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Existing Business Initiative - Upcoming Opportunities
| March 24 | March Executive Spotlight Seminar: NegotiationFlagship Enterprise Center (2701 Enterprise Drive, I-69 Exit 22) - 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Most inexperienced negotiators remain so focused on their position they ignore creative solutions that would meet their underlying interests. This program helps you identify and analyze your needs and expectations in negotiation. It teaches you how to successfully get you from where you are to where you want to be with negotiable proposals and mutually beneficial counterproposals.
Hosted by: AU Professional Development Services & Flagship Enterprise Center
Cost: $179 includes continental breakfast, lunch, and seminar materials.
Half-price discounts are available for FEC clients, non-profit employees, and persons receiving unemployment benefits through WorkOne
Contact Name: Kerrie Aborn
Contact Phone: 765-648-2889, toll-free: 877-428-2765 x2889
Contact E-mail: pds@anderson.edu
Registration Required
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| March 29 | Certified EPA Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting (RRP) TrainingFranklin University at Indianapolis (8415 Allison Pointe Boulevard, Suite 400, Indianapolis) - 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
March 29th, 30th OR 31st
IACED (Indiana Association for Community Economic Development), with assistance from IHCDA, is pleased to offer the Certified EPA Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting (RRP) Training. As a result of this training, attendees will have the opportunity to become Certified Lead Renovators. This eight-hour class was developed by the U.S. EPA and it is designed to train contractors who perform building renovations or repairs and painting. The course includes health concerns, regulations, work procedures, recordkeeping, and training non-certified workers.
The typical audience for this course includes renovators, remodelers, painters, maintenance personnel, and any other workers removing or modifying painted surfaces.
Registration Fee: $25 for IACED members, $50 for non-members (continental breakfast and lunch included)
The registration deadline for this training is Friday March 19; but REGISTER EARLY, it is expected to reach capacity much sooner than the registration deadline. Check-in is from 7:30 am to 8 am on the day of the training.
Contact Name: Lynn Kirkland
Contact Phone: 317-920-2300
Contact E-mail: lkirkland@iaced.org
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Registration Not Required
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| March 29 | Indiana Companies to Watch Awards Program -
Nominations are now being accepted for the third annual Indiana Companies to Watch awards program. The competition is designed to recognize privately held businesses that employ six to 150 full-time employees and have between $750,000 to $100 million in annual revenue or working capital. Winners of the awards will be recognized Aug. 26 during an awards dinner at the Indiana Roof Ballroom in Indianapolis. Indiana Companies to Watch is presented by the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, its Small Business Development Centers and Purdue University in Association with the Edward Lowe Foundation.
Nomination Deadline: Monday, March 29, 2010
Application Deadline: Monday, April 12, 2010 (Companies may apply without being nominated)
For more information, please go to www.Indiana.companiestowatch.org.
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Registration Not Required
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| March 30 | March Brunch+Learn: Listen Up! Customer Research on Little or No BudgetFlagship Enterprise Center (2701 Enterprise Drive, I-69 Exit 22) - 8:30 - 11:30 am
If you do not sell something, your business will die. In these challenging days, a business must have its ear to the ground. This seminar will give the business practitioner practical, low or no cost ways to conduct market research. What you learn from the customer can increase your profits. It may actually save your business. Come and learn how to make hearing "customer voice" one of your keys to success.
Cost: $49 includes breakfast buffet, seminar materials and networking opportunities. Discount options for FEC clients and AU employees, students and alumni will be listed at the end of the registration process and will be applied to your total before checkout. Pre-payment by credit card is required. Reservations are non-refundable.
Sponsored by: St. John’s Health System
Contact Name: Kerrie Aborn
Contact Phone: 765-648-2889, toll-free: 877-428-2765 x2889
Contact E-mail: pds@anderson.edu
Website
Registration Required
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| April 26 | SCORE Workshop (Every Monday in April 2010) - 6:30 – 8:30 pm
SCORE will be hosting a series of workshops at the Flagship Enterprise Center every Monday in the month of April. Led by SCORE counselors, Lyle Crouse, Bill Christman, Barb Alder, and Karl Grady sessions will begin with keys to starting a business followed by business vision and planning, marketing, financials, and business loans.
Dates: Every Monday in the month of April 2010
Cost: FREE
Contact Name: Lyle Crouse
Contact E-mail: crouselp@att.net
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Registration Required
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| April 30 | Indiana Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program -
Lt. Governor Becky Skillman announced the availability of $4.5 million in competitive grants for energy efficiency upgrades. Indiana Small businesses, health care facilities, institutions of higher education and non profit agencies are all eligible to apply for the grants. The program will make grants up to $100,000 for any energy efficiency retrofit project available with a 50% local match. The grants are part of the Indiana Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program, which is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act stimulus package that came to Indiana from the U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE). It is administered by the Indiana Office of Energy Development (OED).
Application Period: Monday, March 1 – Friday, April 30, 2010
For more information or to apply for this grant, please go to www.Energy.IN.gov after March 1st.
Grant awards will be announced the week of May 24th, 2010 pending review and approval of USDOE.
Registration Not Required
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| May 11 | Save the Date! - 2nd Annual GROW ConferenceFlagship Enterprise Center - 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Uncertainty in today’s economy is causing many businesses to rethink business strategies, and try to determine the best course of action to survive. This conference is designed to give the business owner some tools with which to evaluate a business’s situation, and develop strategies for growth. Experts in the fields of manufacturing, efficiency, leadership, and marketing, will be sharing information to help your business GROW in the current economic climate.
Contact Name: Erika DeLaRosa
Contact Phone: 765-622-1628
Contact E-mail: erika@flagshipenterprise.org
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Registration Required
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