Acerca del Sweattboxx Wellness Center
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Dación caritativa y Filantropía Corporativa
SOURCE se complace en anunciar un regalo filantrópico de LUCAS OIL para ayudar a mejorar el acceso a los servicios empresariales de SOURCE en los barrios comunitarios Near West de Haughville, Hawthorne, Stringtown y We Care. “LUCAS OIL reconoce la importancia de ser un buen ciudadano y un socio corporativo; servir como defensor de SOURCE y de los pequeños negocios del área.
“Entienden cómo un el apoyo, enfocado en las coyunturas críticas durante el camino empresarial del empresario, puede tener un impacto significativo” afirmó Steve Thrash, Director de SOURCE. “Se quita el sombrero ante LUCAS OIL por poner su dinero y recursos donde pueda tener un impacto inmediato, apoyando a nuestras familias y empresarios de Near West.
SOURCE Entrepreneurship Center lleva atendiendo a empresarios del área desde el año 2017. Su apoyo directo y continuo ayudará a empoderar a nuestros emprendedores y comunidad locales. ¡Únete al Equipo!
Recursos de SOURCE
SOURCE te ayudará sin importar donde estés en tu viaje emprendedor. Elige entre recursos dirigidos a cada etapa de desarrollo de tu empresa.
Empresarios desde la etapa de la idea hasta el lanzamiento que se dedican a desarrollar sus ideas, conseguir recursos y apoyo financiero, y organizar su negocio.
Nuevos negocios en etapa temprana de inicio y crecimiento que están en proceso de adquirir clientes, refinar operaciones de negocio, y ejecutar sus planes.
Negocios establecidos en las etapas de crecimiento, pivote, y etapa próspera que tengan experiencia en el mercado, creciendo o re-posicionándose, ayudando a continuar con su éxito y contribuyendo en la comunidad.
Asesoramiento virtual individual
Exploración y alineamiento de recursos
Taller de conceptos básicos de la propiedad empresarial
Oportunidades de creación de redes de contactos entre pares
Curso Acelerador de empresas de 10 semanas
Desarrollo de sitios web
Seminario virtual de SBA
Pitch
Oportunidades de creación de redes de contactos entre pares
Capacitación uno a uno
Asistencia para la solicitud de financiación
Diagnóstico de negocios in situ
Oportunidades de creación de redes de contactos entre pares
Re-live the first of its kind event! Watch the live stream that you missed.
Felicitamos por el gran trabajo a Ben Rose, Brittany Crone, y todos los talentos, patrocinadores, y contribuyentes a este evento local único e importante.
La música en vivo estuvo acompañada por el aporte profesional de Ebony Chappel con invitados locales compartiendo valiosos conocimientos en salud y en creación de riqueza. Producido por Ben Rose de WCDC, las actividades estuvieron disponibles en vivo transmitido a través de Facebook Live y ya están disponibles para que veas toda la acción en https://m.facebook.com/events/417433749498059.
SOURCE se complace en ser colaborador participante, y nuestro segmento se puede encontrar en el minuto 58:40.
Entrepreneur Highlights
Estamos emocionados de destacar a tres de nuestros héroes locales. Haga clic en sus sitios web para leer sus historias. Apoya a tu pequeña empresa local.
Natalie Pipkin
Black Worldschoolers Mobile Book Store
317.441.6230
Karla Nowlin
Angels of Hope, Home Agency LLC
317.292.3097
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Announcement: New community board members elected
Increased outreach and community impact is in the forefront of the SOURCE Entrepreneurship Center Board expansion. As part of the transition to an independent local 501c3, SOURCE leadership identified key individuals who would bring additional cultural sensitivity, expertise’ and business ownership experience to the Board level. SOURCE is pleased to announce the following individuals have been duly elected to serve on the 2021 SOURCE Board of Directors:
Suzette Sweatt is the co-owner of the SweattBoxx Wellness Center with her husband Personal Trainer Daniel Sweatt. Together they operate the gym. Suzette is an Internationally Licensed Kangoo Jumps fitness instructor and teaches both Adults and Children. sweattboxxwellnesscenter@gmail.com 317.800.5657
Aaron Laster is a 26-year-old entrepreneur who started buying properties with his father in Haughville. He has been hands-on in the process of acquiring, managing & maintaining all of the properties in his portfolio with most acquisitions being distressed assets and subsequently guided to success through rehabilitation. Aaron supports opportunities in commercial real estate development & local businesses that are transforming the way we live, work, and play. aaronlaster@gmail.com 317.507.9395
Nicole Kearney, is founder owner of Sip N Share Wines. A wine lover for years, Nicole Kearney began her business in 2016 by sharing other wines for private tastings. However, she always made her own sangria, which she bottled in mason jars. Eventually Kearney ditched the mason jars for more traditional wine bottles and became a licensed winery. nicolekearney@yahoo.com 317.724.8926
Starla Hart
Karen Young
The full Board can be found here: http://sourceforbiz.org/about-source
SOURCE name change
A local Near West resource for aspiring entrepreneurs and small businesses is undergoing significant change in 2021. Seeded in 2016 by IUPUI through its Office of Community Engagement, SOURCE has served as a critical component to the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) facilitated by the Great Places neighborhood strategy and Quality of Life Plan. IUPUI set out to create, reinforce, and enhance an environment where local individuals can learn, start, and grow their business.
SOURCE, IUPUI, and sponsors celebrated achieving a major milestone this past December… where since its inception, SOURCE has served over 1200 individuals, who gained and supplemented their business knowledge and expertise through training and workshops, business coaching, program resource navigation, application assistance, and valuable peer-to-peer networking opportunities.
“Ensuring local access to entrepreneurial resources in the neighborhoods of Haughville, Hawthorne, Stringtown and We Care, and later expanding to all Indianapolis neighborhoods, SOURCE local presence was critical to achieving the goals and objectives laid out in the Great Place Neighborhoods comprehensive strategy”, explained Steve Thrash, Director of SOURCE since mid-2019. “Area entrepreneurs and support organizations are grateful to IUPUI for affording this opportunity to launch, and now successfully graduate, this valuable community resource to become the locally owned and self-directed resource as was intended from the beginning."
SOURCE continues to serve numerous aspiring and existing entrepreneurs and small businesses, of which over 70% represent the black and Latinx communities, and over 62% are women. Program design and delivery are developed and managed both directly by SOURCE staff, and through long-standing partnerships with the INDY Chamber of Commerce, Business Ownership Initiative (BOI), the Westside Community Development Corporation, the US Small Business Administration, and others.
During 2021, SOURCE is undergoing expansion and enhancement of its’ local Board leadership (see related article)
2021 plans are also underway to increase local outreach, enhance services and networking among the Hispanic community, and bring new innovative programming in now virtual format, broadcast via Facebook live-stream. New and enhanced collaborations are being built, and announcements will follow, including joint programming with the INDY Black Chamber, 16Tech, PITCH Feast, BOI, and many others.
Rachael Cieslak, owner of Rachael Cieslak Calligraphy
Rachael Cieslak of Rachael Cieslak Calligraphy is the KELLEY School of Business winner in the virtual Fall 2020 SOURCE Pitch Night Competition held for graduates of the SOURCE Entrepreneurship Center “Dream It. Start It. Grow It. – Business Accelerator” course in partnership with the INDY Chamber Business Ownership Initiative (BOI).
Rachael makes art out of words through her traditional copperplate calligraphy, which elevates the sophistication of envelopes, certificates, awards, and other luxury paper products. She offers fully customized recipient envelope addressing and spot calligraphy in pointed pen (this involves a nib, holder, and an inkwell) for bridal customers and special occasions. Corporate entities could utilize this craftsmanship with employee recognition awards, performance certificates, and years of service acknowledgements. Intimate holiday team-gatherings or larger sales meetings where nametags, seating cards, and other paper products don't typically turn heads become an opportunity to impress when handwritten with style.
She offers complete etiquette suggestions and solutions having a background in corporate marketing with companies: White House Black Market (FL), Wolverine World Wide (MI), PGT Industries (FL). She has gained bridal expertise from being a team member at Oliver's Twist Paper, a luxury bridal stationery shop in Carmel, Indiana.
"My approach is always thorough. I like to digest details before making decisions. Before I could transform my calligraphy talent into a business, I needed actual business advice and guidance. Steve Thrash from the SOURCE Entrepreneurship Center and Sarah MacInnis, the Director of Business Coaching Services of the Indy Chamber were great co-teachers helping us entrepreneurs examine our ideas with the goal of formulating solid market-ready business plans over the ten-week course.
The course work really came together for me when we worked through the Business Model Canvas and identified our Value Proposition and the who, what, when, where and why of turning it into a profitable business. I appreciated working virtually with a class of passionate people with such varied and valuable ideas.
I'll be using my online presence to help my business grow but also to share my experience of starting my own business. Please find a way to connect with me on www.rccalligraphy.com or at rachael@rccalligraphy.com and let's get to work together!"
Natalie Pipkin, owner of Black Worldschoolers Mobile Bookstore
Natalie Pipkin was recognized as one of the top winners in the recent SOURCE PITCH Night Competition, sponsored by the KELLEY School of Business and PNC Bank. Natalie founded and owns Black Worldschoolers Mobile Bookstore. We exist to create/promote:
Access to stories that are too often left off the shelves.
Excitement and engagement around reading.
Empowering, joyful, culturally relevant libraries within homes and youth centered organizations.
"Sharing our stories. Shaping our world."
While 2020 was a wild ride, it definitely ended with a bang! Within the last 30 days of 2020 I completed the SOURCE River West: Dream It. Start It. Grow It course, launched phase 1 of my bookstore, and won $1000 in the SOURCE virtual pitch contest! The prize money will help us begin phase 2 of the bookstore launch which is renovating our shuttle bus and going mobile this spring/summer! Yes, a walk on, sit back, and read bookstore on wheels that will also serve as mobile learning hub!
The 10 week SOURCE River West course offered a wealth of detailed information to help actualize my dreams that will in turn, allow me to effectively serve the community. Extremely grateful for the opportunity to learn, share and grow with a beautiful cohort of entrepreneurs.
You can visit the store online at http://www.blackworldschoolers.com and email at blackworldschoolers@yahoo.com. Follow Black Worldschoolers Mobile Bookstore on Instagram and Facebook.
PITCH Night
Each year at the culmination of the ten-week SOURCE / BOI Business Accelerator, SOURCE Entrepreneurship Center provides an opportunity for course participants to “put it all on the line”, by sharing their business concepts to make their case, in front of a panel of professionals who are well versed in what it takes to start and grow a successful business.
This year’s evaluators represent a cross section of business, banking and education. Mark Harsley, founder owner of KITe Communications served as one of three evaluators. Mark is an alum of the Business Accelerator course and a past PITCH winner. Patricia Gamble-Moore, Senor Vice President of PNC Community Banking represented the financial community and was a key sponsor of the night’s events. Barb Cutillo of Indiana University KELLEY School of Business is Senior Lecturer / Instructor for the IU KELLEY School and is also an experienced business owner in her own right These three PITCH evaluators made for a very challenging and highly competitive event, where Entrepreneurs put it all on the line.
Unique this year, and due in large part to the generosity of PNC Bank, all participants received a cash award in recognition of their hard work and preparation for the PITCH Night event. PITCH presentations were provided by:
Daniel Higgs -1 of a FIND
Beverle Kane – Revisit Your Photos Now
Rachael Cieslak – RC Calligraphy
Tyrone Chandler – Urban Youth Entrepreneurship Academy
Pamela Feist – Crematory Services with Love
Tichina Clark – Taste Buddies
Natalie Pipkin – Black Worldschoolers Mobile Book Store
Marla Rubacalva – Glutes 317
Charlotte Brown – Me Too Chronicles
Each participant is to be congratulated and recognized for their hard work, as they each pursue their Entrepreneurial Journey.
Contact SOURCE Entrepreneurship Center www.SOURCEforbiz.org to learn of the next Accelerator and PITCH opportunities.
Support small businesses and SOURCE services in 2021
SOURCE Entrepreneurship Center exists to provide support for small and emerging businesses, with a focus on Near West neighborhoods in Indianapolis. This next year will be crucial for SOURCE's sustainability much in the way that it will be for the entrepreneurs and small business it serves. Now more than ever, we must commit to supporting small businesses by shopping small but also ensuring that they have access to technical assistance programs intended to help them recover, grow and be financially sustainable.
Suzette and Daniel Sweatt are owners of Sweattboxx Wellness Center and have a passion for connecting others with healthy living. Sweattboxx was a recipient of Source Seed Funds which helped them purchase equipment to expand their youth and adult fitness programs.
Maurice Dunn, owner of The Carpenter's Son, was a recipient of the Source Business Accelerator Pitch Fest. The Carpenter's Son is a full-service construction management and general contracting firm providing quality work in the construction industry.
Sip & Share Wines is a boutique winery producing a diversity of handcrafted vegan wines. Founder and Winemaker Nicole Kearney was named one of 40 African American Tastemakers, and her Conjure Zinfandel was featured in Forbes Magazine as one of the ten drinks for the summer of 2020. Sip & Share was among Source’s first clients.
Take a sip with Sip & Share Wines this Small Business Saturday
KiteMail is a web and mobile application to easily compose and send professionally-printed postcard messages to isolated loved ones, including incarcerated individuals. Mark Harsley, Founder of KiteMail, con nected to grant funding at Source as well as other entrepreneurs to help his business grow.
Through SOURCE's accelerator series, workshops, social media/website services, and one-on-one coaching, it has served more than 282 entrepreneurs and small business thus far in 2020. In response to Covid-19, it has significantly expanded one-on-one consultations for small business owners who need advice on everything from applying for the Paycheck Protection Program to evolving their business plans and changing cashflow projections. Your financial support will help SOURCE continue to offer these services in 2021. Donate Here.
Thursday, December 10, 2020 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm | Virtual
Graduates of the SOURCE ten week Business Accelerator course will have the opportunity to pitch their business concepts to a panel of professional business experts and Accelerator alumni, and win $2000 first place, $1000 second place awards.
Special thanks to the IU Kelley School of Business and PNC Bank for their recognition of the importance small business plays in our economy, and for their generous sponsorship support.
This year's competition is virtual and the public is invited to view the process and help celebrate the event. Tune in Thursday December 10, 6pm - join via Facebook live using this link: https://www.facebook.com/indychamber/live/. Feel free to forward this link to your friends, family, and acquaintances. It should be a one of a kind great event!
Winners will be announced later this month!
Raven Carter, Fall 2019 Pitch Fest winner with Class
Maurice Dunn, owner of The Carpenter’s Son
We are excited to announce Maurice as our next entrepreneur for the “Entrepreneur Spotlight Series.” We have been interviewing past clients to hear their story and get some advice from them.
Business Website: https://www.buildtcs.com
What is your business?
“My company is called The Carpenter’s Son. We are a construction manager and a general contractor. We basically manage a construction job from start to finish.”
How did you get started?
“I started out working for the District of Columbia as a construction leader and from there I met people along the way that taught me so much and I eventually decided to start my own business.”
How has SOURCE impacted your business journey?
“SOURCE has been a great opportunity for us because when I first started with SOURCE I had just finished business coaching with SBA. SOURCE helped me open my eyes and think about business in a different way which helped me to switch from doing the job to teaching someone else how to do the job.”
Since coming to SOURCE and receiving the Pitch Fest Award, Maurice has been able to get his business off the ground and moving along. He and his team have done some great projects on buildings around the city, including Harris & Ford and the Indianapolis International Airport.
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Karla Nowlin, owner of Angels of Hope Home Agency, LLC
Every month, we shine a Spotlight on a hardworking entrepreneur who has taken advantage of SOURCE RW’s educational resources. This month, we are featuring Karla Nowlin, owner of Angels of Hope Home Agency, LLC.
Business Facebook: Angels of Hope Home Agency
What is your business?
We are a personal home health agency. We hire nurse aids and go out to people’s homes to help their loved ones with anything from personal care to housekeeping assistants.
What is the story behind Angels of Hope Home Agency, LLC?
I was raised volunteering and helping at the church food pantry. I slowly realized that some people weren’t coming because they couldn’t care for themselves, so from a young age I wanted to figure out a way to help them and that started my passion in this field.
How has SOURCE helped your business?
SOURCE River West is like the best people I’ve ever met. They have been a God-send to me. People think that when they want to start a business that there’s no help out there. Years ago, I thought the same thing. When I asked SOURCE, they helped me so much, and they gave me so much information.
If you would like to learn more about Angels of Hope Home Agency, LLC, you can contact Kara at angelshocinc@gmail.com. A huge thank you to Kara for sharing her story with us at SOURCE River West!
DIP-IN Quarterly Update
The Diabetes Impact Project Indianapolis Neighborhoods (DIP-IN) is a neighborhood-based program launched by the Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI in collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company, to address the high incidence of diabetes in three Indianapolis neighborhoods: the Northeast, Northwest, and Near West neighborhoods. The long-term goal of this project is to reduce diabetes-related complications and to ultimately reduce the rate of diabetes in these Indianapolis neighborhoods. The three communities were selected based on high prevalence of diabetes, demographic factors and highly engaged community members and organizations.
Read the content featured in the DIP-IN Quarterly Update:
DIP-IN SAVI dashboard goes live
We know many of our DIP-IN stakeholders have had the opportunity to use The Polis Center at IUPUI’s SAVI Profiles to explore and utilize data in their community and organizational work. Through multiple user-friendly data tools, SAVI's vision is to make sure all organizations “have access to and use data to improve planning and decision-making and ultimately improve the quality of life in the communities they serve.” While anyone can go to the SAVI website and access pre-built data dashboards, the team at The Polis Center also works to create special, custom data dashboards, like the “Coronavirus Data Hub” and like our recently launched “DIP-IN Dashboard.”
Over many months, The Polis Center, along with assistance from DIP-IN community residents and the IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI, created a custom data dashboard for the three DIP-IN communities.
By going to this link, anyone can now pull up data for each DIP-IN community that covers categories such as Community & Social Context, Economy, Food, Health Care, and more. Unique from other SAVI data tools, this dashboard also includes data from the 2019 DIP-IN Community Survey, where over 1,100 households across the three communities participated. Not only will our DIP-IN team continue using this data dashboard to inform our project goals, but our hope is that others—both within and outside of the DIP-IN communities—will find this data informative and useful in their own work.
Meet: Brittany Crone
Meet our newest DIP-IN Neighborhood CHW, Brittany Crone. Brittany replaces Ben Rose as the Near West Neighborhood CHW, based out of the Westside Community Development Corporation (WCDC). Promoted to a Quality of Life (QOL) Coordinator role at the WCDC, the DIP-IN team is excited that Ben will remain a part of the Near West team. We are also excited to have Brittany on board and asked her a few questions below about her work and Indianapolis background.
What did you do before becoming a part of the DIP-IN team?
Before joining the DIP-IN team as an nCHW I spent about 6 months focused as a full-time student, working as the Ambassador of Latin Night at the Jazz Kitchen, and volunteering. Before that, I was leading a team as a Director of Client Services for a staffing agency here in Indy, as well as coordinating events for that firm.
