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In 1979, a few dedicated Hispanic leaders realized the enormous potential of the Hispanic business community in the United States and envisioned the need for a national organization to represent its interests before the public and private sectors. Later that year, the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) was incorporated in the state of New Mexico, creating a structured organization aimed at developing a business network that would provide the Hispanic community with cohesion and strength. Since its inception, the USHCC has worked towards bringing the issues and concerns of the nation's more than 1 million Hispanic-owned businesses to the forefront of the national economic agenda. Throughout the years, the Chamber has enjoyed outstanding working relationships with international Heads of State. Also, through the network of nearly 200 Hispanic Chambers of Commerce and Hispanic business organizations, the USHCC has effectively communicated the needs and potential of Hispanic Enterprise to the U.S. Government and Corporate America.

In 1972, the American Association of Hispanic Certified Public Accountants (AAHCPA) became the first national Hispanic professional association in the United States. Since that time, the Association, a non-profit corporation, has provided unique and valuable programs and services with a dual purpose: helping Hispanic CPAs throughout the country to enhance their professional capabilities while supporting the development and expansion of the nation's professional work force.

T he National Hispanic Business Association (NHBA) is a national network of students and alumni whose mission is to address educational and business issues related to Hispanics. NHBA, founded and incorporated in 1994, is managed by an Executive Board, formed by students from the University of Texas at Austin, and is supported by a National Council comprised of Representatives from our Charter Schools across the nation.

The Latin Business Association (LBA) was established in 1976 as private, not-for-profit membership association dedicated to serving the needs of Latin-owned businesses throughout the United States, and has swiftly become the largest such organization in the country.

The Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) of the United States Department of Commerce is the only Federal agency specifically created to encourage the creation, growth, and expansion of minority-owned businesses in the United States.

TAMACC promotes the growth, development and success of local Hispanic chambers of commerce and serves as the leading advocate of Hispanic business in Texas.

The San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, is the advocate in building a better San Antonio through the growth and prosperity of the Hispanic business community, the Hispanic professional and trade relations with Mexico.

To serve as a business resource which provides quality service to members and advocates the economic benefits of diversity.

Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce will be a leader of local efforts to strengthen our business climate, promote educational excellence and foster business growth and opportunities.

In July of 1973, 25 committed Hispanic Austinites spearheaded an effort to incorporate a Chamber of Commerce that understood the needs of the Mexican American community of Austin. The Mexican-American Chamber of Commerce of Travis County (MACC) was the result of these efforts. MACC developed several primary goals it felt would aid the Mexican-American business community. The first goal was to develop basic business and management skills. Secondly, MACC wanted to develop the increased use and control of financial capital by the Mexican-American community. Furthermore, it wanted to infuse humanistic and cultural values into all aspects of business practices.

In June of 1999, HCC officially became Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (GAHCC). This allowed the Chamber to encompass the entire Hispanic business community living and doing business in the Austin metropolitan area.

Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce represents a broad array of organizations. Currently, the Chamber has approximately 700 active members representing corporations, small businesses, individuals, non-profit agencies, business associates and governmental agencies. The Chamber is led by a 20 member volunteer Board of Directors who serve the membership through various professional programs and committees. The Committees include, Economic Development, Membership, Marketing, Advocacy/Legislative, International Trade, Education, Finance/Audit and Leadership (Hispanic Austin Leadership, HAL). GAHCC has several departments that assist its membership. The Economic Development department offers business development programs (e.g. SBA loan application packages). Educational courses are offered to enhance entrepreneurship, small business planning, access credit and financial accountability. The Tourism and Convention Services (TC) component assists conventioneers and tourists planning to visit Austin for business and for pleasure travel. TC works hand in hand with Austin's hospitality industry to increase hotel/motel tax revenues for the City of Austin. Business and Membership Services is a department that works closely with all the membership to ensure that they receive information and access to suppliers/vendors. The GAHCC's Community Liaison works as a resource person who plans and implements all special events for the GAHCC.

Over the past 28 years GAHCC strategic initiatives have changed to keep up with the changing economics of the Austin Metro area. GAHCC's role will always be helping businesses through the increased participation of the Hispanic community. GAHCC continues its leadership role in the community by partnering with city, county, state and national leaders to implement projects and programs that promote the "New Diverse Majority," in which the growing Hispanic population will play a major role.

