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Business & Entrepreneurship Center at Cuesta College
P. O. Box 8106
San Luis Obispo CA  93403-8106
(805) 546-3188
www.cuesta.edu
 

 

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Wednesday -  May 9, 2012

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 3d printing & rapid prototyping seminar

Monday -  June 18, 2012

   

Mission & Vision Statement

The Mission of the Business & Entrepreneurship Center at Cuesta College is to assist businesses and industry sectors in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, North Los Angeles Counties and surrounding areas to retain, or expand their businesses, thus strengthening the local economy, increasing wealth and quality of life.

The Vision of the Business & Entrepreneurship Center at Cuesta College is to be the premier provider of business and economic development services and training in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura and North Los Angeles Counties.

 
 
 
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For further information or to find out how the Business & Entrepreneurship Center at Cuesta College can assist you please contact:

Israel Dominguez, Director
805 546-3100 x2255
Email:
Israel_dominguez@cuesta.edu       
 
Sue Owen, Program Services Specialist
805 546-3188
Email:
sowen@cuesta.edu  
 

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Strengthen the entrepreneurial spirit in California by encouraging young people to engage entrepreneurship as a legitimate lifetime career path.

Assist with regional and statewide efforts to increase the success of business through partnerships and collaborations with industry, education and government.

Expand entrepreneurship curriculum across community college campuses.

www.buildcalifronia.org

 

Strengthen. Assist. Expand.
 
SLO_city_viewThe Business and Entrepreneurship Center at Cuesta College (BEC) program, an initiative of the Economic and Workforce Development Program through the California Community Colleges, is a network of Community College professionals working in strategic partnerships with businesses, industry and community organizations to identify and meet California's economic development needs in the areas of business improvements and entrepreneurship training.

The Business & Entrepreneurship Center at Cuesta College (BEC) programs works with private, public and nonprofit resources to build strong, sustainable and successful businesses. The result is wealth creation, job creation and retention and better economic health in California.

By partnering with local, well respected business growth organizations and community colleges, the Business & Entrepreneurship Center at Cuesta College (BEC) and the entrepreneurs they serve can tap into an abundance of resources and know how already in place, thereby enhancing the long-term growth and viability of those companies.

The Business & Entrepreneurship Center (BEC) program supports local economic development corporations, chambers of commerce, community-based business outreach centers and other community-based organizations whose primary mission is to assist small businesses. Centers are strategically placed throughout California to serve you.


The Primary Objectives Include: 
 · Conduct community research; create targeted special projects and services that address the unique needs of the region. The BEC will collect and analy6ze community data and evaluate the economic needs of the region.
· Target existing business clients and/or industry sectors most likely to create economic impacts and retain jobs. Clients and/or industry sectors should also have the potential to achieve significant increases in sales investment, and to boost regional economic wealth. 
· The BEC will provide, on an as needed basis, advanced business consulting services to established business, industry sectors, financial institutions, city and state agencies, and chambers of commerce in the following core areas:
   
Marketing Strategies Operations Management & Improvement
Marketing Research Customer Service
Strategic Planning E-commerce
Growth and Investment Strategies Economic Research and Analysis
Access to Capital Business and Contract Law
Financial Analysis International Trade
Operations Analysis  
 · Provide training solutions aimed at improving the management and stability of regional businesses to lead to increased number of new and retained jobs, sales, and investment. 
 · Deliver the Young Entrepreneurs Program (YEP). YEP aims to replace misconceptions of vocational education and blue-collar jobs with increased awareness of and aspirations to self-employment as a legitimate lifetime career path providing reliable living wages. The project's target audience is youth and young adults, ideally, those enrolled in feeder high schools and/or the affiliated community college, with special emphasis on rural and minority populations.

Overall Economic Goals
To advance California's economic growth and global competitiveness through high quality education and services focusing on business development, consistent with the current needs of the state's regional economies. To maximize and leverage the resources of Cuesta College to fulfill its role as the primary provider in fulfilling the academic, vocational education and training needs of the businesses and industry sectors.
 
To collaborate with other state and local agencies to deliver services that meet statewide and regional business development, technology transfer, and trade needs that attract, retain, and expand businesses.
 
