Trade Association · NASHVILLE, TN · EIN 94-0707299
About
The purposes for which this corporation is organized are: 1. To promote the economic, financial and political welfare of its members; to elevate the prestige and standing of the independent small business owner in his/her community; to organize the independent or small business owner into an association to the END that his/her voice may be heard effectively in state and national affairs affecting small business. 2. To preserve, protect, promote and develop the american system of private enterprise by promoting and developing LAWS and regulations helpful and beneficial to, and for the preservation of, small business. 3. To conduct polls among its members on matters of importance concerning and affecting small business and its problems, and to collect, compile and disseminate information over the AIR and through the press relating thereto to its members and the general public. 4. To expose and resist corruption in government and to secure honesty, efficiency and economy in national, state, and local governments. 5. To carry on an educational campaign among its members and the general public and in this connection, to publish member communications and provide a website for the purpose of disseminating information and ideas to its members and to the public relating to problems vital and of interest to small business, with a view to lawfully influencing the passage of legislation beneficial to its members and the general public, and the defeat of legislation deemed to be inimical to small business and the general public, and from time to time to circulate its membership and to secure their subject matters of legislation affecting small business. 6. To foster the promotion and advancement of civic, commercial, industrial and political welfare of its members in their respective communities.