Tip of the Mitt SCORE volunteer mentors conducted a series of five workshops for returning citizens at Chippewa Correctional Facility in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The workshops, Fundamentals of Starting or Growing a Business, were presented over several months in 2½-hour sessions totaling 10 hours of training for each participant.
Pictured (L to R) is one of our participants with Jim Buckley, retired SCORE volunteer, and Rex Winter, active SCORE certified mentor.
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