Media Alert: Vision 2000: The States and Small Business Conference

Office of Advocacy
U.S. Small Business Administration

NEWSRELEASE

SBA Number: 99- 46 ADVO
For Release: November 29, 1999
Contact: John B. Johnson (202) 205-6941

Media Alert

Vision 2000: The States and Small Business Conference

DATE: December 1 (8:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m.)

and December 2 (8:30 a.m.-12 noon)

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

Mayor Anthony Williams (D) (Wed. Dec. 1 – 9:00 a.m.)

Governor Thomas R. Carper (D-Del) (Wed. Dec. 1 – 10:15 a.m.)

Commissioner Charles O. Rossotti, Internal Revenue Service (Wed. Dec. 1 – 12:15 p.m.)

Governor Cecil H. Underwood (R-W.V.) (Thu. Dec. 2 – 8:35 a.m.)

FEATURED EVENTS:

Small Business Experiencing a Labor Shortage –Media Announcement –by Hon. Jere W. Glover, Chief Counsel for Advocacy (Wed. Dec. 1 – 9:00 a.m.)

Congressional Forum: The Third Millennium (Wed. Dec. 1 - 3:00 p.m.)

Presentation of the new U.S. Business Advisor –by Hon. Fred P. Hochberg, Deputy Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration and Moreley Winograd, Director, National Partnership for Reinventing Government (Thu. Dec. 2 – 11:00 a.m.)

Awards Presentation –For a complete list of winners visit the Web site. (Throughout the conference.)

WHERE: U.S. Chamber of Commerce

1615 H Street, NW

Washington, DC 20062-2000

HOSTED BY: Office of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration

Vision 2000 is an awards conference designed to showcase outstanding state and local initiatives that advance small business programs and policies. Vision 2000 will highlight Models of Excellence, featuring the state and local government programs that have helped small business the most. State policy-makers, state and local small business program directors, non-profit service providers, small business owners, and small business trade association executives will attend. For more information about the conference and winners, visit the Vision 2000 home page at http://www.sba.gov/advo/vision.html.

The SBA’s Office of Advocacy was created by an act of Congress in 1976 to protect, strengthen and effectively represent the nation’s small businesses within the federal government. As part of this mandate, the office conducts policy studies and economic research on issues of concern to small business and publishes data on small business characteristics and contributions. For instant access to small business resources, statistics and research, visit the Office of Advocacy’s home page at http://www.sba.gov/advo.

*Last Modified 6-7-01