• Webinar Tuesday with VI SBDC. Join SBA USVI Senior Area Manager Wayne Huddleston and Outreach & Marketing Specialist Lisa Chamely-Aqui for updates from the SBA. The presentations will be followed by a Q&A session. Click here to register for all sessions for dates ranging from 2/2 until 6/29 at 10 a.m. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
  • Disaster Recovery and Resiliency: What’s Next and Where Do We Go from Here? This disaster recovery and resiliency series will provide an opportunity for businesses to learn proven strategies to weather and recover from changing regulatory requirements, economic realities, and customer expectations. Join us for an eight-part training series led by veteran retail business strategist Marc Willson on Wednesday afternoons from 2/3 to 2/24 and 3/17 to 4/7. This engaging series will help businesses impacted by COVID-19 plan for what’s next. In these highly interactive sessions – featuring proven strategies businesses around the nation are applying NOW – participants will explore essential business considerations and best practices for navigating uncertainty, including everyday operations, financials, safety, sales, marketing and community. Register here.
  • UVI Creativity Lab Informational Webinar: How can they assist small businesses during COVID-19 and beyond? - Webinar takes place on Feb. 9 at 4:30 p.m. and is hosted by VI SBDC and the University of the Virgin Islands. The Creativity Lab is designed to foster a culture of Creativity both at UVI, and in the wider community of the USVI. They deliver services that introduce, encourage and enhance creative techniques and thinking in the workplace. The Creativity Lab’s team will discuss topics such as: Why creativity?; The UVI model of creativity in the workplace; and the importance of creativity training for small businesses in the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental vulnerabilities and economic downturn in the USVI. Join us for the informative presentation which will include a question and answer session. Register here.
  • Join us for a Basic Bookkeeping Webinar Series 3/4-4/1. This webinar series will be presented by VI SBDC Business Consultant Carmen Acevedo Adams, who will provide you with basic bookkeeping knowledge so you can: Understand basic accounting terminology; Identify the differences between the cash and accrual accounting methods; Keep track of your business by becoming familiar with accounts payable and receivables; Use a journal and general ledger to document business financials; Utilize the balance sheet; Identify different types of financial statements; Understand the payroll process and employer responsibilities; Uncover the reasons for and actually create a budget, and become familiar with internal and external auditing. Register here.
Please join VIEDA has we host the Disability Rights Center of the Virgin Islands (DRCVI) on Feb. 3 at 10 a.m. to learn more about reasonable accommodations during COVID-19. You will learn effective "virtual" ways to respond to a request for an accommodation, documentation of disability and various ways to provide reasonable accommodations (i.e., telework reassignment or modified work schedule). Small businesses will leave with a wealth of information to help implement the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) during this difficult time.

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