Small Business Resource Fair - Dayton

Find all the resources you need to start and grow your business!
About this Event

Join ECDI for a day of small business resources, trainings, and networking! Meet other local entrepreneurs and learn about the numerous free and affordable business resources available to you.

This event is free, includes lunch, and is open to the public! Lunch provided by Innovative Business Resource Opportunity Center.

Entrepreneurial resources, professional services, trainings, and more!

• Meet with regional entrepreneurial resource partners

• Quick trainings to learn how to elevate your business
• Learn about FREE business resources in our ecosystem
• Network with local business owners and economic development professionals
• A grab and go lunch will be provided

Interesting in sponsoring this event? Contact Tommy McGuffey

Come for the resources, stay for the connections, and leave with the tools to grow your small business like never before!

There is free parking available in the library parking garage.

Resources Exhibiting

• ECDI
• ECDI's Women's Business Center of Greater Dayton
• ECDI's Contractor Resource Center
• ECDI's Veteran Business Outreach Center of Ohio
• ECDI's MBAC of Greater Dayton
• BusinessFirst! for a Greater Dayton Region
• U.S. Small Business Administration
• Innovative Business Resource Opportunity Center
• Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation
• Ohio Department of Taxation
• Sinclair College - Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses
• Wage & Hour Division

The Economic & Community Development Institute's Women's Business Centers of Ohio guide individuals at any stage of the business process. Through one-on-one counseling sessions with WBC staff and volunteers, you can get the direction and resources to meet your goals. Business advisers want to help you successfully start a business, or grow and expand your existing business -- increasing revenue and creating jobs for the local economy.

The WBCs present training workshops regularly to provide access to small business knowledge at no charge. They are the only SBA-funded Women's Business Centers in the state.

Funded (in part) through a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration. Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least two weeks in advance. All opinions, conclusions, and/or recommendations expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA.

Women's Business Center

Federal Share- 50%- $150,000

Non-Federal Share- 50%- $150,000

Total Program Cost: $300,000

Agenda

🕑: 11:00 AM
Doors Open
🕑: 11:15 AM
Opening Remarks
🕑: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Morning Workshops: The 4 C's of the SBA

Info: Speaker: Alex Kohls, Senior Area Manager for the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
Join Alex Kohls, Senior Area Manager for the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) as he provides an overview of SBA resources including business planning, government contracting, small business financing, and disaster relief. In addition, Alex will introduce other resources that are available to small businesses in the Miami Valley.

🕑: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Morning Workshops: Business First! Resource

Info: Speakers: Justin Sommer, Director of Economic Development at Preble County Development Partnership; Juanita Darden, Greater West Dayton Incubator; Melony Bryant with the Bureau of Workers Compensation; Kim Klopfenstein, Director of Miami Valley SBDC.
BusinessFirst! brings together experts from Preble County Development Partnership, Greater West Dayton Incubator, the Bureau of Workers' Compensation, and Miami Valley SBDC to share programming and resources for local small businesses. The panel will be moderated by Executive Board Chair Justin Sommer.

🕑: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Lunch Break - Provided by IBROC
🕑: 12:45 PM - 01:45 PM
Afternoon Workshops: The 4 C's of the SBA

Info: Speaker: Alex Kohls, Senior Area Manager for the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
Join Alex Kohls, Senior Area Manager for the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) as he provides an overview of SBA resources including business planning, government contracting, small business financing, and disaster relief. In addition, Alex will introduce other resources that are available to small businesses in the Miami Valley.