Calling all Native entrepreneurs (or those that want to be!)

We are launching a two-day, in-person program to help you develop a viable business model, refine it, and then create and market the business. We’ll dive into getting customers, financial modeling, and setting goals within your business. After the two sessions, you’ll have a plan to take action!

This program utilizes the CO.STARTERS platform and curriculum. CO.STARTERS is a global support network that equips communities with proven programs to empower local entrepreneurs. IDRS is proud to be one of the pioneering organizations in the US to bring CO.STARTERS to Indian Country. Participants in the Bootcamp will receive a CO.STARTERS manual, snacks, moral support, and a chance to win prizes!

The IDRS Acorn Project, in partnership with Red Willow Consulting, will present Native Launchpad on Monday and Tuesday, October 21st and 22nd, 2024 from 6 pm to 9 pm.  This is a 2-day training and attendance both days is required.  Registration is open to all community members and the workshop is free to attend.  To register please click on the “Going” button below and fill in your information.

The workshop will be located at the Gordon Cooper Tech Center, 1 John C Bruton Dr. in Shawnee, OK.

For more information, please contact our community host Melissa Rosenfelt, CEO of Red Willow Consulting. She can be reached at 405-788-6069 or by sending her an email at RedWillowConsulting@icloud.com.

You can also reach out to Camille Koster from the IDRS Acorn Project at 918-408-8280 or at camille@idrsinc.org.

About Your Presenter:

Camille Koster (Cherokee) serves as the Youth Program Manager for the IDRS Acorn Project. Through the program, she teaches youth how to explore entrepreneurship and create side hustles which provides them the opportunity to make money while continuing to focus on their education . She has worked in youth development and in nonprofit for the last 18 years, both writing and facilitating camps across the nation. She has co-facilitated camps with the Drug-Free Communities National Initiative, Students Working Against Tobacco, Cherokee Nation Behavioral Health, ONABEN, the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, and more. Camille dedicated five years of her youth development career as the Chief Operating Officer of Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma. She successfully assisted in one the largest youth entrepreneur programs as she helped build strategy and infrastructure for a cookie sale campaign that led to her local Council selling over 1 million boxes of Girl Scout Cookies in Eastern Oklahoma.
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Camille is a United States Navy Veteran and is proud to have represented the Cherokee Tribe in the military. During the time she served, only 15.4% of the military was comprised of Native American members, likewise, only 4% were female members. She has a Masters Degree in Organizational Management. Camille lives in Jenks, Oklahoma, is married to a Firefighter and has three children.

The workshop will be presented in partnership with Reinventing Rural, an non-profit supporting small businesses in rural and Tribal communities throughout Oregon.

The CO.STARTERS Bootcamp is funded in part by the Small Business Administration, and the Elevate Initiative.