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Our 2023 Program is Underway!
The $1,000 Start-Ups Program occurs once each year with a group of entrepreneurs with a vision for starting their own business. The curriculum provides education, resources, and support for entrepreneurship, financial management, and life skills offered at no cost to adults with up to $1,000 business start-up funding.
The Program is open to anyone over the age of eighteen. Candidates selected for the program must be able to support themselves, or have a means of support, for at least two years after launching their business.
Two weekly one hour meetings held virtually via Zoom.
$1,000 Start-Ups offers the training, tools, and coaching to provide what’s needed at each business stage, including:
- Making the decision to start a business
- Deciding what business is right for you
- How to minimize your financial investment
- How to build your brand
- How to market your business
- Registering you business and taxes
- How to operate profitably
How It Works:
PHASE I:
Set Yourself and Your Business Up For Success
- Entrepreneurship, Financial Management, and Life Skills Training. (Zoom and In-Person)
- Each week’s homework applies what you’ve learned in the virtual incubator as you establish your business and prepare to run it successfully.
- Prototype Fair: Moves your business from concept to reality with the Cohort, displaying your products or service concept to friends, family, grantors, donors, and Consortium members.
PHASE II:
Launch Your Business, Build Your Network and Customer Base
- Classes continue through Phase II so you can immediately apply what you learn to your successful business launch.
- Small Business Fair I: Display with area businesses. After the fair, review results with the class
- Small Business Fair II: Promote your business with social media and display with area businesses.
- Small Business Fair III: Display with area businesses and celebrate your Graduation.
$1,000 Start-Ups In Action
