Bloom Business Series: October

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Join us VIRTUALLY on October 19, 2022 from 8:30-9:30 am for our BLOOM Business Series webinar. 

As a small business owner, there are various opportunities to connect with state and federal offices to provide services, apply for contracts, seek funding, and more. To connect with these opportunities, you may have to register your business as a Small Diverse Business. Join us for this presentation from representatives from the local Procurement Technical Assistance Office and a local small business owner to share information on the resources available and whether that can help your business in the future.

BLOOM Business Series events are FREE to attend and open to the public, though RSVPs are required. 

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ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Robert Brown
Director, Procurement Technical Assistance
SEDA Council of Governments
 
Robert has been the Program Director of the SEDA Council of Governments, Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) since 2005. The PTAC program assists small businesses in obtaining local, state, and federal government contracts. Mr. Brown has 20 years’ experience in private industry in the areas of commercial purchasing, accounting, sales, and management. His industry experience includes retail sales, construction, and manufacturing. He is currently a Certified Associate Contracting Assistance Specialist with the Association of Procurement Technical Assistance Centers. Robert is also a Veterans Administration certified counselor through the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business. Robert obtained his MBA from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania in 1996. 
 
Mark Rhodes
President, Key Learning Consultants
 
Mark Rhodes, a diversity educator and strategist, conducts diversity culture audits and needs analyses and conflict resolution and inter-group communication workshops. He works with each client to better understand their strategies and action plans and facilitates diversity, sexual harassment prevention, and multicultural customer service to its employees, customers, and other constituencies for a more productive and profitable future. Mark has consulted with Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, and not-for-profit organizations in the U.S. and has spoken at several conferences and universities. He has trained employees from the senior executive suite to the factory floor. Mark has also been a commissioner with the City of York Human Relations Commission for the past seven years. He is the owner of Mark & Val Wines, an urban winery and one of the first black-owned wineries in Pennsylvania.

Thank you to PNC for making this series possible!