Greater Green Bay Chamber recently issued the following announcement.
Funding Your Business - E2 series by the Greater Green Bay Chamber
Date and time
Tue, January 18, 2022
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM CST
Location
The Urban Hub
340 North Broadway
#Suite 200
Green Bay, WI 54303
United States
On Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022, the Greater Green Bay Chamber will host a very special Entrepreneur Education Panel at the Urban Hub in Downtown Green Bay.
There are many options to fund your small business or startup. Hear firsthand from an expert panel of area funders and entrepreneurs on the various ways to tackle funding, while continuing to grow and expand.
This conversation, along with Ryan Kauth of GreenLeaf Bank, will take a deep dive on all non-traditional funding sources, including:
Nonbank microloan options (featuring panelist Colleen Bies, MBA with WWBIC)
0% interest crowdfunded loans (featuring panelist Jennifer Nowicki with Cultivate Taste Tea)
Crowdfunded cash/Kickerstarter campaigns (featuring panelist Celeste Parins with Voyageurs Sourdough Bakehouse)
Options from your municipality (featuring panelist Wendy Townsend with City of Green Bay)
If you’re a small business owner or entrepreneur in the Greater Green Bay area, or just generally curious about how the process works, join us to hear from individuals who have navigated these waters and done it all before!
Date: Jan 18th, 2022
Time: 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Location: The Urban Hub, 340 N Broadway St, Suite 200, Green Bay WI
Registration is preferred but not required in order to attend this free event.
About the panelists:
Colleen Bies
Born and raised in Wisconsin, Colleen Bies is a believer in community. Prior to her role as Regional Project Director for Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation (WWBIC), Colleen served in the Army National Guard, worked in finance, and created two businesses as an entrepreneur. She is dedicated to servicing her community and supporting her family.
She has been married for 14 years and has a son. Learn more about Colleen with her 2019 TEDxOshkosh talk on Why Children of Immigrants Work so hard.
Jennifer Nowicki
Jennifer Nowicki has a dual degrees in Business Administration and Humanistic Studies. She has expertise in tea, being Wisconsin’s only certified tea specialist (since 2009) and one of just eight U. S. representatives invited by the Chinese government to two world tea conferences in China. She also has earned rarely-found accolades for her tea business, Cultivate Taste: the only Wisconsin representative invited to the prestigious 2019 Draper Competition for Collegiate Women Entrepreneurs and the first to represent UW-Green Bay at the competition.
Celeste Parins
Celeste Parins, Co-Owner of Voyageurs Bakehouse alongside her husband Ben Cadman, is a Green Bay native with global experience. While spending 10 years living abroad in Asia & Australia, she focused her career working in digital marketing and publishing. Little did she know that when a little baby would come into her life, this globe-trotting girl would quickly be grounded back to her Green Bay roots. Celeste and Ben saw this as an opportunity to take their global lens and experience, and see the opportunities in her familiar Green Bay community. With a dream of being a serial entrepreneur and committed mother, Voyageurs is her first undertaking, and is invariably optimistic about the path that lies ahead.
Wendy Townsend
Growing up in a local family business that has been beautifying the community for the past 100+ years seems like a natural career segway for Wendy Townsend. She is a former business owner herself and entrepreneur with a passion for community development. She has helped businesses thrive and connected them to resources through her work at the Greater Green Bay Chamber and has been working the past seven years for the City of Green Bay in the Community and Economic Development Department, where she oversees the Revolving Loan Program and the Business Expansion and Retention Program and has served as a staff liaison for the City’s Business Improvement Districts (BID’s) for the past two years. She is active on many boards and is currently serving on the Room Tax Commission, ASPIRO, Curative Connection, Jobs Center – Workforce Development Committee, Active Communities Alliance and the Greater Green Bay Chamber - Public Policy Council. She is a member of the International Economic Development Council and a graduate from Leadership Green Bay Class of 2012.
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