RIEDC’s Every Company Counts Hosts Informational Forum for Pawtucket Businesses
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RIEDC’s small business initiative gives business owners information on available city, state and federal resources to help them succeed
The Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation’s (RIEDC) small business initiative, Every Company Counts (ECC), along with other city, state and federal agencies, will hold an informational forum on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 for Pawtucket business owners on how they can take advantage of available resources to help them move forward in the current economy. The forum will take place at: The Hope Artiste Village, 1005 Main Street, Pawtucket, RI from 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Representatives from the RIEDC, the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training (DLT), the City of Pawtucket and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) will discuss and answer questions about programs for small businesses, including technical support, financing, and business licensing and workforce development. RIEDC Executive Director Keith Stokes, Pawtucket Mayor James E. Doyle and Mark S. Hayward, Rhode Island District Director for the SBA, will welcome participants to the informal discussion.
“As the backbone of Rhode Island’s economy, our small businesses face heavy burdens in these difficult times,” said Keith Stokes, Executive Director of RIEDC. “We want to ensure that small business owners know what tools are out there to help them sustain and grow their company and how to effectively use them.”
The informational workshop will help Pawtucket businesses gain access to financing and learn more about city, state and federal economic development incentives, according to Mayor Doyle.
"We are pleased that Keith Stokes, who oversees the state's Economic Development Corporation, has stepped up to the plate to organize this event. His key staff will personally meet, greet and give the specifics as to how his agency can help businesses," said Mayor Doyle. “I am sure that the city’s small businesses who attend this event will receive the needed information to help them weather the state’s severe economic downturn.”
ECC has been Rhode Island’s small business connection since 2004, bringing the small business community the tools and resources that they need to survive in any economy. Each year, thousands of Rhode Island’s small businesses rely on Every Company Counts for timely information to help them grow and become competitive.
About RIEDC
The Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation’s mission is to create jobs, help companies expand and develop their workforce and identify opportunities to bring new companies into our state. Its small business initiative, Every Company Counts, works to mobilize the economic development professionals in Rhode Island to promote small business success.
For more information on Every Company Counts, please visit: www.everycompanycounts.com
About DLT
The Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training provides a wide-range of services for Employers and Job Seekers, including distribution of Unemployment Insurance (UI) and Temporary Disability Insurance (TDI) Benefits, Workers' Compensation Benefits, Workforce Development Services, Employer Services, and Labor Market Information.
About the City of Pawtucket
The City of Pawtucket has an economic development office with a customer-friendly approach to troubleshooting zoning, site selection and various business growth issues. Flexible financing tools are among Pawtucket’s resources, offered by the Pawtucket’s Business Development Corporation, to help local businesses grow.
About SBA
The U.S. Small Business Administration was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation. We recognize that small business is critical to our economic recovery and strength, to building America’s future, and to helping the United States compete in today’s global marketplace. Although SBA has grown and evolved in the years since it was established in 1953, the bottom line mission remains the same. The SBA helps Americans start, build and grow businesses.
