Free program aims to help small business owners, entrepreneurs

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno Pacific University's Center for Community Transformation is gearing up to springiness tiny concern owners adept grooming connected a assortment of targeted topics.

The Entrepreneurship Program Coordinator, Gladys Martinez, says the caller "Rural Ignite Business Accelerator" programme is unfastened to anyone and everyone.

"It's a large opportunity, particularly for immoderate agrarian concern that wants to commencement oregon accelerate their business. We truly privation to assistance enactment and springiness them the tools and resources for them to turn their business," Martinez said.

The conception came to beingness past twelvemonth arsenic the CCT launched the Rural Business Development Initiative.

"We started disconnected with immoderate roundtable discussions, immoderate workshops and identified immoderate opportunities for businesses to beryllium capable to accelerate their business, and that's what the agrarian concern accelerator ignite is made up of," Martinez said.

The programme offers 5 antithetic learning tracks: Business Finance Foundations, Culinary Pathways, Sales Through Service, Branding/Marketing/Message and Nonprofit Catalyst.

Each way is 4 weeks long.

Participants tin motion up for 1 way oregon each of them, wholly escaped of charge.

Martinez says it volition assistance entrepreneurs summation caller perspectives and insights.

"I deliberation it's a mode for them to beryllium capable to spot their concern done a antithetic lens and however to accelerate it," Martinez said.

She says that by the extremity of the 4 weeks, they privation entrepreneurs to determination guardant with confidence.

"We are hoping they locomotion distant with the tools and the resources indispensable to beryllium capable to accelerate their concern to the adjacent level," Martinez said.

Sessions opening this week successful Reedley are full, but in-person sessions successful Selma statesman successful March, and online sessions statesman successful June.

You tin find much accusation and registry for an upcoming league by clicking here.

CCT besides offers the Launchpad program that aims to marque people's dreams of starting a tiny concern a reality.

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