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The Padgett Foundation
is committed to creating opportunities to publicly educate and advocate
small business success, contributions, and needs. One of the most
active and visible activities of the Foundation staff includes providing
technical counsel and expert testimony on issues important to small business
before federal administrative departments and agencies, as well as before
Congress. As part of this outreach, the Foundation has developed
extensive and productive working relationships with the Small Business
Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, the Senate and House
Committees on Small Business, the Senate Finance Committee and the House
Committee on Ways and Means.
The Padgett Foundation
has available vast resources of statistics and other empirical data
regarding the small business community. This is updated on a quarterly
basis. In addition, surveys are made of small business owners, also
quarterly.
The Foundation offers
the products of these research findings to Congress, government agencies,
and others for consideration in reaching informed decisions on small
business matters. This is data often missing in giving reality checks
to the manner in which legislation, regulations, and administrative
procedures impact the vast majority of our nation’s business enterprises.
The research
information is made available by Padgett Business Services through their hundreds of franchisees in North America.
In this respect, the franchises serve almost exclusively small business
clients – defined as under 20 employees. This client base is comprised
of thousands upon thousands of small businesses. The research
information is derived from these small business clients.
This network of small
businesses enables the Foundation to obtain important business information
from them on a frequent and routine basis. The Foundation also is able
to respond to special research needs or projects as they arise. The
array of business information is boundless, as are its sources.
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