The Center is dedicated to fulfilling the education mission of Spanish American Merchants Association focusing on six key strategies of management, financial, human resources, technology, health, and safety issues. ELDC is the small business’s premier provider of educational resources, material, and training in English/Spanish for small business owners in the state of Connecticut. The Center offers the following Programs:
Pasaporte Computer Training Program
SAMA has developed and implemented a computer-training program specially geared to Hispanic and minority owned businesses located in the greater of Hartford area, New Haven area and Willimantic Region. The computer training program begins with the introduction to Computer and continue with a basic approach to understanding the basic of baking online, while covering some of the most popular software; then the program goes into an intensive study of MS Office-a popular software program; and finally ends with the merchant learning how to connect onto the Internet information highway. The classes are in English and Spanish languages. |
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Winner of 2007 Audrey Nelson Community Development Achievement Award by the National Community Development Association in Washington DC
In this program, to start you off, we will introduce you the basic concepts of marketing. We will start with the important of know you personality with a test of Myers-Briggs that help you to understand the important of building profitable customer relationships. The aim of marketing is to develop a value for customers and to capture value in return. In the following outline we will offer you the more important of knowledge that you need and you will able to use in your business to capture and return you customer for long term relationship. |
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ServSafe Certification Training
In the state of Connecticut serving safe food is not an option it is an obligation of all restaurant and foodservice professionals. In this training you have made a significant commitment to promoting food safety. You are about to gain knowledge and skills from the industry standard in food safety training. The ServSafe training provide accurate, up to date information for all levels of employees on all aspects of handling food, from receiving and storing to preparing and serving – information that you and your employees need, to be part of the food safety team. |
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Construction OSHA Training
This program is needed in order to provide education, information and knowledge to Hispanics that work in the construction field. The need to offer this training is Spanish is critical in that it is within this area where the majority of the Hispanic community is hard presses to find training on the topics of health and safety in the Spanish Language. We have found that the majority of Hispanic employees that work in the construction field, have significant limitations with the English language or have a level of education that is much lower that the majority of the general population and they do not fully understand the risks involved in their field of work. This program would serve as much the employer in providing the information on how to improve safety in the workplace by reducing the incidence o injuries, illnesses and deaths. The principal goal of our efforts is to ensure that all worker return home from their place of work safe and sound. |
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Energy & Technology Training Program
The purpose of this training is to help you to go from a good idea to a better business. Many business owners want to have accurate books without spending days or a week entering historical transactions in the regular accounting books that the reason that we bring to your business the technology. If your business generates many invoices, bills, checks, you probably need this training to be more capable to do your accounting system.
The Energy & Technology Training Program provide accurate, up to date information for all levels of your business on all aspects of management, safe energy, human resources, accounting procedures, QuickBooks, Insurances, and Point of Sale– information that you and your employees needed, to manager your business as part of the team. |
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The Tips for On Premise program is designed to teach participants acceptable standards of practice for serving alcohol. |
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The purpose of this training is to help you to continue improve the basic accounting to advance accounting continue using QuickBook Program more effective. |
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Construction Accounting Training
This program is developing for contractor in the construction feel. The objective of this program is to provide the necessary skills is how to understand the budget, how to pricing and to management the financial. |
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Entrepreneur Small Business Training
The Entrepreneurship Training Program (ETP) seeks to develop management skills of individuals interesting in starting their own businesses, especially women and teenage children. The main purpose of the program is to create economic self-sufficiency and jobs within distressed, predominantly Latino areas in the State of Connecticut and strengthens the participants by promoting its collaborations in run business enterprises. 95% of the businesses promoted will be located in the target area, and 100% of the jobs created will be filled by residents of the target area, including at risk youths. |
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Hartford Hospital Merchants Health Fair
Educating Small Business Owners to Better Health: Health and its related complexities, has become a major economic and financial issue in the minority small business community. That why SAMA has created the Health Fair for merchants and their employee. After two year of existing we provide services more that 250 merchants. |
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The program offers several loan programs that are designed to generate economic growth and stability in the cities of Hartford, Meriden and New Britain, New Haven. All SAMA revolving loan programs are designed to encourage growth and stimulate small business and mid-size industries resulting in the creation and retention of jobs in the cities that it services |
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This network offer the opportunity for women to be gather together to received took sans skills to be more successful in business and to grow their network.
Latina Factoids
Latinas control 39% of the 1.4 million companies owned by minority women in the United States, which generate nearly $147 billion in sales.
*Center for Women's Business Research, November 2004
More than one-third (34.9%) of all Hispanic owned firms are owned by women. Hispanic women-owned firms employ 18.5% of the workers in all Hispanic-owned firms and generate 16.3% of the sales.
*Center for Business Women's Business Research, November 2004
U.S. Department of Labor: Working women Latinas are the fastest growing small business in the U.S. with a phenomenal growth rate of 114 percent over the last five years. |
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