| Small Business for Affordable Health Care is a coalition of small business owners and managers from across California, representing a variety of types and sizes of businesses, who believe that comprehensive healthcare reform is long overdue. The status quo is unacceptable. Small business owners are having a more difficult time than ever ensuring that their families and their employees have access to affordable health care, which, in turn, impedes the ability of entrepreneurs to start new businesses and manage them effectively and efficiently. |
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| Small Business for Affordable Health Care is a project of Small Business Majority, a California-based non-profit small business advocacy organization. |
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| John Arensmeyer - Founder & CEO, Small Business Majority, Sausalito |
| Prior to launching Small Business Majority, John was Founder & CEO of ACI Interactive where he spent 12 years building and managing a 35-person company that developed and licensed successful, award-winning, e-commerce and multimedia products. |
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| Celia Canfield - Steering Committee Chair, Tendo Communications, San Francisco |
| Celia is the Co-Founder of Tendo Communications, a marketing communications company that develops content-rich programs for global Fortune 500 companies. |
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| Auday Arabo - Neighborhood Market Association, La Mesa |
| Neighborhood Market Association (NMA) is a non-profit mutual benefit corporation dedicated to empowering independent retailers in the food and alcohol beverage industry throughout California, Nevada, Arizona and other States on the West Coast of the United States of America. |
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| Cecile Bereal - RMA Management Alliance, San Diego |
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| David Chiu - Grassroots Enterprise, San Francisco |
| Grassroots Enterprise provides Internet-based communications technologies and services to support the public affairs, public relations and communications needs of organizations and companies seeking to build movements around causes and products. |
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| Paula Fiscal - SF Investment Development, San Francisco |
| SF Investment Development is a full service business development firm specializing in strategic marketing and urban development. |
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| Renee Fraser - Fraser Communications, Santa Monica |
| Fraser Communications provides traditional advertising and non-traditional, innovative, interruptive/guerilla advertising, including market research (qualitative and quantitative), brand strategy development, media strategy and planning (traditional and non-traditional), interactive strategy and implementation, and public relations counsel, including tactical and strategic governmental and media relations. |
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| Bill Heller - Future Air, San Jose |
| Future Air is a design/build mechanical contractor with an 18 year history of providing quality installation and service of specialty air conditioning, heating and ventilation systems in commercial buildings. They pay 100% of medical insurance for their 30 employees and feel it is important to contribute to employee stability at work and home. |
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| Clark Kepler - Kepler's Book Store, Menlo Park |
| For fifty-one years, Kepler's Books has been one of the Peninsula's premier independent bookstores and is now one of its last. Part of the heart and soul of Menlo Park, Kepler's is known for its knowledgeable staff, outstanding author events, broad selection and its commitment to the community. |
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| Rich Leib - San Diego |
| Rich Leib is an entrepreneur who has launched and managed a variety of successful business enterprises based in the San Diego area. |
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| Beatriz Leyva-Cutler - Bay Area Hispano Institute for Advancement, Inc. (BAHIA), Berkeley |
| Bay Area Hispano Institute for Advancement, Inc. provides quality bilingual early to school age care and education to children and families in Alameda county, with a particular focus on Hispanic/Latino low income families. |
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| Cathy Caserza Light - Assessment Leaders LLC. & Business Builders LLC., Gilroy |
| Assessment Leaders is a workforce solutions company dedicated to helping organizations of all sizes and in any industry, identify, attract, retain and advance their top performers. |
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| Sue Malone - Small Business Consultant, San Ramon |
| Sue Malone provides management and financial consulting to small business nationwide. |
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| Sergio Raddavero - WCBS Inc. (cleaning service), San Carlos |
| WCBS Inc. is a small janitorial and carpet cleaning service. |
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| Bill Reuter - Reuter Design, San Anselmo |
| Reuter Design creates effective strategic communications that help clients achieve their objectives. |
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| Dorothy Prior Rose - Mommie Helen's Bakery, Colton |
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| Anneke Seley - Phone Works, Alameda |
| Phone Works, a professional services company, has helped over 250 clients design and implement innovative sales strategies by building or improving inside sales groups via predictable, measurable sales processes that deliver optimized productivity, accelerated results and increased revenues. |
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| Richard Silver - Silverstone, San Francisco |
| Richard Silver consults with brands and retailers in women's apparel and hospitality, who wish to "green" their business policies and practices as well as to use sustainable fabrics in the manufacture of their products. |
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| Jeff Spiegel - Creative CPA's, Walnut Creek |
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| Marshall Toplansky - Core Strategies, LLC, Laguna Hills |
| Marshall Toplansky is the Founder and CEO of Core Strategies, a 10-person firm that provides marketing research, and strategy recommendations based on that research, to major corporations and other organizations |
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| Renn Vara - SNP Communications, San Francisco |
| Since 1992, SNP has built its reputation on developing content and skills for two-way communication that hits the mark and makes an impact. They produce clear and timely business critical conversations between corporate leaders and their employees, sales organization, partners, and investors. |
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| Maria Luisa Vela - Alameda Merchants, Los Angeles |
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| Ditty Vella - Ditty Vella Consulting, Sonoma |
| Ditty Vella provides accounting and financial services for small wineries. |
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| Project Coordinator |
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| Clay Harrell - Contact |
| Clay began his career as a small business owner, and has been a California political consultant since 2000, working on a variety of political and legislative campaigns. |
