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Last chance for:
Donor Stewardship Workshop- How to Transition Your Donors to Commitment and Loyalty
With Anne Peyton and Jennifer Hayslett
Thursday, January 31, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Hannah Grimes Center, Keene
Cost: $20
This workshop, taught at the APF NNE November conference, covers the nuts and bolts of designing, implementing, and evaluating your stewardship program. Whether you're starting a new program, have your feet wet with enough visits with donors to want more, or at a 'we do this well' stage, learn in this 'how to' workshop to grow your program. We'll use a worksheet to analyze what you're doing now, goals for the future, and budgeting for success in managing your message, managing your records, and managing relationship building. Click here to register and for more information.
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Introducing... Hannah Herself!
I have often been asked if I have a picture of Hannah Grimes. I do have a picture of her lovely home from 1883, but no picture of her. Born, quite notably, in 1776, but married at 30, I always imagined she might have been plain. Or, now that I have a teenage daughter of my own, maybe her parents more successfully exercised the "brick on her head" method of keeping their daughter from growing up too quickly. I have often tried to imagine her at what is now my lovely home and now I have some help. Hannah Grimes Marketplace member and highly regarded folk artist Tim Campbell has donated a painting of Hannah Herself that will reside at the Hannah Grimes Center with prints available for sale at the Marketplace. It is beautiful, I got a quick peek yesterday.
Why is it important in the 21st century for us to know or care about a woman born in the 18th century? She provides a great example for us today. What she and her family could not do, make or grow for themselves, they bought from or traded with friends and neighbors in a regional marketplace that positively bustled. A strong local marketplace for goods and services weaves people and communities together in interdependent economic relationships. A lot has changed since Hannah Grimes Marketplace opened in 1997, in this case, for the better. There is a growing awareness of the value of buying locally and of how easy it is for each of us to contribute to a region will shine as one with a vibrant, entrepreneurial community that maximizes economic opportunity.
A community of people and businesses committed to local trade whenever possible will showcase this region's resources, highlight its delicious tastes, support its distinctive arts and industry, and honors, enriches and connects its people.
Have fun doing your part!
Keep up the good work,
Mak
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Business and Nonprofit Coaching
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Working on your 2013 plan for your business?
Serving on a board and working on a strategic, fundraising or marketing plan?
Schedule a free session with one of the professionals available monthly at Hannah Grimes:
Dave Chase of DRC Consulting
Nonprofit Coaching Every First Friday of the Month
Available for one hour sessions from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Ann Connor of AdviCoach
Every Fourth Monday of the Month
Available for one hour sessions from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
David Deziel of Nebesek Marketing and Communication
Every First Tuesday of Every other Month
Available for one hour sessions from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Katie Gardella of Prosper Fundraising Strategies
Nonprofit Coaching Every Third Monday of the Month
Available for half hour sessions from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Rich Grogan of NH-SBDC
Every Monday
Available for two hour sessions from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Helaine Iris of Path of Purpose Coaching
Every Second Wednesday of the Month
Available for half hour sessions from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
If you are interested, contact Jillian at Hannah Grimes
or call 603-352-5063.
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Neighbor Made Kitchen to be Featured on NH Chronical
Originally posted on WMUR
The Hannah Grimes Center is in the early stages of working with Neighbor Made to help build needed business skills for new food-based businesses. Keene-based Steve Ryder's Neighbor Made Kitchen is an outstanding example of a creative, entrepreneurial approach to developing small, local specialty foods businesses. Read more...
Artist Tim Campbell to host an
Open Gallery
Thursday, February 7, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Hannah Grimes Center, Keene
Award winning artist Tim Campbell is a self-taught traditional folk artist. His work is in galleries throughout New England, Atlanta, San Francisco and also in the American Folk Art Museum in New York City and the Boston Tea Party Museum. Read more...
Incubator Office Space Available at the Hannah Grimes Center
The Business Incubator Program at the Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship includes business development and educational services, professional networking and peer-learning, and supported, private and shared office space. Read more...
