Small Business Roundtables

Welcome to the Small Business Roundtable Resource webpage.

We will be using this page to help the small business community stay informed on COVID-19 actions that impact small businesses, economic and workforce development activities, and other elements of inclusive communities.

Small Business Roundtable Background Materials

During the course of the conference calls we will be referring to documents and links on this page and the JEDE COVID-19 Resource Page.

• Materials from the March 19, 2020, Small Business Roundtable

• Materials from the April 2, 2020, Small Business Roundtable

• Materials for the April 16, 2020, Small Business Roundtable

• Materials from the April 30, 2020, Small Business Roundtable

• Materials from the May 18, 2020, Small Business Roundtable

• Materials for the June 9, 2020, Small Business Roundtable

• Materials for the July 9, 2020, Small Business Roundtable

• Materials for the July 23, 2020, Small Business Roundtable

• Materials for the August 20, 2020, Small Business Roundtable (information available on or before noon on August)

Keep Informed

• The Small Business Advocate's web-page includes links where businesses can submit questions, as The Advocate’s Entrepreneurship Task Force has launched a series of COVID-19 Rapid Response Virtual Sessions.  Information on current and prior webinars is available.

• The Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) is hosting a COVID-19 webpage, which is a great jumping-off place for finding useful business resources, including access to COVID-19 Impact Videos and the GO-Biz weekly webinar of current topics.  GO-Biz is also hosting GO-Biz podcasts and distributing a weekly online newsletter.

• JEDE is aggregating coronavirus information of interest to small businesses, economic and workforce professionals, and other business and community development stakeholders.  This information is published several times a week in a JEDE COVID-19 Update and distributed to individuals and organizations on our interested parties email list and posted online.  If you would like to be included on the JEDE interested parties email list, please email the committee at ajed@asm.ca.gov.

• JEDE is tracking and posting information on COVID-19-related webinars.  This information is also included in our emailed JEDE COVID-19 Update.  If you have webinars you would like included, please email Ben at benjamin.warheit@asm.ca.gov before 11:00 am in order to be listed in the next update.