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October 1, 2010
Hello,
Fall is upon us and we have a couple of great events coming right up.
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| Events |
2010 Online Technology Boot CampThe 2010 Online Technology Boot Camp is a
full-day training event including:- Online Technology Tools: Moving Your Business Online
- Email Marketing: The Basics & Beyond
- Using Social Networking For Your Small Business
Seating is very limited! Last chance to pre-register!
What: 2010 Online Technology Boot Camp
Date: Wednesday, October 6th
Time: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Location: Humboldt Bay Aquatic Center, Eureka
Register at www.northcoastsbdc.org/2010techbootcamp
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Technology in My Back Yard?!?
A seminar to help obtain funding
The Federal government has two programs designed to fund emerging technologies and research of those technologies, which use the acronyms SBIR and STTR.
We've lined up a rare opportunity to learn about the grants from experts for anyone that is interested.
The day-long event will include insights into how to get awarded and
mistakes to avoid, as well as a panel of people who have experience with
the program and technology commercialization.
Private consultations with the presenter Roger S. Cohen available to seminar attendees are sure to assist in developing your ideas and answering specific questions.
The cost is $10 and includes continental breakfast and lunch.
Paul Burgess and Ken Owens created Cognisense Labs by developing robotic landmine clearing technology.  |
Secrets of Writing Winning SBIR/STTR Proposals
Date: Wednesday, October
20th
Time: 8:30am to 4:00pm
Location: Humboldt Bay Aquatic Center
Private SBIR/STTR Counseling
Date: Thursday, October
21st
Time: 8:30am to 4:00pm
Location: Humboldt Bay Aquatic Center
Please register in advance at www.northcoastsbdc.org
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Grants and Programs
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Arts Salon I is a smashing success!
The North Coast SBDC hosted an opening reception for the Multimedia Exhibition of SBDC clients in Del Norte County that participated in the Arts Salon program.
Read more here in the Daily Triplicate.
Congratulations to all of the clients:
- Bryant Anderson
- Diane Laputz
- Erica Moore
- Irene Moreno
- Jane Opiat
- Jason Gill
- Karen Reyman
- Lesa Winebarger
- Paul Reyman
- Rika Blue
- Robert Madden
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AEDC brings Lemonade Day to the North Coast
Lemonade Day is a hands-on way to teach kids about business and to create the next generation workforce. The purpose is to empower them to think big! As youth start their own business -- a lemonade stand -- Lemonade Day gives them tools to be successful in life. Be part of this national initiative as it strives to have 1 million young entrepreneurs across the United States open a lemonade stand for one day by 2013.
North Coast Lemonade Day will be held on June 4 and is open to kids of all ages. Activities highlighting and celebrating young entrepreneurship will be held by schools and youth organizations throughout the year. To find out how your school, church, club, organization, business, neighborhood play group or how your kids can participate, visit North Coast Lemonade Day on Facebook, or join Julie Eberly, National Executive Director of Lemonade Day from Houston, Texas at Old Town Coffee and Chocolates on Thursday, Oct. 7 at 9 a.m. or at Mosgo's in Arcata on Saturday, Oct. 9 at 11 a.m. to learn more. Call Susan at AEDC with any questions, at 822-4616 ext. 12.
North Coast Lemonade Day, the Humboldt/Del Norte County project, is part of the Decade of Difference 20/20 Initiative. Through partnerships with school, business and economic development leaders, Lemonade Day is one project to highlight the importance of small business to our economy -- and our children as the future of that economy.
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| Workshops |
Essentials of Business Web Sites
For the business person considering a web site.
This
workshop is designed to help the novice understand the basic
considerations and technologies related to launching and using a web
site. Register at www.northcoastsbdc.org or call 707-445-9720. Business Basics Workshop Series
As we approach the holidays please keep in mind that the free workshops are not offered in Eureka during the month of December. The 2011 workshop calendar will be available closer to the end of the year. |
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Child
Care and the State Budget: Maintaining a Key Economic
Support
Local child care programs
struggling to remain open to serve working families
By Wendy Rowan, Executive
Director, First 5 Humboldt
The delay in passing this year's California state budget
seems familiar. We've had late state budgets (submitted after June 30th) for
most of the past two decades. But this year the damage for many seems worse than
ever.
