The BMCC Office of Internships and Experiential Learning and Equitunity, a public charity, invites students to participate in an Entrepreneurial Economics Workshop Series. The workshop series provides hands-on training and guidance on starting small community cooperative enterprise businesses based in any one of New York City’s ten most impoverished communities.
There will be eight workshops in the series, each one hour long, held once a week, beginning February 22 with an orientation session and ending May 11 with funding proposals. On completion of the entire workshop series, up to three proposed community cooperative enterprise businesses will have the opportunity to receive seed funding and incubation for the start-up.
All BMCC students are invited register for the workshop series. Registration ends on February 18. The workshop series is limited to 25 students. Invite friends and classmates to register with you if you want to pick your partners.
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Sharon Reid at sreid@bmcc.cuny.edu or William Franklin at equitunity@gmail.com.
BMCC’s Economics program alumnus, William Franklin, is the Founder and Director of Equitunity, a nonprofit based in New York City. Equitunity was formed to confront poverty in the City’s poorest communities and focuses on community development and cooperative entrepreneurship by bringing community members together to identify the needs of their community and solve their problems collectively.
Poverty in communities results from joblessness, wage inequality, lack of access to credit, and much more. Equitunity seeks to educate, empower and promote cooperative community entrepreneurship, and local job creation in the poorest communities in NYC.
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