Start your Engines!

Comments (0) Posted By Joe on June 25, 2010 in Events

A big part of the Intersect Fund’s work is helping small businesses increase their sales.

At events like our Entrepreneur Showcase and Holiday Bazaar, our clients routinely earn $1,000 in sales per hour.

Now, we are launching our Mobile Marketplace, an unprecedented initiative to revitalize Central New Jersey’s business landscape.

We’re talking 12 Showcases per year throughout greater New Brunswick, a buy-local campaign, and getting our clients online and in local stores.

This is going to be big, but we need your help to make it happen.

Please give to the Intersect Fund’s Mobile Marketplace program. Every dollar helps, and — here’s the best part —  the Catholic Campaign for Human Development will match each of your dollars one for one, up to $35,000.

Small businesses are engines of economic recovery. Help us guide them toward a new, prosperous day.

Thank you for your help!

P.S.: If you donate online, make a note in the “Additional Comments” section that you would like to direct your donation to the Mobile Marketplace.



Bringing the field together

Comments (0) Posted By Rohan on October 26, 2009 in Events
Student representatives work in break out groups to develop a vision for collaboration

Student representatives work in break out groups to develop a vision for collaboration

Last weekend, the Intersect Fund hosted the first-ever gathering of student-run microenterprise programs in the nation.  Over the last two months, with the help of FIELD, we two-day agenda to share emerging best practices and experiences — and perhaps even develop a vision for collaboration.  We even got Intersect Fund clients Sam Johnson and Pearl Thompson to do the catering.  In attendance were:

What an incredible two days it was.  Having this much brainpower in the room allowed us to talk shop and get advice from others who had experienced much of the same things we have.  The number of different approaches, products, and services was fascinating — from green credit builder loans to partnerships with credit unions — especially given how young most of the programs are.

Hours before we adjourned, the consensus in the room was that we should form some sort of alliance that would allow for distributed costs for resources (i.e. Credit Builders Alliance, MicroTest) and sharing of best practices.

I left the conference energized with new ideas and great hope about the awareness we can bring to the industry and the magnitude of what we can accomplish together.