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The Immigrant Community Partners proudly announce the second Immigrant Career Summit of the year, scheduled for Saturday, September 30th. The event will take place at the East Las Vegas Community Center, located at 250 N Eastern Ave., from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Planning partners for the summit include College of Southern Nevada (CSN), Nevada State University (NSU), University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV), University of Nevada Reno (UNR), Make the Road Nevada (MRNV), Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN), Governor’s Office for New Americans (ONA), Asian Community Development Council (ACDC), African Diaspora of Las Vegas, and the Consulate of Mexico in Las Vegas. Have any questions you can contact Erika Marquez at (702)619-8753 or Robert Garcia at (562)413-6925.

We had a full house for the ribbon cutting ceremony & NV Grow Business Expo Tuesday morning inside the June Whitley Student Lounge on the CSN North Las Vegas Campus. We were honored to welcome VIP guests & special dignitaries including U.S. Congressman Steven Horsford, NV State Senator Dina Neal, CSN President Dr. Federico Zaragoza, CSN North Las Vegas President Dr. Clarissa Cota and leaders from Blackstone, Maura Pally and Courtney Della Cava. We are excited to launch this new chapter for our Southern Nevada small business community and student entrepreneurs. Thank you to everyone who came out to join us for this incredible event!

Come and enjoy light hors d’oeuvres, witness the ribbon-cutting ceremony, explore our NV Grow Small Business Expo, and be a part of a significant announcement regarding the $3 Million MBDA Capital Readiness Program Award.

A group of refugees escaping the war between Russia and Ukraine arrived in Las Vegas to receive a life changing training for one week hosted by the local refugee resettlement non-profit and NV Grow client, Land to Land. The refugees, who have been consistently traveling from country to country as they find settlement, are from different parts of Russia and are all in search of one thing: to find a new home as they flee from their home country that is still at war with their neighbors. Currently there are more than 8 million Ukranians and Russians escaping their countries due to the war according to UNHCR and a group of them landed in Las Vegas with hopes for a change.

Settling into a new country and a new culture is not easy, so the non-profit Land to Land, who has also been providing them guidance and resources throughout their journey, held a training for them in Vegas with the goal to help them adapt and become great community members. The training included teaching them American customer service, mannerisms, language skills and more. Through various days of training, the refugees had the opportunity to put their skills to test as they worked in floral design and event production with the floral architect studio and NV Grow client, Mylofleur.

With the goal to help spread awareness of the impact Land to Land and Mylofleur are providing, NV Grow assisted both businesses with public relations. Through this effort, NV Grow was able to get various local news stations to cover the story, including this one aired by Channel 8, showcasing the great work to thousands of people in the city and expanding reach on both businesses. While the refugees continue the process of getting a work permit soon, Land to Land and Mylofleur will continue to provide aid as much as possible and NV Grow looks forward to helping both businesses continue the cause.

The Capital Connections Access To Capital event is aimed at connecting small business owners with investors, lenders, business counselors, and resources. This event will include a panel on available resources for small businesses, and three breakout sessions on traditional & non-traditional lending, creditworthiness, crowdfunding, and angel & equity investments. There will also be a networking portion where small business owners can meet one-on-one with accountants, bankers, business counselors, and other business professionals to make initial connections that may lead to funding.

To register for this event, please visit the link here.

The microloan program provides simple and affordable loans, up to $250k, to small businesses across Nevada. Applicants will be matched with lenders who meet their needs and who are able to serve their small businesses. Additionally, a dedicated Technical Assistance Program provided in partnership with the Nevada Small Business Development Center (SBDC) will be available to assist with credit counseling, financial statements, general business guidance, and many other requested services.

While scammers work hard during tax season to try to steal money, personal information and data, they also stay busy the rest of the year. Taxpayers and tax professionals should remain alert and aware of these common scams, schemes and cons to avoid losing money, personal information or client data.

Social media: Fraudulent form filing and bad advice
Social media can circulate inaccurate or misleading tax information, and the IRS has recently seen schemes that encourage people to submit false, inaccurate information in hopes of getting a refund or taking advantage of a credit, such as the Employee Retention Credit. Taxpayers should always remember that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Online Account help from third-party scammers
Swindlers pose as a “helpful” third party and offer to help create a taxpayer’s IRS Online Account at IRS.gov. The scammers making these offers are trying to steal a taxpayer’s personal information. Taxpayers should access their account directly through IRS.gov.

Phishing and spearphishing
Taxpayers and tax professionals should be alert to fake communications posing as legitimate organizations in the tax and financial community, including the IRS and the states. These messages arrive in the form of an unsolicited text or email to lure victims into providing valuable personal and financial information that can lead to identity theft.

Spearphishing is a tailored phishing attempt targeting a specific organization or business. Tax professionals need to be very careful about spearphishing because of the risk of a data breach. A successful spearphishing attack can ultimately steal client data and the tax preparer’s identity, allowing the thief to file fraudulent returns.

Unscrupulous tax return preparers
Most tax preparers provide outstanding and professional service. However, people should be careful of shady tax professionals and watch for common warning signs, including charging a fee based on the size of the refund. A major red flag or bad sign is when the tax preparer is unwilling to sign the dotted line. Avoid these “ghost” preparers, who will prepare a tax return but refuse to sign or include their IRS Preparer Tax Identification Number as required by law. Taxpayers should never sign a blank or incomplete return.

Offer in compromise mills
Offers in compromise are an important program to help people who can’t pay to settle their federal tax debts. But “offer in compromise mills” can aggressively promote offers in compromise in misleading ways to people who clearly don’t meet the qualifications, often costing taxpayers thousands of dollars. A taxpayer can check their eligibility for free using the IRS Offer in Compromise Pre-Qualifier tool.

Have you ever taken the time to notice that 95% of all bread you eat in Vegas has preservatives? It’s true. Most have processed sugar, bleached flour and aren’t all made fresh
daily.

LV Baking Company is one of the few bakeries in the entire Vegas Valley that proves this statement wrong. They offer bread with no preservatives, no bleached flour and is baked fresh
on site everyday. For more than 15 years, they have been baking fresh, natural bread in the heart of ChinaTown, not only providing warm pastries, but also incredible traditional and custom
cakes, award winning chocolates (they won best chocolatier 3 years in a row) and more. With a retail store that allows residents to taste their offerings straight out of the oven, and a wholesale branch that provides their baked goods to casinos on the Vegas Strip including MGM Grand, Aria, Mandalay Bay, Mirage, The Venetian and the Wynn, more people are getting a feel of what real fresh bread tastes like.

Originally known as “L’elysee Bakery,” Chef Cory Baker bought the bakery in 2019, renaming the bakery “Las Vegas Baking Company” and never imagining what was to come when a global
pandemic hit shortly after. Their savory and valuable offerings to Vegas residents helped them stay afloat during the pandemic and after 3 years, they are now finally entering the era of growth as more people venture out for quality goods.

NV Grow forms part of their growth by serving as Clark County Technical and Economic Assistance Program (TEAP) subject matter experts providing paid-for consultants and a financial advisor that will not only help them reach a new level of success but also help more Vegas residents find this gem of a bakery that leaves you never going back to old, processed bread.

Located at 3431 S. Jones Blvd #110, Las Vegas, Nevada 89146, Las Vegas Baking Company and their fresh bread and chocolates are really worth the drive.