CAM: Growing Micro-Entrepreneurs
Pittsburgh Retail's CAM: Growing Micro-Entrepreneurs will deliver workshops and a published resource guide. Any funds received over our request will be utilized for future partnered events.
Leader
S Lauren Stauffer
Location
Cedar Ave. and E Ohio St. Pittsburgh, PA 15212
About the project
Pittsburgh Retail has helped plan local business operations and pop-up markets throughout the city for the last four years. PGHretail’s North Side event, Cedar Arts Market, supports makers, artists, craftsman, and is looking to encourage others to become Micro-Entrepreneurs. CAM vendors will deliver educational workshops. In addition, we’ll be working on a published resource book so PGHretail can continue to help others to grow their businesses, capitalize on underutilized resources, and build stronger communities through their operations.
The Steps
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Coordinate with host, HEY! Baby Boutique for workshop content, confirm venue(s), and continued outreach for participation.
Workshop descriptions and dates will be found at: pghretail.com/events -
Develop content, conduct interviews, and organize a public release for March 2016.
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Continue growing workshops, partnered events, and additional micro-entrepreneur materials through 2016 - 2017.
Why we‘re doing it
Hyper-locally, and through my own personal experience, the traditional workforce infrastructure has cracked and widened over the years. Competition, federal regulations, and other issues that are outside our region’s control have led to a large pool of underutilized labor, resources, and talent. The forecasted trend of employment is an increase in the zero-hour employee, contract work, and entrepreneurial initiatives. Micro-entrepreneurs are a new species of business folks who are operating within the new share-economy the recession has unleashed. Through these workshops and resource guides, PGHetail will be providing navigational tools to those yet unexposed to the concept and begin building the groundwork for individual financial security by addressing market needs in their communities.