The Blackhawk Hills Entrepreneur and Inventors Club is a place where likeminded individuals can meet to share knowledge, experiences, problems and ideas, as well as, find the resources and tools to attain success in their ventures. We are helping educate inventors and entrepreneurs to start a small business or maintain and grow their existing businesses successfully throughout the region of Northwest Illinois. We offer assistance and introduce you to potential advisors, mentors and support agencies.
Blackhawk Hills covers the counties of Jo Davies, Stephenson, Carroll, Ogle, Lee, & Whiteside. However, everyone is welcome. We have members from the Chicago suburbs, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Membership is free.
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SBA ARC Loan Program
If your small business is stressed meeting expenses during these economic times, the U.S. Small Business Administration has a new loan program designed just for you.
SBA’s America’s Recovery Capital Loan Program can provide up to $35,000 in short-term relief for viable small businesses facing immediate financial hardship to help ride out the current uncertain economic times and return to profitability. Each small business is limited to one ARC loan.
ARC loans will be offered by some SBA lenders for as long as funding is available or until September 30, 2010, whichever comes first.
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June 25, Thursday, 6:00 pm
Location: Skoog Landscape & Design in Sterling, IL
This month's speakers: Lee Trotter from the Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunities (DCEO).
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July 8, Wednesday, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location: First State Bank of Shannon-Polo-Lake Carroll (lower level) in Shannon, IL
Explore ideas of an association or guild to help promote art appreciation, marketing and more.
“We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success -- only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive, and free. Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development.”
~President Ronald Reagan |
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