Pitt County partnership aims to help get businesses going
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — Applications are now open for a new program at Pitt Community College called Building Resilient Entrepreneurs in Winterville or BREW.
It is a collaboration between the Winterville Chamber of Commerce, Pitt Community College Small Business Center and Town of Winterville.
'How can we help businesses start?,' Executive Director for the Winterville Chamber of Commerce Rebecca Caveness said. 'A lot of what the business owner said that we're in the room is I wish we had a checklist. I wish there was a checklist. I wish there was a guidebook for like how to start.'
'We are hoping that this program will kind of mobilize some of our entrepreneurs that live, work and play in the town of Winterville to hopefully build some strong, sustainable businesses,' Economic Development Planner for the Town of Winterville Tristyn Daughtry said.
The program lasts 12 weeks. 'You have to either be getting ready to start a business or you have started a business in the last 12 months,' Caveness said. 'You have to be in Pitt County and your service area has to include Winterville, North Carolina.'
The program is designed to give people tools and resources to start a business. 'The goal of the program is for sustainability. So, so starting and launching a business is hard,' Daughtry said. 'We have a lot of entrepreneurs that are here in one level and they might not have the expertise or the knowledge or even sometimes just the commitment to be able to just full send and do it and so the goal is to really grow out their knowledge, equip them with the resources and knowledge to launch the business and to do it successfully and for the long term.'
'The key component that we wanted to include in this was the mentorship aspect,' Caveness said. 'So, it's all well and good to have education, to have the knowledge you're given these tools, but it can still be really intimidating if you don't have somebody who you're going to pick up the phone and call and say, 'I've hit a snag. You know, I really need some help.''
Applications for the program are now open.
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