MicroEnterprise Graduation Focuses on Child Care

FORT MYERS, Fla. - Oct. 11, 2013 - PRLog -- The Goodwill Southwest Florida MicroEnterprise Institute will graduate its largest class of women on Monday, October 14.  The ceremony will take place at Keizer University (9100 Forum Corporate Parkway, Fort Myers). The graduation starts at 6:30 p.m.

The Goodwill Southwest Florida MicroEnterprise Institute is a training program to help emerging entrepreneurs start new ventures and grow small businesses. Graduates complete a 12-module business and management training course over the course of six weeks, and work with mentors who are successful businesspersons.  This session was the first MicroEnterprise class to focus primarily on the child care industry.

Jill Corbett and Dorothy Browning facilitated the class.

Graduates Rachel Addison, Yoland Chapman, Ashley Cosby, Barbara Folley, Zoila Infante, Mary Marion, Rachel Peacock, Laureen Preston, Tonya Rodreguez, Latoya Williams, and Tatiana Pereda will all receive their certificates symbolizing their completion of the small business training course.

“We look at the feasibility of participants’ business ideas,” says Browning. “We guide them through the start-up process. This program creates opportunities for people.”

Delivering the commencement speech will be Dawn Ziegler, CEO and owner of Ashbel’s Garden, Inc. Ashbel’s Garden is a non-profit business in Lehigh Acres that is designed to give special needs and under-privileged community resident’s sustainable skills and to give back to the community through a community garden.

The Goodwill Southwest Florida MicroEnterprise Institute is administrated by Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida and is part of Goodwill’s mission to provide life-changing opportunities to people with disabilities and disadvantages. To learn more about the SWFL MicroEnterprise Institute, please visit www.goodwillswfl.org/microenterprise or (239) 995-2106 ext. 2219.

For more information about Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida, visit www.goodwillswfl.org.