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Season's Greetings from SNEDA
December 2003 Newsletter
Board approves 2004 budget
The Board of Directors approved SNEDA's 2004 operational budget of $320,000 on Dec. 16.
Since beginning operations in mid-2002, SNEDA has given technical assistance to 131 businesses. That's a figure that will continue to climb in the coming year.
Web site gets fresh look
It's now easier to get information about SNEDA online.
The SNEDA Web site, http://www.sneda.org, was redesigned this month to make it easier to navigate and update and to display more features.
The redesign effort was led by Angie Huang, a SNEDA AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer.
To help us serve you better, please participate in the online survey about our new site.
SNEDA says goodbye to Susan Devan
No AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer at SNEDA has worked as closely with Spokane entrepreneurs as Susan Devan.
Devan, a member of SNEDA's inaugural contingent of VISTA volunteers, will leave her position this month to study and work part-time at Eastern Washington University. Working a bit less, Devan said, will allow her to spend more time with her husband, David Kaplan, and their 5-year-old daughter Sydney. Click here to read more...
Get advice on finding and landing government contracts
Johan Curtiss from the Washington State University Procurement Technical Assistance Center is continuing to partner with SNEDA to provide Spokane business owners with information on how to position themselves to increase sales to federal, state and local governments. She has met with 33 Spokane firms since July. Companies interested in meeting with Curtiss should contact Angie Huang at 444-7633.
SNEDA offers loans, assistance to businesses
If you have a viable business (or business plan) but have had difficulty obtaining bank financing, contact Nick Landis or Eric Loewe about SNEDA's loan capabilities.
Phone Angie Huang or Jonathan Brunt at 444-7633 for information about other assistance available to businesses in the SNEDA neighborhoods.
SNEDA says thanks for your help in 2003
SNEDA will start 2004 a much stronger organization because of the contributions - both time and financial - made to SNEDA in 2003.
First, our thanks to our contributors: the City of Spokane, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Community Service, the Corporation for National Service, the U.S. Treasury's Community Development Financial Institution Fund, Foundation Northwest, Sterling Bank, US Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, Banner Bank, Cowles Publishing Company Development Company, Foundation Northwest Buder Memorial Fund # 2 and the Sahlin Foundation. Our thanks also to individuals who made financial contributions to SNEDA: Rob Daugherty, Mary Anne Evans, Jean Farmer and Tom Power.
Next our thanks to our partners who contributed to our success in 2003: the City of Spokane, the Small Business Development Center, the Spokane Area Business Information Center, The SCORE Association, the WSU Procurement Technical Assistance Center, the Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Downtown Spokane Partnership, Washington Manufacturing Services, Northwest Regional Facilitators, Family Care Resources, Spokane Neighborhood Action Program, Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities, Nu-Arch Developments and the Spokane Area Economic Development Council.
Last, but not least, our thanks to the folks who volunteered numerous hours to SNEDA as board members in 2003: Mary Averett, Susan Brudnicki, Sheila Collins, Sali Combelic, Rob Daugherty, Bill Dillon, Michael Edwards, Jean Farmer, Al French, Rich Hadley, Don Higgins, Diane Jackson, Gregory Lipsker, Ray Mooney, Kim Pearman-Gillman, Mark Reilly, Kerri Rodkey, Mark Turner and Chris Venne.
Have a safe new year and a happy and productive 2004
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
- Alfred Tennyson,
"Ring Out, Wild Bells," 1850
Newsletter edited by Jonathan Brunt
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