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“Contest Gives Brooklyn Entrepreneurs A Jump Start”
An annual competition sponsored in part by the Brooklyn Public Library is helping to promote the development of locally-grown businesses. NY1′s Asa Aarons filed the following Employment Report. There’s something in the air at the Brooklyn Public Library and it just might be the sweet smell of success. Every year, the library’s business center joins [...]
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“PowerUp! Award Ceremony”
Winners of Annual PowerUP! Competition Announced On Tuesday, January 12, Brooklyn Public Library’s Business Library (BPL) announced the winners of its sixth annual PowerUP! Business Plan Competition. Thanks to the generosity of Citi Foundation, the sole sponsor of PowerUP!, the first place winner received $15,000 and the two runners-up received $5,000. A package of services [...]
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“B’klyn Public Library contest helps locals start small businesses”
All it takes is an air-tight bucket filled with wheat bran, molasses and a few safe ingredients with microorganisms that ferment food. That’s basically Vandra Thorburn’s plan for her new business, Vokashi Kitchen Waste, which she now hopes to aggressively market with $10,000 in prizes she’ll be getting through the Brooklyn Public Library. The Clinton [...]
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“BK tour company powers up”
Two Brooklyn women with plans for a sight-seeing tour captured the Brooklyn Library’s sixth annual PowerUp! competition, a contest between budding entrepreneurs that featured ideas on everything from an organic grocery to clothing stores for plus-size women. Stacey Toussaint and Sheila Collins won the grand prize of $15,000 for their plans to start Inside Out [...]
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“FAB CHICKS 2010 – Sheila Collins and Stacey Toussaint, Inside Out Tours”
Inside Out Tours allows visitors and local residents to find the ultimate cultural experience “off the beaten path.” Two native Brooklynites, Sheila Collins and Stacey Toussaint, created the company in order to share their knowledge about the borough they adore. The family-friendly walking and bus tours provide insight to Brooklyn neighborhoods while a percent of [...]
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“Brooklyn Library’s Power Up! Winners Take Home More Than $25K in Prize Money”
Three Brooklyn entrepreneurs took home more than $25,000 last week, as the Brooklyn Public Library announced the winners in its Sixth Annual PowerUp! business plan competition. Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz said at the BPL’s Business Library event, “112 is the zip that’s hip.” The three Power Up! winners a program that celebrates and rewards [...]
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“Brooklyn tours for non-tourists”
Why sit in traffic on the top deck of a big red tour bus through Times Square when you can take an Afro-Caribbean tour through Bed-Stuy, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill? Borough-natives Stacey Toussaint and Sheila Collins are offering the ethnic tour as one of their Inside Out Tours through Brooklyn. The walking and bus [...]
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“Tour guides turn Brooklyn ‘Inside Out’
Stacey Toussaint and Sheila Collins have turned neighborhoods such as Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights into tourist destinations. (Photo: Michael Kirby) You can visit Brooklyn, or you can experience it. That’s the premise of Inside Out Tours, a company specializing in treks to the borough’s often overlooked neighborhoods. Stacey Toussaint and Sheila Collins, Brooklyn natives, developed [...]
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“Tourist business takes Brooklyn Public Library’s top entrepreneurial prize”
A business that created a win-win situation became the big winner itself in taking the Brooklyn Public Library’s top prize in their 6th annual PowerUP! competition. Stacey Toussaint and Sheila Collins nabbed the $15,000 grant top prize for their Inside Out Tours business whose mission is to bring tourist dollars to local communities, as well [...]