ChamberNews - December 23, 2022

Photography Workshop

Chairman, Board of Directors, Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of NJ

Jessica Gonzalez, a Jersey City lawyer who has pushed to help those hardest hit by the war on drugs enter the cannabis business world, is getting a chance to do just that.

Gonzalez was named Wednesday as a consultant to help create the New Jersey Business Action Center‘s Cannabis Technical Assistance Program and Training Academy. The center is housed in the Secretary of State’s office and when New Jersey legalized marijuana, proponents pushed to have the agency use its expertise to make sure that the nascent cannabis industry was open to all.

AT&T, Libraries in New Jersey Offering Free Tech Training; Some programs in Spanish

As part of AT&T’s $2 billion commitment to narrow the digital divide, AT&T* and Public Library Association (PLA) are helping people gain the skills and confidence they need to use technology through free digital literacy workshops at libraries across New Jersey and nationwide.

For those unable to attend community workshops, AT&T created a curated series of FREE self-paced digital literacy courses in collaboration with PLA that is accessible online for learners everywhere at digitalliteracy.att.com. Here, participants can advance their digital literacy skills through guided instruction, animated demonstrations and hands-on learning in English or Spanish.

The current list of events in New Jersey is below.

Montclair Public Library

(Contact the library to confirm days and times.)

- Cybersecurity Basics (English)

December 28, 2022 - 5PM

- Video Conferencing Basics (English)

January 4 & 11, 2023 | 5 PM

Somerville Library

- Internet Basics (English) February 16, 2023 | 9 AM

- Internet Basics (Spanish) February 18, 2023 | 9 AM

While many Hispanic people in the United States are of Caribbean, South American or Mexican origin, there are thousands of identities represented within the greater community. That’s why Capital One is celebrating the people who have helped build one beautiful pan-ethnic mosaico through new patterns of perspective, fibers of language and layers of legacy.

In a business landscape as diverse as New Jersey’s, minorityowned businesses look to chambers of commerce for strength, advocacy, leadership and support. In the following Q&A, leaders from several of the state’s minority-based chambers of commerce discuss the challenges faced by minority-owned businesses and the activities taken to establish, implement and execute their chamber’s mission.

In a business landscape as diverse as New Jersey’s, minorityowned businesses look to chambers of commerce for strength, advocacy, leadership and support. In the following Q&A, leaders from several of the state’s minority-based chambers of commerce discuss the challenges faced by minority-owned businesses and the activities taken to establish, implement and execute their chamber’s mission.

Firm order for 100 new 787 Dreamliners - plus options to add 100 more - represents largest widebody aircraft order by a U.S. carrier in commercial aviation history

Airline now expects to take delivery of about 700 new narrow and widebody aircraft by 2032, including an average of more than two every week in 2023 and three a week in 2024

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