[OMS_MANAGERS] FW: Please share! Small business owners, take 12 minutes to describe your past year!

[STUART Sheri * OPRD]

Hi all – please share the info on the Federal Reserve’s Small Business Survey w/your small business owners! They need about 10 more Oregon responses to this Small Business Survey<https://fedsmallbiz.org/3qR28Rh> to get state level data to compare at the national data. Please share this email and survey link with small businesses, chambers and small business TA providers in your network, thank you! The survey closes November 17, 2023


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Sheri Stuart (she, her, hers) |  Oregon Main Street Coordinator
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Oregon Heritage, Oregon Parks and Recreation Department
Desk:  (503)986-0679 cell: (503)551-3705
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Salem, Oregon 97301



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Take the 12-minute survey now. https://fedsmallbiz.org/3qR28Rh

Owners and key financial decisionmakers of for-profit businesses, share your recent experiences. How would you rate the financial condition of your business? Did your business seek financing such as loans or lines of credit in the last 12 months? Within the past 12 months, did your business sustain losses from a natural disaster?

The Federal Reserve’s 2023 Small Business Credit Survey is open for responses. By taking the survey, you contribute to data that directly informs the Fed, federal government agencies, service providers, policymakers, and others—ultimately benefitting your business and other businesses like yours.


Here’s just a sample of what small business leaders’ responses help make possible: 

 

·        Data the Fed collected helped it publish the 2023 Report on Employer Firms<https://www.fedsmallbusiness.org/survey/2023/report-on-employer-firms> 

·        News outlets, such as Reuters<https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cleveland-fed-finds-small-firms-continue-recovery-pandemic-hit-2023-03-08/> and American Banker<https://www.americanbanker.com/news/small-businesses-return-to-traditional-credit-sources-with-a-new-twist>, wrote about the report 

·        The survey informed conversations about small business experiences, too, with the Experian Small Business Matters podcast<https://www.experian.com/blogs/small-business-matters/2023/04/03/new-fed-report-on-small-business/> and Connecting Communities webinar<https://fedcommunities.org/connecting-communities-amplifying-small-business-voices-new-findings-small-business-credit-survey/>  

The survey is open to businesses currently in operation, those recently closed, and those about to launch. All responses are confidential.


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