WEDC awards $500,000 in entrepreneurship grants

BizStarts, BrightStar receive Milwaukee share

One day at church, Pastor Anthony Burns of Milwaukee’s Jericho Church Without Walls told the congregation, including Brumfield, about the Launch MKE 10-week course for entrepreneurs in low-income Milwaukee neighborhoods.

In December, both Brumfield and Burns, who runs his own business called Jericho Business Incubator, graduated from Launch MKE with new tips about how to grow their companies.

“It really helped me to understand the nuts and bolts of being a business owner financially, tax information,” Brumfield said....

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Ken Notes: I also like this idea but suggest it picks winners a losers, why not an across the board program to support both entrepreneurship and apprenticeship??