The document summarizes resources and benefits offered by the American Chemical Society's Small Chemical Businesses Division (SCHB) to its members. The SCHB provides networking opportunities at regional, national, and local ACS meetings, social media connections, discounted exhibit space, business listings, programming on entrepreneurship, and patron memberships for additional support. It highlights recent collaborations with other divisions and local sections to promote entrepreneurship in chemistry.

1. SCHB Member Benefits: Discover the
Resources the ACS Division of Small
Chemical Businesses Offers
By: Jennifer L Maclachlan, SCHB Public Relations
Chair
Updated: June 14, 2017

2. The American
Chemical Society
Small Chemical
Businesses Division
(SCHB) garnered ACS
full status approval in
1980
In our thirty-seventh
year our mission
remains the same: to
aid in the formation,
development and
growth of small
chemical businesses
ABOUT
SCHB

3. TO QUOTE BILL CARROLL IN A 2011
NESACS LECTURE: “ACS IS YOUR
PROFESSIONAL NETWORK”

4. SCHB IS THE
HOME FOR
ENTREPRENEURS
INSIDE THE ACS

5.  In this presentation I will
discuss numerous networking
opportunities at Regional,
National and Local Section
Meetings
 Social media connnectivity with
other business-minded
chemists via SCHB social
media platforms such as
Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In
and to members only content
on the ACS Network
 Find out what member benefits
this small division of ACS has
to offer you with your startup
THE ACS DIVISION OF SMALL CHEMICAL
BUSINESSES OFFERS MANY ENTREPRENEURIAL
RESOURCES TO ITS MEMBERS

6. Membership is free for the first year then $15
annual dues
Deeply discounted booth exhibit space at National
Meetings $500.00
Business listing on our website with a link to your
website
Outstanding programming at National, Regional
and NEW! In 2012 at Local Section Meetings
 At the heart of it all: amazing networking
opportunities
NEW! in 2013 utilizing an Innovative Project
Grant fund (IPG), SCHB began participating in
other scientific society meetings such as AAAS
Meeting, APS March Meeting and CLEO
Conference
Participation in an International Conference:
Pacifichem in Honolulu, HI 2015
SCHB MEMBER
BENEFITS

7. Special thanks to our Patron Members, who also sponsored
SCHB events. In Philadelphia, Osha Liang, LLP contributed by
sponsoring Tuesday morning coffee before the PRES/SCHB
session Chemical Businesses of the People, by the People, and
for the People.
Welcome to our newest Patron Member, Saul Ewing LLP. And, a thank you
to our renewing Patron Members for their continued support.
CURRENT SCHB PATRON MEMBERS
• Haukaas Fortius PLLC (www.hfglobalip.com) Liaison Member: Michael
Haukaas
• Osha Liang LLP (www.oshaliang.com) Liaison Member: Carlyn A. Burton
• Patriot Bioenergy Corp. (www.patriotbioenergy.com) Liaison Member:
Roger Ford
• Saul Ewing LLP (www.saul.com) Liaison Member: Peter C. Lauro, Esq.
• Young & Thompson (www.young-thompson.com) Liaison Member: Dr.
Robert Goozner
SCHB Patron
Memberships  Annual dues for Patron
Members are $200.
 An alternate way to be a
Patron Member is to
Sponsor an event at an
upcoming ACS National
Meeting at the $500,
$1,000, or $1,500 level.

8. OUR MOST RECENT COLLABORATION WITH A
LOCAL SECTION WAS ON APRIL 16, 2016 AT THE
OREGON SCIENCE STARTUP FORUM WHICH
WAS ORGANIZED BY THE PORTLAND LOCAL
SECTION FEATURING 19 INSTRUCTORS FOR A
COMPREHENSIVE DAY OF STARTUP AND
CHEMICAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING.
Funding for this event was
derived from an Innovative
Project Grant, the Portland
Local Section, SCHB and
other participating locally
based chemical companies.
THIS IS NOW AN ANNUAL EVENT THAT WE SPONSOR

9. SCHB AT ACS REGIONAL MEETINGS
#SMALLCHEMBIZ
L to R: Joe Sabol, Martin
Bakker, [Elvis] and ACS
2016 President, Donna
Nelson, discussing the
chemical industry at
SWRM/SERMACS 2015,
Memphis TN, November
6, 2015 on the Small
Chemical Businesses
program track

11. Here’s an example of
how SCHB promotes
sponsors on event
signage:
Patron Member Osha
Liang and PID
Analyzers.
Note the use of logos
and branding. These
are also posted to the
web, noted in eblasts
and division social
media

12. • This is a program we
started at the Fall National
Meeting in Indianapolis
2013
• The Monday lunch we co-
hosted with the ACS
Division of Professional
Relations (PROF)
• We invited SCHB
sponsored and co-
sponsored National
Meeting speakers to
networking lunches
• We used social media &
eblast to promote these
lunches
• We have continued to
hold these lunches at
National Meetings
SCHB/PROF NETWORKING
LUNCH

