the Eel River Valley Prosperity Scholarship/Microenterprise Flight.
This is an opportunity for small business owners in the Eel River Valley to participate in a free savings program where participants save up to $1,200, which is matched up to $2,400, the total of which may be used for a business asset. This program is for start-up businesses or those interested in capitalization of their businesses.
North Coast SBDC staff apply for three new grants. The grants we are currently working on are:
- Headwaters Fund - Innovation in Our Region. We are seeking to design a high quality program that will increase entrepreneurial success through innovative ways of doing business.
- Small Business Administration - Portable. The Nor Cal Lead Center will submit a proposal that will include a component to address recent adverse economic events in the North Coast dairy, timber, and fishing industries.
- Wells Fargo - Youth Entrepreneurship initiative, in partnership with Humboldt County Office of Education.
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Our organization, along with all of
the Northern California Region SBDC's, are currently working on
implementing a new workshop registration process. The new process will streamline our operations and assist clients in tracking their workshops.
Current
clients will go from our website to eCenter, a new feature of our
client management program, and use their email address and a password
to log in. If clients do not have a password they will be instructed
on the site on how to obtain one.
New clients will be directed
to create a client account, receive a password, and log in to start the
workshop registration process.
From there, clients will be able
to see all of the workshops or conferences that they have attended and
also those for which they are registered.
This process will
reduce data entry time used by staff to record workshop details and
client attendance, while improving the accuracy of client information.
The
new process will require a bit more effort at the start and it will
take some getting used to. We sincerely hope that clients will find
the new procedure to be more useful.
New Mileage Rates Announced for 2010
The Internal Revenue Service issued the optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical, or moving purposes.
Beginning January 1, 2010 the standard mileage rates for the use of a car (also vans, pickups, or panel trucks) are:
- 50 cents per mile for business miles driven
- 16.5 cents per mile driven for medical or moving purposes
- 14 cents per mile driven in service of charitable organizations
The mileage rates for 2010 reflect generally lower transportation costs compared to one year ago.
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Kristin Johnson, Director of the Nor Cal Lead Center, has been elected to Chair the California SBDC Lead Center Directors.
 Ms. Johnson was the Executive Director of the North Coast SBDC before
becoming the Director of the Office of Economic, Community, and Business
Development at Humboldt State University and the Northern
California Regional Lead Center.
Way to go Kristin!
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The North Coast SBDC had 4471 total counseling hours and served 724 clients in 2009.
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2010 is shaping up to be a great year!
 Sincerely,
Kathrine Bridgwater
Small Business Development Analyst
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