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Is Starting a Business Right for You? Business Start-Up Series - 4 Sessions Session 2: Business Concept November 3, 2020) The first workshop focuses on your business concept and step-by-step guidance in researching your idea, your market, and your competition. At the end of the Business Concept Workshop, you are able to identify your target markets, describe your products and services, and collect key competitive information to support your feasibility plan. Session 3: Marketing Plan (November 10, 2020) The second workshop provides you with an introduction to marketing communication methods and tools to maximize your customer reach. The discussion in the Marketing Plan Workshop covers pricing strategies, positioning, the difference between features and benefits, and different marketing strategies. At the end of this session, you will know how to outline your marketing strategy, test your marketing message, choose the right sales channel, and exercise your marketing strategy. Session 4: Financial Projections (November 17, 2020) The third workshop uses exercises to help you better understand financial concepts. This session reviews sales and prices, financial risks and rewards, true start-up costs, ongoing operating expenses, setting benchmarks for tracking progress and the organization of all your financial information. Using a hands-on approach, you learn how to use our financial model to forecast sales revenue and build solid pro-forma financial forecasts. Session 5: Funding Sources and Next Steps (November 24, 2020) The final workshop offers information on how to finance your small business. In this session, discussions include sources of funds, accounting the six C’s of credit, banking relations, ratio analysis, and monthly preparation and review of financial statements. A bank loan officer will give an inside view of how a banker assesses the merit of business plans and loan application. At the end of the series, you have all the tools necessary to decide whether or not to launch your small business. Attend all four sessions for $150.00 (A second person from the same company is an additional $50.00) Registration: https://charlotte.score.org/event/virtual-simple-steps-starting-your-business-workshop-series-2-5-nov Zoom virtual workshop, login information provided upon registration

Small Business Guide to Hiring and Payroll In this Workshop the Small Business Owner will learn about: • Hiring Employees vs. Independent Contractors • Understanding Payroll - Self-employment taxes - Payroll taxes - CARES Act tax credits - Avoiding the 5 most common payroll mistakes • Correctly Classifying your Workforce - Exempt vs. non-exempt - Overtime rules - New W4 Fee $40 Promo Code: In light of the economic situation caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus, our October Online Workshops are being offered at a discount. When registering Apply promo code 25OCTNMA to receive a 25% discount. Registration: https://charlotte.score.org/event/small-business-guide-hiring-and-payroll-oct-23

Learn how to make Gingerbread Houses at-home with a three-part series featuring All-Star Chefs & Competition Judges (including celebrity chef, Carla Hall). A portion of the proceeds goes to ACFEF’s Chef & Child Initiative so the more you bake, the bigger difference you make. Class takers also receive 15% off future stays at The Omni Grove Park Inn January - March 2021. | $29

Endorphins, physical health, community and fun! Meet new friends - and / or have a classmate, neighbor or cousin sign up and dance with them... virtually from your home. Beginner to more experienced dancers - all are welcomed : ) Learn line dances to a variety of musical genres..Funk, Pop, Latin, Country, Blues... FREE December 2020 series for Middle Schoolers FREE November 2020 After School series for elementary school kids FREE January 2021 series for high schoolers and adults of all ages ... and more virtual and live, social (ly distanced) line dance experiences available (visit the ticket link for a calendar / more info / to sign up). Must register at https://www.lisakonczal.com/dancewithlisa in advance - dancers will receive a Zoom link emailed to them come class time. Limited capacity to maximize your experience and create community. You are welcome to project the lesson for an entire group, being careful to dance at least six feet from one another. Taught by Winston - Salem, NC native, Lisa Konczal - a principal (line) dancer in the Grammy Award-Winning music video for “Old Town Road”, the longest running #1 Billboard song of all time. Sponsored by Culture Blocks - a community partnership funded by Mecklenburg County.

Endorphins, physical health, community and fun! Meet new friends - and / or have a friend or relative sign up and dance with them... virtually from your home. Beginner to more experienced dancers - all are welcomed : ) Learn line dances to a variety of musical genres..Funk, Pop, Latin, Country, Blues... FREE January 2021 series for High Schoolers and Adults of all ages ... and more virtual and live, social (ly distanced) line dance experiences available (visit the ticket link for the calendar / more info / to sign up). Taught by Winston - Salem, NC native, Lisa Konczal - a principal (line) dancer in the Grammy Award-Winning music video for “Old Town Road”, the longest running #1 Billboard song of all time. Sponsored by Culture Blocks - a community partnership funded by Mecklenburg County.

Join Arts at Queens for two opportunities to hear Triangle-based roots/folk/soul band Violet Bell perform on Queens' beautiful campus on Sunday, November 1 at 2 PM and 4 PM. Enjoy these outdoor performances in your own seating area, physically distanced from other audience members.

Franchise Ownership Workshop presented by FranNet and SCORE Charlotte Considering business ownership? Ready to leave employment behind? Want to start a business while employed? This No Cost event is for anyone that wants to: create their own corporate ladder; start a business while employed; enjoy career independence; build equity in their own business; learn about franchises expanding in their markets; hear about business financing options Presentations: by experts in the franchise industry Panel Discussions: ask questions of and get the answers you need from our panel of local franchise owners and franchise industry experts Registration: https://score.tfaforms.net/17?EventID=a100b000006ZEa

Reverse Goal Setting It's time you take control of your business like never before. If you’ve ever found yourself in February and your goals are already a distant memory or you’re disappointed as you look back in December on what you didn’t accomplish (but had planned to), you aren’t alone. Goals shouldn’t be that way. Don't get caught up in typical goal setting practices...it's time to reverse your goals and watch them come alive! Stacey Brown Randall of the Goal Finishers Club will walk you through a process to see your goals in a whole new way. Her clients amaze themselves on what they are able to accomplish following her Reverse Goal Setting process. Here’s what you’ll learn during this session: Set goals that actually matter and provide a direction to where you want to go long-term Connect your goals to your why… giving you a better chance to actually accomplish them Identify major milestones, layout your roadmap and create your action plan (so crushing your goals actually happen!) Registration: https://score.tfaforms.net/17?EventID=a100b000006ZGzW

The Davidson College Union Board is virtually hosting Patrisse Cullors in conversation with Dr. Laurian Bowles, professor of Anthropology at Davidson College on November 10th at 7:30pm. Artist, activist, educator, public speaker, and Los Angeles-native Patrisse Cullors is the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and Founder of the Los Angeles-based grassroots organization Dignity and Power Now. For the last 20 years, Patrisse has been on the frontlines of criminal justice reform and led Reform LA Jails’ “Yes on R” campaign, a ballot initiative that passed by a 71% landslide victory in March 2020. Patrisse co-founded the global Black Lives Matter movement in 2013 after sparking the viral Twitter hashtag. The movement has since expanded into an international organization with dozens of chapters around the world campaigning against anti-black racism. Her work for the organization received recognition and was honored in TIME Magazine’s 2020 100 Women of the Year project. In January 2016, Patrisse Cullors published her memoir, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, which became an instant New York Times Bestseller.​

Following the police killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and John Crawford III in Beavercreek, Ohio, among many others, The New Black Fest commissioned seven emerging Black playwrights to write a collection of monologues that explore their feelings about the well-being of Black people in a culture of institutional profiling. The collection includes plays written by Nathan James, Nathan Yungerberg, Idris Goodwin, Nambi E. Kelley, NSangou Nkikam, Eric Holmes and Dennis Allen II An incredible all-Black cast of Charlotte actors, under the direction of Quentin Talley, will bring these stories to life in this electric virtual theatre event. For three nights only, you will have a front row seat (from the comfort of your own home) as the artists perform live from the Duke Energy Theatre at Spirit Square. This show contains adult language and themes, including discussion of trauma to Black Americans, recommended for ages 16+. Three Bone Theatre will present three performances of The New Black Fest’s HANDS UP: Seven Playwrights, 7 Testaments- November 19-21 at 8:00pm. Tickets are $20 per viewing device. Discounted pricing of $10 per viewing device is available for students and educators. The community partner for this production is Amplify and Activate, a Black-run Charlotte-based organization that promotes yoga as a form of social justice and self care towards collective liberation. 25% of the net proceeds from the production will be donated to Amplify and Activate.

Our focus is to serve the homeless community and single women with children that need a helping hand. Our mission includes, but is not limited to feeding the homeless, providing gently used clothes, household items, and personal toiletry items. In the very near future it is our goal to own a food bank, furniture distribution Center and a facility that will provide housing for a few families at a time that are coming from abusive situations. We will also provide resources that will give information such as how to prepare your credit, and how to purchase a home as well as spiritual guidance. While we are aware that we may not be able to take care of everyone's needs; it"s our goal to help as many as we can.

At the very core of our existence, music comforts the heart and feeds the soul. Music adds to celebrations and provides a place to turn to when we need lifting up. Join Carolina Voices’ Festival Singers as they share inspiring choral music during Comforting the Heart – a livestream Concert on Sunday, November 22 at 4:00 pm. Festival Singers will debut new virtual choir pieces such as “You Do Not Walk Alone” by Elaine Hagenberg and “Flight Song” by Kim Andre Arnesen. This 30-minute program also includes past performance excerpts to warm your heart and provide a big virtual hug! Tune in for Comforting the Heart LIVE via Facebook or YouTube. Sip a beverage, get cozy, and watch in comfortably from home.

Join us for one of the most swingin’ celebrations in town as we keep the tradition going with the annual JAZZ ROOM Holiday Edition Benefit! This festive evening will bring the sounds of the season to your home and feature many of your JAZZ ROOM favorites, reimagining holiday classics that you, your family and friends are sure to enjoy. The concert is FREE! A $10 donation per person is requested from those who are able to give. This benefit concert supports JazzArts Academy scholarships, local musicians and upcoming JazzArts virtual programs. Watch via Facebook Live or YouTube Live. PERFORMERS INCLUDE: Preservation Hall Jazz Band JazzArts All-Star Youth Ensemble Mac Arnold & Plate Full O-Blues Roxy Coss Amos Hoffman Matt Lemmler Sasha Masakowski Robyn Springer/Greg Cagle Corey Wilkes

Systemic racism shapes every facet of American life including the healthcare system. “Racism in Healthcare” explores how structural and institutional racism have molded U.S. healthcare.

Host Mary C. Curtis will talk with advocates and experts about how racism has decided who receives what kind of care. Their conversations will also look at solutions to fix what’s gone wrong.

Guests:
• Nov. 18 – Actress Alicia Cole developed flesh-eating disease, sepsis and three life-threatening antibiotic-resistant infections after what was supposed to be a minor surgery in 2006. Despite what she went through, Cole recalls the details of the racial bias she met at the hospital as clearly as the physical ones she suffered. The experience turned Cole into a patient safety advocate.

• Nov. 25 – Dr. Priscilla Pemu trains medical students and new medical doctors in the specialty of Internal Medicine. As a professor at Morehouse School of Medicine, Pemu developed a system and method for chronic illness care that empowers patients to change their health behaviors.

• Dec. 2 – Dr. Joia Crear-Perry is the founder and president of the National Birth Equity Collaborative. The collaborative creates solutions for Black maternal and infant health. Crear-Perry has written several of articles around structural racism.

"Racism in Healthcare is a collaboration between Everyday Health, one of the largest providers of health news, information and tools; ClearHealthCosts, an organization creating transparency to the health care marketplace by telling people what stuff costs; and WFAE.

Join artistic worlds through mixed media! 11 to 16 year-olds will learn to incorporate experimental painting, collage, and drawing in five finished works of art. By leading exercises in diverse artistic ideas, McColl Center alumna artist Sharon Dowell will guide students to synthesize multiple mediums and be inspired by artistic practices like street art, architecture, fashion, graphic design, and music.The virtual camp will meet Monday, November 30 through Friday, December 4 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. through a secure Zoom meeting, and will be moderated by McColl Center staff. All supplies and instructions for five projects over the week will be provided in an art box. Price includes delivery within Mecklenburg County.

Explore printmaking with a gelatin plate! Your 11 to 16 year-old will translate their ideas to paper using diverse techniques to roll ink, pull prints, and reveal ghost prints. Teaching tricks of the trade, Charlotte-based artist Laurie Smithwick will encourage students to experiment with resist prints and textures to make five finished works of art or creations like greeting cards and gift tags. The virtual camp will meet Monday, December 7 through Friday, December 11 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. through a secure Zoom meeting, and will be moderated by McColl Center staff. All supplies and instructions for five projects over the week will be provided in an art box. Price includes delivery within Mecklenburg County.

Transform vinyl records with collage and paint! Your 11 to 16 year-old will spin this unique, recycled canvas into five finished works of art highlighting favorite genres or musicians. While discussing favorite music with the group, Charlotte-based artist Jaianna McCants will teach the fundamentals of collage making and painting techniques and share the origins of recording music on vinyl. The virtual camp will meet Monday, December 14 through Friday, December 18 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. through a secure Zoom meeting, and will be moderated by McColl Center staff. All supplies and instructions for five projects over the week will be provided in an art box. Price includes delivery within Mecklenburg County.

Take the crash course on money matters. This hands-on, 90-minute workshop is for professional artists and creatives to learn the nitty-gritty of budget savvy practices and financial stewardship for projects and businesses. Discussion and activities will focus on terminology, budget creation, and project finance management. About the Artist Entrepreneurship Program: Regardless of your artistic discipline, business skills and financial acumen are key to sustaining your practice as a professional artist. In our ongoing efforts to support artists’ careers, McColl Center presents the first series of professional development workshops in our Artist Entrepreneurship Program. Through the live, interactive workshops, you will be encouraged to make steps toward self-sufficiency and growth with resources for business planning, financial literacy, and grant writing. The fall 2020 series is a collaboration with C4 Atlanta and will be taught virtually by Audrey Gámez.

Sharpen and refine your grant writing skills to push your applications to the top of the list. Participate in this two-hour workshop to learn the basics of grant writing: finding grant calls, structuring essential components of a grant proposal, detailing project information, creating a budget, and writing a strong grant narrative. About the Artist Entrepreneurship Program: Regardless of your artistic discipline, business skills and financial acumen are key to sustaining your practice as a professional artist. In our ongoing efforts to support artists’ careers, McColl Center presents the first series of professional development workshops in our Artist Entrepreneurship Program. Through the live, interactive workshops, you will be encouraged to make steps toward self-sufficiency and growth with resources for business planning, financial literacy, and grant writing. The fall 2020 series is a collaboration with C4 Atlanta and will be taught virtually by Audrey Gámez.

Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak House will be a Toys for Tots collection site on Friday, Nov. 27, Saturday, Nov. 28 and Sunday, Nov. 29 from 4:30 p.m. until 9 p.m. each day. Bring an unwrapped toy to donate to the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program. The objectives of Toys for Tots are to help less fortunate children throughout the United States experience the joy of Christmas; to play an active role in the development of one of our nation’s most valuable resources – our children; to unite all members of local communities in a common cause each year during the annual toy collection and distribution campaign; and to contribute to better communities in the future.