Child care is especially vulnerable right now. As
unemployment remains high, families withdraw their children from programs, which
then face hard decisions about how to keep going. Child care providers who run
programs in their homes are struggling to make their house payments, or taking
second jobs on top of 40+ hour workweeks. Staff who work in child care centers
are wondering anxiously about temporary or permanent closures, especially if
their funding comes from the state.Children learn about leaf structure at a local children's center  |
Cumulatively, Early Childhood Educators have made
major investments of time and energy in their careers. We can't afford to lose
their services if we want families with young children to be able to work, and
children to benefit from well designed learning environments. Every year child
care programs that depend on state funds face the possibility of delayed
payments that threaten their livelihoods. This year, due to state child care
payments being withheld, programs are closing at rates that suggest that our
child care resources are beginning to unravel.
After careful
consideration, First 5 Humboldt, the Headwaters Fund, and the Redwood Region
Economic Development Commission have partnered to provide an emergency bridge
loan to the Arcata and Rooney-McKinleyville Children's Centers to enable them to
remain open beyond September 1, 2010. These two child care centers
have served working families and the local economy so well for over thirty years
and would have closed on September 1st without the emergency bridge
loan. The Arcata and Rooney-McKinleyville Children's Centers will repay the
loan when they receive their child care payments from the California Department
of Education after a California budget is achieved. Parents
currently using the child care centers are employed by 61 different employers in
the county, 8 are self-employed, and 8 are students at Humboldt State University and College of the Redwoods.
The child care
industry is a vital part of the county's economy. If these child care centers
had closed and parents had suddenly lost their child care-it would have hurt
local businesses as well as the families.
The partnership among First 5 Humboldt, the
Headwaters Fund, and the Redwood Region Economic Development Commission is a
trial effort, based on the good-faith assumption that the state will honor its
ongoing child care contracts once a budget agreement is reached. Lessons learned
this year will be applied to next year's demands as we are able. Of course, the
acute need is for systemic reforms, so that child care is funded year round,
with or without a budget in place. That way, our workers with young children and
our child care providers will not have to wonder, but can do their part to help
their lives and our economy flourish.
______________________________________________________ 10th Annual GovLink Conference
Linking You
to Government Opportunities!
Hosted by The Federal Technology
Center and
Defense Microelectronics Activity.
October 26-27,
2010 at the Radisson Hotel in Sacramento.
This highly-packed
conference provides networking opportunities between more than
350 attendees and 50 exhibitors from government agencies, prime
contractors, and small businesses.
Early
registration ends September 10,
2010.
Register now as an attendee or
an exhibitor!
Last year exhibit spaces sold out!
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| Stat for this month. |
Small Business and Health Insurance
 A Kaiser Family Foundation study confirmed the connection between firm size and offering health insurance. The survey shows that about half of businesses with 3-9 workers offer health benefits to their employees. The ratio grows to about three-fourths for firms with 10-24 employees, to almost 90 percent for firms with 25-49 employees, and to 98 percent for firms with 200 employees or more.
Almost two-thirds of workers take health insurance coverage when offered. Overall in 2008, small firm employees were almost twice as likely as large firm employees to be uninsured (25.1 percent vs. 13.6 percent, respectively).
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust, Employer Health Benefits 2010 Annual Survey; Employee Benefit Research Institute, Sources of Health Insurance and Characteristics of the Uninsured: Analysis of the March 2009 Current Population Survey.
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Thinking about health insurance for small business, sometimes it is so difficult to keep up with what's going on in Washington with health care reform. There is a tax credit for small business. While it does require some qualifications, there are viable benefits to the program. Here's a link to an article with more information.Sending you all well wishes this fall.  Sincerely,
Kathrine Bridgwater
Small Business Development Analyst
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