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Learn about the benefits of being a green business

By / Small Business Advocacy Blog /

You are invited to a Webinar on Green Business sponsored by South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce. When: Oct 26, 2021 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: Learn about the Green Business Bureau, their Certification Program and Green Business Seal Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NhVqVkrlQlaDGNSBpqfJzw In this webinar, you’ll learn […]

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Business organizations respond to GOP opposition to SBA direct loans to small businesses

By / Access to Capital, Press, Small Business /

Press Release October 11, 2021 Contact: Frank Knapp 803-600-6874 fknapp@scsbc.org A coalition of national, state, and local business organizations today sent a letter to Congressional leaders in response to House and Senate Republican letters opposed to a commonsense solution to the problem of entrepreneurs and small businesses not having needed access to capital. The business

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Opinion: Direct loans from SBA are no threat to private lenders

By / Economy, Press, Small Business /

BankThink American Banker October 8, 2021 By  Frank Knapp Jr. In March of this year a campaign was launched by numerous national, state, and local business organizations to address the country’s 40-year low in new business startups. One of the recommendations was for the U.S. Small Business Administration to directly make startup and microloans of

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National Survey Shows Small Businesses Hurt by Lack of Affordable Child Care and Owners Support Federal Child Care Investments

By / Economy, Press, Small Business /

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Conan Knoll conan@emccommunications.com (831) 524-6764 Jared Thompson jared@smallbusinessforamericasfuture.org (260) 797-2530 A new national survey of 1,000 small business owners finds the pandemic has exacerbated child care issues for small business owners and employees, and owners want the federal government to provide solutions Washington, D.C., Oct. 4, 2021— A national survey of more than 1,000

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UofSC economist says government shutdown unlikely to happen at end of week, with debt ceiling deadline looming

By / Economy, Press, Small Business /

WIS-TV September 28, 2021 By Mary Green COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – An economist at the University of South Carolina said the federal government is unlikely to shut down Friday at midnight, the deadline by which Congress needs to reach an agreement on funding to keep it open. Past that, lawmakers face another deadline moving closer to

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Small business owners wary to accept available federal COVID aid

By / Access to Capital, Economy, Press /

GrayDC, September 24, 2021 WIBW (Topeka, KS), September 24, 2021 WLUC (Negaunee, MI), September 24, 2021 Watch Video The COVID EIDL loan would allow business owners to borrow $2 million for recovery. But some worry about the commitment. By David Ade and Natalie Grim WASHINGTON (Gray DC) – Disaster loans are available for small business

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Join briefing with Republican Congressman Blaine Leutkemery

By / Small Business /

Join us Thursday, September 30th, for a business leader briefing with  Ranking Member of the House Small Business Committee, Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO) moderated by Candace Waterman, President & CEO of Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP). Congressman Luetkemeyer will brief our local business leader network about what Congress is doing to help small business owners recover from the

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Immigration changes could pave path to workforce growth

By / Economy, Press, Small Business /

Columbia Regional Business Report September 15, 2021 By Melinda Waldrop Frank Knapp sees one straightforward solution to the labor shortage facing many industries as the nation continues to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic: Make more workers available. Three pieces of legislation currently before the U.S. Senate can help accomplish that goal, said Knapp, president and CEO

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New study finds optimism, along with lingering concerns, among small businesses

By / Economy, Press, Small Business /

Columbia Regional Business Report September 15, 2021 By Melinda Waldrop As the National Small Business Week Virtual Summit winds down, a new report reflects growing optimism among S.C. small businesses, while another study points to a continued labor shortage in the state. Following up on a February survey, Facebook’s September Global State of Small Business

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Ex-Republican rainmaker Mike Fernandez, Val Demings join calls

By / Economy, Press, Small Business /

  Like Fernandez and others on the call, who ranged from Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, to Frank Knapp, CEO, of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, Demings pressed immigration reform as an economic issue. Florida Politics September 14, 2021 ‘It is economically important, morally right, and politically smart,’

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