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Greetings!
We hope you had a great weekend. Here is
your
weekly Small Business Advocacy Council update.
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Happy Hour At Lincolnshire Gourmet
 Approximately seventy folks packed the
Lincolnshire Gourmet last Thursday for our SBAC Happy Hour. The weather
was great, spirits were high and many small business owners had an
opportunity
to meet for the first time.
 We would like to thank the
Lincolnshire Gourmet, an SBAC member, for being gracious hosts. The
atmosphere in their party room is outstanding and the appetizers were
fantastic. We hope to be back there for another event soon.
For more photos from the SBAC's Happy Hour, click here.
We will
be having our next Happy Hour the last week in May. |
Republican Candidate Forum - May 22nd
Our Republican candidate forum has been confirmed for
May 22nd at
our Northfield office. We will begin at 12:15 p.m.
Robert Dold, 10th
District Candidate for Congress, will be addressing the group for 30 minutes. Afterwards, we will be holding a panel discussion with the following Republican candidates:
Feel free to submit written questions
for these
candidates in advance of the event. Otherwise, we will have an
opportunity to ask the candidates questions and voice our concerns
during the
forum. |
SBAC Blog
The SBAC blog last week featured an
article about
the proposed value-added tax and a press release from the United States
House of
Representative's Small Business Committee about the unreasonable burden
small
business owners face when attempting to comply with
our complex tax code.
This week, our blog will include:
- A very informative article
on ways small business owners can obtain financing through a ROBS
plan. We
are not advocating for, or against, obtaining financing in this
manner. However, we feel the article is worth sharing. Finance Your Franchise With Retirement Funds |
Advocacy
At our recent policy meeting, the SBAC
members in
attendance (over 25) supported drafting a petition that would: - Stress that the lending crises
has caused extreme hardship for small businesses and that this situation
must be
urgently addressed. - Aggresssively move the
government to make returned TARP money available to small business
owners and
demand that financial institutions that receive these funds make
reasonable
loans to small business.
The language for this petition will be
drafted by
the May 22nd candidate forum. We will begin circulating the petition
on-line and by visiting small businesses shortly
thereafter.
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Membership
Michael Cavanaugh, the co-chair of our
membership
committee, will be circulating a form to our members asking them
to identify several prospects for the SBAC. Please take the time to
complete these forms. They can be E-mailed to SBAC Vice President Blanca Campos at Blanca@smallbusinessadvocacycouncil.org
or sent to our office.
Michael has secured a skybox for an upcoming
White
Sox game on Saturday, June 5, 2010. We have five open slots for the game and
they will be awarded to the members that provide us the most leads for
the SBAC.
Thank you Michael. Our membership has swelled to 73 in
approximately two months. If you are receiving this newsletter and are
not
a member, please visit our website and consider joining. For the cost
of
$25.00 a month, we believe this is an outstanding value. It is our mission to do all in our
power to help
our members prosper. Indeed, the stronger each member of the
SBAC becomes, the more we can do to help each other and push
forward the agenda of small business and hard-working
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Announcements
- Congratulations to SBAC member Dan Felix for doing a wonderful job of promoting his Lawyers Connecting group at the recent Business Expo in Buffalo Grove.
- The SBAC would like to congratulate Marketing Director Steven Shin on his acceptance to Thomas
Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. He will be focusing on their entertainment law program on an academic scholarship. We wish him the best of luck.
- SBAC volunteer Brandon Mika will also be starting law school in the fall at the University of Buffalo.We wish him the
best of luck in all his adventures as well.
- If anyone is looking for
two exceptional summer part-time clerks, both Steven and Brandon are available.
- SBAC members can enjoy a 25%
discount on all Sage Organics products
during the month of May. Stock up on summer staples like Outdoor
Reflecting
Balm made with Zinc Oxide, a non-chemical physical sunblock. This is a
must
for children. Also, our wide-range of chemical-free baby products make
unique
baby gifts that will be treasured by parents. Visit
sageorganics.mionegroup.com
to view complete catalogue of products and then
call Terri @ 847-433-2933 to place order and receive your SBAC
discount.
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Take care,
Elliot Richardson
Small Business Advocacy Council |
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