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CITY OF REDWOOD CITY WORKSHEET FOR EXHIBIT B QuantiWtive Goals: Contract Objectives FISCAL YEAR 2011/2072 Agency Name: Renaissance Entrepre�eurship Center Address: 275 Fifth St. City, State, ZIP: San Frencisco, CA 94703 Activity/Program Title: Renaissance Redwood City Entrepreneurship Training Program GOALS NUMBER OF COMPLETION (Include goal description in this column) PERSONS OR DATE - HOUSHOLDS Prima quantitative contract goal' (Inciude onl ONE prima oal in this section). To create jobs for Redwood City residents. 40 6/30I2012 Other seconda " oals, collaborative actions, outreach, and em hasis to be conducted. 1. To provide entrepreneurship training to pre-startup, new, and existing businesses in 60 6/30/2012 Redwood City. 2. Outreach and marketing throughout Redwood City. 200 6I30/2012 Renaissance will actively promote our Redwood City Entrepreneurship Training Program to the Redwood City community, targeting our efforts to reach un- and underemployed residents, minority and disabled populations. Renaissance will identify and meet with local organizations, such as social service agencies, nonprofit organizations, religious institutions, chambers of commerce, banks, government offices and other civic associations to promote the program and for client referrals. We will also conduct outreach through the Redwood City Pubiic Library, disfribute flyers throughout the communiry to raise awareness of the program, distribute Press Releases to local television, print and radio media, and offer 10 Launch Your Own Business Orientations to introduce potential clients to our program. All outreach will be conduded in English and Spanish to ensure we are reaching the full Redwood City community. 3. Ten Launch Your Own Business Orientations (five in English; five in Spanish.) 100 5/30I2012 Renaissance will offer 10 Launch Your Own Business Orientations. In these two-hour introductory sessions, participants will leam about the challenges, benefits and rewards of starting and sustaining a new small business, and discover the seven key success factors to help launch and run a successful business. These interactive seminars will include vital information about resources essential for aspiring new business owners. 4. Four, six-hour, two-part Personal Business Readiness Workshops (two in English 60 5/30/2012 and two in Spanish) Renaissance will offer four, six-hour, twa-part Personal Business Readiness workshops, twice each in English and Spanish. These optional workshops will help participants develop their business ideas, begin to determine business feasibility and outline their business models, and decide whether business ownership is right for them at this point in their lives. As a result of the Launch Your Own Business Orientation and Personal Business Readiness workshops, clients can begin to see themselves and believe in themselves as business owners, and each participant will be able to determine whether: • There is a market for their pradud or service • Their business has the ability to generate enough revenue to achieve his/her income goals • The day-to-day demands of the business can fit with the day-to-day demands in their lives 5. Four cycles of our 10-week 8usiness Planning class (two in English and two in 60 6/30/2012 Spanish.) Renaissance's 10-session Business Planning classes will help paRicipants to test their business idea or model and rewnfi ure as needed, develo business marketin , finance, ATTYlAGR/2011.096/CDBG RENAISSANCE SERVICE osizi� 15