3/29/10
For Release: Immediate
Media Advisory: Request for Media Coverage
Contact: Gigi Guyton
Microenterprise Coordinator
Women, Work and Community
175 Main St.
South Portland, ME 04106
207-799-5025
gigi.guyton@maine.edu
Women, Work, and Community present the work of New Ventures participants
Business Plans to be presented
Fourteen (14) new entrepreneurs, from York and Cumberland counties, will be presenting business plans as part of their training in a program offered through the Maine Centers for Women, Work, and Community (www.womenworkandcommunity.org).
The New VenturesTM Entrepreneurship program is an intensive 60 hour class that takes an in depth look at topics such as: your customer, competition, marketing, record keeping, taxes, legal aspects, financing, and operations. To wrap up their course work, each participant is required to present a business plan.
Scheduled to be presented are a wide range of business plans, from an engineer in Cumberland, a building contractor in Lebanon and a manufacturer of eco-friendly bunk beds in Brunswick to a perfumery in Hollis Center, and Ornamental Ironworker in Unity and an event planner in South Portland (and several more).
We hope you will join us as these participants present their plans to the public, peers and supporters. Entrepreneurs as well as staff from Women, Work, and Community will be available to speak with the media.
When                                                                       Where:
March 31st, 2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 175 Main St.
9:15a-1:30pm (presentations)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â South Portland, Me 04106
1:30-3:00pm (graduation/celebration)
The mission of Maine Centers for Women, Work, and Community (WWC) is to improve the economic lives of Maine women and their families by increasing their income, assets, and earning potential and their overall quality of life.
