{"id":3296,"date":"2020-11-19T16:22:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T16:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2020-11-19T16:23:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T16:23:02","slug":"announcement-virtual-minority-small-business-conference-and-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/?p=3296","title":{"rendered":"ANNOUNCEMENT: Virtual Minority Small Business Conference and Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p>Every year, the U.S. Haitian Chamber of Commerce hosts the Haitian American Business Expo and Job Fair to support and promote the Haitian businesses in Massachusetts. Given the current pandemic, and how COVID-19 has affected our minority-owned small businesses, the U.S. Haitian Chamber will be extending its annual Expo to the minority business community at-large. This event will be a replica of the U.S. Haitian Chamber live Expo. Exhibitors and sponsors alike will have the opportunity to interact with their prospective consumers live on <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualminoritysmallbusinessexpo.org\/2021\/\">https:\/\/virtualminoritysmallbusinessexpo.org\/2021\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research shows that minority-owned small businesses have\u00a0been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. This virtual event will serve as a platform to encourage economic equity in Massachusetts and provide minority-owned small businesses with resources and opportunities\u00a0to connect with government agencies and corporations.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Haitian Chamber of Commerce is very pleased to join forces with\u00a0 CommonWealth Kitchen, Small Business Strong, LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce, SBA Massachusetts, Operational Services Division (OSD), Center for Women &amp; Enterprise, Amplify LatinX, Union Capital,Boston Impact Initiative, Authentic Caribbean Foundation and many other organizations to host this Virtual Minority Small Business Conference and Expo on January 14-15, 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_empty_space\">Please feel free to reach out to us if you have questions about the expo: <a href=\"mailto:contact@virtualminoritysmallbusinessexpo.org\">contact@virtualminoritysmallbusinessexpo.org<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, the U.S. Haitian Chamber of Commerce hosts the Haitian American Business Expo and Job Fair to support and promote the Haitian businesses in Massachusetts. Given the current pandemic, and how COVID-19 has affected our minority-owned small businesses, the U.S. Haitian Chamber will be extending its annual Expo to the minority business community at-large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushaitianchamber.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}