Kiiwi<\/a> \u2013 a Long Beach technology company designed to help local businesses attract customers through artificial intelligence-powered, instantaneous and hyper-local deals.<\/p>\n\u201cSmall businesses are the backbone of our local economy \u2013 creating jobs, strengthening neighborhoods and bringing vitality to our communities,\u201d Hahn said in a statement. \u201cSupporting entrepreneurs means investing in the people and ideas that help Los Angeles County thrive and events like the Small Business Expo provide meaningful opportunities for business owners to connect with valuable resources, build partnerships and continue growing their impact.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more than 60 years, the U.S. Small Business Administration has celebrated National Small Business Week to acknowledge the contributions of America\u2019s entrepreneurs and small business owners. Since 2016, the International Economic Development Council has recognized Economic Development Week to honor the impact that economic development organizations and professionals have in their communities, according to a press release.<\/p>\n
This year, in celebration of National Small Business Week, which began on Sunday, May 3, and runs until Saturday, May 9, and Economic Development Week \u2014 which began on Monday and ends on Friday \u2014 EDO recognized 22 newly certified Long Beach Legacy Businesses and 17 Green Businesses during Tuesday\u2019s City Council meeting.<\/p>\n
\u201cLong Beach is proud to champion a business community built on resilience, collaboration and opportunity,\u201d EDO Director Bo Martinez said in a statement. \u201cAlongside the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce and our many dedicated partners, we remain focused on uplifting small businesses and fueling the economic momentum that drives our city forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach is celebrating National Small Business Week and Economic Development Week this month. As part of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,23,131,133,132,137,4823],"class_list":["post-303040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-local-news","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-small-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}