Small Business Administration To Host Veterans Small Business Forum
Veterans who attend the event will join small business experts from federal, state, and local organizations. The focus will be on starting and growing your small business.
Veterans who attend the event will join small business experts from federal, state, and local organizations. The focus will be on starting and growing your small business.
Organizers are asking residents to consider making a cash donation or to assist in providing desserts or rolls for the meal. Checks can be made payable to DAV Chapter 84 and dropped off at the Veteran Hall. Volunteers will be on location Mondays through Fridays from noon to 6 p.m. and Saturdays from noon to 3 p.m. through Sunday to take donations and sign-ups for volunteers.
Business Matchmaking is one of the most successful public-private programs of its kind and has facilitated over 88,000 meetings resulting in several billions of dollars in contracts already granted to participating small businesses.
The organization receives no government funding. The cost of our programs is paid by individual wreaths sponsors, corporate donors and volunteer truckers who transport the wreaths to participating cemetaries. Thousands of volunteers also support the cause by organizing local ceremonies, raising funds to purchase wreaths and by participating in the events.
Over the past four years, Bristol, Tennessee residents have donated about 2,500 Christmas care packages, including clothing, hygiene items, games, Bibles and other items, to homeless veterans staying at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Johnson City and Tri-Cities area homeless shelters, including the Salvation Army and Haven of Rest.
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Last year, over 1800 cards were collected and distributed to area veterans in 13 different facilities around Owensboro and to the Western Kentucky Veterans Center in Hanson.