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Ringing in the New Year with ACEnet
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ACEnet Receives Farm Aid Funding for 2019
The Farm Aid grant program, started by country and rock stars Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp, has awarded $6,000 to ACEnet's Food & Farm Enterprise program to increase our Food Ventures staff's capacity to provide livestock and specialty crop farmers in Appalachia Ohio the resources and assistance they need to reach new market opportunities.
"Assistance will include training, marketing and distribution assistance to beginning and established livestock and produce farmers to navigate regulatory compliances, develop new products, devise market and branding strategies and diversify sales through new wholesale opportunities," explained Adam Kody, ACEnet's Food Ventures Center Manager.
Since 1996, ACEnet's 12,500 square foot Food Ventures Center in Athens has enabled 100+ farmers to prepare, process, warehouse and market value-added products that can be dehydrated, frozen or thermally processed to increase shelf stability, customer preferences and access to larger wholesale buyers. The new Food & Farm Enterprise Center in Nelsonville with dedicated meat processing & produce processing facilities will only increase ACEnet's ability to serve the food producers in our local community.
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ACEnet's Appalachia Asset Building Program
 ACEnet has been lucky to have a wonderful AmeriCorps VISTA in 2018 - 2019 who has been working to increase the capacity of our Appalachia Asset Building Program, Melissa King.
Hailing from Cleveland, Melissa graduated from Ohio University in 2015 with a Bachelor's degree in Social Work.
While attending OU, she became interested in advocating for vulnerable populations and assisting individuals in locating supportive services in the community through the various volunteer experiences that she chose to pursue.
Upon graduation, Melissa signed on as ACEnet's AmeriCorps VISTA, and has been researching how small businesses are expanding and adapting to residing in a rural location, along with exploring traditional & non-traditional ways people can increase & maintain assets for their businesses.
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ACEnet Crowdfunding Webinar - Free!
Melissa, ACEnet's AmeriCorps VISTA, will be presenting a FREE webinar on crowdfunding to share information on Indiegogo, Kickstarter and GoFundMe! It will be this Thursday (17th) from 1:30-2:30pm. Please register here: Crowdfunding Webinar Registration
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ACEnet Offers Free Small Business Classes in Meigs County
ACEnet will be bringing our FREE Small Business Class series to Meigs County in January and February! Have you always wanted to start your own business? Don't know where to begin? Register for this 6 week series of classes to learn what you need to know to build a business. Classes will be held at the Meigs County Public Library in Pomeroy from 6:00 - 7:30pm on Thursdays beginning on January 24th.
Class Schedule
JAN 24: Becoming a Business
JAN 31: Writing a Business Plan
FEB 7: Products & Services
FEB 14: Marketing & Social Media
FEB 21: Money & Finance
FEB 28: Types of Businesses
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ACEnet Has Available Space!
Are you looking for office space or warehouse space? ACEnet has some openings in both our Athens and Nelsonville facilities! Call 740-592-3854 or email info@acenetworks.org for more information!
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Alzheimer's Association Workshops at
The Athens Village in ACEnet
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Free ACEnet Webinars & Toolkits
Did you know that we archive our webinars, including the webinars we do collaboratively with our partner organizations, to our website so you can view them for free? Be sure to check them out, we update the page with new webinars as we record them! ACEnet Webinars
We also archive any corresponding toolkits to our website here:
ACEnet Toolkits
Be sure to check out all of the free resources we have to offer on our website!
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Did You Know?
Did you know that Kroger has a community rewards program much like Amazon Smile? If you sign up for Kroger Community Rewards & designate ACEnet as your nonprofit of choice they'll donate a percentage of the money you spend on groceries to us!
You may need to renew your choice if it's been a while. Go to Kroger Community Rewards and search for ACE NET (needs to have the space), after you choose us, Kroger donates to us every time you shop!
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94 Columbus Rd, Athens, OH 45701
740-592-3854
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