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OLLIE GARRETTPresident of Tabor 100

July General Meeting Photos

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Increasing Accessibility of SBA Services

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Jesse Williams BET Speech

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Tabor Launches New Website

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August 2016

On Friday, September 30, Tabor 100 will stage its premier event of the year—the Annual Tabor 100 Gala.

While the plans for this event are still underway, it will turn out to be yet another smashing hit. Silent Auctions, lots of important networking and a chance to recognize superstar contributors highlight the semi-formal evening. The Gala is one of a few signature gatherings in our community and to make it work, we need your help. We need VOLUNTEERS, CONTRIBUTORS, SPONSORS and TABLE CAPTAINS. As a VOLUNTEER, you can assist in staging a great event, meeting and working with your fellow Tabor members and many times connecting with key folks who can move your business forward.

CONTRIBUTORS offer their products and services for the silent pre-event or verbal on-stage auction. We have had Tabor members and non-members offer

the most incredible items, from lunches with elected officials to Alaska Airlines First Class Tickets and African Safaris.

SPONSORS are very much needed as well. Sponsorships range from a table at the event to regular advertising in the Tabor newsletter and elsewhere. Lastly, TABLE CAPTAINS are critical. For the low price of $1250, you get a table of 10 and can invite potential clients, existing custom-ers or family and friends. Many find it a great marketing tool and discover that it enhances their business by having some personal time with those with whom you do business.

We are striving to make this the best Gala ever and want you to be involved! I can assure you, the effort pays off in a big way. We again have a crew of dedicated and fabulous Gala Commit-tee members and they are ready, able and willing to use your time as a volunteer wisely. Choose your involvement level: VOLUNTEER, CONTRIBUTOR, SPONSOR or TABLE CAPTAIN. We need you.

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TABOR 100 LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE

Have you noticed the Tabor website has a new look and new functionality!

After several months of hard work, Tabor 100 is proud to announce the creation of its new website. Members and non-members alike can go to www.Tabor100.org to see our new design, which allows everyone to access information in a more contemporary and user-friendly way.

The new website better integrates events and resources that will help your business and be a place for those looking to access minority businesses. In addition, we will promote everything that Tabor 100 is doing on the new website making it easier for Tabor members to showcase their products and services to the broader community and “Tabor Neighbors.” The capabilities of the new site are expanded as well and will evolve with the needs of Tabor members based on their needs and preferences.

We urge you to check out the new site and give us feedback. We want to serve Tabor members in the most effective way possible. Your comments help us do just that. You can send your comments to Public Affairs Chair, Henry Yates, at PublicAffairs@Tabor100.org.

CITY OF SEATTLE

Annual Construction Showcasefor Contractors, Subcontractors and Suppliers

SEATTLE CITY HALL | BERTHA KNIGHT LANDES ROOM600 FOURTH AVE SEATTLE WA

INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS

Friday, September 30, 20168 a.m. to 12 p.m.

The City Purchasing and Contracting Services Division invites you to the City of Seattle’s Annual Construction Showcase (formerly the CIP Expo). This is a networking event for contractors, suppliers and subcontractors looking to work with the City of Seattle. Various City departments will preview their upcoming capital construction projects for 2016-2017. Learn more about working with the City of Seattle and network with others in the industry.

8 to 9 a.m. Registration/Refreshments9 to 9:20 a.m. Paid Sick and Safe Time (SMC Chapter 14)

9:20 to 10 a.m. Networking10 to 10:20 a.m. Future Projects Showcase (various departments)10:20 to 11 a.m. Networking11 to 11:20 a.m. Community Workforce Agreement Review11:20 to 12 p.m. Networking

Please register at http://seattle-construction-showcase.eventbrite.com.For more information, please email jamie.cortez@seattle.gov.

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► ► July General Meeting Photos

You are invited to come and enjoy a memorable evening in the Sk ybridge of the Washington State Convention Center, Downtown Seattle on Friday, September 30, 2016.

6:00 PM Check-in, Reception, and Silent Auction7:00 PM Dinner, Entertainment, Program, and Awards Attire: Semi -Formal

Tabor 100 is an association of entrepreneurs and business advocates who are committed to economic power, educational excellence and social equity for African-Americans and the community at large. Tabor 100 is a 501(c)3 organization.

Save the date!

Purchase your ticket at www.Tabor100Gala.org today!

“Seizing your opportunity”

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Jesse Williams began by thanking BET and all involved “for teaching me to focus on comprehension over career, they made sure I learned what the schools are afraid to teach us.”

