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What’s Coming in 2025 at the Union River Center for Innovation

Attention Area Entrepreneurs and Aspiring Founders: What’s Coming in 2025 at the Union River Center for Innovation

Workshops Hosted at URCI
There are some exciting initiatives in the works at URCI. With the help of some area
business owners, we’ve finalized the first series of Entrepreneurial Exploration
workshops and will be announcing the topics, instructors, and schedule in the next few
weeks.

Business Attraction Plan to Focus on Two Industry Sectors
In conjunction with the City of Ellsworth Business Attraction plan, we will be establishing
one focus group to explore ways to support existing and attract specialty food and
beverage related businesses, and another for the building design, construction, and
maintenance trades.

Step 1: Business Survey
What project doesn’t start with a survey? This one is no different as we seek to
engage business owners in these two industry sectors. Whether you already
have an established specialty food or building trade business OR you have
dreams of having one, we want to hear from you.

TAKE THE SURVEY HERE

Networking and Socializing at URCI
There are some new events in the early planning stages to help showcase all that the
Center has to offer and to collaborate with and showcase area entrepreneurs. Keep an
eye on our events section.

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URCI Online
We’re doing some tweaking of our website to hopefully improve your experience when you need any of our online resources.

Educational Programming
In addition to training hosted at URCI, we’ll continue to share online and in
person workshops being offered by our partner organizations like SCORE, CEI,
SBDC, and New Ventures Maine.

Our Blog
It takes a village and there is an abundance of talent and entrepreneurial
expertise in and around Ellsworth. In a business brainstorming session that we
held in November 2024, one of the biggest business support assets that the
group identified was the amazing Ellsworth business community always willing to
help existing and new business owners.

In that spirit, we invite you to share your insights as a guest blogger. We can suggest topics, give you a general outline, and even do some ghost writing for you. Our goal is to post a blog on the first and third Wednesday of every month. Next time, we’ll hear from Dr. Elizabeth Marnik with her thoughts on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science that we celebrate this month.

If you’re interested in being a guest blogger, or have other thoughts to share, please reach out at tracy@unionriverinnovation.com