The US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation (USPAACC) today outlined the steps it is utilizing for a $500,000 grant provided through Wells Fargo’s Open for Business Fund to further USPAACC’s ongoing mission of helping Asian American businesses emerge stronger from the pandemic.
Wells Fargo’s Open for Business Fund provides support for nonprofit organizations that serve diverse small businesses with a focus on African American, Latino, Asian American, American Indian, and Alaska Native entrepreneurs, among others. Through the program, Wells Fargo engages CDFIs and nonprofits to help businesses manage the economic impacts of COVID-19, providing needed assistance in access to capital, technical assistance, and long-term recovery and resiliency support.
USPAACC is utilizing the funds to provide targeted small businesses with specially designed technical assistance training and advisory services on financial literacy, management capacity, digital empowerment, marketing, and promotion strategies, and how to recruit, train and retain employees, respectively.
USPAACC is utilizing the funding to benefit small businesses through:
In November, USPAACC National President and CEO Susan Au Allen hosted a Fireside Chat with Charlie Scharf, Wells Fargo CEO discussing the initiative. Their conversation is available at https://youtu.be/vvD4n4eS7Ro.
“Wells Fargo’s Open for Business Fund Grant Program is a terrific initiative laser-focused on making a direct impact helping diverse small businesses recover from COVID. I thank Wells Fargo, and CEO Charlie Scharf, for their generosity and continued commitment to assisting small businesses. USPAACC is using this grant funding to help educate, train, develop, and grow Pan Asian American/AAPI small businesses, especially those hit hardest by COVID-19, financially and personally. We look forward to continuing our over 19-year and productive partnership with Wells Fargo in supporting and strengthening our community’s small businesses that are so vital to America’s economy,” said Susan Au Allen, USPAACC National President and CEO.
Founded in 1984 in the nation’s Capital, the US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation (USPAACC) is the most established and effective national nonprofit nonpartisan organization representing all Asian American and Asian American-related groups in business, sciences, the arts, sports, education, public and community services. Our mission is to promote and propel economic growth and job creation by opening doors to business and professional opportunities for Asian Americans and their partners in corporations, government at the federal, state and local levels, and the small, minority and diverse business communities. For 35 years, USPAACC has served and will continue to serve as the unified voice for equal opportunity in business for Asian Americans, as the gateway to corporate and government contracts, to Asian American suppliers, and information about Asian Americans and the Asia-Pacific and Indian Subcontinent markets.
Our signature annual thought-leadership programs include: College Hallmark Scholarship Program that began in 1989, One-on-One Prescheduled Business Matchmaking Meetings in 1998, Supplier Diversity & Procurement Leadership Caucus in 2004, Federal Contracting Town Hall Meetings in 2005, Fast 100 Asian American Businesses in 2008, Business Executive Coaching: ReadySetGrow in 2011, Chief Procurement Officers Forum in 2011, What’s Your Pitch Innovation Competitions in 2015, Chief Technology & Information Officers Forum in 2017, and Corporate Employee Business Resource Group Leadership Caucus in 2017.
Headquartered in Washington DC, USPAACC reaches Asian American businesses nationwide through regional chapters in California, Texas, New York, Georgia, Illinois and the Washington DC-Maryland-Virginia National Capital Area.
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USPAACC’s Business Express Program took place on October 10, 2023, as an ambitious hybrid learning experience with eight physical locations and virtual attendees across the country.