Business & Career Library
PowerUP! Competition
CALLING ALL ENTREPRENEURS – JOIN THE 2012 PowerUP! BUSINESS PLAN
Turn your business idea into a reality with help from the Library and you may win $15,000 in start up capital. Entrepreneurs throughout Brooklyn are eligible to participate in Brooklyn Public Library's PowerUP! Business Plan Competition. All contestants have access to free resources and services to help them write a business plan. View our slideshow to see how the PowerUP! competition rewards the ingenuity and determination of ALL participants. Everyone is a Winner!
Participants attend classes at the Library on creating business plans, marketing, financial projections, and doing research with Library resources. They are also connected to business counselors in the community.
Citi Foundation, as the sole sponsor of PowerUP!, is committed to making Brooklyn a great place to live and work by supporting local entrepreneurship through the business plan competition.
All applicants must attend one orientation. Details about applying are supplied at the orientations. The 8th and last oreintation is over and registration is now closed.
Following are upcoming deadlines for applicants:
April 30 by 11:59 pm
Set up your account on ReviewRoom.
May 14 by 11:59 pm
Submit your application and survey online.
May 22 - Classes begin
in the Dweck Center,
Grand Army Plaza.
The schedule is listed under Classes in the drop down menu above.
Over the past eight years the competition has fostered the development of a host of new businesses. You may view the list of past winners and read more about them. Join the competition, and you may be on the list next year!
Who Can Enter?
If you live in Brooklyn and want to start a business in Brooklyn, you are eligible. "Power UP!" is a competition to help applicants start a business. Additional details, including the competition rules and the application process will be supplied at each orientation session.
What Are the Prizes?
First Place - $15,000
Two Second Place prizes - $5,000
Three Merit Awards - $750
Honorable Mention - $500
How Can I apply?
We’re sorry, the application process is closed. More than 400 participants enrolled this year. We plan on offering the contest again in 2013. If you would like to participate next year, we encourage you to use the coming months to start researching, planning and getting advice about starting a business. If you want to be on the mailing list to receive notice of next year’s competition click here. (Link to http://biz.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/index.cfm/bay/comm.contact/formtype/maillist.htm)
Acknowledgments
PowerUP! is brought to you by the Brooklyn Public Library's Business Library Success Council and Citi Foundation.
Citi Foundation is the Lead Sponsor of the PowerUP! Business Plan Competition.
CALLING ALL ENTREPRENEURS – JOIN THE 2012 PowerUP! BUSINESS PLAN
Turn your business idea into a reality with help from the Library and you may win $15,000 in start up capital. Entrepreneurs throughout Brooklyn are eligible to participate in Brooklyn Public Library's PowerUP! Business Plan Competition. All contestants have access to free resources and services to help them write a business plan. View our slideshow to see how the PowerUP! competition rewards the ingenuity and determination of ALL participants. Everyone is a Winner!
Participants attend classes at the Library on creating business plans, marketing, financial projections, and doing research with Library resources. They are also connected to business counselors in the community.
Citi Foundation, as the sole sponsor of PowerUP!, is committed to making Brooklyn a great place to live and work by supporting local entrepreneurship through the business plan competition.
All applicants must attend one orientation. Details about applying are supplied at the orientations. The 8th and last oreintation is over and registration is now closed.
Following are upcoming deadlines for applicants:
April 30 by 11:59 pm
Set up your account on ReviewRoom.
May 14 by 11:59 pm
Submit your application and survey online.
May 22 - Classes begin
in the Dweck Center,
Grand Army Plaza.
The schedule is listed under Classes in the drop down menu above.
Over the past eight years the competition has fostered the development of a host of new businesses. You may view the list of past winners and read more about them. Join the competition, and you may be on the list next year!
Who Can Enter?
If you live in Brooklyn and want to start a business in Brooklyn, you are eligible. "Power UP!" is a competition to help applicants start a business. Additional details, including the competition rules and the application process will be supplied at each orientation session.
What Are the Prizes?
First Place - $15,000
Two Second Place prizes - $5,000
Three Merit Awards - $750
Honorable Mention - $500
How Can I apply?
We’re sorry, the application process is closed. More than 400 participants enrolled this year. We plan on offering the contest again in 2013. If you would like to participate next year, we encourage you to use the coming months to start researching, planning and getting advice about starting a business. If you want to be on the mailing list to receive notice of next year’s competition click here. (Link to http://biz.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/index.cfm/bay/comm.contact/formtype/maillist.htm)
Acknowledgments
PowerUP! is brought to you by the Brooklyn Public Library's Business Library Success Council and Citi Foundation.
Citi Foundation is the Lead Sponsor of the PowerUP! Business Plan Competition.
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