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QuickBooks I - The Frame of your Financial Puzzle
Tuesday, February 5, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
217R Old Homestead Highway, Swanzey
Cost: $80
This class offers beginners a chance to familiarize themselves with the basics: how to get started, how to set up a company, working with lists and bank accounts, and how to back up and restore your CDs and thumb drives. For more information and to register email info@lcrcpa.com or call 603-358-6565.
QuickBooks II - Piecing Together your Financial Puzzle
With Lynn Rust
Thursday, February 7, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
217R Old Homestead Highway, Swanzey
Cost: $80
This intermediate class teaches users how to work with credit cards, asset and liability accounts, and equity accounts; entering sales and creating invoices, entering and paying bills, analyzing financial data with QuickBooks reporting; how to backup and restore to local and off-site locations; and preparing your financial data for your accountant. For more information and to register email info@lcrcpa.com or call 603-358-6565.
How to Create and Motivate a Team
With Maddie Weinreich
Thursday, February 7, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Hannah Grimes Center, Keene
Cost: free
People are your business's greatest asset. Whether you work with a staff, a team, a business partner, suppliers, clients, or customers, how you work together influences everything! Join in on the conversation to learn some simple skills and tools to improve your work relationships. Click here to register.
Keene Toastmasters
Thursday, February 7, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Hannah Grimes Center, Keene
Cost:$60 bi-annual fee, with guests welcome every meeting!
Toastmasters is a place where you develop and grow - both personally and professionally. You join a community of learners, and at Toastmasters meetings we learn by doing. Whether you're an executive or a sole proprietor it is important to build skills to express yourself in a variety of situations. For more information, contact Chris Ekblom at 603-721-1004.
SMART Goals
With Rich Grogan
Tuesday, February 19, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Hannah Grimes Center, Keene
Cost: free
The SMART Goals workshop will start by defining SMART goals, and will also cover the reasons that a business might want to set SMART goals, and how these goals can be used as tools to help businesses both define and achieve strategic objectives. Participants will be given a tool that outlines a process to help them to write SMART goals on their own. Click here to register.
Business Start-Up Program
With Helaine Iris
Thursday, February 28, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Hannah Grimes Center, Keene
Cost: $600, with scholarship opportunities available
The Hannah Grimes Business Start-Up Program is modeled after our proven 6-month business development program, the Entrepreneur Project and covers content relevant to new business owners and is also six months long. You will learn the skills and receive the support you need to reach your business goals - in the company of other like-minded entrepreneurs. Click here to register.
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Workforce Investment Act (WIA) On-the-Job Training Program
OJT provides reimbursements to employers to help compensate for the costs associated with skills upgrade training and loss of production for newly hired employees. OJT training can assist employers who are looking to expand their businesses and who need additional staff trained with job specific skills. OJT employers may receive up to 50% of the wage rate of OJT trainees to help defray personnel training costs. For more information contact Jim Bingham or call 603-225-3295 ext. 1176.
Accion USA:
Small Business Loans; Financial and Business Advice
As a leader in U.S. microfinance, Accion is committed to bringing affordable small business loans to microentrepreneurs. Accion has provided over $119 million in over 19,000 microloans since inception in 1991, helping to grow small businesses and strengthen the communities they serve. Contact Accion at info@accionusa.org or view material on Small Business Loans.
Kiva Zip:
A Nonprofit Organization that Provides 0% Interest Loans to Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners in the US and Globally
Through the 'crowd-funding' website, Kiva Zip is making interest free loans of up to $5,000 with a one year term, and connecting borrowers with individuals in their local community and the online community, who are willing to lend borrowers a minimum of $25. Kiva Zip has loaned over $100,000 in San Francisco, Oakland, L.A., Pittsburgh and St. Louis so far in 2012, and is looking to expand in New Hampshire. Businesses that have received funding include farmers, artists, coffee shop owners and businesses with a strong social mission. The loans are changing lives by creating jobs in local communities and giving entrepreneurs the capital they need to launch or grow their business. For more information on receiving a loan, making a loan or sponsoring a borrower please contact Kiva Zip at contactZip@kiva.org or visit Zip.Kiva.org for more information.
For other financing options, visit the Hannah Grimes website.
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2012 Hannah Grimes Center Key Partners
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