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Y’all better grab a plate! 🍽 @divinepersonalchef makes it her mission to feed her Village.

This week’s VMF Alumna Highlight, Diahnn Thomas started her personal chef business in 2016 after leaving corporate America. Since, her philly cheese pull-a-parts, turkey wings, or vegan cheesecake truffles are just some of the delicious treats she prepares as a home chef, party caterer, or will teach you to make in a private classes.

When the Divine Chef joined the 2019 VMF cohort, she found a supportive environment, could think differently about customer needs, and developed new growth strategies for her business after an unexpected downturn in revenue. Through her hard work and what she learned through the Village, Diahnn has grown to be in the position to take vacation time, pay for health insurance, and keep her staff on the books even through holidays. In 2020 facing the COVID-19 pandemic Diahnn saw it as an opportunity to pivot the business and redefine offerings by providing deliveries to create a sustainable business model. Her story exemplifies the impact the Village brings even during the most challenging of times.

#AlumnaCorner #ittakesavillage #getdownwiththefund

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Please take time to create quotes (at least 10) you can spread out throughout the week. Use Canva and. share your designs with me (helena@villagemicrofund.com)

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Divine Chef is someone that you can create content around to highlight this week.
https://thedivinechefexperience.net

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Recreate or reshare the education facilitators post. Application online.

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Small Business Highlight of the week (This will not be every week, because we need to filter which businesses are still up and running)

The Divine Personal Chef
(you can re-create a post around this)
social media @personaldivinechef
Also feel free to reach out and talk to anyone that we highlight for more concrete info.

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Create post and schedule them through out the month.

Focus for themes
Business tips
Motivation quotes
Mix us photos that you think we can use for backgrounds.

Reference
createher.com
nappy.co
unsplash
black own stock photos

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Can you create grab and go post like the motivation post and tips? You can copy a link here to the Canva post for me to see them.

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Motivation and Quotes Message Board - Instagram Post by Helena-Kelleese Smith

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NEW OFFICE ALERT! It's official! VMF new office will be in the Russell Center of Innovation of Entrepreneurship! We are excited to build with our partners and other small businesses, growing our vision, and bringing new resources to the community.

Stay tuned.

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New website is up. ppl can receive more info about VMF, entrepreneur business bootcamp and being able to have one-on-ones with potential start ups and ppl new to entrepreneurship.
www.villagemicrofund.com

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Education for Entrepreneurs

We believe that there is brilliance in our neighborhoods and the reason behind the lack of local enterprise in our local communities of color isn't because of a lack of local genius or talent, but because of a lack of opportunity and resources.

We work every day to be able to provide them with the funding, the education, the support, and the community they need to prove it to the rest of the world.

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Key details:
Applications are open.
Visit the website to apply, under the Education tab
Application closes June 1st

https://www.canva.com/design/DAEZg6Gp3XM/share/preview?token=dafhr-eFqRXG5AchG5hVtQ&role=EDITOR&utm_content=DAEZg6Gp3XM&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=sharebutton

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Create a post and captions asking followers to drop in the comments some books they are reading. Build some reading list and synergy around them sharing and posting their suggestions and tagging them as consistent content.

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We are still accepting applications for business in South Fulton who have been affected by covid. 

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We are still accepting applications for business in South Fulton who have been affected by covid. 

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Key details
*Rolling application until funds are exhausted.
-Be located within the City of South Fulton
-Demonstrate that the COVID-19 outbreak caused at least a 30% decrease in revenue
-Employ 2-10 employees
-Have no outstanding tax liens or legal judgments
-Have a current City of South Fulton Business License
-Been operating in the City of South Fulton for two or more years
https://form.typeform.com/to/rJ4CB6dt

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Professional Development Sessions coming to the Village for start-ups

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Professional Development Sessions coming to the Village for start-ups

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You can create captions around VMF offering professional development sessions soon.

Key details:
*sessions are one on one or trainings that will assist startups with their processes
*provide resources and networking
*offer support
*create and development new partnerships in the community

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We are still accepting applications for business in South Fulton who have been affected by covid. 

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We are still accepting applications for business in South Fulton who have been affected by covid. 

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Key details
*Rolling application until funds are exhausted.
-Be located within the City of South Fulton
-Demonstrate that the COVID-19 outbreak caused at least a 30% decrease in revenue
-Employ 2-10 employees
-Have no outstanding tax liens or legal judgments
-Have a current City of South Fulton Business License
-Been operating in the City of South Fulton for two or more years
https://form.typeform.com/to/rJ4CB6dt

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Facilitators applications will be open May 1st. 

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Facilitators applications will be open May 1st. 

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Key details:

*Anyone with a background in entrepreneurship, education, or small business development can apply
*Application link will be posted on the site May 1st and open until Mid-June.
*Applicants will be notified by Education Manager for interview and next steps.

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The audience seems to engage with motivation post and how to's. Let's create a thread of these in Canva to grab and post.

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Motivation and Quotes Message Board - Instagram Post by Helena-Kelleese Smith