The Microbusiness Advancement Center is hosting a Women in Business Seminar, sponsored by State Farm Insurance and The Hispanic Women's Corporation.
Women in Business Seminar
Friday, November 13, 2009
8:00am – 12:00pm
Agenda:
7:30 am - 8:00 am Check-In & Continental Breakfast
8:10 am - 8:40 am Welcome & Opening Remarks
8:45 am - 10:00 am Business Tracks, choose between I or II
10:15 am - 11:15 am Entrepreneurs Panel
11:20 am - 11:50 am Keynote Closing & Evaluations
Cost:
$15 (in advance); limited to first 100 participants.
($20 after November 6, 2009)
To Register, please call
Microbusiness Advancement Center at 520-620-1241 by November 6, 2009
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Zara Larsen
President, The Larsen Group: Architects of Change
Dr. Larsen is dedicated to helping others unleash their potential through identifying their abilities and gifts. She will share her inspirations on embracing and managing the transitions we face in career and life with enthusiasm and confidence.
Choose Your Track*:
Track I
• What You Need to Know to Start & Manage Your Business
Presenter: Jerone Davis, Microbusiness Advancement Center
• “Business Ownership 101” by State Farm Agency
Track II
• Using Social Media to Attract and Retain Customers
Presenter: Cristie Street, Managing Partner, Nextrio LLC
• “Innovation in Marketing” by State Farm Agency
* English/Spanish translation service will be available upon request.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Schedule of no-cost workshops for entrepreneurs now available across Southern Arizona.
No cost workshops for entrepreneurs now available across Southern Arizona.
Studies demonstrate that the availability of technical training and education in new firm start-up issues--such as market research, business plan preparation, accessing funding, and so forth--is among three most critical factors of a vibrant entrepreneurial environment and economy.
We are pleased to announce the availability of more than 1,000, no-cost seats in entrepreneurship and idea generation workshops across the four Southern Arizona counties (Pima, Santa Cruz, Yuma, Cochise).
Workshops will be hosted by a variety of partners (listed below) and focusing on a range of entrepreneurial topics and populations. All workshops will be conducted in Southern Arizona between October 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010.
Whether you just have an idea for a business and don’t know where to go next—have a great idea and have formulated a high quality business plan, and need to know how to fund your start up—how to make your new start up green—or even how to apply for government SBIR/STTR grant to fund your start up, Tucson to Nogales and Yuma to Sells, there is a workshop for you. Workshop duration, frequency, and location varies, so please contact hosts directly, or McGuire Center for more information. Some restrictions may apply.
No-cost workshops are available through Innovation Frontier Arizona partnership and administered by the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship, The University of Arizona. Future workshops subject to fee.
Business Development for New Hispanic Entrepreneurs: What are the most common and effective strategies for potential entrepreneurs?
Business training to empower the entrepreneurial spirit and develop competencies to create successful business. Serving new and new-non post secondary Hispanic entrepreneurs. Open to individuals from all counties.
Contact: Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation
www.tucsonhispanicchamber.org
520.620.0005
Community Entrepreneurs Program
Critical skills and knowledge to formulate, validate, build effective strategies, and organize resources to bring high quality ideas to market. Santa Cruz County based. Open to all communities.
Contact: Santa Cruz County Community Programs Office
520.375.7663
Entrepreneurial Leadership and Strategic Thinking through the Creation of Actionable Objectives
Targeting key entrepreneurial elements: Vision; External Assessment; Internal Assessment; Creating Goals and Overcoming Obstacles
Contact: Bellows Consulting
www.bellowsconsulting.com
520-299-9169
Entrepreneurial Development Program
Economic development and workforce development impact workshop series serving clients in Pima and Santa Cruz Counties:
• Orientation to Entrepreneurship
• Introduction to Business Ownership
• Technology Basics
• Technology Tools for Marketing Series
• Government Procurement Series
Based in and serving Pima and Santa Cruz Counties
Contact: MicroBusiness Advancement Center
www.mac-sa.org
520.620-1241
Funding Your Innovation through the SBIR/STTR Programs
Targeting three aspects of SBIR/STTR application process. Limited Webinar seats in addition to in person workshops. Pima County based. Open to all communities.
Contact: Arizona Center for Innovation
www.azinnovation.com
520.382.3260
Gateways to Entrepreneurship
Monthly new business and business management workshops offered in two hour segments by Pima Community College faculty targeting local business districts. Includes child care. Pima County based. Open to all communities.
Contact Gateway Business Alliance
www.gbatucson.com
520.509.3917
Growing Green Business
Webinar based series of three workshops focusing on idea generation, funding, and development of financial projects—all for green business. Open to all communities.
Contact: PPEP Microbusiness and Housing Development Corporation
www.azsmallbusinessloans.com
520.889.4203
Idea Generation and Entrepreneurship Workshops—Cochise County
Entrepreneurship workshops focusing on the business formation and advancement needs of Cochise County
Contact: Cochise College Small Business Development Center
www.cochise.edu/conteducation/sbdc
520.515.5478
New Business and Entrepreneurship Workshops—Yuma
Workshops and courses serving all Yuma County entrepreneurship education needs.
