tabor100 july 2015 newsletter
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A special publication for July 2015
16th Annual Captains of Industry Gala Kickoff!16th Annual Captains of Industry Gala Kickoff!16th Annual Captains of Industry Gala Kickoff!
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The Gala Committee is meeting regularly and in need of your support.
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the Gala Committee, send us an email at [email protected]. Become
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OPPORTUNITIES IN TRANSPORTATION
By Henry Yates
The State Legislature just passed the largest public investment bill it has ever approved, giving $16.1 billion for new transportation pro-jects and the authority for Sound Transit to generate more funding.
All this money means opportunity for Tabor members. Whether you provide goods and services, are a consultant or contractor, there are many places in all the upcoming projects where your expertise is needed. Here in the Puget Sound region, SR 167 (Renton/Kent/Auburn) will be expanded and SR 509 near Sea-Tac will be linked to I-5, along with the completion of SR 520 across Lake Washington. An-other $1.4 billion will go to mainte-nance and repair projects and $1 billion to non-highway efforts in the state. Here in the Puget Sound Region, Sound Transit is poised to add $15 billion worth of projects to its portfolio, building Light Rail from Everett to Tacoma. The city of Seattle could see another $1 billion in local projects as well.
Tabor members will get exclusive support in pursuing opportunities that present themselves through the new funding. The agencies and contractors who will build these projects are all members of Tabor 100 and over the next several meetings will be making presenta-tions geared toward informing members of opportunities. Sepa-rate gatherings such as the North-west Minority Business Expo in conjunction with Vulcan, Inc. will also be featured as Tabor works to connect its members with oppor-tunity. Stay tuned.
By Calvin W. Goings, Regional Administrator
Starting a business can be overwhelming. You have to set up a legal structure, find office space, and apply for multiple licenses and permits, before you can even open your doors to customers.
The process should not be tedious or time-consuming. That’s why the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is proud to join the White House in announcing the launch of our Startup in a Day initiative, in alliance with the National League of Cit-ies.
This month SBA is calling on local leaders, at city halls across the country, to make a powerful pledge to streamline and consolidate all of the processes required to start a business into one, easy-to-use online tool. Our goal is to enable America’s entrepreneurs to be able to apply for all city, county, state and federal licenses; and permits needed to start a business in 24 hours or less.
Success in this endeavor will enable entrepreneurs to spend their valuable time developing their products, finding new customers and growing their enterprises – rather than wading through red tape.
Eleven pioneering cities, including Seattle Washington, have already taken the Startup in a Day pledge and are working to consolidate local licensing and per-mitting requirements for their entrepreneurs. We encourage more cities, large and small, as well as Native American communities, to join this movement and take the pledge.
To enhance Startup in a Day, the SBA is offering significant prize money to help local leaders create tools to make good on the pledge.
We’re hosting two prize competitions open until July 13th, to encourage municipali-
ties to create or implement a Startup in a Day online tool. The first contest will award up to 25 prizes of $50,000 apiece to cities that create or implement a solu-tion that will make it easier for entrepreneurs to apply, in less than 24 hours, for all licenses and permits needed to start a business. The second prize competition will award $250,000 to a winning applicant who creates an open-source solution that can be adopted by other jurisdictions.
Small businesses are the engines of the U.S. economy. They create two out of every three net, new jobs and employ more than half of the country’s private-sector workforce. When we make it easier for new businesses to get started, we’re ulti-mately making it easier for them to grow and hire.
Please join the SBA in encouraging cities to join the Startup in a Day movement and eliminate barriers to small business job creation. Together with local jurisdic-tions, we can make the process of starting a business faster and easier.
For more information, please visit www.sba.gov/startup or e-mail the Startup in a
Day team at [email protected]
Startup in a Day with SBA
NW Minority Business ExpoNW Minority Business Expo
September 21, 2015
4pm-7pm
CenturyLink Field
Tabor 100 Business Development Is Providing Private Sector Opportunities for You to
Showcase Your Products and Services.
Applications will be available on
tabor100.org website or by contacting [email protected] or
Tabor 100 has partnered with Vulcan Inc., a
Paul G. Allen company, for a unique opportunity to promote WMBE businesses to organizations
in the greater Seattle area.
Welcome New Members...
Howard S. Wright, Rhonnda Edmiston
PCL Construction, Jennifer Hoback
Larsen Consulting, Pat Larsen
Stacy and Witbeck , Steve Wood
MINORITY BUSINESSES MINORITY BUSINESSES MINORITY BUSINESSES
GROWING FASTGROWING FASTGROWING FAST
By Henry Yates
A segment recently aired on NBC entitled “How Minori-ty Businesses are Driving America’s Growth.” It pointed out that according to the group, Asian Americans Ad-vancing Justice, minority businesses are growing almost five times faster than non-minority businesses with Black, Latino and Asian-owned ventures leading the pack.
Black businesses sell about $136 billion worth of prod-uct, Latino businesses sell $351 billion and Asian busi-nesses are responsible for $547 billion.* In the consum-er spending category, the numbers are more even with the Black community spending about $1.2 trillion, Lati-nos around $1.7 trillion and Asians, $1.3 trillion.
The impact of minority business on employment is huge with Black businesses employing about 1 million people, Latino-owned businesses having 1.9 million on their payrolls and Asian-owned businesses with around 3 mil-lion people working for them.
*Immigrants, many of whom are Asian, start businesses at double the rate of native-born individuals.
Upcoming Upcoming Upcoming
Events...Events...Events...
Thank You: July’s Breakfast Sponsor
AECOM is always looking for architectural and engineering partners for upcoming
work with:
Sound Transit
Private Clients
Port of Seattle
NEW! In 2016 we will add construction trades to our list of partners!
AECOM would be pleased to get to know you and your firm.
Let’s talk today or call me to set up a meeting.
Janice Bryant Howroyd, Tabor 100’s Gala Speaker in 2013 become the first Black woman to own a bil-lion dollar company, and in 2015, her firm, Act+1 Group, is valued at $2.3 billion. In 1978, Howroyd started Act+1 Personnel Services as a single-office operation that evolved into the ACT+1 Group, an expansive global operation that today employs more than 1,300 people in 240 satellite offices in the U.S. and eight other countries. Act+1 Group offers a range of services from employee background checks to executive travel management. This growth has earned Act+1 the distinction of being the largest woman minority-owned employ-ment agency in the U.S.
Covering an array of industries and serving corporate giants such as Merck, Sempra Energy and ATT, Bryant Howroyd has mapped out an expansion strategy based on understanding the demands of a changing work environment, anticipating client needs and providing custom-ized services that deliver maximum results. The recent economy has wrecked many compa-nies, large and small, yet, Bryant Howroyd continues to grow her business, increasing its inter-national presence and creating a firm worth $2.3 billion.
Bryant Howroyd, who grew up in rural, segregated North Carolina, was one of 11 children. She credits her parents for her success in business and offers these tips to current business owners:
Make sure you are Prepared
Make sure you understand the Goal
Make sure you share your success with those around you
Make sure you show gratitude for your success
Tabor 100 applauds Bryant Howroyd’s success and hopes to have her back as our keynote speaker in the future.
UPDATE – TABOR 100
GALA SPEAKER – WHERE
ARE THEY NOW?
WSDOT
Federal Agencies
Municipalities
Other Public Agencies
Certification Workshops @ Seattle Municipal Tower,
Room 1600
Aug 6 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Aug 25 @2:00 pm—4:00 pm