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June
2009
For
Immediate Release
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SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMIC STIMULUS PLAN
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Promotes
Economic Growth in Local Working Community
- Las Vegas,
Nevada - The AMERICAN EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION (AEA) is joining together
with several local small business assistance groups to provide an
economic stimulus program for independent small businesses. The
purpose of the program is to help guide small business person owners
through the maze of paperwork needed to acquire loans and financial
resources, access to funds, business counseling, education seminars
and other critical benefits.
- AEA Administrator
Irvin Hunt points to the frustration and rejection felt by small
business taxpayers over the billions of dollars the federal government
has provided big business and financial institutions as the reason
for such a program. Hunt said, "I am sure you're all familiar
with the Government bailout plans for banks, Wall Street and automobile
manufacturers. Although, the Feds have rushed to bailout Wall Street,
no one's coming to bail out small business owners on Main Street!!"
- Hunt went on
to explain that AMERICAN EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION (AEA) is a nonprofit
employees' association founded to encourage and promote financial
growth, economic development and freedom by empowering small businesses.
SCORE is a resource partner with the US Small Business Administration
and provides counseling to small businesses and start-ups. Because
of a shared interest in what they see as an often under-served sector
of the business world, the two organizations collaborated on how
to help small businesses weather the recent economic storm.
- This special
Independent Small Business Economic Stimulus program, being introduced
by AEA and endorsed by other small business agencies, is intended
to provide information, knowledge and technical support that may
not be part of the business owners repertoire of skills. Says Hunt,
"A small business owner may be a genius at developing their
restaurant's special Bar-B-Que sauce or designing a landscape for
a new home but they're often overwhelmed by the paperwork needed
to apply for loans or how to prepare a financial projection. AEA
is preparing to step in to assist with these types of 'brass tacks'
services which are not currently available under existing SBA or
other small business assistance programs".
The
AEA SMALL BUSINESS STIMULUS PLAN includes:
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Financial
Resource Assistance
- Loan Packaging
and Consultation
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Business
Modeling and Mentoring
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Business
Development and Growth Counseling
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Low-cost
Disability, Emergency Medical and Death benefits
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Member-to-Member
Discounts
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Convenient
Internet Enrollment
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"Free"
Employment Service Center & Job Bank
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"Free"
Financial Education Seminars and "Live" Loan
Workshops as well as soon to come
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Intranet
Web Classes and Cyber-Seminars
The spokesperson
continued to explain that by joining the AMERICAN EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION
(AEA), small business operators are able to unite and take control
of their financial future by experiencing the power of trade unity
and collective business arrangements.
To obtain
access to these great critical benefits, small business owners
are able to join AEA under a special limited-time introductory
membership offer of $10 per month or $120 per year.
AEA has also
introduced a very important but brief research survey to help
better understand and assist independent small business operators
with their business needs. They are requesting Independent Business
owners to immediately visit their website at www.americanemployees.com
to complete this survey and learn more about this program. As
they say "just like voting your participation is essential so
our voices can be heard!!"
You can continue
to visit us on-line at:
www.americanemployees.com or e-mail AEA at: aeabenefits@yahoo.com.
Also, write to us at: AMERICAN EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION, 6655 West
Sahara Avenue, Suite B-200, Las Vegas, Nevada 89146 or call (702)
262-9701 or (877) UNEMPLOYED.
©2009
American Employees Association, All Rights Reserved.
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January
2009 .
WMO
Benefits
Education Support
Las
Vegas, Nevada – We
would like to thank the Wal-Mart Foundation
and especially Benny from the Las Vegas Charleston
and Decatur store for their continued support
for our financial literacy and benefits education
efforts on behalf of Women and Minority-Owned
businesses.
This
program was established to promote independence
and self-reliance among small businesses and
low-income workers through education.
As we move forward into this new year with a
sagging economy, this project is even more critical
in that it reflects the true spirit of our socially
conscious grassroots community service initiative
intended to uplift our society through knowledge,
information and education.
Support
from corporate and private partners such as
Wal-Mart will help meet the many operating expenses
of this much needed program for independent
small employers and their employees.
We
all recognize that the
health and wellness of productive working families
directly impacts our local community and society
at large. These
contributions represent a significant step towards
addressing critical survival issues for local
independent small businesses.
This assistance and financial encouragement
by
Wal-Mart constitutes an affirmation of our
community
service vision
and philosophy that -
“In the Shelter of Each Other the Community
Lives!!”.
For
more information, continue to visit us on-line
at:
www.americanemployees.com or
e-mail
us at:
aeabenefits@yahoo.com.
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©2009
I.P. Hunt Foundation, Inc., All Rights
Reserved.
August,
2008
For
Immediate Release
Continues
Support for Financial Education
Grant
Aids
Women & Minority-Owned Small Businesses
Las Vegas, Nevada
– Bank of
the West continues its commitment to the cause of Women and Minority-Owned
Busnesses financial literacy and benefits education by generously
contributing an operating grant to our education project to assist
independent small businesses and their workers.
