Sentences with phrase «as disadvantaged business»

About a month ago, Sam Lehman found out his small business, Columbia Consulting Group, had been turned down for its application under the 8a federal contracting program for certification as a disadvantaged business.

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If you run a fitness based business (as an example), highlighting a tale of triumph over the generalized disadvantages of being out - of - shape to accomplish what previously seemed like «impossible» fitness results is a great way to get people fired up to become more interested in fitness.

A major disadvantage of doing business as a general partnership is that all partners are personally liable for business debts and liabilities (for example, a judgment in a lawsuit).

Regus has a vested interest in exposing the dark side of at - home work — after all, it operates business centres designed to serve as alternatives to home offices — but the potential disadvantages are worth considering as more and more Canadian companies experiment with flexible working arrangements.

The tax cut expanded tax - advantaged accounts for workers, and provided tax incentives for business investment in blighted areas, as well as for hiring disadvantaged workers.

While those minorities are spelled out as women, or disadvantaged businesses, or for veterans, LGBT - owned businesses are not specified, says Theresa Harrison, director of supplier diversity at Ernst & Young.

As the owner of a local business, you have to face several disadvantages.

Among the business owners that the government regularly recognizes under 8a are minorities such as women, Asian Americans, African Americans, and so - called disadvantaged businesses.

Schools that can't afford to keep up, such as Columbia Business School, appear at a major competitive disadvantage.

Small businesses are often at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to winning these visas, analysts note, as larger companies may flood the application pool, while smaller businesses can only afford to make a few bets on those most critical to their operations.

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal blog Independent Street, she outlined Magic's qualifications, as summarized by reporter Kelly Spors: «He's started a string of successful businesses, could draw celebrity attention to a stodgy federal agency, cares about helping the disadvantaged and urban revitalization and aligns himself with smart people.»

One of the biggest disadvantages of only working with your personal bank for small business financing is missing out on the opportunity to combine financing methods as small banks usually only offer debt - financing.

It is the policy of the UPMC Supplier Diversity Program to ensure that certified Minority, Women - owned, Disadvantaged, and Disability - owned Business Enterprises (MWD / DOBE) are provided to the maximum opportunity to participate as partners and suppliers of goods and services.

«To ensure public shareholders are not disadvantaged, any takeover bid would need to be put to a shareholder vote and any recommendation by the board would have to be based on an appropriate premium as well as safeguards for future probity given past track records of the businesses controlled by the Murdoch family», said Kieran Quinn, chairman of Britain's Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF).

MLPs also may be at a disadvantage to comparable businesses that are structured as C - corporations (C - corps).

ERIE COUNTY, NY - Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz was joined today by elected officials and members of the business community as he signed his 18th Executive Order, mandating that Erie County construction projects of over $ 250,000 and involving at least three workers shall include requirements to employ local and disadvantaged workers.

SCMC, LLC is a construction firm, certified as a SBA Small Disadvantaged Business, SBA 8 (a) Program participant, & SBA HUBZone participant.

The data does not include, the office said, the MTA's additional spending with MWBEs under the Federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program, which applies to projects such as the Second Avenue Subway.

The lack of broadband, she said, leads to a competitive disadvantage for residents, health care providers and businesses, and is just as important as roads and electricity.

As NCI SBIR program manager, she helps spur innovation and foster small business and minority and disadvantaged companies» participation in R&D.

The Legislature also directed it to study how other jurisdictions» programs control costs for businesses, as well as disadvantaged and rural communities.

The learning aims are as follows: - Identify and describe suitable sources of finance for a larger (growing) business - Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different sources of finance - Evaluate and recommend the most suitable source of finance for a business This resource is thoroughly recommended for all centres, particularly for final revision before exams.

• The Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Select Committee in the House of Commons should monitor and report on higher education funding and provision each year, assessing the impact of changes on disadvantaged students, as well as mature and part - timers; • Better co-ordination between higher education ministers from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to rationalise student funding policies across the UK; • An investigation by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) into the impact of the latest changes to grants and loans, to ensure value for money for students and taxpayers; • Stronger evaluation of university spending of # 750m a year on outreach and access programmes to maximise their impact.

Business as usual in education is not going to heal the widening divisions between the privileged and disadvantaged.

Other offices include additional elements from OST, the Office of the General Counsel (OGC) and the Office of Small Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU)-- as well as the three OAs distributing financial assistance to DOT recipients - the Federal Aviation Administration, the Federal Highway Administration, and the Federal Transit Administration.

As the Director of the Pennsylvania Disadvantage Business Enterprise Supportive Service Center, Kyron assisted Disadvantage Business Enterprises in receiving over $ 550 million in contracts.

This track focuses on federal regulations, guidance, and oversight procedures for civil rights programs that require State compliance, such as: Title VI non-discriminatory programs, Disadvantaged Business Enterprise, Limited English Proficiency, Environmental Justice, and Accessibility for People with Disabilities.

Economically disadvantaged individuals are socially disadvantaged individuals whose ability to compete in the free enterprise system has been impaired due to diminished capital and credit opportunities as compared to others in the same or similar line of business who are not socially disadvantaged.

