{"id":339861,"date":"2021-03-09T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T20:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=339861"},"modified":"2021-03-09T06:00:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T20:00:52","slug":"community-briefs-march-9-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/community-briefs-march-9-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Briefs &#8211; March 9, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SINMI sets meeting on Thursday<\/strong><br \/>\nIn celebration of CNMI Women\u2019s Month, the Soroptimist of the Northern Mariana Islands is hosting a program meeting on Thursday, March 11, at the Hyatt Regency Saipan\u2019s Giovanni\u2019s Restaurant, starting at 11:30am.\u00a0 The cost is $25 and includes lunch.<\/p>\n<p>The Soroptimist program meeting will feature another nonprofit to learn more about their mission and how the two organizations can support one another.\u00a0 This meeting will feature Susan Satur, executive director of the Center for Living Independently.<\/p>\n<p>To reserve a seat, contact Donna Krum at 783-1900.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guam PTAC hosts free webinar on federal contracting<\/p>\n<p>Join the Guam Procurement Technical Assistance Center every Thursday as we show you how to get one of the Small Business Administration\u2019s official, small business certifications!<\/p>\n<p>Webinars run from\u00a010am to 11:30am\u00a0and\u00a0will be conducted via Zoom. Links to the live webinar and the webinar evaluation will be emailed to all registered attendees 15 minutes before the start of the webinar.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 March 11 \u2013 How to get 8(a) Certified \u2013\u00a0The SBA\u2019s 8(a) Program was created to help small, disadvantaged businesses compete in the federal procurement market. The Guam PTAC will guide you through the 8(a) requirements and online application.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 March 18 \u2013 How to get Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Certified \u2013\u00a0WOSB is now an official SBA certification program. We will discuss eligibility requirements, supporting documents, and the new, online application.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 March 25 \u2013 SBA Mentor-Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Program \u2013\u00a0The SBA\u2019s All Small Business Mentor-Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 program is modeled after the 8(a) Mentor-Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Program. The Guam PTAC will update you on the eligibility requirements and how to apply.<\/p>\n<p>Register on our website,\u00a0http:\/\/guamptac.com\/news-and-events.php. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINMI sets meeting on Thursday In celebration of CNMI Women\u2019s Month, the Soroptimist of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":330356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2115],"class_list":["post-339861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-sinmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}