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DC Legacy Business Initiative & Survey
CNHED is the local host organization working with the Democracy at Work Institute (DAWI), Citi Community Development and the National Urban League. These organizations are working across the country to help the small business community learn about preserving locally-owned small businesses.
We're reaching out to our partners and stakeholder to help us connect with minority-owned small businesses in the District of Columbia to invite them to attend the DC Legacy Business Initiative Convening on Tuesday, April 25th from 8:00 to 11:30 am at Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health (700 2nd St NE, DC), and to ask businesses to participate in a national survey study for the Legacy Business Initiative. This initiative is part of an effort to preserve locally owned minority small businesses.
Please RSVP here by April 19
What the seminar will cover
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Share strategies for retaining jobs and small businesses.
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Hear from business owners who sold their businesses to employees.
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Learn about the steps owners should take to get ready with their succession plan and what services exist for this type of business planning assistance.
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Find out about tools and supports for owners and service providers.
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Get involved in preserving legacy businesses in your community
National Legacy Business Preservation Survey Study
It is estimated that some 12 million small businesses across the country have owners reaching retirement. What happens to a small business and the community it operates in when the owner is ready to retire? As business owners reach retirement age, the threat of sale or closure of viable, valuable businesses increase. The risk of small business closure is particularly acute for businesses owned by people of color. These closures often have detrimental impacts on the surrounding community where these businesses function. Loss of legacy businesses may accelerate commercial turnover in rapidly changing neighborhoods with a high percentage of these businesses.
To address this situation, CNHED, DAWI and Citi Community are inviting you to participate in a “legacy business preservation survey study” to expand ownership opportunities, retain local business and preserve valuable asset in the community.
The purpose of the survey is to:
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Understand the pressures and challenges businesses owned by people of color face.
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Learn about business owners current thinking regarding both succession planning in general and potential sale to their employees in particular.
Are you a business owner with three employees or more?
Business Owners please take this survey
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"Bitches Brew" Arts Community Networking Event at Songbyrd
SOUTHEASTERN ROASTERY BREWS UP COFFEE & CONVERSATION AT “BITCHES BREW” ARTS COMMUNITY NETWORKING EVENT
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Following in the footsteps of a tradition that’s as old as time, DC-based coffee brewery Southeastern Roastery is hosting Bitches Brew, a coffee dialogue, on
Saturday, April 23 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. at
Songbyrd Music House
, 2477 18th St NW
. Co-hosted by the Collective Action for Safe Spaces, discussion will be centered around women-focused arts and activism as a proactive response to the proposed elimination of funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Tickets are $10 and can be purchased via Ticketfly at:
http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1465958
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Bitches Brew is inspired by the ancient concept of a “sohbet,” which is an Arabic term meaning “conversation,” “discussion," or "chat." While traditional Turkish sohbets are exclusively male community conversations, “Bitches Brew” is open to anyone working on women-focused artistic expression and local organizations supporting women. Tastings of non-alcoholic Ethiopian Yirghacheffe, as well as unique and coffee-inspired cocktails, like Ethiopian Yirghacheffe with Dogfish Head "Bitches Brew" Stout, will be the conduit to get the conversation percolating.
“‘Do It Yourself’ is a time-tested ethos that has borne much art and activism, particularly here in DC; but sometimes, it takes a village to raise an arts scene—and a collaborative network can support more creativity than any lone actor ever could,” says Candy Schibli, Southeastern Roastery founder. “One of the goals of Bitches Brew is to connect 501c3 and non-501c3 groups so they can explore ways to collectively explore art funding opportunities, as well as gain access to new talent and different voices to tell their respective stories.”
Jayni Rassmussen, Collective Action for Safe Spaces interim policy director and event co-host says, "CASS strives for a community in which people of all backgrounds, gender expressions or identities, and experiences can feel safe occupying public spaces. Public art that creates a platform on which we can lift up the voices of people affected by these issues is essential to our efforts. By supporting and funding arts activism, we can enlighten, provoke thought, and drive social change."
Dior Ashley Brown, award-winning local musician and arts activist, will facilitate the discussion and Songbyrd will provide the soundtrack with songs like Miles Davis’ legendary jazz classic “Bitches Brew,” and selections from “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” and others to spark inspiration and discussion as part of their “Classic Albums Sunday” series.
Participate in Congresswoman Norton's Annual Job and Opportunity Fair
On August 2, 2017, Congresswoman Norton will host her Annual Job and Opportunity Fair
at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center from 10:00 am‐3:00 pm.
Last year’s Annual Job and Opportunity Fair brought nearly 8,000 D.C. residents with an extraordinary array of skills, backgrounds, qualifications and over 80 employers. We would greatly appreciate your participation in assisting residents who want to consider different career opportunities or obtain new employment.
Registration for this year’s Jobs and Opportunity Fair is now open, and she would love to have you be an exhibitor. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Hillary Allen at the District Office at (202) 408‐ 9041 or email
Hillary.Allen@Mail.house.gov
Click here to register
2017 Small Business & Economic Development Summit and Awards Ceremony
May 9, 2017, 8:00am – 2:00pm
Walter E. Washington Convention Center
801 Mount Vernon Place, NW
Washington, DC
How will your small business grow with this insider knowledge?
DC Health Link and the Washington Business Journal are pleased to partner on the second annual POWERUP DC. In a special presentation, Jessie Shaw, VP of Research at American City Business Journals will present research on the state of small business. Through this research and insight from local small business owners, POWERUP DC is designed to give small business owners and the companies that serve them the tools they need for success.
Panelists:
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Roger Richmond, TDC
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Jereme Holiman, UrbanStems
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Michael Haft & Harrison Suarez, Compass Coffee LLC
Friday, May 5
8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
The Fairmont Washington DC
2401 M St NW
Washington, DC 20037
Register Now
RSVP to Attend ABRA's Community Training on May 18
Residents and community organizations are invited to attend the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration's (ABRA) community training from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 18, 2017. Training will cover:
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District alcohol laws;
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Protest processes;
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Filing settlement agreements; and
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ABRA resources and hearing processes.
RSVP for training by Friday, May 12, 2017 by contacting ABRA Community Resource Officer Sarah Fashbaugh:
Email
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Training Location
2000 14th St., NW
Suite 400 South, 4th Floor
Washington, DC 20009
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On April 29, the Adams Morgan Parnership BID will be hosting the first ever
Adams Morgan Pinewood Grand Prix
. For those of you not familiar with Pinewood Derbys, it's a lot of fun and is a great exercise in creativity and competition. Car kits are available for purchase at
**New Location for 2017: Walter Pierce Park Soccer Field**
It's getting to be that time of year and AMPBID will be hosting our Summer Concert Series again starting on Saturday May 6 with Almeda, winners of the popular vote at the Adams Morgan PorchFest back in October. The concerts will take place on Saturday afternoons through May and June in front of BB&T Bank at the corner of Columbia Rd. and 18th St., NW. There will be a special show on Monday evening, June 5 that will start at 6pm, but otherwise, all shows will go from 5 - 7pm.
Advertising Deadline is Friday, 4/21
The Messengers takes us on an intimate three-year journey through the maze of emotions and hard truths that exist inside the walls of Joseph's House – a home for homeless men and women with late-stage AIDS and terminal cancer. There, we meet two young volunteers: Cameron, a 20-year-old well-intentioned, but naive college dropout; and 23-year-old Brittney who has a firm belief about her mission in life. What both of them soon learn is that death holds many revelations that alter their assumptions about the world and redefine their place in it. The dying become teachers, opening the volunteers’ eyes to the important connections that death can bring to life.
