The North Central Missouri Business Facilitation group has formed for the purpose of providing small businesses with no fee consulting services through a trained Business Facilitator.
According to Trenton City Administrator Ralph Boots, the NCMBF began planning in 2013 and has received notice of its State of Missouri non-profit status. NCMBF will serve the counties of Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb, Grundy and Harrison. The NCMBF group is closely affiliated with, and is mentored by the highly successful Northwest Missouri Enterprise Facilitation group.
The NWMEF mentoring organization was launched in 2006 in the six most northwestern counties in Missouri where local economies had declined over the previous ten years (Andrew, Atchison, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway and Worth Counties). The NWMEF group has assisted in adding and retaining approximately $17 million dollars as well as numerous additional jobs to the northwest area, and sponsors the annual Mound City “Wine Fest” each October. It has helped create businesses and jobs that remain in the community and works with traditional economic development programs.
The Mission of North Central Missouri Business Facilitation is “to provide local enterprise development by nurturing local entrepreneurs and by assisting these entrepreneurs with local financial, guidance and practical experience from local individuals and organizations.”
According to president Duane Kohlstaedt, the NCMBF program’s purpose is to promote economic and community revitalization in the service areas of Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb, Grundy and Harrison counties by capturing the passion and interest of local entrepreneurs using an innovative grass roots approach to economic development. NCMBF is controlled and managed at the local level by a board comprised of civic leaders, community professionals and other representatives of the rural community.
This free and confidential service assesses personal commitment to a business idea and helps take that idea from a passionate dream to practical reality through proper management and personal guidance. Each entrepreneur takes ownership and responsibility for all decisions and determines the progress and implementation of his/her business concept, Kohlstaedt.
NCMBF is privately funded through grants and private donations, and fundraising will continue on an on-going basis. The facilitator position will be filled in early 2015 and training will be provided by the NCMBF group for the facilitator and the NCMBF Board members in the first quarter of 2015.
For further information about how persons can join this group as part of their resource board, they can contact secretary Gail Ledesma at 816-519-9305 or [email protected]; or Kohlstaedt at 816-632-6641 or [email protected].
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