Tell us more about your background in living in and working with Indianapolis communities.
I was born and raised on the northwest side of Indianapolis in Pike Township, and am currently raising my daughter here as well. I have always had a heart for community work and creating a peaceful space for others for my entire life. Although this is my first official role as a community worker, I have spent the last several years volunteering at food pantries, putting together "blessing bags" for homeless neighbors, working in community gardens, teaching English, and advocating for equity and human rights for all.
Tell us a story of a time you felt you had a true impact in your community work.
I am not yet in a place I feel I have had an impact. That being said, I do feel the work and our community have had an impact on me. Especially when I see how people can come together again, and again, to coordinate and collaborate on projects, such as Operation Care Kit where care kits for homeless neighbors are assembled. Participating in events like these, meeting people who are like-minded, and being able to take action to brighten someone's day - or simply ask someone their name and actually listen - makes all the difference in my life.
What part of this project are you looking forward to most?
The beauty in this project is that we have a real opportunity to be an ear and a source of empowerment for the neighborhoods where we work. Where there is unity, there is strength and healing. I am most looking forward to becoming a familiar face in the neighborhood so that community members know they have someone in their corner; to be an authentic connector with the community in such a way that community members feel seen, supported, and empowered.
When you are not working, what are you up to?
I am a firm believer life is for living, so when I'm not working my 10-year-old daughter and I like to stay active. I co-lead monthly multiculturalism discussions on the last Saturday of every month, where safe space is created to dive into the "issues and -isms" of society that we experience individually. I am part of a volunteer organization called Woman Within, that is dedicated to empowering womxn to access their inner wisdom through witnessing each others' vulnerability and supporting one another through emotional facilitation. My daughter and I often take walks in the various parks throughout the Indianapolis area - Eagle Creek is our favorite. We enjoy creating together and supporting local artists at art fairs and museums. We also spend time with our Indigenous community here at church on Saturday nights. I love music and dancing, especially Salsa, Bachata, and Samba at the Jazz Kitchen. I can be found volunteering in community gardens (like the one we have in We Care) or in my own garden. I am a singer and actor, so I can occasionally be seen doing performances at various locations around the city, including in the upcoming Onyx Fest 2020. My main focus at this time in my life is to learn as much as I can from those around me in an effort to prepare for the vision I hold to connect more people with mental health care and emotional wellness.
We Care Community Garden yields success
In our last quarterly update, we featured a few ways our DIP-IN communities were pushing forward with their community work during this pandemic; realizing the need for care and support is greater than ever. One of the featured ways the Near West was looking to serve their community was through reviving a community garden in the We Care neighborhood. By collaborating with DIP-IN, Purdue Extension, Groundwork Indy, and various church groups, the We Care Community Garden has yielded amazing success this summer season. As of late July, the We Care Neighborhood has donated a total of 32 pounds of produce to Hawthorne Community Center and the Lord's Pantry at Anna's House. Through food assistance programs at these organizations, the produce goes directly to Near West community members.
Insulin affordability through Lilly
While working on DIP-IN, residents and organizations alike have been interested to hear what Lilly is doing to assist those with diabetes who struggle to afford their Lilly brand insulin. This quarter, our DIP-IN Community Health Workers (CHWs) and residents from our steering committees were able to attend informational meetings on Lilly's Insulin Affordability Solutions. Individuals who use Lilly insulin may be eligible to receive assistance through solutions like automatic discounts, non-branded insulins, or immediate need donations. Those using Lilly insulin are encouraged to check their eligibility for assistance through the Lilly Diabetes Solution Center, by calling the toll free number of 1-833-808-1234.
CHWs and residents who attended the sessions are distributing informational handouts throughout their communities to spread the word about the Lilly Diabetes Solution Center to those who could benefit from it.
For more information about the Diabetes Impact Project Indianapolis Neighborhoods (DIP-IN), please visit https://fsph.iupui.edu/research-centers/centers/cheer/diabetes-impact-project.html.
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