January 27, 2010
Veterans Employer of the Year Nomination
The California Department of Veterans Affairs is recommending Stay Safe Solutions, Inc., and it’s President, Ken Shoemake, as the 2010 Veterans Employer of the Year Award for the category of private, small business.
December 18, 2009
Stay Safe Solutions reaches out to CCPOA families
Stay Safe Solutions, through its staffing company Street Smart Skills, is offering family members of correctional employees the opportunity for newly created positions to digitize inmate and parolee records.
December 12, 2009
Street Smart Skills signs statewide staffing contract with FNTI
Street Smart Skills signs statewide staffing contract with Fidelity National Technology and Imaging (FNTI) , LLC . This contract will employ several hundred personnel to digitize over 250 million inmate records for the CDCR Strategic Offender Management System (SOMS) Projectr Management System (SOMS) Project
December 11, 2009
Quarter of USA workforce could become temps. Street Smart Skills is positioned well.
An encouraging jobs report Friday underscored the growing prominence of temporary workers who some experts predict could constitute up to a quarter of the workforce in a few years.
December 5, 2009
Stay Safe Solutions acquisition makes national headlines
Stay Safe Solutions announced today that its affiliate company, Stay Safe Shred and Recycle, has purchased the document destruction business line from PRIDE Industries, significantly increasing its document shredding and recycling services statewide.
December 1, 2009
Stay Safe Solutions Acquires PRIDE Industries’ Secure Document Shredding and Recycling Business
Stay Safe Solutions announced today that its affiliate company, Stay Safe Shred and Recycle, has purchased the document destruction business line from PRIDE Industries, significantly increasing its document shredding and recycling services statewide.
December 1, 2009
A letter to our newest Shred and Recycle customers
Stay Safe Shred and Recycle is excited to become your data destruction partner.
December 1, 2009
Stay Safe Shred Aquires PRIDE Industries' Shred and Recycle Business
Stay Safe Solutions announced today that its affiliate company, Stay Safe Shred and Recycle, has purchased the document destruction business line from PRIDE Industries, significantly increasing its document shredding and recycling services statewide.
October 28, 2009
Stay Safe Supply is now a TriMega Dealer
TriMega announced today that its new member activity has significantly picked up pace for the last several months of 2009.
October 11, 2009
California Strengthens its Commitment to SDVOBs
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Assembly Bill 31 on Oct. 11, expanding small business and disabled veteran business enterprise participation in state contracts and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act projects.
October 11, 2009
Governor Signs Legislation Increasing Opportunities for Small Businesses
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today signed AB 31 by Senator (former Assemblymember) Curren Price (D-Inglewood), expanding small business and disabled veteran business enterprise participation in state contracts and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) projects.
October 10, 2009
Stay Safe Shred and Recycle receives coveted NAID Certification for secure document destruction
Stay Safe Shred and Recycle receives coveted NAID Certification for secure document destruction
The NAID Certification Program establishes standards for a secure destruction process including such areas as operational security, employee hiring and screening, the destruction process, responsible disposal and insurance.
NAID Members
October 9, 2009
Stay Safe Companies join California DVBE Alliance Corporate Advisory Board
We are pleased to announce that our Stay Safe Group of companies have joined the California DVBE Alliance Corporate Advisory Board (CAB).
September 30, 2009
Stay Safe Supply wins statewide contract for printing and writing paper
The State of California has awarded Stay Safe Supply, Inc. the statewide contract for printing and writing paper (Contract No. 1-09-75-41B) for the two (2) year term September 14, 2009 through September 13, 2011, with an option to extend for two (2) additional one (1) year periods.
September 11, 2009
California extends Caltrans rainwear contract with Stay Safe Store
The State of California has extended the Caltrans rainwear contract with Stay Safe Store for an additional year due to favorable customer satisfaction surveys.
August 26, 2009
Removal of Good Faith Effort from DVBE Contract Provisions by DGS
This Broadcast Bulletin provides guidance relating to the elimination of the Good Faith Effort (GFE) as a means for bidders to satisfy Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (DVBE) contract participation requirements.
August 25, 2009
Stay Safe Solutions Job Fair
Please join us for our job fair on August 25th and 26th.
August 27, 2009
Stay Safe Solutions Gears Up For H1N1 Vaccine Distribution
As many as 450 temporary employees are expected to be hired in West Sacramento by San Francisco-based McKessonCorp., as the company gears up for a nationwide distribution of swine flu vaccine.
August 16, 2009
See what individual states are doing to help veteran-owned businesses
Click here to visit the NaVOBA State Tracker.
August 4, 2009
California Eliminates Good Faith Effort
Disabled veteran companies and taxpayers are both winners in recent changes promoted by California’s wounded warriors. The non-profit California Disabled Veterans Business Alliance has fought the Good Faith Effort (GFE) provision in State contracting as a useless diversion actually keeping business away from Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (DVBE). Now, the State has acted on the recommendations of the Alliance in coordination with DGS and other state agencies and has passed legislation to eliminate the GFE effective 28 July 2009.
July 29, 2009
Amendment levels playing field for HUBZone, 8(a) and SDVOBs
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, filed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 that will place three small business government contracting programs - HUBZone, 8(a) and service-disabled veterans - on an equal playing field when competing for business.
July 28, 2009
House passes bill to help Veterans start businesses
The House of Representatives passed H.R. 1803 July 28, to create a national network of Veterans’ Business Centers that will provide business support and counseling to veteran entrepreneurs.
July 3, 2009
California Governor wants stimulus monies to flow to DVBE's
To date, the federal government has awarded more than $20 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to our great state. As these funds flow through the state and local governments I urge you to consider the place of small and disadvantaged businesses in contracting and procurement.
July 15, 2009
Street Smart Skills becomes a Mainstay Affiliate
As a response to marketplace trends, Street Smart Skills became a Mainstay Business Solutions Affiliate member in early 2009.
April 16, 2008
Stay Safe Shred, Inc Receives 2007 NISH Small Business Partnership Award
On April 16, 2008, more than 1,300 individuals devoted to creating employment opportunities for people with severe disabilities came together to be inspired by personal stories of success.
April 11, 2009
Schwarzenegger Signs SB 115 Providing Substantial Contract Incentives for Disabled Veteran Business Owners
(Sacramento, CA) - Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed landmark legislation for California Disabled Veteran Business Owners. Sponsored by the California DBE Alliance, it reached the Governor’s desk with impressive unanimous Legislative support.
March 1, 2008
DGS Certifies Success Skills, Inc. as First California Nonprofit Veteran Service Agency
The California Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (DVBE) Alliance today announced the first California nonprofit veteran service agency (NVSA) to be granted a small business bid preference for state contracts.
October 21, 2004
President Bush Signs HR 2297 Providing Substantial Benefits for Service Disabled Veteran Owned Businesses
President Bush Signs HR 2297 Providing Substantial Benefits for Service Disabled Veteran Owned Businesses In an Oval Office ceremony held December 16, 2003, President Bush signed H.R. 2297, the Veterans Benefits Act of 2003.
October 20, 2004
Service-Disabled Veterans Executive Order
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to strengthen opportunities in Federal contracting for service-disabled veteran businesses, it is hereby ordered as follows...
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