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The Natural Products Expo West is the event to discover product trends that will rule 2022 – 23, along with the newest products designed to keep you healthy, fit and on your game.
Attended by more than 85,000 over four days with 3,500 exhibiting companies, everyone from the media to bloggers to ingredient suppliers and retailers attend the event looking for new products, connecting with company owners and discovering new companies looking to shape the future of healthy products.
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) continues to support Hawaii’s small businesses as they recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Please see the details on their various relief options.
You can also find information about local services offered by the SBA Hawaii District Office here.
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Find resources and opportunities to work remotely from Hawaii, or to hire workers in Hawaii to work remotely for your national or global business.
Hawaii Defense Economy
Military-related spending in Hawaii is second only to tourism and contributes to thousands of jobs. DBEDT is committed to understanding the importance of DoD spending and to fostering resiliency efforts should DoD spending change.
Community Based Economic Development (CBED)
CBED offers loans to eligible small businesses that support economic development in their communities. Also grants available to non-profits for technical assistance in applying for federal grants!
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In addition to sponsoring some first-time participants at this event, DBEDT is offering all exhibitors a training session on Trade Show Exhibiting 101. Featured are speakers from the Patsy Mink Center for Business and Leadership and the YWCA Oahu. Links to this and other training sessions for exhibitors can be found here.
Read More DBEDT Supports the Made in Hawaii Festival, November 11-14, 2021.
Inner City Capital Connections (ICCC) is a tuition-free program designed to help small business owners.
COMING VIRTUALLY TO HAWAI'I ON OCTOBER 12TH AND 14TH!
Thanks to the support of Kaiser Permanente, the ICCC program will take place virtually in Hawai'i over two half-days on the morning of Tuesday, October 12th from 8:00 AM - 12 Noon Hawaii Time and the morning of Thursday, October 14th from 8:00 AM -12:30 PM Hawaii Time. Learn more about the ICCC Hawai'i Program here.
Read More Inner City Capital Connections Now Recruiting for 2021-2022 Hawaii Program
The Office of Economic Revitalization of the City and County of Honolulu is offering the following two webinars to help businesses with safety systems to manage COVID-19: Webinar: Keeping Your Workplace Safe with Wellness Tracker The ALTRES Foundation has created Wellness Tracker to reduce and prevent potential COVID-19 exposures in the workplace, while safely helping […]
Read More OER Webinars on Managing Workplace Safety to Mitigate COVID-19
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman announced major enhancements to the COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, a federal disaster relief loan designed to better serve and support our small business communities still reeling from the pandemic, especially hard-hit sectors such as restaurants, gyms, and hotels. The SBA is ready to receive new applications immediately from small businesses looking to take advantage of these new policy changes.
Read More COVID EIDL Program Enhanced to Aid Small Businesses Challenged by Delta VariantSUCCESS STORIES
Success stories about businesses that have benefited from BDSD programs.