Student Tribune
Save the Date Friday, November 2: MCC Celebrates Local Entrepreneurs, Launch Your Business! Finalists
To inspire local entrepreneurs and connect them with available resources to
start or grow a business in the Rochester and Finger Lakes region, MCC and the
MCC Foundation have partnered with the Everyday Entrepreneur Venture Fund to
host Entrepreneurship Day, 7:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, November 2 at MCC's
Downtown Campus. The event is free, open to the public and includes lunch.
Registration is required and available online at www.monroecc.edu/go/eday/.
Entrepreneu
rship Day offers a community resource expo, networking opportunities,
sessions on ways to turn ideas into businesses, resource and funding panel
sessions, and presentations from successful entrepreneurs. Dixon Schwabl Chief
Executive Officer Lauren Dixon and Sonya Allen of Sonya Allen Interiors are
featured keynote presenters.
Attendees will also hear from MCC alumni and students who successfully
pitched new businesses at Scholars' Day in April and are participating in the
college's first-ever Launch Your Business! Challenge. After taking the
MCC Corporate College Launch Your
Business! Certificate Series over the summer and working with mentors
from the local business community, five aspiring entrepreneurs are now vying
for up to $50,000 in venture funding made possible by the Everyday Entrepreneur
Venture Fund. Finalists include Francine Burks, Oushawndra Chavers, Patricia
Drumright, Wayne Howard and Mary McCormack.
Private philanthropy via the MCC Foundation and support from the local
business community and have helped shape Entrepreneurship Day. MCC is one of
four U.S. community colleges to receive funding from the Everyday Entrepreneurs Venture Fund
to help students launch community-based businesses.
Please join us on November 2 at the Downtown Campus to celebrate the success
of our students and encourage entrepreneurship in our community.
Questions? Contact us at launchbiz@monroecc.edu.
Kathleen Borbee, Business Administration & Economics and Marj Crum,
VaPA
Co-chairs, Launch Your Business!
Borbee, Kathleen
Business Administration & Economics
10/12/2018