The Hannah Grimes Center
The Center for Entrepreneurship: The Hannah Grimes Business Incubator Program
“A home away from home” for small business providing education, support and below-market rates on professional space to small businesses in a “Mixed-Use Incubator” setting.
Business incubators nurture the development of entrepreneurial companies, helping them survive and grow during their start-up period when they are most vulnerable to failure. According to the National Businesses Incubation Association, businesses that participate in incubators see their rate of survival increase to 87% versus a 44% survival rate for a non-incubated business. Research has shown that for every $1 of estimated public operating subsidy provided the incubator, clients and graduates of incubators generate approximately $30 in local tax revenue alone.
This “economic gardening”, or growing your own businesses locally versus recruiting businesses to an area, has been demonstrated to have greater economic and social benefits to the community as the owners are more committed and involved in their communities and the dollars from these businesses circulate more in the local economy than non-local businesses.
Resources Available to Incubator businesses:
- Office Space
- Business Support Services
- Networking Opportunities
- Convenient Location
- Conference Room
- Free Cable Internet Access
- Kitchenette
- Multi-Function, Networked Copier
- Extensive Resource Library
- On-line Group Calendar
- Group Product Liability Insurance
- Notary Services
- Low-cost Projector Rental
Full and Part Time Associate Member Options Prices range from $50 to $400 a month. Full time associates work from a private office, and part time associates share a private fully furnished office.
Our conference room is available for rental fee to the public for $15 for the first hour, and $10 for additional hours. Please contact us for more information.
For more information or to add your name to our waiting list, please call or email the Center at (603) 352-5063 or info@hannahgrimes.com.
Participating in programs like the Hannah Grimes Center gives small business owners a distinct advantage. According to "Impact of Incubator Investments Study" (1997), 80% of all new new businesses fail. That percentage flips to 87% of businesses succeeding when affiliated with an incubator!
Building Renovation Program
With your support of our First Floor Renovation Campaign, the Hannah Grimes Center can increase its support of those companies who will provide jobs for our community for the next five years — and beyond. Click for more information.
Help Support the Renovation: Tax Credit Program
What if you had a 100% shot at telling the state where to spend your tax dollars??? There is a program in which you can actually do that, and Hannah Grimes and the entrepreneurs it serves can be the beneficiary. Hannah Grimes is embarking on a challenging renovation project and is hoping to get your support. Click for more information.
Office Space currently available:
- Two Occasional--up to ten hours a month for $50
- One Part Time--up to thirty hours a month for $100
- One Part Time shared office for $175 a month
Call to set up a time to see the spaces available! 603.352.5063.
Working with a new generation of entrepreneurs from the Monadnock Region.
The Hannah Grimes Center is a supportive environment in which new and emerging businesses can be launched, developed, and graduated to create a new generation of entrepreneurs that add to the vitality of the Monadnock region. The Center, located at 25 Roxbury Street in Keene, NH provides affordable office space, workshops, professional services, technical assistance, an extensive business resource library, high-speed internet access, networking opportunities and shared business resources to the small businesses of our region.
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