HISPANIC BUSINESS CONSULTANTS -2010

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!l. SERVICE'S TO BF PROVIDED Description of services to be provided The following is a brief description of the seminars and courses included in the entrepreneurial training program in Spanish to teach participants to start their own small business and to create new jobs in the community. Primarily, we serve low-to-moderate income households, disabled and women-owned businesses; these are predominately native Spanish-speakers with limited English-[anguage skills. • 3-hour core seminars cover the fundamentals of a business, #ax regulations, business plan, strategic planning, how to obtain financing, marketing, legal aspects of the business, human resources and self-esteem seminars, among others topics. Special emphasis is placed on technology utilization as a tool to increase productivity. • 24-hour course, "Expanding My Successful Buslness" {Creciendo Mi Empresa Exitosa) CMEE, is an advanced program to assist established companies to build, consolidate or expand their operations targeting greater job creation/retention and increased sales and profitability. The course includes technical training, management classes, marketing and customer service, financial statement introduction, cash flow development, and more. • Business consulting, coaching and advisory board committees. After 16 years of working wish Latino businesses, we are convinced that it;is ex#remely important to coach and support business owners with complementary services to keep them motive#ed and focused on #heir goals and to update their business knowledge in order for #hem to succeed and expand their businesses in benefit of the community. This is why we are providing business consulting to participants of the courses in order to help #hem develop their business and marketing plan. Goals established for the period 2010-2011: 240 participants in eight (8) 3-hour Spanish-language seminars 75 participants in three (3) 24-hour "Expanding My Successful Business" courses Explaining the need for this business assistance program (seminars and courses) in Spanish. Every day we see mom-and-pop businesses closing their doors. Some have been trying to sell their business for many months already; others just want to give it away because they are no longer able #o pay their rent. These situations are happening all over the country, but specially in low-income and minority groups. Most of the time a lack of information, a failure to implement new strategies and ignorance of new technologies are the causes of business failure. At the same time, we see that other small business Hispanic Business Consultants -Rapid Response/ARRA-Buslness Assistance Program, October 30, 2009 EXHIBIT A