The Entrepreneur’s Academy is a five-month course designed to develop and sharpen the knowledge of successful small business entrepreneurs. This program is geared to assist and mentor existing and future entrepreneurs in the Middle Georgia area. The academy curriculum will cover start-up basics, business concepts, marketing plans, financial projections, and funding sources.

The Entrepreneur’s Academy is a partnership between NewTown Macon, the Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce and SCORE.  “The Chamber is pleased to have this opportunity to partner with New Town in the design & development of the Entrepreneur Academy. There has long been a need for a program that would help emerging entrepreneurs to better understand what it takes to start a business and how to successfully navigate through the various hurdles and this program certainly fits that need,” Mike Dyer, President and CEO of the Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce. SCORE is a national nonprofit organization that offers free business mentoring and low-cost workshops. “Our entire society benefits from small business owners and entrepreneurs who are disproportionately the source of new hires in the economy,” says David R. Bobbitt, President of the SCORE Foundation and Vice President of Development at the SCORE Association. 

Class sessions for the Academy will run May to October (except August) on the first Thursday of each month. All meetings will be held at NewTown Macon’s office suite (479 Cherry Street, Macon) from 5:00pm to 8:00pm. The opening class will be free and open to 30 students/participants, while the remaining sessions will be limited to 20 people and cost $125 each. 

As part of NewTown’s mission to grow jobs and strengthen existing businesses, NewTown is offering scholarship opportunities to ten existing or prospective downtown business owners. “We’d like to make the current downtown businesses thrive and help prospective entrepreneurs succeed,” says NewTown’s CEO and President, Josh Rogers. The funds raised from the Entrepreneur’s Academy will expand SCORE’s work in Middle Georgia. 

For more information and registration visit www.newtownmacon.com/entrepreneurs-academy