GRABB Breakfast Series: Risks & Rewards

We are excited to announce our next GRABB Breakfast. GRABB Breakfasts is a morning Chalk Talk and Development series for dreamers, makers, innovators, and current/aspiring business owners.

This series not only brings together our city’s Black talent but also creates an open space to connect and build relationships.GRABB Breakfasts are intended to bring together Entrepreneurs & Intrapreneurs who are driven by passion, purpose and progress, confident that they will inspire one another, and inspire change in neighborhoods, communities and cities.Every event includes networking time before and after a Chalk Talk.

Chalk Talk Presenter: Darel Ross of Forty Acres Soul Kitchen and Noxx Cannabis

Darel's lifelong passion is working in the non-profit and for-profit sectors to elicit real change and make Grand Rapids a more inclusive and opportunistic city for living, working and educating people of all backgrounds. Indicative of the rooted connection to the neighborhood where he was raised, Darel first began his entrepreneurial career opening an insurance agency in Southeast Grand Rapids. For more than nine years Darel served LINC’s Board of Directors as Treasurer, and most recently as the organization’s Co-Executive Director, serving a critical role that brings together housing, economic development, essential needs services, business incubation, and real estate development serving Kent County. Through his leadership, Ross has helped secure over $67 million in funding for community improvement efforts resulting in over 300 families increasing their assets, training over 600 residents, improving over 750 homes, and creating over 120 full-time jobs.

This is a great opportunity to meet with business folks across various industries and sectors who are willing to share and learn from one another. Each event include a 30 minute talk w/Q & A plus breakfast! Anyone can attend. Space limited!

Sponsored by: Mercantile Bank of Michigan