RE: Budget Transparency for Summit-Let’s Do Business Florida (www.letsdobusinessflorida.com); A Community Event-No Registration Cost To Non Profits and Minority Businesses.
Dear Community Leaders, Financial Institutions, Corporate Partners, Obama Administration Officials, Federal Regulators and Community at Large:
We truly wish for the 2011 Florida Minority Community Economic Development Summit-Let’s Do Business Florida event to be a Florida community event. In that this event’s main objective is to bring public-governmental-community and business leaders together in a venue that can encourage discussion and communication in the area of job creation for Florida’s minority and underserved communities.
The poverty and unemployment rates in our Florida minority and underserved communities are on the rise. It is more critical than ever to bring minds and hearts together to ensure we can find a common path. To do so, we must ensure that this event truly becomes a Florida “community” event that encourages full participation from Florida minority and underserved communities. This is why this event is free of charge to all non profits and minority businesses. This is their event and your event.
To ensure this, we as Co-Chairs wish to bring full transparency and accountability to ourselves as event organizers. This event is not a fundraiser but a “community event” so we feel that full accountability of the event budget is necessary. Below you shall find the current 2011 Florida Minority Community Economic Development Summit-Let’s Do Business Florida budget. This budget is audited by both a Forensic accountant and is incorporated into the annual FMCRC audit. If we push for increased transparency and accountability for financial institutions and key corporations, it must begin with ourselves.
We also need to let the community know that this event has no registration fees and highly discounted hotel rooms at this prestigious beach resort (Marriott Beach Resort in Ft. Lauderdale Beach) because of corporate sponsors (investors) who wish to invest into the notion of bringing leaders together to discuss ideas and opportunities that will lead to job creation. We thank these investors (sponsors) below for their support of Florida’s minority and underserved communities.
