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9/23/2009 - You Can Build a Business (and Your Community!)

Osborn Community Matrix Center
13560 E. McNichols, Detroit
6-8 pm

On Wednesday night we were invited to the Matrix Center in the Osborn neighborhood. The event began with our featured speaker Mikel Lezamiz, who was followed by Quincy Jones, Community Liaison from the Skillman Foundation's Good Neighborhoods program. Finally Ken Gadd, Manager from the Lawrence Tech Osborn Microenterprise & Entrepreneur Program, discussed the services the program offers to people attempting to start their own business, an example of the types of community support which made Mondragon the success it is.

Presentations

• Building Community Wealth In Detroit: Lessons & Future, by Deborah Groban Olson (Executive Director, C2BE)
• Humanity at Work, by Mikel Lezamiz (Cooperative Dissemination Director, Mondragon Cooperative Corporation)

Photos

Mikel Lezamiz speaks to the audience

Ken Gadd speaking about the Lawrence Tech Osborn Microenterprise & Entrepreneur Program

A group photo of Mike Wimberly (Executive Director, Friends of Detroit & Tri-County), Deborah Groban Olson and Mikel Lezamiz in front of a spectacular mural in the Matrix Center

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