{"id":26,"date":"2012-01-13T23:13:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T07:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordgogo.com\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2016-03-20T11:53:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T18:53:25","slug":"business-profile-dean-l-jones","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordgogo.com\/?page_id=26","title":{"rendered":"Business Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dean L. Jones<\/strong>, Executive Director\/CEO, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bizpartnership.biz\/\">Southland Partnership Corporation<\/a><\/strong>, a public benefit nonprofit economic development and community outreach corporation is widely recognized and respected for his experience in the outreach to the small businesses community, particularly in matching major corporations with small-to-mid sized construction projects related to expand, retain, and attract business enterprise to the greater southern California region.<\/p>\n<p>Dean is active with extending value added capacity building for workforce providers in the non-profit sector.\u00a0 An efficient part of this work surrounds his creation and maintenance of several community job and social services assistance web sites, including, but not limited to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blacksuppliers.com\/\">BlackSuppliers.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.istartonmonday.com\/\">IStartOnMonday.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jobcollaborative.com\/\">JobCollaborative.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/opportunityweekly.com\/\">OpportunityWeekly.com<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theartofbidding.com\/\">TheArtOfBidding.com<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He has vast experience with the public and private sector as Corporate Accountant, Budget Supervisor, healthcare Purchasing Manager, and Business Expo General Manager.\u00a0 Over a twenty-five year period, as an independent socioeconomic development supply chain specialist consultant Dean serviced formal contract engagements with:<\/p>\n<p><em>Blue Cross of California \u2022 California Endowment \u2022 City of Compton CA \u2022 City of Long Beach CA \u2022 City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power \u2022 City of Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative \u2022 Comerica Bank \u2022 First American Title Corporation \u2022 GTE \u2022 <\/em><em>Golden State Management Services <\/em><em>\u2022 Kaiser Permanente \u2022 Los Angeles Black Business Expo &amp; Trade Show \u2022 Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce \u2022 Los Angeles County Office of Education \u2022 Los Angeles Music Center \u2022 Orange County Transportation Authority \u2022 Southern California Edison \u2022 Sullivan International \u2022 Verizon \u2022 Watts Health Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dean has received distinction awards in support of socioeconomic programs, including a special recognition from the California State Legislature for his contributions to instituting the California Public Utilities Commission&#8217;s General Order-156 governing investment, encouragement, recruitment, and utilization of disadvantaged business enterprises.\u00a0 A second generation Angelino and Los Angeles Unified School District graduate, he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration &#8211; Accounting from San Jos\u00e9 State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean L. Jones, Executive Director\/CEO, Southland Partnership Corporation, a public benefit nonprofit economic development and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordgogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordgogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordgogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordgogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordgogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wordgogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4838,"href":"https:\/\/wordgogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/4838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordgogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}