A dollop of good company, a smidge of local food, a splash of a signature PitchFork cocktail, and three dashes of business opportunities in the region. Lack of capital is one of the top causes for the steep decline in startup rates in rural America. PitchFork offers a uniquely local solution to this challenge by providing a fun, low-key […]
Expert’s Corner: Wink Faulkner
Strategic Planning: What It Is and Why It’s Important! “A Strategic Plan is 1% Vision and 99% Alignment” On March 9th, I lead a workshop at the Hannah Grimes Center that focused on Strategic Planning. We had a great turnout of attendees, ranging from start-ups to fairly well established businesses offering products and services including […]
Programs Director Position
A note from Mary Ann… It is with mixed emotions that we begin advertising for the position of Program Director at Hannah Grimes. Program Director Jake Nonweiler had promised us two years when he started and somehow those two years have managed to fly by. It seems like both a lifetime and a blink of […]
Startup Lab, Spring 2017 Dates!
Startup Lab is an interactive 6-week program designed to help you create, implement, and present a business plan. In the program, we cover marketing, financial, business planning, and organizational development to ensure that you have the tools you need to successful! We’ve released dates for the spring 2017 cohort for Startup Lab, which will start […]
Hannah Grimes Center Offers Lean Manufacturing Course
The Hannah Grimes Center is partnering with MEP to offer a course on lean production on January 31, 2017. The methodology, designed to help companies increase their production efficiency by identifying waste and processes to improve consistency, is used globally in manufacturing facilities. In this workshop each participant is provided a hands-on introduction to the […]
$5,000,000.00!!! In 20 years!
As we embark on this season of Thanksgiving we can’t help but be in awe of our amazing community that has led us to reach $5,000,000.00 in sales from our beginning. While this may be a number easily reached by corporations, our $5 million was sold in LOCAL products – products grown, raised, and made […]
Managing the Millennials in Your Workforce?
Join us For a Free Workshop Strategies for Attracting, Developing and Retaining Millennial Talent The strategies that you have developed for managing the talent in your organization – the boomers and the Gen Xers – are much less effective with millennials. They are a different breed of cat. While they may bring challenges, understanding out […]
CONNECT 2016: Heart of the Start
More than 300 attendees are expected at The Colony Mill for an event focusing on the region’s innovation and companies that started here. With just a little more than a week to go, more than 200 tickets have been sold to Connect 2016: Heart of the Start!, taking place beginning at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. […]
Heart of the Start: Valerie Bailey
Valerie Bailey, a nonprofit consultant and Hannah Grimes Center instructor, was featured in The Keene Sentinel in July for the Heart of the Start series. Check out the article! After 37 years with the Student Conservation Association (SCA), Valerie Bailey (pictured) could say she grew up with the national nonprofit whose mission is to engage […]
Important Changes at the Marketplace
Four years ago, Denise Meadows transitioned from being a director on the Hannah Grimes Marketplace board to running day to day operations as our Marketplace Manager. Since then, she has grown sales at the Marketplace by 38%. Denise has, without a doubt, made the Marketplace the successful store and hub that it is today. As […]
