Small Business Strategies: Obama’s proposal could hurt

Small Business Strategies: Obama’s proposal could hurt
Want an SBA loan? Don’t bother applying if you needed less than a few hundred thousand dollars. In looking at President Obama’s just-announced proposal to combine the SBA with five other agencies, I’m fearful we’ll soon return to the days when

Schulich School of Business Students Graduate to the IBM SmartCloud
In the fall of 2011, 400 students enrolled in “Management 1000” at the Schulich School of Business used IBM’s social networking services to aid their semester-long project of creating a comprehensive business plan. Students at Schulich used the IBM

Israeli Storyteller to Perform at Combined Jewish Women’s Annual Meeting

Israeli Storyteller to Perform at Combined Jewish Women’s Annual Meeting
The members of 16 Jewish women s organizations will join together for a social evening featuring acclaimed Israeli storyteller Noa Baum on Monday, January 30, 2012, at 7 p.m. at Temple Ner Tamid, Peabody. Sponsored by the Combined Jewish Women

Two Venerable Silicon Valley Organizations Join Forces
Lately there s been a glut of start-ups in Silicon Valley, but it s not enough to keep two independent local non-profits SVForum and the smaller SVASE (the Silicon Valley Association of Start-up Entrepreneurs) stay afloat. Tonight the

Organizations decry drawn-out background checks
OTTAWA — The wait for many Manitoba organizations to get criminal-background checks on potential employees or volunteers is down significantly since the summer. But the head of an agency that last fall outed the long wait to get the federal checks says

Organizations, No, Community, Yes: MLK Jr. Day 2012
Let me preface this commentary with a confession: I have lived my entire life in South Carolina, a non-union state, and I have always felt a tug toward a Henry David Thoreau-Groucho Marx-Woody Allen-esque recalcitrance to join anything.

Opponents of Florida Animal Rescue Act Call Rescue Organizations “Hoarders”
MIAMI-DADE, Fla., Jan. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As the Florida Animal Rescue Act (FARA) nears approval by the Senate Community Affairs Committee next week, some opponents are attempting to derail this lifesaving legislation by making