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Please Excuse Me While I Live Intentionally with Jice Johnson

Conference Rooms in Longs Peak Student Center 4616 S Shields St, Fort Collins, CO, United States

Intentional living is a values-based lifestyle that encourages an individual or a group to get clear on their beliefs and goals. Living with intention is rooted in the freedom and agency to live in your purpose on purpose. When applied to business building, entrepreneurs can develop a system that integrates and maximizes their personal and …

Free

Business Budgeting Basics with Geneve Huxley

Challenger Point Lecture Hall Classroom 4616 S Shields St, Fort Collins, CO, United States

Road Trip! How Budgeting and Discipline Can Take Your Business Places. Learn valuable information about where & how to start your first budget. Learn how to calculate for several scenarios, and how to achieve it. Speaker: Geneve Huxley Attendees will walk away knowing this one thing: How to build your first budget

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Is your business dementia friendly? with Cyndy Luzinski

Conference Rooms in Longs Peak Student Center 4616 S Shields St, Fort Collins, CO, United States

Living well with dementia is entirely possible. This session will introduce a simple "why, what, and how" to promote lifelong well-being for our customers, friends, and family members who are living with dementia. • Learn practical tips to make your business more dementia friendly. • Identify concrete counter-intuitive strategies required to provide excellent customer service …

Free

Apex of the Curve: A Proven System for Navigating Turbulent Economic Times with Derrick Kuhn

Challenger Point Lecture Hall Classroom 4616 S Shields St, Fort Collins, CO, United States

Learn the research based framework that has helped companies of all sizes successfully navigate recessions and not only survive, but thrive. This framework has been successfully deployed by over 20 companies in northern Colorado, allowing them emerge triumphant through the recent challenging times due to COVID, quarantine, and the dynamic economic landscape. We will cover …

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The Top 10 Problems Businesses Owners Don’t Know They Have with Geneve Huxley

Challenger Point Lecture Hall Classroom 4616 S Shields St, Fort Collins, CO, United States

So you started your own business, and things have been going really well for a few years. But now you are growing more....don't let these top 10 unknown problems stymie your growth or cost you cold hard cash. I'll explain what I've seen and show you how to avoid the mistakes many others have made. …

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What’s Your Next Step? with LeAndra Foster

Challenger Point Lecture Hall Classroom 4616 S Shields St, Fort Collins, CO, United States

There are so many moving pieces required to run a business - marketing, sales, technology, profitability, systems, outsourcing - that it can be overwhelming to know what you should be working on and when. But when you're clear on your next step, you can cut out all the noise and move your business forward in …

Free

Steps to Starting a Nonprofit (Workshop)

Harmony Library Community Room 4616 S Shields St., Fort Collins, CO, United States

Do you want to form your own nonprofit but don’t know where to start? In this session we will walk through all the steps to file the paperwork to obtain your 501c3 tax-exempt status. Learn how to meet all the requirements for the 1023 application. Elements of a Healthy Nonprofit Clarify your vision and mission …

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Passion to Profits for Service-Based Solopreneurs with LeAndra Foster

Challenger Point Lecture Hall Classroom 4616 S Shields St, Fort Collins, CO, United States

In the first year or two of business, it's all about MAKING more money. But once you've figured out sales and marketing, it's time to focus on KEEPING more money. If you never learned about money as a kid, making your business profitable can be really difficult. But with just a few key strategies, you'll …

Free

Developing Your Nonprofit Board (Workshop)

Harmony Library Community Room 4616 S Shields St., Fort Collins, CO, United States

Nonprofits are always challenged with attracting and retaining quality board members. How do you effectively, recruit, train and recognize quality volunteers so they remain actively involved in advancing the mission of your organization?  This workshop will provide some basic information that will help you to create a solid foundation for board development and provide an …

Free

How I Built It: Diana Precht, Vergent Products and Rocky Mountain Blooms

Conference Rooms in Longs Peak Student Center 4616 S Shields St, Fort Collins, CO, United States

Diana Precht, Co-Founder of Vergent Products (retired) and current founder of Rocky Mountain Blooms Diana is a manufacturing executive and a serial entrepreneur at the same time. She and her husband Terry founded the Loveland CO electronics contract manufacturing company Vergent Products in 1995. Together, they built the business solidly into the middle market until …

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Grant Writing Tips and Tricks (Workshop)

Harmony Library Community Room 4616 S Shields St., Fort Collins, CO, United States

Fundraising grants can be the lifeblood of nonprofit organizations. Join Alex Koenigsberg of Arula Consulting for a discussion of various strategies learned from years of applying to a variety of grants. Instead of merely focusing on grant writing fundamentals, you'll learn new ways to improve your grant writing process and the final product. Alex is …

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How I Built It: Jeffrey Porter, StockIQ

Conference Rooms in Longs Peak Student Center 4616 S Shields St, Fort Collins, CO, United States

StockIQ was founded in 2015 by a team of serial entrepreneurs. It has quickly scaled to a multi-million dollar operation WITHOUT outside funding. Join Jeffrey Porter and Candyce Edelen as they talk about how the StockIQ team built and scaled the company so quickly. Jeffrey will talk about the DNA of the organization and how …

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Starting And Scaling A Nonprofit Organization (Panel Discussion)

Harmony Library Community Room 4616 S Shields St., Fort Collins, CO, United States

As a nonprofit leader, you have a lot on your plate! You’re always looking for involved and engaged Board members and how to generate more funds for your mission. All while running your programs and serving the people and causes you love. The last few years have taught us about the need to build greater …

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How I Built It: Derrick Kuhn, Brillity Digital

Conference Rooms in Longs Peak Student Center 4616 S Shields St, Fort Collins, CO, United States

Derrick Kuhn founded Brillity Digital in 2017 and has scaled it to over $950K in 5 years. Join Derrick to hear about how he's built this company, the pivots he's had to make as the market changed, and how he's grown his services based business.

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Founded in FoCo Kickoff @ New Belgium Porch at the CSU Canvas Stadium

New Belgium Porch at CSU Canvas Stadium 751 West Pitkin Street, Fort Collins, CO, United States

Come join us for a fun happy hour on Monday, September 26th from 4:30PM - 6:30PM at the New Belgium Porch at the Colorado State University Canvas Stadium! Come network with fellow business owners, entrepreneurs, and community members as we celebrate the start of Founded in FOCO Week. Our kickoff party features a short panel …

Nonprofit Networking (at the Founded In FoCo Happy Hour Event)

New Belgium Porch at CSU Canvas Stadium 751 West Pitkin Street, Fort Collins, CO, United States

Come join other nonprofit leaders for a fun happy hour on Monday, September 26th from 4:30PM – 6:30PM at the New Belgium Porch at the Colorado State University Canvas Stadium! Come network with business owners, entrepreneurs, and community members as we celebrate the start of Founded in FOCO Week. Look for our sign, flag, banner …

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