13. SCHB used IPG funds to plan entrepreneurial
programming at our sister scientific society meetings
Mukund Chorghade, SCHB Past Chair and Jack
Driscoll, PR Chair, NESACS spoke about Satisfying
Entrepreneurial Career Cravings at the AAAS
Meeting Career Pathways Workshop in Boston
February 2013
Additionally, the Division together
with the Local Section (NESACS), with
materials supplied by the MOS
Boston, coordinated a chemistry
outreach table at the AAAS Meeting
Family Science Days
SCHB AT
AAAS

14. The American
Physical Society
Meeting was
the 2nd of 3
“other scientific
society”
meetings SCHB
programmed at
in the first half
of 2013.
Joe Sabol, SCHB Program Chair at APS, Baltimore, MD 2013
SCHB AT APS

15. CLEO Conference in San Jose,
CA June 2013: SCHB rep Anis
Rahman planned Entrepreneurial
Programming and staffed an
SCHB booth
This was the third in the installment of pre-identified
*other scientific society meetings* that we organized
entrepreneurial programming for in 2013.
SCHB AT
CLEO

16. SCHB IS THE 2016 RECIPIENT OF THE ACS CHEMLUMINARY AWARD FOR
GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT
Photo by Peter Cutts Photography

17. SCHB ON GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT IN
HAWAIIThree symposia:
1) The Evolving Nature of Scholarly Communication: Connecting
Scholars with Each Other and with Society (#173 Connecting
Chemistry with Society)
Jennifer Maclachlan, et al., examined how traditional publishing
are changing as a result of the impact of social media, as well as how
social media are being used to foster new models of communication
and engagement with society; ACS CEO Tom Connelly, delivered
opening remarks.
2.Small Businesses Reaching Out for Market Share: Tool Kit and
Success Stories (#185 Connecting Chemistry with Society)
Joseph Sabol, Adam Blunn, etal. aim to provide perspectives on the
challenges, excitement ,and do-overs that are inherent in launching
driving growth in the commercial sector.
3. Advances in Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging (#413 Analytical)
Anis Rahman, et al., terahertz spectrometry, reectometry, and
address biomedical and pharmaceutical research, cancer detection,
transdermal drug delivery, materials for energy, forensic science and
security.

18. Small Chem Biz is a semi-annual publication that is released before the National Meetings
SCHB sends out monthly eblasts to keep members informed about
Division news and events

19. #WRM2013 Meeting Planning Session at #ACSNOLA
Joe Sabol, SCHB Program Chair with Natalie McClure and Lee Latimer, Co-Chairs
of the 2013 ACS Western Regional Meeting

20. Example of a
collaborative &
comprehensive
SCHB
entrepreneurial
program at an ACS
Regional Meeting

22. As seen in C&EN
October 14, 2013
issue: Saluting
Team Spirit

25. SCHB
regularly
hosts the
ACS
President-
Elect
candidates
at our
Executive
Committee
meeting
during the
Fall ACS
National
Meeting

26. SCHB members receive Salute to Excellence Award, from
ACS President Diane Grob Schmidt, for Presidential
programming at 2014-2016 ACS National Meetings at the
Atwater Museum, Philadelphia, PA, August 2016.

27. SCHB #ACSsanfran Program
Program Chair: J. Sabol
 Entrepreneurs’ Poster Session, Organizer: G. Ruger,
 Sunday 6pm-8pm, Halls B/C - Moscone Center
 SCI-MIX
 Monday 8pm-10pm, Hall D - Moscone Center
 Chemists & Writing for Fun & Profit: Write
Your Own Career. Organizer: L. Balbes
 Tuesday 8am-11:50am, Nikko Ballroom I, Hotel Nikko
 Entrepreneurship in Advanced Materials,
Technologies, Systems & Processes.
Organizer: P. Kearney
 Tuesday 1pm-4:55pm, Nikko Ballroom I - Hotel Nikko
 Cannabis: A Growing Sector for Business & Employment.
Organizers: E. Oltermann, E. Pryor
 Wednesday 8am-11:55am, Golden Gate - Hotel Nikko
SCHB AT ACS SAN
FRANCISCO
APRIL 2-6 2017

28. INTERNATIONAL
ENGAGEMENT IN
2017

29. ACS CEO Tom Connelly (L) and SCHB Program Chair
Joseph Sabol at #CSC2017 #Toronto

30. SCHB #ACSdc Program
Program Chair: J. Sabol
STAY TUNED FOR SCHB NATIONAL MEETING
PROGRAM UPDATES: http://acs-schb.org/

31. “Like” the SCHB Facebook page for frequently updated information
facebook.com/SCHBD
SCHB tweets:
twitter.com/ACSSCHB
Members only content on the ACS Network
Monthly eblast to members
Linked-In Discussion Group
Connect with SCHB