northeast kansas enterprise facilitation project brochure
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Enterprise Facilitation is growing communities one entrepreneur at a time in Northeast Kansas! Learn about this exciting free resource and how it helps entrepreneurs wanting to start a business and those with existing businesses. If you have ever dreamed of owning your own business or have a business and want to expand contact NEKEF!TRANSCRIPT
Teresa McAnerney Facilitator
www.nekef.org
Northeast Kansas Enterprise Facilitation
Teresa McAnerney Facilitator
www.nekef.org [email protected] 785-364-0583
P.O. Box 635 Wathena, KS 66090
Northeast Kansas Enterprise Facilitation is a proud sponsor of the Northeast Kansas Entrepreneurship Academy. The Academy is held on the Highland campus of Highland Community College. The dates for the 2012 Academy are June 18-21. The need to encourage an entrepreneurial attitude is crucial in the endeavor to inspire our youth to build their home town communities. The students learn vital skills needed to start and sustain a successful business. Topics covered include business plan creation, marketing, public relations, financial management, teambuilding, business etiquette, market research methods and much more.
Some NEKEF Board members with Facilitator McAnerney at Fall Fun Day at Mulberry Pond Pumpkin Patch.
Teresa McAnerney NEKEF Facilitator
Linda Honeyman of Settle Inn, Seneca, gives a presentation on marketing, and how to wisely spend your advertising budget.
Academy Students are able to cut a TV commercial for their business Compliments of Rainbow NEK .
Northeast Kansas Entrepreneurship Academy
Northeast Kansas Enterprise Facilitation is a nonprofit organization which offers
free and confidential business coaching in Northeast Kansas. We are a group of over
sixty volunteers from five counties who care passionately about the success and sustain-ability of our rural Northeast Kansas region. We formed the Facilitation Board in order to assist our rural entrepreneurs in creating or maintaining their small business ventures. The NEKEF board provides an Enterprise
Facilitator who gives intensive, one-on-one assistance to the entrepreneur, educating him or her in the “Trinity of Management”, a concept that teaches each entrepreneur how to put a successful business and a
business team into place.
Cornerstone Coffee Haus
Seneca, KS
Northeast Kansas Enterprise Facilitation Who We Help
The service of Northeast Kansas Enterprise Facilitation is free and confidential to any
local individual with an idea for starting or expanding a business in: Atchison,
Jackson, Doniphan, Brown, and Nemaha counties. Besides using the
intelligence and resources of the community-wide board, the Facilitator also
links clients to programs and resources offered by economic development organizations and professionals.
Project Outcomes*
Clients assisted: 739 Jobs created/retained: 285
Businesses created/retained:85 *June 2003-February 2012
Mulberry Pond Pumpkin Patch
Hiawatha, KS
The Artist Box
Atchison, KS
Werner Wagon Works & Guesthouse
Horton, KS
Canyon Creek Candies & Bakery
Wathena, KS
How We Help Examples of some of the services that we provide include: helping in creation of a business plan, marketing strategies,
attaining licenses, funding options, networking with development resources, management team building and
much more! The Facilitator and board will assist in anyway possible in helping the entrepreneur achieve their goals.