Jacqulyn serves as the Administrative Officer for the Office of Small Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU).

It makes several changes to the DBE program, concerning such subjects as uniform application and reporting forms; implementing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Small Business Administration (SBA); substantive amendments to provisions concerning personal net worth, retainage, size standard, proof of ethnicity, confidentiality, proof of economic disadvantage, DBE credit for trucking firms, and eligibility of firms owned by Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs); and clarifications concerning multi-year project goals and the use of the new North American Industrial Classification System («NAICS»).

Under the statutes governing the Department's Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program, firms are not considered small business concerns and are therefore ineligible as DBEs once their average annual receipts over the preceding three fiscal years reach specified dollarBusiness Enterprise (DBE) Program, firms are not considered small business concerns and are therefore ineligible as DBEs once their average annual receipts over the preceding three fiscal years reach specified dollarbusiness concerns and are therefore ineligible as DBEs once their average annual receipts over the preceding three fiscal years reach specified dollar limits.

Under the statutes governing the Department's Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program, firms are not considered small businesses concerns and are therefore ineligible as DBEs once their average annual receipts over the preceding three fiscal years reach specified dollar limits.

This document, as required by statute, also adjusts the dollar limits used to define small businesses for the Department of Transportation's Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program, which applies to State and local highway, transit, and airport recipients of DOT financial assistance.

The Secretary shall establish minimum requirements for State governments to use in reporting to the Secretary information concerning disadvantaged business enterprise awards, commitments, and achievements, and such other information as the Secretary determines appropriate for the proper monitoring of the disadvantaged business enterprise program.

However, it is clearly wrong that, as we invest in building a taxpaying business employing hundreds of South Africans, we are competitively disadvantaged through aggressive tax - planning strategies of global businesses,» says 24.com CEO Geoff Cohen.

If the e-reading platform wars do turn out to be a land grab for a mature, low growth market, publishers will find themselves at a major disadvantage as businesses.

While the favorable royalty splits and payment terms were appealing and the disadvantages seemed like a fun challenge to tackle, what I wanted most as a writer and business owner was autonomy.

The real disadvantage with using a business card for personal expenses is that it does not have the same protections as a personal card, as I discussed in a previous column, «Business card benefits outweigh limitations for most businessesbusiness card for personal expenses is that it does not have the same protections as a personal card, as I discussed in a previous column, «Business card benefits outweigh limitations for most businessesBusiness card benefits outweigh limitations for most businesses.»

They burden people with rising prices and businesses, jobs and wages are put at a competitive disadvantage, just as policies that affected house prices have left millions paying through the nose for rents, and stacked huge liabilities on people on average incomes.

Some businesses are already arguing that the US withdrawal puts them at a competitive disadvantage, and these voices will become louder as countries move closer to the net - zero - emission future required to limit warming to 2C.

Of course, this has its disadvantages, as you are personally liable for the debts your business incurs.

He was later caught out in a silly matter concerning a sex worker whom he had recruited as a partner and this very considerable and able business man was brought low, but he turned his disadvantage and his humiliation into a positive thing, he wrote this book The Glass Closet it is book about why it is in the interest of employers to reach out to everybody, to reach out to women, to reach out to minorities, to reach out to minorities on the grounds of gender, on the grounds of race, on the grounds of sexuality and he makes the point as the CEO of one of the 500 biggest corporation in the world this I in the interest of the shareholders, in the interest of the business and it also in the interest of the employees and those who work with them.

The study concludes that legal services providers would be disadvantaged disproportionately compared with the UK economy as a whole due to their reliance on intermediate demand from other sectors likely to be adversely affected, particularly financial and other professional services, and from resulting lower levels of business investment.

There are many advantages to doing business this way and some disadvantages as well.

The nature of the business being such, Coinone, like all other cryptocurrency exchanges, has its advantages and disadvantages as can be seen in the Coinone pros and cons listed below.

For example, you can explain how as coordinator you would like to create events to entertain disadvantaged children, or bring in business professionals to help homeless individuals prepare for the work world.

The Government described this as «business as usual» with no organisations or communities to be disadvantaged by the new arrangements.

The Queensland Cabinet endorsed such principles as improved partnership arrangements between the State Government, business leaders and Cape York communities to better address the disadvantage experienced by Cape York Indigenous people; integration and enhancement of existing planning processes between State Government, business leaders and Cape York Aboriginal communities to identify and implement trials of new operating practices; and encouragement of the Commonwealth Government to participate in the process at an appropriate stage.

Furthermore, when a VOW contains all the information of an Association or Real Estate Board, plus the additional features you have suggested, the costs associated with operating such a website (VOW) should put a VOW type brokerage at a disadvantage against a non-VOW type Real Estate brokerage, that simply wishes to attract new business as a result of being identified as a: «discount broker»?

«Any system that permits a single, undisclosed package to be offered by a lender — even as an alternative to a two - package disclosure — will disadvantage the diverse small businesses that make up a large portion of the real estate industry,» 2004 NAR President Walt McDonald testified in a hearing before the House Small Business Committee in January.