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 […]
Hannah Grimes Center Offers Incubator Scholarships
Through a generous grant from the State of NH to the NH Business Incubator Network, the Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship is offering up to 10 scholarships to its business incubator. The program offers support, resources, and education to for profit and nonprofit businesses in the region. Scholarships are valued at $1,600 per business and can be […]
Hannah Grimes Hosts Nonprofit Management Certificate Program in Keene
The Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship is partnering with the Center for New Leadership at Marlboro College to offer the College’s Nonprofit Management (NPM) Certificate in Keene for the Fall of 2016. This highly regarded program takes place at the Hannah Grimes Center as well as in Waterbury, VT. The 80-hour series helps nonprofit leaders […]
Hannah Grimes Center Program Director is Now a Kiva Small Business Advisor
The Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship announces that Program Director Jake Nonweiler is now a Kiva Small Business Advisor. Nonweiler will advise entrepreneurs interested in securing funding through Kiva and support them through the application and fundraising process. Kiva provides crowdfunded microloans to small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Kiva provides a link between small […]
New Overtime Pay Rules: What Employers Need to Know
The Greater Keene Chamber of Commerce and the Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship invite you to a free seminar by local employment attorney Ben Wyatt from Wyatt & Associates: New Rules Mandate Overtime Pay for Millions of Currently Salaried Employees: What Employers Need to Know Thursday, June 9, 2016 – 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. […]
Assessing Risk Leads to New Business Idea
By Melanie Plenda, Originally posted in Business Monadnock * Steve Roll likes risk. He likes assessing it, creating statistical models for it, trending it out and wrapping it up in a neat little explainable, sensible insurance package. And as an actuary for Liberty Mutual in Keene, this is what he did day in and day […]
