ProConnect Program at UT Dallas

04/14/2020

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04/04/2020

This is from my friend, Tom Washington.

Good morning,

Today is the first day that businesses can apply for the SBA Guaranteed PPP Loans which are intended to keep employees
paid at least through June 30, 2020. This act is important for businesses as well as the employees who work for those businesses.

The PPP Loans must be applied for through banks that are authorized to make SBA Loans. Some banks are not ready to
accept PPP loan applications. Some banks are deciding not to participate because of uncertainty in the SBA rules which were not available.

The SBA issued interim final rules late last night. This was what many banks were waiting for to answer questions that they had based on
verbal statements from the SBA through this week leading up today, April 3rd. The banks were hearing many rumors which concerned them
including that the PPP loans would not be 100% guaranteed by the SBA. Another concerns was the low interest rate of 1/2% which was below the cost of funds for many banks.

The interim final rules confirmed a 1% interest rate and 100% SBA guarantee and no lender liability for verifying borrower's records and representations.
There will still be banks that will pass on making PPP Loans but the uncertainty in the rules should be removed by the SBA's issuance of interim final rules late last night.

If your bank doesn't participate, you can go to another bank. Most banks are following the principal of handling their customers first.
The PPP loans are first come, first served and are expected to go quickly. You may be shut out if your bank doesn't participate.

Tom Washington
Partner, B2B CFO

04/03/2020

ProConnect businesses,
A fun fact is that motivational speaker, Grant Cardone, is a long time family friend. Join in on this free webinar.

If you have fear right now because of the economy, join me this Friday at 5pm EST for a legendary web event on how to get through this crisis: https://lnkd.in/e9DrtaN

Get the exact steps you need to EXPAND during the economic contraction that we are facing.

02/19/2020

09/19/2019

In the spirit of North Texas Giving Day, I would like to ask if you would consider giving in any amount to the Jim Friedberg ProConnect Opportunity Fund. We just received a $1000 donation from a partner of our program and we only need $1200 more to get endowed! Would you consider a donation of $10 or $20 or more if you were impacted by ProConnect? We have completed over 224 projects and 1,000 students have worked with ProConnect.

Pictured is Jim Friedberg receiving the Jindal School “Selfless Heart” Owlie Award in 2015 from Dean Hasan Pirkul. He fully exemplifies the meaning of the Owlie – Outstanding, Worthy Leaders, Involved Exceptionally.

07/17/2019

Pass this along!

During our most recent Social Innovation Startup Founders Summit, we announced that Cause Studio is transforming into an online training academy. This will allow social innovators, regardless of location, to tap into our training programs.

We are preparing for a launch later this summer and are recruiting for a group of beta testers to try our first course. For our launch course, we are specifically looking for curious or new social innovators (for profit or nonprofit) who need to make a decision on whether or not a social business is a viable opportunity for them.

If you are interested, or know someone that could be, please sign up via CauseStudio.co.

We will be extending invitations to beta testers within the next week .

There will be a nominal cost if selected for the beta test to ensure participation.

07/04/2019

Great news from Tiger House Hat Shop!

We are coming up on 1 Year This Month. It has been a great year. Because of your support we will be moving into a bigger shop Ste. #300- Store Front
Sept.1st, with street access for your convenience. As well as bringing on more hat companies and Sports Gear. The Customer Appreciation Will be scheduled. Saturday
Sept 14. In our New Location.
Thank you very much for your support
Tiger House Hat Shop

06/08/2019

Way to go, Tiger House Hat Shop!

Pastor seen me in the
D Magazine and drove all the way from Flower Mound

Thank you for your support

06/01/2019

One of our ProConnect clients is featured in D Magazine for the June 2019 issue! Way to go, Virginia Montgomery!

D Magazine June 2019 Issue

04/02/2019

ProConnect (which is part of my ACCT 6388 - Accounting Communications course) offers students an opportunity to be a consultant and do some of the functions of a new accountant (research / performing work all the way up to partner (client engagement letter, client relationship building, and closing meetings). I have seen such transformations in students from this course. This can be in the way of increased confidence, ability to handle nebulous situations better, or researching challenges a client has.

Everyone can benefit from a mentor. I try to be that mentor to students in this class. Why? Because I have had excellent mentors in my life. One of those was Jim Friedberg. Not only was he a mentor to me, he helped many UTD students challenge themselves in the hard parts of soft skills development. Before Jim would work with a student one on one, he would ask them "Will you do everything I ask you to do even if it is hard?" If the student didn't do what he asked him to do, he knew he could not be successful with them.

The Jim Friedberg ProConnect Opportunity Fund, which is my passion for today for Giving Day 2019 strives to raise money to support the initiative. We have had over 995 students do 224 different projects since we started in Summer 2015. Today I would like to ask you to spread the word about this great program to people who may want to support this vision. I have this all over Twitter, Facebook and Linked In if you want to like, share, post about your experience in ProConnect, or more! If nothing else, help me get 100 donors so you can see me give another $100!

Here is the link: https://bit.ly/2HPQJZP

Help us "Build the Future, One Project at a Time".

Thank you for helping me pass the word.....
Sincerely,
Mary Beth Goodrich