Small Businesses Benefit from LA County CARES Act COC Business Alliance Hosts Event for Local Companies Taking care of your business! NEWSLETTER If you are a micro-business, freelancer, or small business we have good news. On July 21st, LA County announced its version of the CARES Act to support a number of communities negatively impacted by the Coronavirus. Here are the details: Total Amount of LA CARES Act Funding: $1.22 billion Support for Small Businesses Affected by COVID: • $160 million for small business grants county- wide. These funds will support small businesses including: micro-entrepreneurs (such as artists) as well as nonprofits such as child care providers. Services will be provided primarily by the Departments of Consumer and Business Affairs, Workforce Development and Community Services and the County’s Development Authority • $1 million for outdoor dining variance permit fee waivers in Unincorporated Areas (Public Works) To see how you can apply for this funding contact one of the following: LA County Consumer and Business Affairs: https://dcba.lacounty.gov/ Workforce Development and Community Services: https://wdacs.lacounty.gov/ On July 15th, College of the Canyons hosted an event entitled, "Pivot 101: Managing Your Business under COVID-19." The event featured the following outstanding business women from the Santa Clarita Valley who are leading their companies through transformation during this difficult time: Nola Aronson, Owner of Advanced Audiology Michelle Lambarena, Director - Leadership and Organizational Development, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital Jill Mellady, President, Mellady Direct Marketing Sondra Wagner, Owner/Princi- pal Event Planner, Sondra Wagner Event Management August 2020 IN THIS ISSUE: COC Business Alliance Hosts Event for Local Companies Small Businesses Benefit from LA County CARES Act VITAS Healthcare and HWI Collaborate SBDC Webinar - Building and Launching your Shopify Store
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Small Businesses Bene�t from LA County CARES Act
COC Business Alliance Hosts Event for Local Companies
Taking care of your business!
NEWSLETTER
If you are a micro-business, freelancer, or small business we have good news. On July 21st, LA County announced its version of the CARES Act to support a number of communities negatively impacted by the Coronavirus. Here are the details:Total Amount of LA CARES Act Funding: $1.22 billion
Support for Small Businesses A�ected by COVID:• $160 million for small business grants county-wide. These funds will support small businesses including: micro-entrepreneurs (such as artists) as well as nonpro�ts such as child care providers. Services will be provided primarily by the Departments of Consumer and Business A�airs, Workforce Development and Community
Services and the County’s Development Authority • $1 million for outdoor dining variance permit fee waivers in Unincorporated Areas (Public Works)
To see how you can apply for this funding contact one of the following:LA County Consumer and Business A�airs: https://dcba.lacounty.gov/Workforce Development and Community Services: https://wdacs.lacounty.gov/
On July 15th, College of the Canyons hosted an event entitled, "Pivot 101: Managing Your Business under COVID-19." The event featured the following outstanding business women from the Santa Clarita Valley who are leading their companies through transformation during this di�cult time:Nola Aronson, Owner of Advanced Audiology Michelle Lambarena, Director - Leadership and Organizational Development, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital Jill Mellady, President, Mellady Direct Marketing Sondra Wagner, Owner/Princi-pal Event Planner, Sondra Wagner Event Management
August 2020August 2020
IN THIS ISSUE:
COC Business Alliance Hosts Event for Local Companies
Small Businesses Bene�t from LA County CARES Act
VITAS Healthcare and HWI Collaborate
SBDC Webinar - Building and Launching your Shopify Store
patient and caregiver experience with supportive check-in calls, increases volunteer hours required by Medicare, and train potential hospice care workers of tomorrow! Students will learn Hospice philosophy, psychosocial and spiritual dynamics, how to make and document proactive calls, e�ective communication skills, HIPAA and safety.
If you are interested in more information please complete VITAS interest survey at https://www.vitas.com/
Thinking about launching a Shopify Store? Learn how to build and launch your Shopify Store over a 6-part webinar series on 8/4, 8/11, 8/18, 8/25, 9/1 and 9/8. Learn in 6 one-hour sessions from an "Introduction to e-commerce and Shopify" through "Shopify App Store and How to �nd the best apps for business and launching".
Click the Link here to learn more and see what other workshops are available.https://cocsbdc.org/workshops/
SBDC Webinar - Building and Launching your Shopify Store
VITAS Healthcare and HWI Collaborate
Taking care of your business!
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Each of the speakers gave their personal account of how COVID-19 has impacted their company and shared how they are leading the e�ort to transform how they do business. There were three main insights that each of the speakers highlighted in their comments:1) Reach out to support care givers2) Utilize virtual tools to do business and reach customers3) Develop new products to expand business and market share
Over 30 individuals were in attendance at the event which is sponsored by College of the Canyons Business Alliance. Given the success of this event we College of the Canyons plans to host a "Virtual Business Summit" in the fall to reach additional companies impacted by COVID-19.
VITAS Healthcare and the Health Workforce Initiative work to provide student learning opportunities for remote direct patient care activity for Nursing and Allied Health Programs at the California Community Colleges. It’s a win win partnership for community colleges with students receiving clinical hours while providing remote check-in calls from home. And students learning psychosocial and spiritual dynamics along with how to communicate e�ectively with the terminally ill patient and their caregivers. For VITAS Healthcare; it improves VITAS hospice
