1. Identify your Community
It is tricky to identify a spefic community, as I have one that I work with in Real Estate, with who I attend courses with, go to sales meetings with and converse about real estate matters with. Than I have a community of regulars and co-works at two seperate restuarants I am the bar manager , but each of the ideas I would like to see come to light are sort of interwoven into the restuarant community more so I guess than real estate, or my sons soccer team I coach. As I just moved I have not totally settled into the community I live in yet. Eventually this will also probably entail the associatation for the condo I live in now, a church and perhaps a it would also include the people I en
a. Describe one idea or project you’d like to make happen
a)i.Well the speed and demands of this class sort of made me shelve two projects last semester, I guess one I was a consultant on was a community based restuarant to train young adults in a restuarant. While I worked with a friend on getting this going after a few multi-hourt meets could no keep up with the project and not sure what happened to it. The second one being the wine company a different friend and I have been in the process of starting for about a year and a half. Both are goals I want to do but are dependant on funding and my partners in the projects as I can't currently take the lead on them
ii. ideally, this is a real project in your life—perhaps the one you chose in Lesson 4.1b. List and describe people from the community’ that could help you make your idea happen
These are two important projects/ideas I have been working on, the first would benefit the community and while it sounds like the local area in St. Paul that my friend lives and works would be the community it is focused on helping and would affect people in a number of ways. A restuarant has one of the most economic stimulations for a local economy of for farmers raising the food, and in many cases they can employ around a hundred people on the high end fine dinning side of the coin. This is more of a project I have worked on and helped with but I am not the primary idea maker, as I would like to continue help and get the project going I can not be the driver of it. It is a multi-facted project the funding of which would be grant money and I can do little more then be a trainer once it is going and a contributor. I guess the community the grant funding, my friend Jennifer, and a number of other variables all need to come together to get this off the ground. Where as in the case of the Wine company it really is me and one other person and while there are funds set aside for this project I can not commit to it 50 hours a week until this program is done. But that would involve a few different communities from the winemakers, to the restuarants, and stores that would carry our products to the comsumers and local networrks we would devolop to look for and search out our wines. This will eventually entail the sales reps, the locations of the stores and venders around them as well as our investors and families.
i. there should be several people in your list that can support you in different ways
1. be specific – use names or titles and organizationsii. describe why or how each of these people will help you make your idea happen.
In the case of the training/job creation public restuarant it would be primarily ran and driven by Jennifer Pennington, and her ability to get it off the ground. Then there are other parties involved and I may be dropped out of the mix as school has sort of made me stop spending time on that project. The other project, as in the wine company is Primarily Scott Anderson and myself as the company heads, so while there would not be titles needed with these roles we would be the CEO and everything else at the beginning and would leave the other organizations we are involved with to pursue starting a company. So the supporting people would be the freinds that would help get it started, my friend Wenonah said she would be a sales rep for us which would bring be a member of the community. The hundreds of people I have worked with over the years in restuarants and sell wine and in Minneapolis and St. Paul would be part of the community to buy our products and to support our company. Scott would help with the fund raising and is dedicated to the project, I just dropped him a note while writting this and he agrees to hold off until my school is done and not loose interest. However, that looks like nine monthes out. So while it would be a joint project we are both equally involved with selection and he has gone to a few initial meets with wine makers to feel out their interest for us representing them in MN, which I try not to do as I need to be local for my son.
a)i.Well the speed and demands of this class sort of made me shelve two projects last semester, I guess one I was a consultant on was a community based restuarant to train young adults in a restuarant. While I worked with a friend on getting this going after a few multi-hourt meets could no keep up with the project and not sure what happened to it. The second one being the wine company a different friend and I have been in the process of starting for about a year and a half. Both are goals I want to do but are dependant on funding and my partners in the projects as I can't currently take the lead on them
ii. ideally, this is a real project in your life—perhaps the one you chose in Lesson 4.1b. List and describe people from the community’ that could help you make your idea happen
These are two important projects/ideas I have been working on, the first would benefit the community and while it sounds like the local area in St. Paul that my friend lives and works would be the community it is focused on helping and would affect people in a number of ways. A restuarant has one of the most economic stimulations for a local economy of for farmers raising the food, and in many cases they can employ around a hundred people on the high end fine dinning side of the coin. This is more of a project I have worked on and helped with but I am not the primary idea maker, as I would like to continue help and get the project going I can not be the driver of it. It is a multi-facted project the funding of which would be grant money and I can do little more then be a trainer once it is going and a contributor. I guess the community the grant funding, my friend Jennifer, and a number of other variables all need to come together to get this off the ground. Where as in the case of the Wine company it really is me and one other person and while there are funds set aside for this project I can not commit to it 50 hours a week until this program is done. But that would involve a few different communities from the winemakers, to the restuarants, and stores that would carry our products to the comsumers and local networrks we would devolop to look for and search out our wines. This will eventually entail the sales reps, the locations of the stores and venders around them as well as our investors and families.
i. there should be several people in your list that can support you in different ways
1. be specific – use names or titles and organizationsii. describe why or how each of these people will help you make your idea happen.
In the case of the training/job creation public restuarant it would be primarily ran and driven by Jennifer Pennington, and her ability to get it off the ground. Then there are other parties involved and I may be dropped out of the mix as school has sort of made me stop spending time on that project. The other project, as in the wine company is Primarily Scott Anderson and myself as the company heads, so while there would not be titles needed with these roles we would be the CEO and everything else at the beginning and would leave the other organizations we are involved with to pursue starting a company. So the supporting people would be the freinds that would help get it started, my friend Wenonah said she would be a sales rep for us which would bring be a member of the community. The hundreds of people I have worked with over the years in restuarants and sell wine and in Minneapolis and St. Paul would be part of the community to buy our products and to support our company. Scott would help with the fund raising and is dedicated to the project, I just dropped him a note while writting this and he agrees to hold off until my school is done and not loose interest. However, that looks like nine monthes out. So while it would be a joint project we are both equally involved with selection and he has gone to a few initial meets with wine makers to feel out their interest for us representing them in MN, which I try not to do as I need to be local for my son.
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