List of Members

Charged with the mission to provide mechanisms for education and development of regional small businesses, this dedicated task force has developed a well-received networking event called the  "ABC Power Breakfast" (Alliance Business Connection).

The "ABC Power Breakfast"  is designed to efficiently connect small and minority owned businesses with large organizations and is held at the Galena Park Independent School District Administration building, located at Beltway 8 and Woodforest Boulevard in the North Channel Area north of Interstate 10. 

At the "ABC Power Breakfast", small business owners:

• Gain access to procurement managers of large Houston ship channel corporations at the breakfast 

• Make direct contact with multiple Harris County  merchant networking groups during the event

• Visit consulting stations manned by the sponsors listed below

• Provide survey feedback so the Economic Alliance can continuously improve the initiative to meet the needs of the small business owners

Sponsors for this Economic Alliance event are: 

• Port of Houston Authority

• San Jacinto College District Small Business Development Center

• SBA

• Houston Minority Business

• Harris County

• Houston Small Business Development Corporation

• S.C.O.R.E.

• Pasadena Hispanic Business Association

• Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

• La Porte – Bayshore Chamber of Commerce

• North Channel Area Chamber of Commerce

• South Belt – Ellington Chamber of Commerce

• Pasadena Chamber of Commerce

• Pearland Area Chamber of Commerce

• Seabrook Association

• Deer Park Chamber of Commerce

• East End Chamber of Commerce

• South Houston Chamber of Commerce

We salute our
Champions of Small and Minority Owned Businesses

These companies have participated, helping grow our small businesses:

• Galena Park Independent School District - for providing facility and services each event

• Lubrizol

• Solvay Chemicals

• City of Deer Park

• DuPont

• American Acryl

• Oxy Vinyls

• San Jacinto College North Campus

• Groendyke Trucking

• Innovene (BP)

• City of La Porte

• Wiley Laboratories

• Delta Petrochemicals

• Port of Houston Authority

• Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC)

• Albemarle

• Kaneka

• DOW

• AT&T

• University of Texas - Houston at the Texas Medical Center

• City of Pasadena

• NASA Space Center

• Patients Medical Center

• Total Petrochemicals

• METRO

• Galena Park I.S.D.

• Pasadena I.S.D.

• Texas Petrochemicals

Additional training sessions are sometimes held after the Power Breakfast with topics that have ranged from:

• "How to Get Into the Expanding Coffee Business" led by noted trade consultant Mr. Scott Singleton
   

• "How to Begin Doing Business with Governmental Entities" led by Mr. Willie Tanamachi of the Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC)