The Red Wing Entrepreneurial Community Growth Initiative Idea Slam brought 100 participants together (January 14, 2012) to asset map, generate project ideas, present ideas and vote on Quick-Start projects. The Saturday event was attended by approximately 100 people made up of long-time citizens, students, retirees, business people, young people and people new to the Red Wing area who came to brainstorm, network, and make vital connections on ideas to help support entrepreneurial efforts in our community.
Twenty-seven participants presented ideas for Quick-Start projects, and everyone in attendance voted on projects to move forward to the grant application round. Project teams had six weeks to develop a business plan that will include matching grant funding and in-kind donations. Seven projects were selected that day, but one has since withdrawn. The six projects that will be making presentations are:
1) Downtown Creative Business Center
2) Red Wing App/Museum Gallery Brochures
3) Building Bridges/Chinese exchange
4) Grain Silo Murals
5) Healthy Foods/Red Wing Farmer's Market
6) Friends of the Bluff
The entire community is invited to attend the project presentations that will be held at the Red Wing Library Foot Room on Thursday, March 1 at 6 PM. This will be a public meeting. At the end of the presentations the Red Wing CGI Core Leadership Team will enter into closed session to select the grant recipients who will share in all or part of $20,000.