This project
is designed to promote, educate and inform small business owners
in the community of health and benefits service available to
themselves and their workers. American
Employees Association (AEA), an I.P. Hunt subsidiary, administrates
and operates its employees' beneficiary programs for Cosmetology,
Beauty, Barber and Laundry personal service employees in California,
Arizona and Nevada.
Director
Irvin Hunt has declared that "We intend to continue
to explore and discover innovative ways to help solve the economic
circumstances of independent small business operators which
enhances the well-being of the entire society. This "socially-conscious"
program is one of the nation's only known affordable community-based
Health and Welfare Programs designed specifically to serve uninsured
Personal Service workers in the Western region."
©2008
I.P. Hunt Foundation, Inc., All Rights Reserved.
Financial
Education Effort
Support
Boost Self-reliance Program
Las Vegas,
Nevada – The
local Wal-Mart and Sam's Clubs Community Involvement Coordinators
have demonstrated true commitment to furthering the cause
of financial literacy and benefits education in the community
by generously supporting the I.P. Hunt Foundation (IPHF) and
American Employees Association (AEA) education programs for
small employers and their employees.
This IPHF
education project was established especially to promote self-reliance
and independence among small businesses and low-income workers
through education seminars and workshops sponsored by corporate
and private partnerships.
Wal-Mart's
support will help meet operating expenses for this much needed
program and beyond doubt reflects the spirit of the next generation
of community programs designed to promote self-sufficiency
through knowledge, information and education.
Director Irvin D. Hunt declares that "Wal-Mart's actions
of support, direct assistance and financial encouragement
coincides
exactly with our slogan
“In the Shelter of Each Other the Community Lives!!”.
The health
of small businesses and the well-being of working "poor"
families directly affects the entire society. As we move into
another period of economic uncertainty, this
contribution represents one more cornerstone and a short-step
towards resolving financial dilemmas for local independent
small businesses.
©2007
I.P. Hunt Foundation, Inc., All Rights Reserved.
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For
Immediate Release.........
Bank of the West.... ...
Awards
Support for Financial Education
Grant
Helps
Small Businesses & Low-Income Working Families
Las Vegas, Nevada
– Bank
of the West has demonstrated their true commitment to furthering
the cause of financial literacy and benefits education in the community
by liberally donating to this IPHF education project to assist independent
small businesses and low-income workers.
This financial
education project is designed to access and evaluate the specific
educational and informational needs of small business operators and
their low-to-moderate income workers. This grant
will help meet operating expenses and support development of this
much needed program.
"We all agree
that the health and wellness of small businesses and low-income workers
has a direct affect on the well-being of the entire community-at-large,
we just need to find innovative way to help resolve some of the critical
economic needs of this very productive population" said project
director Irvin Hunt.
70%
of insured Americans are in working families. "This considerate
donation by BoW will help maintain and move our organization forward,
while we research, define and better understand the educational needs
of small business operators and low-income working families"
continues Hunt.
I.P.
Hunt Foundation (IPHF) is nonprofit community development foundation
that researches and develops education strategies to improve and build
a better community for underprivileged and disadvantaged individuals.
IPHF was originally
founded in Mississippi 30 years ago and now operates community development
and improvement programs in the entire western region. American Employees
Association (AEA) is a subsidiary of I.P. Hunt and administrates and
operates its employee beneficiary programs and projects. AEA owns
and operates one of the nation's only known community-based Health
and Welfare Plans established in California, Arizona and Nevada specifically
for Cosmetology, Beauty, Barber and Laundry personal service employees.
©2007
I.P. Hunt Foundation, Inc., All Rights Reserved.
May 2007
For
Immediate Release... .
Financial
Literacy
and Benefits Education
NEW
Program
to Help Small Businesses & Low-income Workers
Las Vegas, Nevada
– Local small business operators and low-to-moderate income workers
struggling to make a living and maintain their business while supporting
a family can now take heart in knowing that help is on its way.
IPHF recently launched a research project to study, define and resolve
the critical economic needs of smaller-employers and low-income
workers.
This
financial education project was established especially to assist
independent small businesses and will be administered
by the American Employee Association on behalf of IPHF, which is
in the process of preparing, reviewing and evaluating grant applications
with financial institutions.
IPHF
publicist Ginny Pereira announced this week that this new project
will be based in California, Arizona and Nevada and will provide
press releases to representatives of the media and press in the
region.
Publicist Pereira
explained that "Independent small businesses and low-income
workers often have no where to turn for guidance and assistance
regarding their financial problems and are often afraid or embarrassed
to approach banks and other institutions." This program is
intended to serve as a bridge and vehicle to promote to build goodwill
between banks and financial institutions and the local business
community.
I.P. Hunt Foundation
is a nonprofit community development organization that provides
education programs for disadvantaged individuals. This
project enhances its mission by conducting a direct needs assessment
of underprivileged community-based small businesses and low-income
individuals. It will explore original methods and strategies to
deliver economic development and financial education programs to
these underserved populations.