Contact: Arizona Western College Community and Educational Partnerships, Entrepreneurial Center
www.azwestern.edu/learning_services/degrees_and_certificates/business_and_liberal_arts/occupational_certificates/Entrepreneurship.html
928.317/6180
NXLevel Entrepreneur: Workshops for Existing Business Owners and Enterprising Start-ups
12 two hour sessions over three week period focusing on producing a business plan for expansion or start up. Offered in Nogales for ___________
Contact: Nogales Community Development Corporation
www.nogalescdc.com
520.397.9219
To T-nako: Building O’odham Strength through Product Development
Product development and entrepreneurial skills for tribal members—current or aspiring entrepreneurs. Pima County based. Open to TO tribal members.
Contact: Community Development Financial Institute of the Tohono O’odham Nation
www.cdfiton.com
520.383.0790
All participating partners are committed to high quality entrepreneurship education, resources, and network.
Additional entrepreneurship education resources are available at all County One Stop Centers, Pima Community College, Cochise Community College, Arizona Western College, The University of Arizona.
Studies demonstrate that the availability of technical training and education in new firm start-up issues--such as market research, business plan preparation, accessing funding, and so forth--is among three most critical factors of a vibrant entrepreneurial environment and economy.
We are pleased to announce the availability of more than 1,000, no-cost seats in entrepreneurship and idea generation workshops across the four Southern Arizona counties (Pima, Santa Cruz, Yuma, Cochise).
Workshops will be hosted by a variety of partners (listed below) and focusing on a range of entrepreneurial topics and populations. All workshops will be conducted in Southern Arizona between October 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010.
Whether you just have an idea for a business and don’t know where to go next—have a great idea and have formulated a high quality business plan, and need to know how to fund your start up—how to make your new start up green—or even how to apply for government SBIR/STTR grant to fund your start up, Tucson to Nogales and Yuma to Sells, there is a workshop for you. Workshop duration, frequency, and location varies, so please contact hosts directly, or McGuire Center for more information. Some restrictions may apply.
No-cost workshops are available through Innovation Frontier Arizona partnership and administered by the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship, The University of Arizona. Future workshops subject to fee.
Business Development for New Hispanic Entrepreneurs: What are the most common and effective strategies for potential entrepreneurs?
Business training to empower the entrepreneurial spirit and develop competencies to create successful business. Serving new and new-non post secondary Hispanic entrepreneurs. Open to individuals from all counties.
Contact: Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation
www.tucsonhispanicchamber.org
520.620.0005
Community Entrepreneurs Program
Critical skills and knowledge to formulate, validate, build effective strategies, and organize resources to bring high quality ideas to market. Santa Cruz County based. Open to all communities.
Contact: Santa Cruz County Community Programs Office
520.375.7663
Entrepreneurial Leadership and Strategic Thinking through the Creation of Actionable Objectives
Targeting key entrepreneurial elements: Vision; External Assessment; Internal Assessment; Creating Goals and Overcoming Obstacles
Contact: Bellows Consulting
www.bellowsconsulting.com
520-299-9169
Entrepreneurial Development Program
Economic development and workforce development impact workshop series serving clients in Pima and Santa Cruz Counties:
• Orientation to Entrepreneurship
• Introduction to Business Ownership
• Technology Basics
• Technology Tools for Marketing Series
• Government Procurement Series
Based in and serving Pima and Santa Cruz Counties
Contact: MicroBusiness Advancement Center
www.mac-sa.org
520.620-1241
Funding Your Innovation through the SBIR/STTR Programs
Targeting three aspects of SBIR/STTR application process. Limited Webinar seats in addition to in person workshops. Pima County based. Open to all communities.
Contact: Arizona Center for Innovation
www.azinnovation.com
520.382.3260
Gateways to Entrepreneurship
Monthly new business and business management workshops offered in two hour segments by Pima Community College faculty targeting local business districts. Includes child care. Pima County based. Open to all communities.
Contact Gateway Business Alliance
www.gbatucson.com
520.509.3917
Growing Green Business
Webinar based series of three workshops focusing on idea generation, funding, and development of financial projects—all for green business. Open to all communities.
Contact: PPEP Microbusiness and Housing Development Corporation
www.azsmallbusinessloans.com
520.889.4203
Idea Generation and Entrepreneurship Workshops—Cochise County
Entrepreneurship workshops focusing on the business formation and advancement needs of Cochise County
Contact: Cochise College Small Business Development Center
www.cochise.edu/conteducation/sbdc
520.515.5478
New Business and Entrepreneurship Workshops—Yuma
Workshops and courses serving all Yuma County entrepreneurship education needs.
