Turn Your Idea into a Plan this Spring

Progress Lakeshore has teamed up with UW Green Bay’s SBDC Entrepreneurial Training Program to offer you invaluable assistance in crafting a comprehensive strategy for a successful business. In this program, you will acquire the skills to identify your target market, assess their requirements, and utilize this valuable insight to create a practical and viable plan for launching or expanding your business.

You will learn to:

  • Organize and better manage your business.
  • Identify opportunities and market your business.
  • Understand financials: costs, revenue streams, profit margins, and cash flow for your business.
  • Learn the process to obtain funding for your business.
  • Complete a business plan or workbook that can become the foundation for a full business plan.
  • Connect with other entrepreneurs.
  • Develop a network of small business support services.
  • Receive confidential one-on-one consulting.

Through instruction and guest speakers, the course serves those entrepreneurs who are considering starting a business, owners of existing businesses who want to get a handle on all the details, and those owners with successful companies who want to grow.

In-Person Class –  Limited to 15 Participants 

Class Dates: March 26 – May 21 (No Class May 7)

Time: Thursday nights from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM CST

Location: Progress Lakeshore Office, 202 N. 8th St, Suite 101, Manitowoc, WI, 54220

Fee:

***One-time Scholarship Opportunity Available***

Cost of Course: The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) will offer qualified applicants an Entrepreneur Training Grant* that covers 75% of the $1,000 course fee, reducing the cost to $250. Additionally, Progress Lakeshore Foundation and UnitedOne Credit Union are offering a limited number of $200 Scholarships*, bringing those participants’ fees to $50! Space in the course is limited and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

**To receive the grant and scholarship** participants must apply, complete the course and submit a quality workbook within 2 weeks of the final class session. Participants who accept these funding opportunities but do not complete the course and workbook will be responsible for the entire course fee of $1,000.

Application process for the WEDC Grant ($750):

Once the participant has successfully completed the course and submitted a quality workbook, the Small Business Development Center-UWGB office will serve as proxy to complete the WEDC grant application form for the participant. The information provided in the “Letter of Intent”, completed by the participant prior to the start of the course, will be used to complete this application. The SBDC-UWGB will notify the participant of the WEDC grant completion.

To apply for the Progress Lakeshore Foundation and UnitedOne Credit Union Scholarship ($200)**, please contact Ann Flad-Jesion at ann@progresslakeshore.org.

***Grant and scholarship recipients must attend at least 75% of classes and complete a workbook within 2 weeks of finishing the course, or recipients will be responsible for the full $1,000.***

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