{"id":2144,"date":"2010-08-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/08\/10\/delta-state-to-present-business-conference-for-women-and-minorities\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:07:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:07:42","slug":"delta-state-to-present-business-conference-for-women-and-minorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/08\/delta-state-to-present-business-conference-for-women-and-minorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State to present Business Conference for Women and Minorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University&rsquo;s Center for Community and Economic Development, the College of Business, and AmeriCorps*VISTA Project A.S.S.E.T.S., will present the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Annual Business Conference for Women and Minorities from 8 a.m. &ndash; 2:15 p.m., Sept. 8, in the State Room of the H.L. Nowell Union on the campus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is a $15 registration fee for the conference and reservations are required.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Small businesses are the driving force of the American economy providing goods and services as well as creating jobs within the community.&nbsp; This conference will allow participants who are seeking to start or expand their business, the opportunity to obtain expert information and knowledge to reach their goals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Those attending will be able to attend a variety of training seminars such as<i> <\/i>Understanding Money and Credit, Marketing\/Advertising, Business Law<i>, <\/i>and many more.&nbsp; During lunch, attendees will be treated to a panel of experts regarding the Economic Impact of Small Businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Delta State, through the Center for Community and Economic Development, and the College of Business, has a longstanding partnership of recruiting and educating individuals on the importance of investing and entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p>The general public, entrepreneurs and those involved in economic development are invited and encouraged to attend.<\/p>\n<p>You may reserve your seat by contacting the Project ASSETS coordinators, James Starks at (662) 846-4236, <a href=\"mailto:jstarks@deltastate.edu\">jstarks@deltastate.edu<\/a> and Tashondra Jones at (662) 846-4784, <a href=\"mailto:Tashondraj@deltastate.edu\">Tashondraj@deltastate.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University?s Center for Community and Economic Development, the College of Business&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38455,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/38455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}