Annual Report
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The following is the annual report of the
Item
Goal
Actual
Jobs added or saved
143
144
Extended Engagement Clients
41
49
Startups
18
33
Long Term Counselings
41
48
Capital Formation
$4,085,000
$10,593,000
Revenues Increased
$6,150,000
$6,250,000
Shared Resources
4
6
Our client statistics for 2008 reflected 294 clients; consisting of 51% male vs.
49% female; 59.9% white, 26.9% Native American, 13.2% no response or other; 8.8%
veterans; 42.2% startups vs. 57.8% existing business; 2.4% online businesses,
10.5% home-based businesses; and 31.5% female-owned businesses.
In counseling small businesses NPC-SBDC provided 439 hours of direct contact,
195 hours of client preparation and indirect service, and 166 hours of travel
going to client meetings. This
represented an average of 9.4 hours per client.
In training, NPC-SBDC sponsored 30 training events during the year, reflecting
374 attendees, and 119,680 hours of training.
NPC-SBDC cosponsored a Superbowl Marketing event in January, hosted eight
tax workshops cosponsored by Arizona Department of Revenue, provided ten
computer training labs at our SBDC Training Center, held Online classes for
short-term small business topics with 20 students in the Fall semester and 17 in
the Spring, presented NxLevel
Entrepreneurship training classes in Whiteriver and Window Rock, a NxLevel Youth
Entrepreneurship one week Camp in Whiteriver for 24 Apache youth, a startup
workshop, a business plan workshop, cosponsored a Forestry Entrepreneurs
Conference with 120 attendees over three days, an SBA lending workshop, and did
a series of presentations to four Native American High Schools on the Native
American Enterprise program.
NPC-SBDC surveyed 180 clients at year end, of which 80% of responses showed our
services to be Excellent or Very Good.
5% responded Good, 5% Fair, 5% Poor, and 5% no response.
0100 Advocacy
NPC-SBDC regularly participates in local Chamber of Commerce events.
For example, the Director attended the Show Low and Snowflake-Taylor
Small Business Roundtables, which are small business luncheons, and
the Holbrook Office Coordinator attended
the City of
NPC-SBDC participates regularly with Tribal economic development groups,
including presenting a Small Business Training event with the Navajo Tribe’s
Regional Business Development Office, Four Corners Business Enterprise CDC, and
the
0200 Capital Formation
NPC-SBDC continue to maintain regular contact with local banks, including
Arizona Multibank who assisted with two projects, Canyon National Bank
who is assisted with one project, and Business Development Finance Corp who
assisted with one project.
NPC-SBDC assisted a client with getting capital for a reservation based business
involving Arizona Multibank and Four Corners Enterprise, located on the Navajo
Reservation.
NPC-SBDC assisted seven of nine local businesses invited to submit final
applications for the U.S. Forest Products Lab 2008 Woody Biomass Grant program,
and four were approved for a total capital formation of $1 million.
0300 Innovation and Technology Transfer
The Director was involved with Forest Products Lab from
0400 International Trade
Nothing noted.
0500 Minority Small Business Development
NPC-SBDC completed our third semester Apache NxLevel class on business plans,
completing plans on 12 students out of 14 registered, hosted a NxLevel class
with Navajo Nation Shopping Centers which resulted in 8 completing plans out of
12 registered, and presented a NxLevel Entrepreneurship Summer Camp in
Whiteriver to 24 Apache youth.
NPC-SBDC applied for and received a $5,000 grant in January from the Coleman
Foundation to promote NPC’s Native American Enterprise Program.
This is an entrepreneurial training program that can lead to a 2-year
Associate of Applied Science Degree, and/or Certificate of Applied Science.
NPC-SBDC made five presentations to high schools located on the Navajo
reservation, reaching 153 students to educate and encourage entrepreneurship.
NPC-SBDC are partnering with Four Corners Business Enterprise CDC which services
the north eastern portion of the state including both Navajo and Apache counties
with micro-loans for Native American owned businesses.
NPC-SBDC coordinates with the
0600 Resource Development
NPC-SBDC attended meetings by USDA Rural Development for information on grants
and loans for the rural business community.
The Director was involved in assisting the Southwest Sustainable Forests
Partnership (SWSFP) with a Fall Forestry Entrepreneur’s Conference in November,
and has $50,000 in funding over two years to provide additional program income
for NPC-SBDC for forestry resource development.
