The Third National Veterans Small Business Week will be held nationwide from Oct 31 to Nov 4, 2016, with Maui joining in the nation’s celebration for the first time with a one-day event on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016 at the Maui Research Technology Park.
This one-day event on Maui is a Maui Business Brainstormers (MBB) initiative to increase awareness of the need for more resources to help veterans, active or transitioning service military members and their families to get re-started.
Five free educational workshops and seminars will be presented by local experts:
Set Yourself up for a Successful Journey in the Business World (including breakfast) Guest speaker Patti Sabla of Live Life Better
Entrepreneurship and Veterans Business Outreach Center of Pacific Guest Speaker Dennis Kwak of Veterans Business Outreach Center of Pacific
Talk Story with Vetera-Owned Businesses (including pūpū) Guest speakers are from local veteran-owned businesses
General Excise Tax De-Mystified Guest speaker Gordon Zane of Hawai’i Department of Taxation
The Way to Wealth (including refreshments) Guest speakers Gary Albitz and Mary Albitz of Focal Point International of Hawai’i
Chef Daniel Edwards of Next Level Hospitality & Events will provide the breakfast, pūpū at lunch and light refreshments for the attendees.
For more information and to RSVP for each session, go online.
Event supporters are VBOC of Pacific , HI SBDC – Maui Center, Next Level Hospitality & Events – Maui and SCORE Maui.
“We are proud to support the efforts of NVSBW on Maui to provide education and training to our veterans and to acknowledge the contribution of veterans to the Maui community,” said Dennis Kwak, the director of Veterans Business Outreach Center of Pacific, a University of Hawai‘i at Hilo program in a cooperative agreement with the US SBA.
The continuing growth of veteran-owned businesses in America’s small business landscape led the U.S. Small Business Administration to announce the nation’s first Veterans Small Business Week in 2014.
In 2015, the U.S. Senate signed a bill that proclaims every year’s first week of November as National Veterans Small Business Week (NVSBW).