To develop, in consultation and collaboration with colleges, local economic development agencies, the private sector, and community groups, innovative solutions, as needed, in identified strategic priority areas, including, but not necessarily limited to, advanced transportation, biotechnology, small business, applied competitive technologies, including computer integrated manufacturing, production and continuous quality improvement, business and workforce improvement, environmental technologies, health care delivery, agriculture, multimedia/entertainment and international trade. Strategic priority areas that may be explored if new or additional funding becomes available may include information technology, e-commerce and e-trade, and nanotechnology.
 
To identify, acquire, and leverage community college and other training resources when possible, to support local, regional, and statewide economic development.
 
Optimize access to the community college's economic development services and
develop strategic public and private sector partnerships. 

South Central Region - Regional Economic Overview

Colleges in the Region  (Counties include San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura and North Los Angeles)

INDUSTRY SUPERSECTORS NUMBER OF JOBS IN 2009

·Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo ·Allan Hancock College, Santa Maria
·Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara ·Ventura College, Ventura
·Oxnard College, Oxnard ·Moorpark College, Moorpark  Agriculture, natural resources and mining

51k

 
·College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita ·Antelope Valley College, Lancaster  Construction 60k  
 Education and health services 120k  
Industry Overview    Financial activities 99k  
Industry Size and Growth (2009 - 2014; 10% growth or higher)  Government 131k  
· Financial activities, 99k jobs with 16% job growth projected - average earnings per worker $41,500  Information 17k  
· Construction, 60k jobs with 14% job growth projected - average earnings per worker $63,300  Leisure and hospitality 110k  
· Education and health services, 120k jobs with 13% job growth projected - average earnings per worker $48,800  Manufacturing 74k  
· Professional and business services, 158k jobs with 13% job growth projected - average earnings per worker $50,500  Other services 62k  
Industry Makeup  Professional and business services 158k  
· The 2009 Industrial Makeup comparing the percent of regional jobs to state jobs in the various industry supersectors only varies between 1-2% across all industry sectors  Trade, transportation and utilities 175k  

Occupational Overview    
Occupation Size and Growth (2009 - 2014; 9% growth or higher)
· Construction an extraction occupations, 52k jobs with 13% projected job growth - median earning $23.81/hour
· Sales and related occupations, 145k jobs with 11% projected job growth - median earnings $13.20/hour
· Professional and related occupations, 250k with 10% projected job growth - median earnings $28.59/hour
· Management, business and financial occupations, 136k jobs with 10% projected job growth - median earnings $27.27/hour
Occupational Makeup
· The 2009 Occupational Makeup comparing the percent of regional jobs to state jobs in the various industry supersectors only varies between 1-2% across all industry sectors
Demographic Overview
2009 Race/Ethnicity

Population

% of Region

2009 Race/Ethnicity

Population

% of Region

American Indian or Alaska Native

10,704

0.51%

Asian

120,383

5.69%

Black or African American

78,582

3.71%

Native Hawaiian & other Pacific Islander

6,438

0.30%

Non-White Hispanic

32,930

1.56%

Two or more races

53,262

2.52%

White, Non-Hispanic

1,087,560

51.40%

White Hispanic

725,919

34.31%

· Highest percentages of change 2014 are +7% in two or more races and 6% in Asian and White Hispanic with a slight decrease in Black or African American and White, Non-Hispanic at -3% and -2% respectively
2009 Age Size and Growth Population % Change by 2014 2009 Age Size and Growth Population % Change by 2014
15 - 24 319,175 -6% 25 - 44

637,234

0%

45 - 64 448,735 1% 65+

217,998

16%

Under 15 492,637 2%
Employment Overview
2009 Percent of Unemployment to Total Number of Jobs in the Region (data not available for north Los Angeles County)
Construction 17.5% Information

17.5%

Ag, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting 15.1% Manufacturing

13.3%

Administrative and Waste Services 12.6% Retail Trade

12.3%

· Unemployment: Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo Counties 10-11%, Santa Clarita 7.6% and Antelope Valley 14.2%

The Business & Entrepreneurship Center at Cuesta College is part of a statewide network funded through the California Community College's Economic and Workforce Development (CCCEWD) program. For more information about our network of partners throughout the state, go to http://www.cccewd.net/initiative_business_entrepreneurship.cfm