To develop partnerships with Corporations, Entrepreneurs, Institutions and Community Leaders in an effort to "Build Bridges of Opportunity" for Hispanics and other minority groups in the community.

The McAllen Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is always working towards providing each member with increased benefits that will strengthen each members business and the Chamber as a whole.

United States Small Hispanic Chamber of the Year 2000 Award Recipient
Hispanic Connect Salutes McAllen Hispanic Chamber

Serve the business community by developing positive changes through active participation in education, leadership, public affairs, and creating business opportunities for our members.

Serve as the official Hispanic business liaison between the business community and the community at large

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Wheatsville Grocery
3101 Guadalupe
Austin TX 78705
512-478-2667
Open Daily
9 am to 11 pm

Harvard Manufacturing Texas (HMT) is a dynamic and rapidly growing company specializing in electronic assembly, test, distribution, and installation services in the telecom arena. HMT supports the telecommunications industry in the following product sectors:

P.C. a Certified Public Accounting firm, offers its clients a full range of accounting, audit, tax, and management consulting services. The firm is a regional firm with offices in Austin and San Antonio, Texas. The firm consists of 20 professionals. The firm clientele is quite diversified, ranging from entrepreneurs and closely held companies to governmental and not-for-profit organizations. The firm strives to achieve a prestigious position in the business and professional community through the quality of services it renders.

HispanB2B, a MeritSpan Holdings company, becomes the first digital marketplace built on the newest technology, Microsoft Enterprise 2000 platform and Clarus eMarket. HispanB2B, a first-mover in corporate supplier diversity initiatives, is an impartial market maker that aggregates the Fortune 500 and the U.S.'s fastest growing business segment, Hispanic-owned business.

The new Microsoft.NET-powered online market brings Hispanic and Fortune 500 businesses together on the cutting edge of technology, allowing organizations to build more efficient e-commerce relationships with small business suppliers in multiple business sectors. HispanB2B brings supplier diversity initiatives into the new economy, serving both its buyer and supplier members.

	Straight From The Hood Eight years ago, some high school students and a rockin’ biology teacher in South Central Los Angeles took a weed-infested section of land behind the school’s football field and turned it into a garden to help feed needy people in their community. Today, these guys are riding high with Food From the ‘Hood, the food products company they started, and they’re sending teen ambassadors across the world to help others duplicate their success.
	Dodgin' Debt Your very own credit card...how cool is that? Can you imagine? You’d have it all! New CDs, new sound system, fly clothes, thousands of dollars of debt, bill collectors, bad credit...Debtor’s prison, anyone? Uh oh, that idea just took a swan dive into shallow water. Credit cards are awesome - if you remember that you have to pay the money back. All that cool new stuff doesn’t come free.
	Seaside CEO Big bucks, big boss, big office with a view…of the beach. Welcome to the world of 17-year-old Jayson Meyer of Daytona Beach, FL, who runs one of the hottest tech solutions companies around – Meyer Technologies. Sounds pretty good, huh? Sounds even better when you add a sweet new Lexus and his company logo attached to the elevator button that takes clients to his third floor office.
	Candy Girl What do MTV’s House of Style, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Jennifer Aniston have in common? They all love Candy. We’re not talking the edible kind either. These big-time babes love nail polish and cosmetics from one of the hottest companies around - Hard Candy. Founder and fashion plate, 27-year-old Dineh Mohajer, recently talked with YoungBiz about her business journey from terror to trendsetter.

EZCertify™ is dedicated to assisting women, minority, handicapped and other qualified individuals to successfully apply for and receive certification in the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Business Development and Small, Disadvantaged Business Programs.

The principals and associates of EZCertify.com™ are intimately familiar with the 8(a)BD and SDB certification processes. They have been successful 8(a)BD and SDB business owners and executives. Also on staff are former SBA officials who were directly responsible for reviewing and approving or rejecting 8(a)BD application packages. EZCertify.com™ also retains lawyers who specialize in minority business enterprises and who are expert in the nuances of the SBA certification processes.

