Government Contracting Success Week Spring 2021 (GCS Week) is virtual event that will consist of 3 days packed full of information and tangible contracts with federal agencies and large prime contractors.
This Event is at no charge.
Branding House Program
Branding House is a partnership between the One Community Plan, Grow Smarter, the Greenhouse, the Florida Small Business Development Center, the Pinellas County Urban League, and additional partner agencies to help community businesses get their marketing “house in order.”
The Branding House program is open to businesses that received navigation from the partner agencies during 2020. The program will help businesses build their brand through marketing coaching and targeted trainings. Once trainings are complete, businesses will also be eligible for cost-coverage of select services from local vendors in areas like graphic design, social media, website development, and videography.
1 Pier One Community “Collective” Vendor Opportunity
Black History In-The-Making at the Pier. New opportunities have opened for additional vendors to participate in this “Collective” of Black Entrepreneurs.
If you have a good or service and are interested in joining the 1 Pier One Community Collective at the Pier Marketplace please complete the below application.
Black women executives making history in the c-suite offer career advice to those following in their footsteps
Kamala Harris isn’t the only Black woman making history in 2021.
The January 20 swearing-in of the nation’s first woman, Black and southeast Asian vice president came at a pivotal moment for Black women in the business world, which up until recently has failed miserably to increase the number of Black executives — male and female — in its ranks.
In 2018, only 3.3% of all US corporate executive and senior leadership positions were filled by Black people. Not much has changed since then, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Black women’s roles in the civil rights movement have been understated — but that’s changing
Claudette Colvin did a revolutionary act nearly 10 months before Rosa Parks.
In March 1955, the 15-year-old was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a White person on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
The teenager and others challenged the law in court. But civil rights leaders, pointing to circumstances in Colvin’s personal life, thought that Parks would be the better representative of the movement.
“People said I was crazy,” Colvin recently told CNN’s Abby Phillip. “Because I was 15 years old and defiant and shouting, ‘It’s my constitutional right!’ “
Black entrepreneurs find success at St. Petersburg’s 1Pier
Along the St. Petersburg Pier, you’ll find several kiosks where entrepreneurs sell their products. But then there’s 1Pier, a kiosk of nine entrepreneurs, all African-American women with different businesses, banding together.
“1Pier is the initiative of One Community that the city of St. Petersburg was able to partner with through our Urban Affairs Department. We really wanted to focus on making the Pier a welcoming place that really reflected the demographic of the city and what better way to do that than through a women’s collective like this that shows the true diversity of our community,” said Nikki Gaskin-Capehart, the urban affairs director for the city of St. Petersburg.
Safrone Presley of Glow Up Body Oils says the city’s support makes a big difference.
“Being able to work with the city of St. Petersburg, we get a lot of support from them, they’ve helped us make sure that we try to have our businesses together so that we can succeed and we also work with each other to succeed,” Presley explained.
Branding House Program available starting February 8 and will close on February 22
Branding House is a partnership between the One Community Plan, Grow Smarter, the Greenhouse, the Florida Small Business Development Center, the Pinellas County Urban League, and additional partner agencies to help community businesses get their marketing “house in order.”
The Branding House program is open to businesses that received navigation from the partner agencies during 2020. The program will help businesses build their brand through marketing coaching and targeted trainings. Once trainings are complete, businesses will also be eligible for cost-coverage of select services from local vendors in areas like graphic design, social media, website development, and videography.
NEW RESOURCE for St Pete entrepreneurs interested in building their brand
One Community is teaming up with Grow Smarter St. Petersburg to provide trainings on marketing topics by the Florida SBDC and Greenhouse, coupled with cash coverage of up to $1,000 for the services you need to get your branding house in order. This is open to accept 50 entrepreneurs who’ve taken advantage of business dev programs in the past by One Community, Urban League, BBIC, Grow Smarter, Deuces Live, St Petersburg Business League, or Green Book of Tampa Bay. The link below offers info for 2 groups:
1. businesses that want to receive training and cost coverage of services, and
2. businesses that can provide marketing services to participants.
Apply Today https://growsmarterstpete.com/branding-house-program/
State of Mental Health for Black Men Feb. 26th
We are excited to continue our conversation about the State of Mental for Black Men. In part two of our discussion, we want to continue to discuss the multi-dimensional barriers, including the socioeconomic implications and the role of devastating events such as police brutality, systemic injustice, workplace discrimination, etc. that are contributing to the rising rates of suicide, depression, anxiety, and for black men. We also want to discuss healing practices, community resources, and other vital tools to support black men’s positive mental health outcomes.
You can view this meaningful and engaging conversation here: https://vimeo.com/482798240
The State of Mental Health for Black Men
Conversation about the State of Mental for Black Men. In part two of our discussion, we want to continue to discuss the multi-dimensional barriers, including the socioeconomic implications and the role of devastating events such as police brutality, systemic injustice, workplace discrimination, etc. that are contributing to the rising rates of suicide, depression, anxiety, and for black men. We also want to discuss healing practices, community resources, and other vital tools to support black men’s positive mental health outcomes.
We are excited to confirm our amazing speakers who will share their amazing wisdom for this event.
The Chicago plant that sparked a hunger strike amid environmental racism claims
A metal recycling plant is due to open on the polluted Southeast Side months after the same firm shut a metal scrapyard in a white, affluent part of town
Trinity Colón grew up believing everyone had asthma.
Raised among heavy industry on the Southeast Side of Chicago, Colón had no reason to believe otherwise: her entire family and neighbors shared the same respiratory issues. The rituals that came with them – like keeping windows shut to ward off billowing clouds of petroleum coke – seemed ordinary.
Manufacturing and Supply Chain Job Fair March 23
1st annual Manufacturing and Supply Chain Job Fair is just around the corner! Join us this Wednesday, March 23 to meet with employers who have job openings in Tampa Bay!
Manufacturing and Supply Chain Job Fair
Wednesday, March 23
Noon to 3 PM
13805 58th Street N.
Clearwater, FL 33760
Please click HERE to pre-register for the event (if you have not yet done so).
Please review our latest blog post to find out the Best Way to Prepare for a Job Fair. In addition, we’re attaching the listing of companies in attendance as well as some of the open positions. We are also attaching research that one of your classmates has done in preparation for the job fair. Again, please remember to do your research, bring extra copies of your resume, and dress to impress!