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Chamber Hosts Government Leaders A lively exchange ie expected lcc the upcoming Chamber Mem ber Exchange as government lead ers address the relationship that •xi«ts between business and gov ernment from the perspective of email business owners. Speakers at the May 5-6 meet ings include City Council members Ron Lee per, who is also president of LRT Associates, and A1 Rousso, owner of Brownlee Jewelers and mayor pro tern. Also included in the forum will be Don Harrow, , vice president for the Chamber’s Public Affairs Division. ; These meetings have several purposes," said MA. Hammond (MA. Hammond Associates), chairman of the Chamber's Mem ber Exchange for the Small Busi ness Action Council. "They allow small business owners to learn more about the Chamber's pro grams, ask questions and voice their opinions if they wish. At the same tiipe, wall hear from City Council members who are also small business owners and have an opportunity to ask them ques tions or make comments." Hammond said that as the name implies, these meetings are designed to encourage an ex change of information as well as an exchange of business cards by those who attend. Both meetings start at 7:46 a.m. with a continental breakfast followed by the program at 8 a.m. Cost for the meetings is $5 per person and can be paid at the door. The May 6 meeting will be held at the Sheraton Airport Hilton and the May 6 forum will be held at the Ramada Inn on East Independence Blvd. For more information, or to reg ister in advance, call the Chamber. 378-1320. Ron L»ipw GM Breaks $1 Billion Mark With Minority Suppliers Detroit - Through its Minority Supplier Development Program, the General Motors Corporation recently announced that it spent over $1 billion with minority com panies during the calendar year 1986. The 19-year-old program began as a means of bringing minority owned firms into the mainstream of providing goods and services to the corporation and promoting ec onomic parity. Through its field offices and divisions, General Mo tors not only seeks out minority suppliers, it also helps to develop minority companies by providing managerial and technical assis Last year, GM conducted busi ness with over 1,000 minority firms, spending more than any other company in the 113. for pro duction parts, maintenance sup plies, transportation and construc tion equipment, professional assis tance and a host of othet services and materials. "It is a total-com mitment on the part of the entire company that has made the Gen eral Motors effort so effective," says J.W. Haines, director of the Minority Supplier Development Program. Jon E. Barfield, president of Bartech, Inc., a $20 million Michi Kan-based engineer and technical services firm, agrees. The General Motors program tinder John Haines and Art Wise ley, GM's executive director of ad ministration and minority supplier development, is the most success ful in the country bar none," Bar field says. Bartech, Inc. was founded in 1976 when GM's Hy dra-matic Division sponsored its first foray into contract engineer ing. in 1»H1, with the aseietance of a crew of research and develop ment, raw materials, management and technical specialists from GM*s Inland Division in Dayton, OH, Ernie Green went from bro kering coal to the presidency of Ernie Green Industries, a group of manufacturing facilities head quartered in Dayton, which now produce more than $5 million worth of engine and transmission mounts, automatic door locks, weatherstrips, brake components and other products for GM. "Unlike other major corpora tions, GM has demonstrated its commitment to the development of minority suppliers," Green says. "I am convinced, over time, that few will surpass them in their ef forts to promote economic equali ty." Women-O wned Businesses Top $1.6 Billion Washington, DC - Women who own and operate small busi nesses contracted for more than $1.6 billion in federal prime con tract awards in 1986, up from $1.3 billion in the previous year. "The increase in procurement activity by women business own ers reflect the overall dramatic in crease in entrepreneurship we have seen the.past ffw years," re marked James Abdnor, adminis trator of the Small Business Ad ministration (SBA). "Our statistics show that women are starting new businesses at a rate double ths rate for meiv" The percentage of all prime contracts awarded to womeri owned businesses increased from >. .22 percent in fiscal year 1979 to -90 percent in fiscal year 1986. "This increase represents a sig nificant effort by the federal gov ernment to be mortfresponsive to women business owners," said Su san E. Phillips, chairman of the In teragency Committee on Women’s Business Enterprise.'"The pros pects for continued improvements in the volume of procurement J»U3ia$as secured by women entre preneurs are excellent. In 1986, a majority of federal agencies, including the Depart ments of Commerce, Treasury, Health and Human Services, and Labor, increased the dollar amount of their contract awards to women-owned small business es- The Department of Defense ac counted for almost 70 percent of all prime contract awards to small businesses owned by women. Many of the nawar buaineaaes owned by woman are able to win •mailer purchaee contract awarda which are valued at $26,000 or less. These businesses later com pete for larger prime contract awards. "Adding the small purchase awards to the prime contract awards may well bring the total value of contract awards to over one percent," noted Carol Crock ett, director of SBA's Office of Women's Business Ownership. "The more women business owners ktiow about doing busi ness with the federal government, the more successful they will be in winning a larger share of federal procurement contracts." Mastering Basics Of Small Business Want to turn your good busi ness ideas into reality? Mastering the basics of small business will be the focus of a free workshop entitled, "Running Your Own Show - What's Involved and What Does It Take." The seminar will be led by Jim Stump of Helms, Stump, and Associates. Sponsored by Central Piedmont Community College's Small Busi ness Center, the workshop is scheduled for Thursday, May 7, from 6:30-9:30 p.m., in Room 220 of the Citizens center on the cam pus. The deadline for registration is May 6. For more information on this seminar an other services offered by the center, contact Emma Quinn, director, at P. O. Box 36009, Charlotte, NC 28236, 704 342-6900. If You Are Tired Of Negitive News! Then You Are Not Reading The Charlotte Post Pick Up A Copy Today! For News For And About People You Know "In establishing this program General Motors has not only helped to develop minority suppli ers, it has developed several sourc es from which it is receiving excel lent service," Haines explains. "Even though we spent $1 billion with minority firms last year, we still are not halfway to where we want to be." Non-Profit Marketing Strategies The Charlotte YWCA will spon sor a workshop on "Marketing Strategies for Non-Profit Organi zations" on May 13,8:30 a.m. - 4:30 P-m. at the Park Road Center. The workshop will focus in how to target the organization's servic es to a market that buys, how to design brochures, how to get more mileage out of newsletters and how to deal with the media. The fee is $35 before May 18 and $45 on the day of the work shop. For more information, con tact Minni Mitchell at 625-5770. CALL . 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