Please take advantage of the Chamber’s ability to refer customers your way, or to provide information that may help enhance your customer base or point you toward economic opportunities. If you have potential work for fellow Chamber members, know about contracting opportunities or want specific types of referrals and opportunities, please email paul@pasadena-chamber.org.
Referrals and opportunities for Chamber members:
The California Public Utilities Commission is required to do 25% of its contracting and procurement with small businesses. To be considered, your business needs to be certified as a Small Business or Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise. Visit www.getcertified.dgs.ca.gov to get your certification.
The City of Pasadena recently enacted a Shop Local policy that encourages City departments and procurement personnel to seek bids from Pasadena companies before contracting for services or supplies with companies outside Pasadena. The City hopes to increase the amount of business it does with local companies, support local businesses and provide an example to private businesses by showing that high quality goods and services are available at competitive prices from Pasadena companies.
If you are interested in being added to the City of Pasadena procurement and vendor list so you can compete for business with our local government, please visit http://www.cityofpasadena.net/purchasing/. You can be added to the City vendor list, find out what opportunities exist right now with the City and find links to other local government and public agency opportunities.
You can be added to the list of potential suppliers for Los Angeles County by visiting http://camisvr.co.la.ca.us/webven and registering as a vendor with the county.
Your business can be a star-and generate additional revenue for you
The City of Pasadena’s Film Office encourages you to register your commercial property, so they can promote it to the dozens of movie scouts who contact their office daily looking for locations. Earn lucrative tax-free income by renting out your property to the movie industry.
Email filmoffice@cityofpasadena.net and they’ll follow up and send you an informational guide on renting your property as well as a “how to” on getting photos of your property into the City’s on-line location scouting library.
The following are grant opportunities that may be available to local non-profits and education providers:
Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools: Carol M. White Physical Education Program
The Carol M. White Physical Education Program provides grants to local educational agencies and community-based organizations to initiate, expand, and improve physical education for students in grades K–12. Grant recipients must implement programs that help students make progress toward meeting state standards. The total grant award is $39.7 million, and approximately 93 awards will be made.
Eligibility: Local education agencies
Application Closing Date: July 19, 2010
See the following site for a similar funding opportunity: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=3NqbMvJLd51Gcg5qbLX2y28SLQFBFs18zvrGw0Jb2HpJplLJCgx6!475739609?oppId=55277&mode=VIEW
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education: High School Graduation Initiative
The High School Graduation Initiative awards grants to local educational agencies and state educational agencies to support the implementation of effective, sustainable, and coordinated dropout prevention and reentry programs in schools that serve students in grades 6 through 12 and that have event dropout rates that are above the state average event dropout rate or are middle schools that feed students into such schools. Fifty awards totaling $45 million will be made.
Eligibility: State education agencies, local education agencies
Application Closing Date: July 28, 2010
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education: Smaller Learning Communities Program
The Smaller Learning Communities Program awards discretionary grants to local educational agencies to support the restructuring of large public high schools into smaller units for the purpose of improving academic achievement. These smaller units include freshman academies, multi-grade academies organized around career interests or other themes, “houses” in which small groups of students remain together throughout high school, and autonomous schools-within-a-school. Fourteen grants totaling $32 million will be made.
Eligibility: Local education agencies
Application Closing Date: August 6, 2010
Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers
The purpose of this program is to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 through advanced research, training, technical assistance, and dissemination activities in general problem areas, as specified by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. Such activities are designed to benefit rehabilitation service providers, individuals with disabilities, and the family members or other authorized representatives of individuals with disabilities. One grant of $850,000 will be made.
Eligibility: State and local governments, institutes of higher education
Application Closing Date: August 20, 2010
No Comments so far ↓
There are no comments yet...Kick things off by filling out the form below.