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Business Ideas That Cost Less Than $100 to Start (Bishop)

July 14, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

Free

Rural areas are often the best place to become an entrepreneur. Let us show you how to use Career Vision to identify needs only you can fill. During this workshop, those living in rural spaces will have tools to begin looking at where they live as an opportunity for side hustles and business opportunities in a whole new way.

  • Learn to use data from current business owners to develop a side hustle.
  • Find examples of rural business and side gig ideas in over 15 different interest areas.
  • Get tools to turn their interests, passions, and hobbies into work they get paid to do.

The IDRS Acorn Project, in partnership with the Owens Valley Career Development Center (OVCDC), will present Business Ideas That Cost Less Than $100 To Start on July 14th from 6 to 8 pm.  The workshop will be located at the OVCDC Computer Lab at 2574 Diaz Lane in Bishop.  Registration is open to all community members in Owens Valley and the workshop is free to attend.  To register please click on the “Going” button below and fill in your information.

For more information, please contact the community host, Gina Jones, Director of Career Education Program at 760-873-6547 ext. 242 or at gjones@ovcdc.com.   You can also reach out to Mark Thompson, Executive Director, at the IDRS Acorn Project at 916-482-5800 or at mark@indiandispute.com.

About your presenter:

Jamie Beck, M.S., is a former CSU Career Counselor and holds a Master’s Degree in Human Services with an emphasis in Social Systems and a concentration in Family and Work. She also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology with an emphasis in Children and Family and a minor in Criminology. 

Career Vision has been reshaping the way job seekers fundamentally conceptualize, search, and apply for work throughout Southern California for the past 10 years at high schools, universities, organizations, workforce development programs, government agencies, Tribal TANF and education programs, and public libraries. 

Jamie specializes in rural area education, training, career exposure, employment, and entrepreneurism having grown up in the Eastern Sierra. www.careervisionbyjamie.com. 

This workshop is sponsored, in part, by the Owens Valley Career Development Center, the USDA Rural Development, the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, and the MUFG Union Bank Foundation.

Details

Date:
July 14, 2022
Time:
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
Cost:
Free
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Organizer

Mark Thompson
Phone:
916-482-5800
Email:
mark@idrsinc.org

Venue

OVCDC Computer Lab
2574 Diaz Lane
Bishop, CA 93514 United States
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Phone:
760-873-5107

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