Renee Oldham, Director of Center City Development, spoke on the subject of the Innovation Center and the multitude of services it renders to the entrepreneurs in the area. Not only is it a place designed to stimulate business development and provide support for business ideas and plants, it also encourages entrepreneurial activity and greater awareness of resources available to grow new businesses in Richmond and Wayne County.
Nearly 25,000 individuals have utilized the services of the center, and the staff has worked with nearly 1,300 entrepreneurs. She stressed the need for users to understand hard work.
Various organizations utilize the center, including Indiana Wesleyan University, Indiana University and Purdue University.
Staff members work one on one with clients as long as three years until is is felt that the client is capable of independent pursuit. She differentiated between entrepreneurship and interpreneurship, which is represented by a person who has an idea but doesn't want to leave his or her home community.
She concluded by noting that the concept of Main Street is still in tact.
Marcy Crull was inducted into the Richmond Rotary Club on March 16th. She is the Executive Director for Junior Achievement of Eastern Indiana.
WELCOME TO THE CLUB, MARCY!!!!
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