Verizon Small Business Series
Verizon
COVID, Digital Presence
Small businesses need a range of support as they adapt to an increasingly digital economy, often including basic digital literacy, understanding of digital tools, and resources to help them implement practices related to digital marketing, online presence, operational efficiencies, online financing, etc.
Programming includes:
- The Importance of Small Businesses to the Economy and Society with NYC Council Member and Chair of the Small Business Committee, Julie Menin
- Fireside Chat: Trends, Challenges, and Moving Forward Post Pandemic with SBA Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman and Rose Stuckey Kirk, Chief Corporate Social Responsibility Officer, Verizon
- Focus on Small Business NYC Interest with Rep. Nydia Velázquez (NY-07)
- Roundtable: Helping Prepare NYC Small Business for Digital Readiness through Cross-Sector Partnerships with
- SBA Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman
- Rose Stuckey Kirk, Chief Corporate Social Responsibility Officer, Verizon
- Jim Doyle, President, Business Forward
- Blondel Pinnock, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
- Carey King, Director, Uptown Grand Central
- Diana Larrazabal, Aroma d’Angel
- Linda Baran, Staten Island Chamber of Commerce
- Lisa Sorin, Bronx Chamber of Commerce
- Marlene Cintron, SBA Regional Administrator, Region 2
- Oma Holloway, Bridge Street Development Corporation
- Quenia Abreu, New York Women’s Chamber of Commerce
- Randy Peers, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce
- Sam Berg, Next Street