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SBANE's Newsletter
April 2015
Drum Roll Please! 
SBANE is proud to announce the Finalists for our 2015 New England Innovation Awards! 

In the Non-Profit Category:

Adoption & Foster Care Mentoring

College Diabetes Network

CropCircle Kitchen

Safe and Sound: A Sandy Hook Initiative

The Home Base Program

The New England Center for Children


In the For-Profit Category:

Affirmed Networks

AIRMAR Technology Corporation

BioDirection, Inc.

Comark

Convergent Dental

Drizly

Gamma Medica, Inc.

HALO Maritime Defense Systems Inc.

Medrobotics Corporation

Mevion Medical Systems Inc.

NeuroMetrix, Inc.

OYO Sportstoys Inc

Rapid Micro Biosystems

Rifiniti

SBANE extends a sincere congratulations to all Finalists and wishes them luck in Phase Two of the competition, happening on April 9th. The eight winners will be announced at the Evening of Innovation Gala on May 6th. 


From the Chair: 
SBANE and NSBA
Bob Shea

The National Small Business Association (NSBA) is the nation's oldest non-partisan small business advocacy organization.  Over 75 years ago SBANE and several other small business organizations across the country helped create NSBA to establish a permanent Washington presence for small business advocacy.  NSBA is a partner organization to SBANE, and through this partnership NSBA serves as an external government affairs resource for SBANE members on the federal level.

 

NSBA works with SBANE and other small business organizations across the nation to develop and pursue an agenda that furthers the interests of entrepreneurship and small business ownership.  Just as SBANE represents members' interests here in New England, NSBA represents your interests in Washington. 

 

SBANE has a long history of high level participation in NSBA.  Past SBANE Chair Larry Nannis recently served as the Chair of NSBA's Board of Trustees, as have a number of past SBANE Chairs before Larry.  The current NSBA Board of Trustees includes three recent members of SBANE's Board of Directors as well as SBANE's present Chair (yes, yours truly).

 

If you want to have some level of participation in (or simply follow) the actions of the federal government as they affect small business, I encourage you to activate your NSBA membership.  Please know that as an SBANE member you are entitled to the benefits of NSBA membership at no extra cost.  You will have access to all NSBA benefits, including (1) receiving the Weekly Advocate, containing NSBA's updates and political analysis, (2) use of NSBA's online Action Center, where you can engage with elected officials on issues, (3) participation in monthly telephone conferences held by NSBA's various issues committees, and (4) attendance at NSBA's high level events in Washington, which typically include presentations by Members of Congress and administrative officials.  I am looking forward to NSBA's 2015 Washington Presentation on June 1-2.

 

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the SBANE-NSBA partnership.  Also, information concerning our affiliation with NSBA is available under the Members tab on SBANE's website.


Robert M. Shea

Chair, Board of Directors

Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton, P.C.

rshea@mbbp.com


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HR. Live Q & A   

SBANE and Insight Performance are proud to offer HR. Live, a new human resource service exclusive to SBANE members. Here is the answer to a frequently asked question: 

 

Question: When I interview candidates for open positions, can I ask them if they're able to work our long hours?

 

Answer:  If you word it correctly you can get all the information you need.  You should layout the hours required for the job and ask if they are able to work those hours - "We put in 10 hours days a couple of days per week given our customers in different time zones, is this something you're able to accommodate?"  This way you're not specifically digging about "outside commitments" that could be construed as digging in to ethnic/religious or other types of information which could be considered discriminatory.

 

About HR. Live

Do you have HR questions that need to be answered? SBANE members may call 781-381-5126, send an email, or complete a request form to have basic HR questions addressed by the HR professionals of Insight Performance Inc., a human resource consulting firm based in Dedham, Massachusetts. To take advantage of this member-only paid benefit, call or click today! HR. Live will make every effort to respond within the same business day.