Wonderful story about our Entrepreneur Education programs in Battle Creek:
In the Battle Creek area, there’s an education program for would-be entrepreneurs to help them deal with all the unknowns. It’s a collaboration between the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Northern Initiatives, a nonprofit lender that provides loans to small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs who might not qualify for a loan from traditional banks.
Jamie Schriner, a program officer for the Kellogg Foundation, says the business-planning education started five years ago by using Second Muse, an international organization that describes itself as “a group of people working vigorously to better the world we live in.” Two years ago Kellogg arranged for the training to be run by Northern Initiatives, which then hired trainers Justin Andert and Jenny Mualhlun from Second Muse. Schriner says, “Entrepreneurs were able to really specifically get things ready to apply for a loan from Northern Initiatives.”