This project
is one of several programs that IPHF operates through AEA to strengthen
and enhance the economic development of the local community which
includes a soon to be bought on-line affordable benefits program
for Cosmetologists, Beauticians and Laundry workers.
- I.P. Hunt Foundation’s
on-line address is www.iphuntfoundation.org.
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August
2006
AEA ANNOUNCES
NEW
EMPLOYMENT
RESOURCE CENTER
Las Vegas, Nevada
- As part of our ongoing effort to enhance our services to the
working community, AMERICAN EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION (AEA)
announces a new Job Bank and Employment Resource Center to better
serve our employer and employee membership.
AEA now
offers an on-line employment services center and Job Bank benefit
to assist employer-members recruit qualified workers and employee
candidates find the latest in employment job opportunities.
Through our
pioneering effort and development of exclusive Internet technology,
employers large and small can join AEA,
list their job openings and search for qualified workers. Independent
small business operators with little or no health insurance can
even enroll their employees in our very affordable financial safety
net system anytime - 24 hours a day!!
For less than
the cost of a weekend display ad or a week of media time, employers
and employee job seekers can expand and diversify their recruitment
and search reach nationwide into markets such as New York, Dallas,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Las Vegas at a tremendous cost-savings.
- Our mission is
to enhance the health and wellness of the community through programs
that aid and assist employers and low-to-moderate workers. This
program is intended solely to augment and supplement private employer
and State compensation systems.
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October 2004
For Immediate Release
PROTECTING
AMERICA’S WORKING FAMILIES
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A Tax Relief Strategy -
The
I.P. HUNT FOUNDATION, INC. (“IPHF”), a nonprofit community development
and education organization, is proud to announce that it has founded
and developed through its subsidiary the AMERICAN EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION
(“AEA”) a direct and distinct method and means to provide affordable
benefits for uninsured and underinsured small employers, their workers
and families.
AEA
is
not insurance, health
care or benefits negotiation group but rather a nonprofit community-based
Voluntary Employees’ Beneficiary Association (VEBA).
AEA was created
specifically to operate in accordance with the rules and regulations
of the Employees Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA") of 1974
and provide affordable benefits for disadvantaged uninsured workers
of independent small employers in underserved employment industries
such as Service, Agriculture, Construction, etc.
The
purpose of AEA is to improve, enhance and promote better
relations between employers and employees through association based
employee health and welfare benefit as well as education and information
plans and programs.
The
AEA mission is solely to aid and assist underprivileged workers
and small employers with less than 50 workers through affordable group
health and welfare benefit plans and programs. AEA
plans augment and supplement private employer and State compensation
systems by providing basic or supplemental disability, emergency medical
and death benefits. This coverage serves as an economic safety net
to protect disadvantaged small Employers and their Employees who have
little or no health insurance or medical coverage.
More
importantly, through our organizations, this program can be subsidized
by local taxpayer dollars, but unlike the politician proposed national
plans, the benefits are conferred directly to members of the local
working community. Fundamental coverage underwritten through small
businesses, corporate, personal and/or employee contributions guarantee
some type of financial safety net system for small businesses and
workers during periods of medical or physical disability. This basic
technique benefits unprotected workers, their families and small employers
by improving the overall economic stability of low-income working
communities. Although not new, this is one solution that has to be
considered and developed against this urgent health and wellness crisis’
that concerns the community at large and deeply affects us all.
TAX
RELIEF AND COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT
Presently,
there is more than sufficient amount of revenue that flows out of the
local community through tax payer dollars that, with a modest portion
diverted into community improvement organizations such as IPHF, can
help underwrite health and welfare plans and programs for low-income
working families. For instance, if local taxpayers contributed 50% of
their annual tax bill to assist programs for uninsured workers, this
support would translate into be a major step toward solving the uninsured
working community problem. These contributions could, in some cases,
result in up to a dollar-for-dollar deduction or at least, reduce Supporters
tax liabilities significantly depending upon each benefactor’s (individual
or corporation) net income and write-off situation.
There
is an ancient Celtic expression that says, “It’s in the shelter of
each other that the People live!!” which describes our position exactly.
Why should we try this system? It is very simple because under our
plan each community immediately benefits from 100% of their tax dollars
vs. (a per capita deficit or) the diminished rate that returns to
the community through the current revenue sharing system. Under our
plan, small employers and private supporters participate and get to
see their tax dollars benefit the productive working families in their
community who truly deserve assistance. These projects offer effective
options for businesses, individuals and corporations genuinely interested
in building a better future in their local community for themselves
and their families.
- In
conclusion, the choice is simple. We can continue to pay taxes to
fund an ineffective health care bureaucracy that does not meet the
needs of our local community; or we can find ways to support organizations
such as IPHF and witness your tax dollars improve conditions in
the community from which they were generated. Is there really any
question as to the preferable alternative?
FOR MORE INFO
Contact:
Director
I.P.
HUNT FOUNDATION
6655
West Sahara, Suite B-200*
Las
Vegas, Nevada 89146
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.702.262-9701
* 877.863-6756 .
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