SBA North Carolina District Office announces Join us for a special event featuring Mr. Ashley Bell, Regional Administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration Southeast Region (Region IV), Atlanta, together with the staff and management of the U.S. Small Business Administration, North Carolina District Office in Charlotte Monday, June 11, 2018 at the Stanly Community College Small Business Center, 143 N. 2nd St., in downtown Albemarle NC Agenda: 2:30 p.m.: Welcome and remarks: • Alicia Herrin, Director – Stanly SBC • Ashley Bell, SBA Region IV Administrator Quick overview of small business programs: • SBA Loans • SBA Government Contracting • Counseling & Training, including Charlotte SCORE and Small Business and Technology Development Center • Other partners such as USDA and the North Carolina Rural Center. 3:15 p.m.: Resource tables open 4:00 p.m.: Adjourn Register for this event at this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sba-day-in-albemarle-nc- tickets-45972313427 SBA’s programs and services are provided to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis. Reasonable arrangements for persons with disabilities will be made when requested one week in advance. Contact: Mr. Levi Kinnard at
[email protected] . About Ashley Bell Ashley was appointed on February 21, 2018 by the White House to serve as Regional Administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration for Region IV, serving nine districts located in the 8 Southeastern States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Regional Administrator Bell has oversight of over $5 billion in SBA-backed lending, the counseling arm of the SBA, which counseled over 225,000 entrepreneurs last year in Region IV, and the contracting programs for small business, which account for over 23% of all federal contracts awarded.