“This award is not for me,” he continued. “This is for the real organizers all over the country, the activist, the civil rights attorneys, the struggling parents, the families, the teachers, the students that are realizing that a system built to divide and impoverish and destroy us cannot stand if we do. It’s kinda basic mathematics: the more we learn about who we are and how we got here the more we will mobilize.”

“This award is also for the black women in particular who have spent their lives nurturing everyone before themselves -- we can and will do better for you.”

“Now, what we’ve been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people every day. So what’s going to happen is we’re going to have equal rights and justice in our own country or we will restructure their function and ours.”

“I got more, y’all. Yesterday would have been young Tamir Rice’s 14th birthday so I don’t want to hear any more about how far we’ve come when paid public servants can pull a drive-by on a 12-year-old playing alone in a park in broad daylight, killing him on television, and then going home to make a sandwich.”

“Tell Rekia Boyd how it’s so much better to live in 2012 than 1612 or 1712. Tell that to Eric Garner, Sandra Bland.”

“The thing is though, all of us here are getting money, that alone isn’t going to stop this. Dedicating our lives to getting money just to give it right back to put someone’s

brand on our body—when we spent centuries praying with brands on our bodies, and now we pray to get paid for brands on our bodies?”

“There has been no war that we have not fought and died on the front lines of. There is no job we haven’t done, there is no tax they haven’t levied against us, and we have paid all of them.”

“But freedom is always conditional here. ‘You’re free!’ they keeping telling us. ‘But she would be alive if she hadn’t acted so… free.’ Now, freedom is always coming in the hereafter, but the hereafter is a hustle: We want it now.”

“Let’s get a couple of things straight. The burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander—that’s not our job so let’s stop with all that. If you have a critique for our resistance then you’d better have an established record, a critique of our oppression.”

“If you have no interest in equal rights for black people then do not make suggestions to those who do: sit down.”

“We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil -- black gold! -- ghettoizing and demeaning our creations and stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit.”

“Just because we’re magic doesn’t mean we’re not real. Thank you.”

► ► Jesse Williams Speech from the BET Awards

WELCOME NEW TABOR MEMBERS!

• Wil Daniels, Ameriprise Financial• Darius Foster, Seattle Office of Labor Standards

Calvin Goings at a recent workshop. Photo by SBA.

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► ► Increasing Accessibility of SBA Services in Puget Sound

One of the biggest challenges we face at the U.S. Small Business Administration is connecting our free services to the more than 555,000 business owners in Washington. To bridge this gap, we launched an initiative with our local SBA office to ensure we empower all entrepreneurs in the Puget Sound.

Nearly two years ago, we identified the need to increase accessibility of our programs to underserved entrepreneurs, specifically to women-owned, minority-owned, New American-owned, and LGBTQ-owned small businesses.

We sought input across the Puget Sound from small business owners, prospective entrepreneurs, consumer advocates, labor leaders, educators, government partners, civic leaders, nonprofit executives, progressive thought leaders, and community activities.

Based on the feedback we obtained, we created the Empowering All Entrepreneurs action plan. The following highlights the progress we’ve achieved during the past year; and, looks ahead to what is coming during the next year:

Technical Assistance

Enhanced existing programs and expanded community outreach with new partners• Successfully lobbied to add additional Emerging

Leaders training sites to Washington; and, have most diverse class yet – 90 percent of participants are from women-owned, minority-owned, New American-owned, veteran-owned, or LGBTQ-owned

• Expanded Boots to Business program for veterans and transitioning service members to provide more than 30 two-day trainings across the state

• Partnered with library branches in communities across the Puget Sound to bring Your Business – Start Smart trainings to entrepreneurs in their own local communities

• Local partners like SCORE have opened branches around the Puget Sound to bring their business mentoring services to communities

• Coming in the next year – expansion of SBA InnovateHER Business Competition with host opportunities available to organizations in the Puget Sound; and, Made It In America campaign for New American-owned small businesses

Capital Access

Expanding financing in the hands of underserved entrepreneurs and small business owners• SBA Loan Program dollars increased by 23 percent

overall; and, is up 45 percent to African-American-owned small businesses and up 25 percent to women, Hispanic, and Native American entrepreneurs

• The SBA Microloan Program broadened its reach to underserved communities – 52 percent of local microloans went to women and 21 percent went to African-American-owned small firms

• The SBA made the 504 Refinance Loan Program permanent this past June to provide long-term, fixed rates to help small firms in the Puget Sound refinance existing business debt

• Expanded programs to connect small business owners with lenders through its Coffee & Cash meetups and online tools like SBA LINC

• Coming in the next year – expansion of Community Advantage Loan Program and waiving of the SBA guarantee fee on loans up to $150,000 through the fiscal year

Service Connection

Boosted partnerships and communications to increase underserved businesses reached• Partnered with local libraries, the Mexican

Consulate, and other diverse organizations to present SBA resources and materials in different languages across the Puget Sound

• Coming in the next year – development of Biz My Way video series, part of the My Brother’s Keeper initiative; and, partnership development for “re-entrepreneurship” training for re-integration of the formerly incarcerated

At SBA, we believe by embracing an inclusive vision of entrepreneurship – one that draws upon entrepreneurs from all communities, from all demographics, and from all backgrounds – will continue to grow our economy and create good-paying jobs.

