Happening This Week

Event:

Business After Hours

Date:

Thursday, February 29th

Time:

5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Location:

Southern Hills Golf Course -

3005 S Southern Hills Dr

Host:

The Kensington

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Leadership Hastings

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Purchase Soap Here

The Leadership Hastings Class of 2023-2024 proudly collaborated with Pacha Soap to design, craft, and package a distinct and purposeful creation: the "Play Hard, Stay Clean" bar of soap.

All profits will benefit HPS Foundation's PROJECT: Playground to help improve playgrounds at Alcott, Hawthorne, Lincoln, Longfellow, and Watson Elementary Schools.

All “Play Hard, Stay Clean” soap bars must be ordered by Friday, April 5, 2024.

Thank you for supporting the ‘23-’24 Leadership Hastings Class, Hastings Public Schools Foundation, and the Hastings community!

Reach out to the Leadership Hastings Class if you have questions or would like to order directly from them!

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Member Resources

The Nebraska Department of Economic Development (DED), in collaboration with GROW Nebraska Foundation, is pleased to announce the statewide availability of the Nebraska Small Business Assistance Act (NSBAA) Program.

The purpose of the program is to support individuals looking to start a small business or seeking to expand a small business they opened within the past five years.

Under the program, a small business is defined as a business with no more than five full-time equivalent employees based on hours worked (not including the business owner).

The NSBAA Program provides two benefits to qualified individuals:

Funding to access professional services: These include services such as strategic planning, accounting and budgeting, tax return preparation, payroll processes, website development, or assistance setting up an LLC
Grants for both new businesses and existing businesses: Grant funding can be used for eligible business purposes including, but not limited to: startup costs, working capital, franchise fees, equipment, inventory, or purchase/renovation of a place of business.

Applicants for a new business grant could receive up to a $25,000 grant.
Applicants for an existing business grant could receive up to a $12,500 grant.

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State Chamber

Senators were light as a feather as they left the capitol Thursday afternoon for a four-day recess. They'll be back at it tomorrow morning to continue one of the few remaining weeks where the days are split between floor time and committee hearings.

It's officially the halfway point of the session. Tomorrow marks Legislative Day 30 out of the 60-day session.

Here's what's on their docket tomorrow morning. If they continue at the pace they've been on, the Legislature very well could pick up and advance one of the NE Chamber's 2024 priority bills from General File. More below.

Committees have two more weeks of bill hearings. View this week’s lineup here.

Senator and Committee priority bills are in. We'll break them down below.

State Chamber Updates

State Chamber Calendar Of Events