Focus on Calumet
A bi-weekly update on economic development opportunities in Calumet County
and the region for businesses, entrepreneurs, and communities.
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Brillion to Host Bazaar After Dark Market
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David Nordby, The Brillion News, 1/24/19
For one night this spring, downtown Brillion will host an event like the city has never seen before. It will include, but not be limited to, food trucks, live art, fire breathers, body painters, local businesses, live music and a beer garden. Dogs are even invited, too.
“Bazaar is a family friendly street market that will transform our downtown into a weird and wonderful temporary marketplace that will make people of all ages smile,” Brillion Chamber of Commerce President Amy Myers said.
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Bazaar After Dark has brought in 28,000 people in its last three events. This spring, the unique event will come to downtown Brillion. (Graham Images photo)
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The event has been a popular one in the Fox Valley. It’s drawn more than 28,000 people in its last three events. It will piggyback off the weekend long Rock the Block event that is coming to town through Habitat for Humanity. Rock the Block will take place the week before the market.
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Village of Harrison Looks to Adopt TID #2
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Tax Incremental District (TID) #2 is located in northern Harrison, along County KK between State Park Road and Friendship Road and along Highway 55. The mixed-use development includes approximately 242-acres with several different property owners and a few existing homes and businesses. TID #2 is being created to advance the Village’s vision to achieve well-planned, high quality growth, economic diversification, and development at a prominent location in the Village. It is also expected to attract business and other development that will provide desired value, employment opportunities, and aesthetic qualities while also connecting the Village trail system to the regional network.
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Businesses Can Now Join State’s Veteran Attraction Initiative
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The technical skills, discipline, leadership qualities, and team orientation military veterans bring to the workplace are recognized assets veteran-friendly companies value in building their workforce. In order to increase the pool of veteran talent available to Wisconsin employers, state agencies have launched a coordinated marketing campaign targeting service members preparing to separate from the military.
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Wisconsin’s veteran talent attraction team is scheduled to attend Hiring Our Heroes transition summits at eight military bases in the U.S. and overseas in the first half of 2019.
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Interested Wisconsin businesses can engage directly with the state’s outreach to these transitioning service members and their families by attending recruitment events or simply registering their interest in receiving vetted resumés submitted to the Wisconsin state delegation.
A collaborative effort between the WEDC, the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA), and the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD), Wisconsin’s $1.9 million veteran talent attraction initiative includes visits to Hiring Our Heroes transition summits at military bases throughout the country and at select installations abroad to promote the state’s exceptional educational, career, and lifestyle opportunities. To date, the Wisconsin delegation has visited bases in three states and made personal contact with more than 850 service members.
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Celebrate Entrepreneurship February 16-23, 2019
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 28, 2018:
National Entrepreneurship Week (NEW) is scheduled to be held February 16-23.
Founded in 2006, NEW is a
congressionally-chartered
week dedicated to showcasing entrepreneurship “eship” throughout the United States. From rural towns to urban cities, large corporations to micro businesses – entrepreneurship and innovation starts with just an idea and an entrepreneur. Partners include schools, libraries, governments, businesses, entrepreneurs, and others. Webinars will be held each day on topics including entrepreneurship education, incubators, and federal programs to support entrepreneurs. For more information,
click here
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Job Loss in Manufacturing has a Large Ripple Effect on Other Jobs
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Economic Policy Institute (EPI), January 23, 2019
A
new EPI paper
highlights the benefits of manufacturing employment to the broader economy. EPI Director of Research Josh Bivens calculates employment multipliers by industry. These employment multipliers show how the loss of jobs or output in one industry ripples through the economy and affect other industries. He explains that each industry has backward linkages to economic sectors that provide the materials needed for the industry’s output and forward linkages to the economic sectors where the industry’s workers spend their income.
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For example, Bivens calculates that for every 100 jobs lost in durable manufacturing, there are 744.1 indirect jobs lost. For comparison, the number of indirect jobs lost per 100 retail trade jobs is just 122.1. So, an auto factory closure, for example, would have an impact on many more jobs than a closure of a retail firm of the same size.
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Crowdfunding and Small Businesses
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Small businesses raised over $1 billion in crowdfunding in 2018, a figure which is projected to grow to $1.3 billion in 2020. Crowdfunding is not an option for every type of startup; design, fashion, food, and technology businesses are having the most success. Check out the SBA infographic below for more details, or visit the
SBA’s SCORE business counseling website
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Maintaining Professionalism While Under Pressure and Leading Without Authority
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Maintaining Professionalism Under Pressure
During the first half of the day, participants will learn their own natural tendencies while under pressure and explore the sources of stress along with some of the factors which keep us from successful execution of our goals. Through a series of examples, we will conduct a “Before/After” analysis of approaches to common workplace challenges discussing strategies for navigating those stressful moments while maintaining professionalism.
Leading Without Authority
In this half-day session, we will explore the traditional sources of power and how they can positively impact our ability to build legitimacy in our leadership. Participants will discover their own tendencies while communicating with others and strategies for increasing their effectiveness. This session will conclude with a look at the “other side of leadership,” which focuses on how any leader can challenge themselves on a daily basis.
Date: February 26, 2019 | 8:30-3:30 pm
Location: Advance Business & Manufacturing Center, Green Bay
Cost: $200
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Practical and Tactical Best Practices in Business Sustainability
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Learn How to Develop and Implement a Successful Sustainability and Social Responsibility Program
Attendees are exposed to financial, environmental and socially responsible objectives that are supported by strategies and achieved by clear tactics that have measurable outcomes.
Attendees are introduced to methods of implementing technologies and practices and will also learn how to measure the consequent social and environmental performance for written reports and persuasive presentations. The workshop reveals why we should be sustainable by explaining seemingly complex scientific topics in a way that requires very little math or science background. The overview also captures how sustainability and social responsibility can be the source of process and product innovation.
The workshop is dedicated to the practice of environmental and social responsibility in ways that achieve financial stability over the long run. As a result, it will help attendees understand not just why businesses need to be more responsible, but how businesses can be more successful over the long run.
Date: March 12, 2019 | 8:30-3:30 pm
Location: Advance Business & Manufacturing Center, 2701 Larsen Rd, Green Bay
Cost: $200
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Examines aspects of distribution and inventory management, document management, and procurement integral to international trade logistics. Considers different regulatory, financial, geographical, cultural, and consumer requirements. Explores how organizations obtain resources and manage logistical systems within the global value chain to minimize costs and risks and maximize potential.
Dates: March 26-May 14, 2019 | 5:30-8:20 pm
Location: Online or Fox Valley Technical College - Chilton Regional Learning Center
Cost: $637.45
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Free Small Business Counseling Available
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Once a month, a counselor with the Green Bay Small Business Development Center meets with entrepreneurs and existing business owners at the Calumet County Courthouse in Chilton; he is also available to meet with Calumet County entrepreneurs and businesses on a periodic basis at other locations in the county or his office as schedules permit. These free, individual business counseling sessions are held to help answer questions and put businesses and entrepreneurs in a better position to make the best decisions for themselves and their businesses.
To schedule an appointment with the business counselor, contac
t
Mary Kohrell
using the information provided below. The next regularly scheduled session will be held on Tuesday, February 19.
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WWBIC -
Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation Classes
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The Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation - offers classes statewide for new entrepreneurs, seasoned business owners and anyone looking to improve their financial health. Click
here
to see a list of classes held at the Appleton WWBIC location.
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Calumet County Community Economic Development contact information:
Mary Kohrell,
Community Economic Development Director
Connie Leonhard
, Program Assistant
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