CALVIN GOINGSSBA Regional Administrator

Creating Opportunities for YOU!

Together, Tabor 100 and the Minority Business Advisory Council will be:

Learn more about MBAC by visiting www.MBAC-WA.org.

• Creating opportunities for minority-owned businesses

• Promoting initiatives that impact economic development

• Building a stronger minority community with more opportunities

The recent Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia saw record numbers of minority and female-owned businesses cashing in on what was a multimillion-dollar event.

More than $300 million poured into the city of Philadelphia according to city leaders and convention organizers with 50,000 visitors filling the city’s 16,000 hotel rooms and spending millions of dollars at local restaurants and stores. The Democratic National Committee spent more than $150 million on the four-day event. Contracting opportunities abounded in transportation, construction, merchandising and event production. Businesses across the country submitted bids for these services and six out of seven major contracts with the convention host committee went to firms owned by minorities and women with five of the seven being local.

According to the U.S. Census’ 2012 Survey of Business Owners, 47 percent of Philadelphia businesses are owned by ethnic minorities. The

Convention Host Committee hired Tiffany Newmuis as its Director of Diversity and Community Engagement specifically for diversity outreach to make sure even the smallest local businesses were aware of the opportunities to cash in on the convention. “We want people to leave here having seen what Philadelphia is really like,” she said. The Committee pledged to give at least 35 percent of all contracts related to the convention to ethnic minority, women and LGBT-owned businesses. The committee hired a local African American-owned firm to provide buses and shuttles and another to print business cards.

One of the larger contracts went to Luis Lineage, a Puerto Rican entrepreneur who runs Impact Dimensions, a Philadelphia company that makes convention swag. The company produced lanyards, baseball caps and other products with the DNC Host Committee logo on them. Liceaga, a graduate of the Wharton School of Business, credits the Republican

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► ► National Political Convention Uses Large Numbers of Minority and Women-Owned Businesses

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National Convention in 2000, which was also held in Philadelphia, for his company’s growth over the past decade or so. Back then, he had an embroidery company and was hired as a subcontractor to stitch logos onto bags and other merchandise for the convention. In 2002, the main contractor he was working for joined him in partnership.

Giving contracts to ethnic minorities, women and LGBT-owned businesses aligns with the values of the Democratic party, and is an especially high priority since these groups make up its voter base, says Reverend Leah Daughtry, CEO of the Democratic National Convention Committee. “When we talk about diversity and inclusion it’s not just about voting, but about where we spend our dollars,” says Daughtry.

Liz Jenkins Santana, owner of Leap Starr, which specializes in corporate event production won a contract to stage PoliticalFest, the largest convention-related event open to the public. They had their bid ready as soon as the committee started accepting proposals, says Jenkins Santana, who is Native American, African American and Caucasian.

LeapStarr’s staff of 30 designed the layout and exhibits for the six-day festival. It’s the largest contract LeapStarr has secured for a one-time event.

THE TABOR 100 BOARD

President: Ollie Garrett President@Tabor100.org

Vice President: Brian Sims VP@Tabor100.org

Treasurer: Anita DeMahy Treasurer@Tabor100.org

Secretary: Sherlita Kennedy Secretary@Tabor100.org

Membership: Sharlene Spencer Membership@Tabor100.org

Education: Kevin C. Washington Education@Tabor100.org

Public Affairs: Henry Yates PublicAffairs@Tabor100.org

Economic Development: Edson Zavala EconomicDevelopment@Tabor100.org

Government Affairs: Jamila Johnson GovernmentAffairs@Tabor100.org

Fund Development: OPEN POSITION FundDevelopment@Tabor100.org

Business Development: Anthony Burnett BusinessDev@Tabor100.org

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UPCOMING MEETINGS

Aug 30: Small Business Generator at the Sea-Tac Airport Aviation Conference Center from 9:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.

Sept 24: General Meeting at The Central from 10 a.m. to noon.

Sept 30: Annual Tabor Gala at the Washington State Convention Center from 6-11 p.m.

COMMITTEE MEETINGS

Education Committee meets after the Tabor General Meeting, the last Saturday of the month from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at The Central.

Please contact any of the Chair’s for more information about their committee.