Together, the EZCertify.com™ team has more than 100 years of relevant experience in the area of small and disadvantaged business.

Our entire team at EZCertify.com™ is of the single mind that the 8(a)BD and the new SDB certification processes are very complex, are fraught with the likelihood of "application rejection" for merely technical reasons, and tend to intimidate rather than attract otherwise qualified small businesses to one or both of these important, potentially lucrative SBA programs.

The application package and required attachments for both of these programs present a daunting challenge. To help potential applicants, EZCertify.com™ has taken a "TurboTax*-like" approach to a cumbersome, time-consuming, often confusing process. Users of the EZCertify.com™ CD-ROM software are encouraged to engage initially in a FREE structured interview, which breaks down the application completion process into its basic elements.

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EZCertify.com™ is not a product of Intuit, Inc.

For those users who elect to attack the forms without the benefit of the structured interview, EZCertify.com™ will soon be simplifying this process as well. For example, the requisite forms are available from us in a format that permits their completion on your own PC. That means you don’t have to print out, copy and finally type or hand-write your responses to hundreds of questions. (By the way, do you even still own a typewriter? Know where it is?). We by-pass the need for you to fill out the often ambiguous forms themselves. EZCertify.com's™ software does this for you.

The professionals at EZCertify.com™ know from experience that not everyone who desires to apply for 8(a)BD or SDB certification is qualified to participate because of the stringent regulations that govern these programs. The regulations are lengthy, complex and leave large areas open to subjective interpretation. Because of this, EZCertify™ has developed a quick, easy and inexpensive test that is based on years of observing and analyzing why 8(a)BD and SDB applicants fail to be certified. This pre-qualifying test is in the form of a concise interview, because we don’t want to waste your time, energy or money if you stand little chance of being certified for either or both of the SBA programs. It’s better to learn this sooner rather than later, after you’ve expended months of effort, thousands of dollars and lots of psychic energy on a futile quest.

We at EZCertify.com™ also know that no two 8(a)BD or SDB applicants are alike. Each applicant and their business concern is unique, and may not (in rare cases) fit the mold of EZCertify.com’s™ software. To help these types of companies and individuals, we provide a fast, easily accessible and inexpensive means by which you can receive expert answers to what may be a unique or particularly troublesome question.

In such circumstances, applicants may email one or more questions to EZCertify.com™ for a considered response. We will respond to you, either by telephone or return email, within 24 hours. Although EZCertify.com™ does not purport to provide legal advice or assistance, we will upon request refer you to a number of distinguished law firms that specialize in small and disadvantaged business issues. However, our own experience has exposed us to thousands of applications and situations that provide the answers that likely would correspond to your own situation.

The EZCertify.com™ team is pleased to see that women and other non-minority individuals who can claim social and economic disadvantage are now encouraged to apply for both the 8(a)BD and SDB Programs. It’s about time! However, we also recognize that while this "invitation" might have been sent, accessing these programs remains such an arduous task that many are likely to avoid the process because the burden of proving social and economic disadvantage is still far too onerous.

That is precisely why the EZCertify.com™ method includes tips, examples, definitions and cautions to assist all applicants. Women, handicapped and other non-minority individuals who are socially and economically disadvantaged now can tell their story in a compelling way that meets the strict standards found in the SBA regulations.

In brief, EZCertify.com’s™ mission is to assist every qualified small business in America to seek and secure 8(a)BD and/or SDB certification for the smallest time, energy and financial investment as possible.

The Hispanic Business Initiative Fund of Greater Orlando, Inc. (HBIF) provides bilingual technical assistance to the Hispanic business community. Our goal is to enhance opportunities for Hispanic businesses by providing them with the necessary tools to build successful enterprises. HBIF accomplishes this by matching Hispanic businesses with existing private and public technical programs and by providing technical assistance services not currently accessible due to cultural and language barriers. Some of the services we offer are:

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National Associations and US Chambers	United States Small Hispanic Chamber of the Year 2000
National Businesses Catering to the Hispanic Market	Mcallen Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Texas Business Associations & Chambers of Commerce	Professional Associations and Groups
Communications and Media	Central Texas Businesses
Hispanic Market	Cultural Diversity Products and Speakers