Focus on Small Businesses
Posted: 4/30/2020
A week ago, Kitch Kennedy posted on the Class of 1996 Facebook page, asking any classmates who own small businesses to post a link in the comments so that he could support it in some way – either by purchasing or sharing to a wider audience. A couple of days later, I saw William Marks’ post (also on the class FB page) about Facebook-sponsored grants for small businesses – then read about efforts by the Alumni Association to champion Almuni ventures in both Nagel’s 24 April update to the class and the April 2020 edition of WaveTops (released 29 April). I decided to try to synthesize all of this information one place. Please reach out if you have additional information you’d like to share, and I will update this post! I will also work on a static page here for all of this, so please send me ideas or feedback.
Roundup from Kitch’s post:
- Jenny Marie Greenough – Raja Wellness (Elizabethtown, KY)
- Marcus Bickley – Financial Advisor (Eugene, OR)
- Tom Hood – Badger Ridge Industries (Fostoria, MI)
- Anthony Singleton – Harvest Moon Coffee and Chocolates (Tarentum, PA – Pittsburgh Area; also on FB)
I’m adding Brian Faquet’s Prohibition Distillery (Roscoe, NY) to this list, as well. as anything else I can dig out of people’s FB posts and from LinkedIn (below). Please send me others!
- Carter Richardson – East Passage Boatwrights (Bristol, RI)
- Mark Mhley – Re4ormed, LLC (Annapolis, MD)
- Sal Convento – San Diego & Chula Vista Martial Arts & Fitness (San Diego, CA)
- Julie Kubal – Julie Kubal Photography (Washington, DC)
- Jesse Lankford’s son, Carter Lankford – Coaching with Carter Online Math Tutoring (San Diego, CA)
- Tom Thoma – Owner, CertaPro Painters (Chantilly, VA)
- Jaesen Yerger – Founder/CEO Cajun Custom Rods LLC (Jacksonville, FL)
From William Marks – Facebook is offering MILLIONS of dollars in cash grants and ad credits for people who own small businesses in 27 different cities around the nation. More information here and you can PM William about it as well (ans see his 23 April FB post).
As you probably read in Nagel’s recent update to the class, the Alumni Association has launched a business directory to help alumni support and showcase alumni-owned businesses by class, location, or industry. If you are a small business owner, consider registering your business to help them build the resource – and help get more folks interested in your product or service.
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