2014 Year in Review

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“Get in the Game!”

January 2014

▪ Governor Inslee signed a proclamation creating “Minority and Women-owned Business Week” on Jan. 20-24.

▪ Tabor Members Join the Chamber, Business and Public Sector Leaders at the New Herman MckinneyEconomic Empowerment Forum

February 2014

▪ Tabor and OMWBE support SB 6426—a bill that would increase the funding for the Linked Deposit program. The program allows state certified firms to apply for loans that may have a reduced interest rate.

▪ Commerce held its first meeting of the Minority Business Roundtable Advisory Group. The Ethnic Commission Directors were present along with key voices representing our minority business community of which four were Tabor 100 members.

▪ May Ed Murray and Seattle City Council members signed legislation that will rename 19th Avenue from East Union to East Madison streets to Rev. Dr. S. McKinney Ave. (This is an honorary street name.)

▪ Tabor welcomes new Vice President, Brian Sims.

March 2014▪ Tabor attends the Regional Contracting

Forum.

▪ We met with the Interim Director at SDOT to talk about their inclusion plans, and have met with the Mayor’s Office.

▪ Ollie had a phone conversation with JobyShimomura, Governor’s Chief of Staff.

▪ Had a dinner meeting with Transportation Secretary Lynn Peterson, Deputy Chief of Staff, Kelly Wicker, Brenda Nambi, Bob Armstead and Frank Lemos.

▪ We have also had meetings with Vulcan, and the OMWBE Advisory Committee.

April 2014

▪ Tabor holds annual Membership Orientation.

▪ Ollie Garrett attends, by invitation only, Walmart Stakeholder Summit.

▪ Mayor Murray Signs Executive Order Strengthening Equity in City Contracting.

May 2014

▪ Tabor holds “First Friday Business

Networking” happy hour.

▪ Cynthia Andrews is hired as Tabor’s

interim Administrator.

▪ Government Affairs Chair, Frank

Lemos is awarded The U.S. Small

Business Administration (SBA) 2014

Washington Minority Champion for

Small Business.

▪ Jacqui Mayo, Tabor Treasurer for the

last five years, moves and has to

resign from the board.

June 2014

▪ Vulcan, Tabor 100, and the

Community Get in the Game at our

“Shakin’ it Up” Business TradeShow

with over 250 attendees and 45

WMBE vendors.

July 2014

▪ Fatuma Mahmud, who graduated from Garfield

HS, won a $1,000.00 scholarship in the name of

late Seattle area architect Mel Streeter, a Tabor

100 member and past Chair of the Education

Committee.

▪ 100 attendees participated in the 2014 Minority

Business Policy Workshop, a grassroots effort

made possible by community partners, including

Tabor 100, the Washington State Ethnic

Commissions, and involved state agencies

including the Washington State Department of

Enterprise Services (DES), the Washington State

Office of Minority and Women’s Business

Enterprises (OMWBE) and the Washington

Department of Transportation.

August 2014

▪ Ollie Garrett sat on a panel at the 21st Century Challenges and Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurs in the Northwest, an official roundtable chaired by U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell.

▪ Henry Yates is Tabor 100’s new Public Affairs Chair.

▪ Tabor member, Albert Shen is appointed by the Obama Administration as the Minority Business Development Agency’s National Deputy Director.

September 2014

▪ 15th Annual Captain’s of Industry Gala. Collette Holt gave the keynote and entertainment was provided by Chandler Williams.

▪ Tabor was awarded a $25,000 grant from The Walmart Foundation and the Washington State Giving Advisory Council.

October 2014

▪ City of Seattle issues a proclamation that October 4, 2014 be Tabor 100 Anniversary Day.

November & December 2014

▪ Tabor Member, Henry Yates is serving as OEO’s interim DBE liaison officer.

▪ James Evans is the new Assistant Director of Construction and A&E Diversity at the University of Washington.

▪ Ollie Garrett is Given Senator Maria Cantwell’s Women of Valor Award.