FOCUS - Follow One Course Until Successful
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Open Networking Meeting
Tuesday 9am - ZOOM
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Our Business Referral Group is opening its ZOOM Window to any business, non member or member, Tuesday at 9am. Come meet your neighbors, fellow businessmen and women. Build your referral network through this outstanding tool!
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Our success strategies and workshop continues this week. Today we discuss the devil in the details, and how to turn those dreams we identified last week into real goals ... From there, it will lead to an action plan
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New Grant Opportunity Opening Monday
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US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE:
To extend a helping hand to small businesses suffering from the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation – in partnership with Vistaprint and a coalition of supporting companies, foundations, and philanthropic donors – is working to provide financial relief through the
Save Small Business Fund
. This fund is a key pillar of the U.S. Chamber’s
Save Small Business Initiative
.
The Fund is providing $5,000 in short-term relief to employers across the United States, including chambers of commerce. These one-time supplemental cash grants are for businesses that have between 3 and 20 employees and operate in an economically vulnerable community (you can search eligibility by zip code
here
).
The grant application will go live on Monday, April 20 at 3:00 PM ET / 2:00 PM CT
. To learn more about the Save Small Business Fund and to apply for a grant, click the below link!
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Multiple Grant Opportunities
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The MEDC has put together this list of grant and loan opportunity for various types of businesses. A new grant begins soon that will benefit Council for the Arts, Tech Start Ups, and other niches. Keep this bookmarked, and check back to see what new opportunities are out there.
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Although not all of our members received loans, some did and there are many other small businesses throughout the country as well. 74% of the loans were for under $150,000. Michigan received over $10 Billion of the funds disbursed to 43,000 small businesses (under 500 employees)
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Yard Waste Pick Up Resumes
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Some sense of normalcy returns this week in
Van Buren Township. Yard waste pick up resumes.
Keep in mind, bulk pick up is still on hold. Normal trash must fit into your can in order to be picked up.
It might be a great time to clean out your garage, but keep this in mind. At least we can pick up our lawn, bag it, and have it taken away.
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OSHA & Corona
US Chamber Issues Guidance
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To help you and your members better understand the recent guidance issued by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration and in coordination with the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
, the U.S. Chamber has created a
summary
outlining what employers need to know about protecting their workers as they maintain or resume operations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The summary describes OSHA's comments and addresses three of the main questions:
- How should employers protect their employees?
- Do employers have to record cases of COVID-19 on their injury logs?
- How will OSHA conduct enforcement related to Coronavirus?
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Keystone Accepting Applications
2020-2021 School Year
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We all know that this will end soon, and our kids will be back in school. Keystone Academy is accepting applications for the next school year!
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Find out who is open anywhere in the 48111
Make sure your business is listed on this site!
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I know sometimes its hard to read all the news, all the time ... we have each and every newsletter archived on our web site. If you missed one, simply go to the Newsletter Link on the Belleville Area Chamber site
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In addition to the newsletters, we have blogs posted by our members and the Chamber. If you have something of interest you want to write about, please send the article to us. As a member, this is a great way to develop your brand as an expert. This is more than an advertisement, it is an article where you are providing tips, hints, ideas, and helping our readers. You can check out published articles
HERE
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Our doors may be locked, but remember we are
OPEN for Business!
If you should have any questions, comments, news, information, etc ..
Never hesitate to contact us!
(734) 516-0221
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Thank you to our corporate members
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If you have read this far ... here is a quiz for you ...
In the background of this newsletter is a partial picture of a building of some sort ... can you name it?
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