NASBP 2009 Highlights: Year in Review

NASBP began 2009 launching a writing campaign to convince U.S. Senators and Representatives to pass the Economic Stimulus Package that supported investment in U.S. infrastructure projects. The feverish work of the NASBP membership and staff paid off. We were pleased to see that H.R. 1 passed and that it provided for improvements to the SBA Surety Bond Guarantee Program. NASBP kept-up the fast pace educating and providing resources for today’s surety professional on a variety of issues that became prominent as the year progressed.

The Association pursued a multitude of activities on your behalf. Central to those efforts were building relationships on Capitol Hill, utilizing our strategic alliances with surety and construction organizations, creating and expanding resources to serve the business needs and concerns of surety professionals, raising the profile of the surety bond producer, and providing new professional development and educational programs…