This has involved serving on the Executive Committee, attending meetings
hosted in
0700 Procurement
NPC-SBDC assisted a client in Winslow in responding to a request for
qualifications for the Bureau of Land Management.
NPC-SBDC participated in a Procurement Trade Show presented by the St.
Johns Chamber of Commerce and Apache County Economic Development.
The Director presented a program entitled Intelligent Bidding at the
Forestry Entrepreneurs conference in November.
0800 Special Emphasis Groups
The Director provided assistance to Northern Arizona Wood Products Association,
serving on their Board of Directors, and participated in a Watershed conference
in January in Show Low, attracting over 75 governmental and business
representatives from throughout the region to confer on water and resource
issues.
0900 Economic Development, Faith Based and Community Initiatives
NPC-SBDC attended Tuba City High School Career Day to distribute information on
NPC and Native American Enterprise Program, Show Low High School Business
Advisory Committee meetings, and assisted three of their students with a
business plan for their entry in a Statewide competition.
NPC-SBDC also coordinated activities for
1000 Research
NPC-SBDC continued to order client research data from Hillsearch, Inc.
NPC-SBDC participated in the Navajo County Economic Development
Committee, assisting in the compilation of a local demographic publication to
attract outside investment to
1100 Other Activity
The Director made a presentation at the Smallwood 2008 Conference in
NPC-SBDC participated in NPC Open House, where community were invited to attend
Painted Desert Campus open house and new building dedication, and NPC-SBDC
participated in a live radio broadcast and had a table to distribute information
to the public.
1200 Success Stories
NPC-SBDC assisted a Show Low businessman in starting a new trucking business,
which involves short-haul transportation for vehicles.
Their primary market is delivery and pickup to
NPC-SBDC assisted four local forestry businesses awarded $250,000 U.S. Forest
Products Labs Woody Biomass grants, totaling $1 million in new capital for the
AZSBDC (one client was led by Coconino SBDC which NPC-SBDC assisted.)
These clients represented all of the recipients for the region, which
includes
A client of our Apache NxLevel class started a firewood business in McNary, and
hired 18 Apaches to manufacture firewood, posts, poles and other value-added
products from thinnings on the
In January NPC-SBDC hired a full-time Coordinator for the Holbrook office,
serving Holbrook, Winslow and the Navajo and Hopi reservations.
We assisted a Holbrook businessman with financing on a new building for
$90K, providing this client with technical assistance in organizing his
financial information. Another
client in Holbrook was able to get financing for $150K for a building for a
vehicle repair shop, providing this client with a business plan.
A client from Winslow attending a Getting Started seminar was successful
in opening a pharmacy and drug store.
1300 Travel
Out of state travel was approved for the NPC-SBDC staff to attend the Smallwood
2008 Conference in Wisconsin, the National Association of Community College
Entrepreneurship Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas (to apply and receive a
grant from the Coleman Foundation and gather information for the Native American
Enterprise program), attend the
National SBDC Conference in Chicago, attend a meeting of the Regional Business
Development Offices of the Navajo Tribe in New Mexico, and for regular
attendance in Albuquerque, New Mexico of
SWSFP Executive Committee meetings.
1400 Problems
Nothing noted.
1500 Financial Reports
(To be provided separately; centers do not need to complete this section)
1600 Women-Owned Businesses
Nothing noted.
1700 Economic Impact
See Success Stories and Goals and Results section above.
1800 Veterans, Service Connected-Disabled Veteran-Owned Businesses, Reservists
on Active Duty and Other Reserve Component Members of the
Nothing noted.
1900 Manufacturing
The Director has been serving as an advisor to Community Renewable Energy
Resources, LLC, the primary developer for a Syn-Gas manufacturing/Co-generation
electrical power facility in
2000 Online Activity
NPC-SBDC continued to update the
www.npcsbdc.com web site.
NPC-SBDC continued to work with online students, 17 completing online classes in
May and 20 in December, and updated the web site regularly with current
offerings and other reference materials.
Our site resulted in an average of 1,500 hits per day over the last year,
and averaged over 3,500 visitors per month.
One recent posting for the Forestry Entrepreneur’s Conference resulted in
#1 search engine listing for the “Intelligent Bidding” presentation (source:
google.com).