Contact: Arizona Western College Community and Educational Partnerships, Entrepreneurial Center
www.azwestern.edu/learning_services/degrees_and_certificates/business_and_liberal_arts/occupational_certificates/Entrepreneurship.html
928.317/6180
NXLevel Entrepreneur: Workshops for Existing Business Owners and Enterprising Start-ups
12 two hour sessions over three week period focusing on producing a business plan for expansion or start up. Offered in Nogales for ___________
Contact: Nogales Community Development Corporation
www.nogalescdc.com
520.397.9219
To T-nako: Building O’odham Strength through Product Development
Product development and entrepreneurial skills for tribal members—current or aspiring entrepreneurs. Pima County based. Open to TO tribal members.
Contact: Community Development Financial Institute of the Tohono O’odham Nation
www.cdfiton.com
520.383.0790
All participating partners are committed to high quality entrepreneurship education, resources, and network.
Additional entrepreneurship education resources are available at all County One Stop Centers, Pima Community College, Cochise Community College, Arizona Western College, The University of Arizona.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Microbusiness Advancement Center on KUAT!
Congratulations to our friends at MAC for the great recent piece by Tony Paniagua from KUAT's Arizona Illustrated. Click on the yellow title above or see http://ondemand.azpm.org/videoshorts/watch/2009/10/1/kuat-microbusiness-help/
summary of recent meetings about the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship’s distance learning initiative
Below is a summary of recent meetings about the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship’s distance learning initiative.
Two meetings were held in late September. Participants included Randy Accetta from the UA’s McGuire Center, Chuck Bolotin from OnTarget Consulting, Marie Wesselhoft from AZCI, Debbie Chandler and Lillian Perez from the Microbusiness Advancement Center, and Charlette Padilla from Pima Community College, as well as Tanya Hodges from the UA in Yuma and Matthew Anderson from Arizona Western College College. A host of others were invited but not able to attend.
McGuire’s general goals of meeting with these “steering committees,” if you will, were to learn what the regional educators community wants from distance learning, to seek any points of collaboration (and perhaps revenue sharing), and to get a sense of specific curriculum needs.
Key take-aways from the meetings include the following
1) Topics in entrepreneurship curriculum are remarkably consistent regardless of the educational level of the student; therefore, a module-based program would be well-suited to the region, so that clients, students, and others can insert themselves at the place on the wheel of information that best fits their particular needs (for example, a person can take one module for a single credit, then skip a module that covers material they know, and take the next module for credit);
2) Modular-self-paced courses are fine, but if there is room for interaction between faculty and students, all the better;
3) As McGuire develops full 16-week courses, it is best if they are for-credit, non-degree seeking undergraduate and graduate level courses (some have asked for junior-year 300-level courses, while others have asked for 500-level graduate courses);
4) A podcast library of free audio and video lectures on important entrepreneurship topics is needed for the region (allowing schools and organizations to recommend students/clients to view certain topics);
5) Teaching DL is a different process than teaching in a classroom, and requires specific training and specific skills.
McGuire’s next steps will be to design a host of short podcasts and full-length module-based courses, most likely using the UA’s Blackboard course management system. Some of these offerings will be available for free, some will be fee-based through the UA Outreach College, and some will have revenue-sharing opportunities. We hope to have this project well underway by January, and ready to implement in the Spring.
Two meetings were held in late September. Participants included Randy Accetta from the UA’s McGuire Center, Chuck Bolotin from OnTarget Consulting, Marie Wesselhoft from AZCI, Debbie Chandler and Lillian Perez from the Microbusiness Advancement Center, and Charlette Padilla from Pima Community College, as well as Tanya Hodges from the UA in Yuma and Matthew Anderson from Arizona Western College College. A host of others were invited but not able to attend.
McGuire’s general goals of meeting with these “steering committees,” if you will, were to learn what the regional educators community wants from distance learning, to seek any points of collaboration (and perhaps revenue sharing), and to get a sense of specific curriculum needs.
Key take-aways from the meetings include the following
1) Topics in entrepreneurship curriculum are remarkably consistent regardless of the educational level of the student; therefore, a module-based program would be well-suited to the region, so that clients, students, and others can insert themselves at the place on the wheel of information that best fits their particular needs (for example, a person can take one module for a single credit, then skip a module that covers material they know, and take the next module for credit);
2) Modular-self-paced courses are fine, but if there is room for interaction between faculty and students, all the better;
3) As McGuire develops full 16-week courses, it is best if they are for-credit, non-degree seeking undergraduate and graduate level courses (some have asked for junior-year 300-level courses, while others have asked for 500-level graduate courses);
4) A podcast library of free audio and video lectures on important entrepreneurship topics is needed for the region (allowing schools and organizations to recommend students/clients to view certain topics);
5) Teaching DL is a different process than teaching in a classroom, and requires specific training and specific skills.
McGuire’s next steps will be to design a host of short podcasts and full-length module-based courses, most likely using the UA’s Blackboard course management system. Some of these offerings will be available for free, some will be fee-based through the UA Outreach College, and some will have revenue-sharing opportunities. We hope to have this project well underway by January, and ready to implement in the Spring.
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