Theme of the Month:
Crowdfunding
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This month's theme is Crowdfunding: Is it an effective investment tool for businesses, like yours, to use? What are the possibilities and hazards? Will the JOBS Act help or hinder your use of this tool?
Please share your questions and comments with us.
Read Articles on Crowdfunding.
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What We're Reading:
Catalyzing Networks
for Social Change
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"Working with a network mindset means operating with an awareness of the webs of relationships you are embedded in. It also means cultivating these relationships to achieve the impact you care about."
Feel free to email us a paragraph or two about What You're Reading.
More News from Hannah Grimes
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Needs & Offerings
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Invitation to Join Monadnock Buy Local: We invite you to join Monadnock Buy Local, a network of retailers, service providers, restaurateurs, non-profit organizations and more. We're starting our third year and hope to connect with you, your business and your customers and clients to build a stronger "think local first" movement in our region. Membership applications are due Tuesday, May 1. Contact: MonadnockBuyLocal@gmail.com; 603-352-5063.
*The Hannah Grimes Center is posting these classifieds as a service to readers and does not imply endorsement. Add your own classified ad: Send a 20-30 word description of your service or product that is directly supporting entrepreneurs to jen@hannahgrimes.com. Make sure to include the best way to contact you.
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Networking With KeeneYPN
Keene Young Professionals Network & Keene State College Career Support
Tuesday, April 17, 6 p.m.
KSC Centennial Hall, Keene
| Networking is a vital skill in today's world. At this session we will explore strategies, hear advice from seasoned professionals, and have the opportunity to brush-up our skills. Participants will include young professionals, alumni of Keene State College, and students interested in learning about how this skill can give them the edge they need for a successful career. RSVP rberkey@keene.edu or on Facebook.
"Managing Conflict in the Workplace" Workshop Hannah Grimes Center Wednesday, April 25, Noon - 1:30 p.m. HGC Suite C, Keene
Learn to diagnose and diffuse tension in the workplace, create a healthy workplace culture and utilize conflict as an opportunity to learn and improve services. Audience: All levels of businesses from any industry. Presenter: Adriana Elliot, Cheshire Mediation, LLC. Cost: Free. Register today!
Green Serial Entrepreneur Antioch University New England
Net Impact Chapter Thursday, April 19, 4 - 6 p.m. AUNE Community Room, Keene
"It has been my passion to build businesses that have a social and environmental responsibility," says Andrew Keller, who has founded several successful green companies on the New Hampshire seacoast.
Keller is vice president of product development at Revolution Energy LLC and the Entrepreneur in Residence at the Green Launching Pad, a public and private sector initiative between the University of New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Office of Energy and Planning and the U.S. Department of Energy that enables local start-ups to bring green solutions to market. Keller is also a Mel King Community Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He founded Simply Green Hydroseeding and Simply Green Biofuels, and is a co-founder of the Green Alliance. For more information, contact Becky Holt at rholt1@antioch.edu.
Monadnock Green Business of the Year Award Ceremony During the Monadnock Earth Festival Saturday, April 21, 2 p.m. Keene Recreation Center, Keene
Come celebrate the winner of The Monadnock Green Business of the Year Award during the Monadnock Earth Festival. Mayor Kendall Lane will present this award that recognizes one socially and environmentally responsible business in the Monadnock Region. This year's nominees are Dave's Automotive Enterprises, The Mountain Corporation and The Works Bakery Cafe. This honor is being awarded by the Keene Cities for Climate Protection Committee in partnership with the Hannah Grimes Center, the Monadnock Sustainability Network and the Greater Keene Chamber of Commerce. For further information contact Rhett Lamb, City Planner at 603-352-5474.
Business to Business
Brown Bag Lunch
Applying Principals of Project Management & Business Analysis to Purchasing a Business Greater Keene Chamber of CommerceFriday, May 11, Noon - 1 p.m. GKCC, Keene
Larry Sportello, owner and operator of Budget Blinds in the Greater Monadnock area, made an important career decision to leave his established sales director job to become his own boss and made his dream a reality. Larry will share how he applied project management principles (and business analysis) to start up and manage his new business. His project management background and experience proved to be truly valuable in this venture. Bring your own lunch; beverages will be provided. Call 603-352-1303 to reserve a seat. Cost: $5 for Members/$15 for Non-Members: http://www.keenechamber.com/cm/events.
Slow Living Summit
Wednesday - Friday, May 30 - June 1
Downtown Brattleboro, VT
The Slow Living Summit will examine ongoing and potential actions in many areas, always with an action-oriented focus on stating problems, identifying resources and proposing solutions. In addition to all of the above, we are building plenty of time in our schedule for Slow Spaces - time, space and facilitation of spontaneous discussions, collaborations, presentations and networking. Speakers and panelists at the 2012 Summit will lead conversations organized into three overarching themes: - Slow Economics: Exploring economics based on collaboration and integrity rather than extraction and wealth-creation
- Slow Communities: Tools for building healthy, sustainable and resilient communities
- Slow Policies: Economic policy and fostering public-private collaboration
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Looking for More Events? NHNR's Spring Conference Monday, May 14, 8 a.m. Sheraton Harborside, Portsmouth
NH365.org
NH Small Business Development Center
NH Business Resource Center
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 New Law Lets Small Businesses Use Crowdfunding
By Joyce M. Rosenberg Originally Posted at Businessweek | Crowdfunding is a method of raising money from a large number of people and it's generally done online. Charities have been using it for years -- the Internet and social networking sites such as Facebook have made it possible for them to reach millions of donors. Companies in India have also used crowdfunding to raise money.
The JOBS Act:
What You Need To Know
The ink is still drying on a piece of legislation that President Obama signed today, and the new law is good news for entrepreneurs seeking capital. Here's a rundown of what is in the law and why it matters to you and your business.
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From RocketHub's Crowdfunding Bootcamp
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Changing the World Responsibly By Candace Klein, Originally Posted at CSRWire
As a business owner who is directly affected by this legislation, I want to be able to invite borrowers and peer lenders onto my site as quickly as possible. However, my interest is for the best interest of my customers - borrowers and lenders. I want to be a pioneer in an industry that will be hailed a century from now as the new era for small business access to capital. I want to be remembered by future generations as a CEO who truly cared for the small business borrower (and lender).
Three Models of Crowdfunding
Donation Model
Campaigns gather hundreds of small donations to achieve a financing goal (growth/expansions or start up). Donors choose their benefactors and feel good about contributing to an economic or artistic endeavor.
Reward Model
Supporters make a monetary contribution in return for a reward of some sort. The rewards can be wholly intangible, such as being identified publicly as a supporter, or a t-shirt.
Equity Model
Investors receive an interest in the profits of the business that they are helping fund. A crowd funding exemption to SEC regulations has been signed to law. What impact will this have on Main Street?
Watch the Archives of
BALLE's Webinar Series:
Accelerating Community Capital
For the first time, a growing number of investors are considering local options. With a new generation of local investment institutions and supportive public policies, literally trillions of dollars could move from Wall Street to Main Street, creating millions of new jobs and helping to build vibrant local economies.
What are the most promising new models to connect your local businesses with local lenders, investors, and donors?... Review pioneering efforts around the country with respect to local banking, credit unions, slow-money investing, cooperatives, self-directed IRAs, local investing clubs, and local stock exchanges.
Want to watch one of these archived webinars
at the Hannah Grimes Center? Contact us.
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