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Annual State of Rhinebeck Dinner
January 20th, 6 pm
at The Beekman Arms
Please join us on Wednesday, January 20, 1010 at 6:00 pm for the Annual State of Rhinebeck Dinner to be held at The Beekman Arms.
Cocktails and hors d`oeuvres will be available from 6 to 6:45 and dinner will be served at 7:00 pm.
Reservations are $50 for members and $60 for non-members and must be paid in advance. Please call the Chamber office at 876.5904 or e-mail the office at info@rhinebeckchamber.com for more information and to make your reservation.
SPONSORSHIP ADS ARE AVAILABLE FOR THE EVENT`S PROGRAM JOURNAL AND ARE $75 and $100. PLEASE CALL THE CHAMBER OFFICE AND SPEAK WITH NANCY AMY FOR MORE INFORMATION.
Sponsors to date include: Burnett and White Funeral Homes; Chronogram, Vicki Haak, CFP; Frontier, Northern Dutchess News, Wells Fargo Advisors
January 2010 Business Breakfast
January 27th, 7:30 am
at The Rhinecliff
Join us Wednesday, January 27th when we welcome Tamara Underwood with Community Capital Resources as the first speaker of the decade at the Business Breakfast! Community Capital Resources (CCR) is a not-for-profit Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI). Their mission is to support economic development in the Hudson Valley. Their Small Business Lending and Support Program can lend up to $25,000 to Start-Up and Existing Businesses. CCR is the Small Business Administration (SBA) Intermediary Microlender for Dutchess County and is a Partner of Empire State Development Corporation. Not only does CCR extend business credit at favorable rates, it also provides credit counseling, business plan writing classes and business coaching.
More than half of CCR’s loan clients are Start-Ups. Forty percent of businesses assisted since 2003 are in the service industry; 28% are in construction, remodeling, maintenance; and 16% are in the restaurant or food industry. Applicants need a business plan, 12-month cash flow projection and past personal and business financial information to apply.
For more information contact: Tamara Underwood, Small Business Program Manager, 914. 747.8020 X 16; tunderwood@ccrhv.org. Or to download loan application materials, visit their website, www.ccrhv.org.
This month’s Business Breakfast is sponsored by Superior Wireless.
Did you know that Superior Wireless started out as a course requirement for Sean Jones? That’s right! Many years ago when Sean was at Dutchess Community College, he was required to submit a business plan. And as they say, “the rest is history…” Verizon Wireless liked Sean’s business plan so much that they granted him a Verizon Wireless franchise. The first Superior Wireless store opened in
Millbrook in 2004.Two Superior Wireless stores were opened in 2006—Hyde Park and Rhinebeck. Just last year, 2009, Sean opened a fourth store in LaGrangeville.
Congratulations, Sean, on your growth and the Chamber wishes you the best in the coming years for even more growth! And thank you for your generous sponsorship of this month’s breakfast.
Reservations may be made for the breakfast by calling the chamber office at 876.5904 or e-mailing info@rhinebeckchamber.com. Member reservations are $15, non-member reservations are $25.
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