Auburn — Entrepreneurs within the Sierra Nevada can advance their careers in forestry and construct resilient communities due to a brand new tuition-free weekend bootcamp known as the Forest Entrepreneurship Coaching Program.
Sierra Enterprise Council, in partnership with Sierra Commons, is internet hosting a two-day workshop on Dec. 7 and eight in Auburn to create extra forest-based companies in California.
The Forest Entrepreneurship Coaching is a part of an ongoing collection. Since launching final spring, educators have performed coaching in rural communities all through the Sierra Nevada together with Nevada Metropolis, Mammoth Lakes and most just lately Sonora.
“There’s a enormous enterprise alternative in our forested communities, and the nexus of entrepreneurship, job creation and present market wants corresponding to forest thinning, defensible area and small-diameter timber manufacturing can present much-needed alternatives which have the co-benefits of wildfire mitigation and financial improvement,” says Kristin York, Vice President of Sierra Enterprise Council.
The course is designed for individuals who have began or are enthusiastic about beginning a enterprise in forest thinning and administration, defensible area, prescribed hearth utility, small mass timber product manufacturing, small diameter timber utilization, biofuel, bioenergy, dwelling hardening, plant restoration, different non-timber-related companies and/or forestry logistics.
Led by consultants from a wide range of backgrounds, college students will hear from leaders with backgrounds in forestry, enterprise, advertising and marketing and finance, startups, emergency companies and extra.
Contributors will discover how making ready Sierra communities for forest resilience may also launch thrilling new profession pathways and rising industries.
Concerning the Forest Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
The workshop collection covers all features of launching or increasing a enterprise and might be led by Robert X Trent, the founding father of Nevada Metropolis’s nonprofit enterprise incubator, Sierra Commons. Trent is an skilled advisor who has taught a whole bunch of entrepreneurs through the years.
“There are such a lot of alternatives to begin and develop high-demand companies all through the Sierra that it’s mind-boggling. This course is an ideal match for individuals who have an entrepreneurial spirit and, on the identical time, are deeply rooted within the security and well-being of their group,” mentioned Trent.
College students will be taught the essential foundations of excellent enterprise — from finance, pricing, and money move to analysis, advertising and marketing and gross sales and the complicated world of presidency contracts and permits. College students will develop their information and entry to assets with an accountability group and one-to-one advising.
“Sierra Commons and Sierra Enterprise Council have a reasonably stellar understanding of what it takes to begin and develop profitable companies. It’s not so simple as simply studying tips on how to function an enterprise. It’s additionally about weaving a optimistic mindset and character-set into the whole lot a enterprise proprietor does,” mentioned Trent.
Every participant is eligible for customized technical help for gratis by way of the Small Enterprise Growth Middle (SBDC) program.
The curriculum is designed to supply:
● Technical help to launch small companies and entrepreneurial improvement targeted on a broad vary of forest and wood-based companies
● Coaching and steerage for reworking companies from particular person possession to cooperative companies to assist financial justice at enterprise possession ranges
● Alternatives to showcase rising enterprise alternatives which have co-benefits of wildfire discount and financial improvement, significantly on the nexus of wooden product improvement and outside recreation in rural forested communities
● A nexus to present markets and recognized wants corresponding to forest thinning and administration, utility of prescribed hearth, small mass timber product manufacturing, small diameter timber utilization, biofuels manufacture, logistics and assist
Funding for this program was offered by a Good Jobs Problem EDA-funded grant by way of the Basis for California Group Faculties to conduct forestry and fire-mitigation coaching applications within the Sierra Nevada area of Northeastern California.
Pre-registration is required.
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Sierra Commons empowers rural entrepreneurs by providing heart-forward business training, assets, and group. www.sierracommons.org
