This compelling, fact-filled workshop is essential for small business owners who seek to obtain funds from banks offering loans guaranteed by the SBA, crowdfunding, and other alternative forms of financing to buy, grow and expand their businesses. Topics to be covered: 

• SBA is a Nightmare-Fact or Fiction? FICTION!
• Crowdfunding and Kiva: How to Get Started
• Loan Options When Your Bank says "No"

 At this workshop you will:

• Gain a clear understanding of why an SBA guaranteed loan is a great option; find low injection alternatives and down payment relief; plus learn creative ways to grow, expand and increase cash flow.
• Learn how crowdfunding can help you fund growth, receive an overview of Kiva, and find out how to engage in this crowdfunding platform.
• Grasp the ins and outs of how to market your crowdfunding campaign.
• Become versed in secured and unsecured borrowing options for new and existing businesses, including the eligibility, application process and benefits to borrowing from alternative lending sources.

The presentations will be followed by a Q & A and panel discussion.

 

  Dorothy Browning has spent the last 15 years assisting Entrepreneurs in starting and strengthening their businesses.  She has worked with the Kauffman Foundation and was the director of the Women’s Business Center in Kansas City.  She has experience working with micro-lending programs as well as crowdfunding platforms.

    Althea A. Harris has been helping and advocating on behalf of businesses for over 23 years when she started her federal career in 1993 at the U.S. Department of Commerce.  Althea will take the audience thru the SBA prcocess explaining in Layman's terms the what, where and how of getting a loan from the SBA. 

 

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