Master Networks Chapter Meeting - Rochester Minnesota
Master Networks Chapter Meeting - Rochester Minnesota
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Black Business Month Minnesota 2022: Rochester
Connecting the Twin Cities Metro And Greater Minnesota! #BBMMN22
When and where
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Location
One Discovery Square 202 4th Street Southwest Rochester, MN 55902
Map and directions
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About this event
Black Business Month 2022: Rochester
In partnership with MN Black Business Support Collective and Launch MN, we will host the first Black Business Month in November 2022.
We are leveraging the success of ConnectUP! Summit in the Twin Cities, we decided to bring mini-ConnectUP Summits for Black Business Month! We will host summit events in three cities across Minnesota: Rochester, St. Cloud, and Twin Cities.
The purpose is to uplift the narrative of thriving Black-owned businesses across the state, connect small businesses to local and statewide support ecosystems and strengthen connections between BIPOC and rural entrepreneurs and investors. This work advances equitable access to capital, resources, and networks. We’re so excited to take ConnectUP! Summit on the road and expand our work into Greater Minnesota.
WHO:
Kara Sorenson, Business Program Specialist, Prosperity Initiative, Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation
Katie Mattis Server, SVP—Community Development Officer, Bell Bank
Ixchel McKinnie, Enterprise Development Office, Integrated Capital Fund
Wafa Elkhalifa, Equitable Development Coordinator, Destination Medical Center EDA
Denise Butler, Associate Director, African Career Education Resources, Inc
Angel Even, Interim Executive Director, Lunar Startups
Y. Elaine Rasmussen, Founder of ConnectUP! Institute
Agenda*
11:30a Networking
12:00p Welcome & Keynote
1:00p Breakout Sessions
2:15p BREAK
2:30p Breakout Sessions
3:45p BREAK
4:00p Panel Discussion w/Q & A
4:45p BREAK
5:00p Panel Discussion w/Q & A
5:45p Closing and Thank You
6:00p Mingle & Jingle
7:00p Closing
*schedule subject to change.
About Launch Minnesota
Launch Minnesota is an initiative headed by Minnesota's Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED). Designed in consultation with legislators from both parties, and alongside dozens of private sector leaders, the program exists to help grow Minnesota's startup ecosystem.
About ConnectUP! Institute
ConnectUP! Institute (powered by Social Impact Now) is a 501(c)3 social finance and enterprise development studio focused on providing solutions, investments and education that closes the 180 degrees of separation between underestimated founders, investors and the entrepreneur ecosystem. Most notable is the annual sold-out event ConnectUP! Summit, which is scheduled to be held in March 2023.
