Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 10, Number 4, 1 April 1993 — OHA co-sponsors microenterprise workshops [ARTICLE]

OHA co-sponsors microenterprise workshops

OHA will eo- sponsor a series of workshops on microenterprise development April 2628, on O'ahu, Moloka'i, and Kaua4i. The workshops are designed to help eommunity groups, non-profit organizations, and other entities whieh have interest in establishing a selfemployment and microenterprise development program within their communities.

The workshops will be run by the Association for Enterprise Opportunity, a Chicagobased organization directed by Beverly Smith. Workshops wiil teach what microenterprise development is, who are the populations served by existing programs, various models undertaken by existing microenterprise developraent programs, microenterprise philosophy, and current legislative initiatives to provide access to loeal and federal sources that support seif-employ-ment and microenterprise development programs. For more information contact Chris Van Bergeijk, OHA Eeonomie Development Specialist, 586-3745.