FREMONT — With assistance from a caller $149,500 national grant, Terra State Community College is looking to supply determination tiny concern owners with assistance connected a wide scope of issues they whitethorn brushwood arsenic they effort to turn their businesses.
President Ron Schumacher said Wednesday the assemblage worked with economical improvement partners successful Sandusky, Ottawa and Seneca counties connected securing the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Business Development Grant.
Schumacher said the assistance provides for a telephone center, housed astatine Terra State's Kern Center, wherever agrarian tiny businesses tin telephone erstwhile they person questions astir topics including quality resources, onboarding, budgeting, enactment skills, taxes, gathering codes, security and marketing.
He said the assistance besides provides funds for a mentoring programme successful which existing manufacture members tin brace up with caller concern owners.
Schumacher said Carolyn Rodenhauser, a erstwhile Ottawa County Improvement Corporation concern and workforce improvement manager, has been hired arsenic programme coordinator.
"She has a precise bully familiarity with immoderate of the tiny businesses, agrarian businesses, successful these counties," Schumacher said.
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced the assistance earlier this month.
In a quality release, Brown said the USDA assistance programme had awarded 3 grants totaling $363,642 to 3 organizations successful Northwest Ohio to supply method assistance and enactment for agrarian concern development.
“Rural communities person been overlooked for excessively long. If we privation to beforehand economical improvement passim Ohio, we request to guarantee that businesses and communities person the tools and resources they need,” Brown said successful the release. “This concern volition person a important economical interaction for Northwest Ohio.”
In summation to the Terra State grant, backing from the USDA included:
• A $138,686 assistance to the Center for Innovative Food Technology, a Toledo-based nonprofit supporting competitiveness for nutrient processors, manufacturers, and agribusinesses successful Ohio.
• A $75,000 assistance to Great Lakes Community Action Partnership to supply method assistance and entrepreneurship programs successful and astir Sandusky County.
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