Let's cheer on TWO New Jersey libraries that advanced to finalists in the Entrepreneurship and Libraries Conference's @ the Table Pitch Competition on May 19!
Congratulations to Middletown Township Public Library and Jersey City Free Public Library and good luck with your pitches!
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Register to attend – and participate in – the 2022 “@ the table“ pitch competition on Thursday, May 19, 3-5pm EST via Zoom: https://forms.gle/rJ5i7KoT4u9RamWBA or use the registration link on https://entrelib.org/2022-elc-pitch-workshop/
Participants can watch the pitches, vote for the audience choice award, hear updates from two 2020 “@ the table” pitch winners, learn who won this year, and engage in a concluding networking discussion.
Thank you to EBSCO for sponsoring.
The five contestants competing for a total of $5,000:
Katie Jeleniewski and Kate Hammond
Middletown Township Public Library (New Jersey)
“MAKERS MAKE BUSINESS: Supporting Our Community Crafter Entrepreneurs”
Mary Guillory
Xavier University of Louisiana Library
“Makers Dive In”
Corey Frederick and Chad L’eplattenier
Nashville Public Library (Tennessee)
“NPL Means Business to the High School”
Kate Davis and John Butler
Jersey City Free Public Library (New Jersey)
“Uncut Gems: Promoting Minority Immigrant and Female Entrepreneurs in Jersey City“
Audra Espinoza
Hastings Public Library (Nebraska)
pitch title tba
Agenda for the event:
- Welcome
- Pitches by the five libraries
- Voting for the Audience Choice Award
- 2020 pitch competition winner updates: what happened afterwards?
- Judges announce the winners
- ELC announces the the Audience Choice Award winner
- Networking and discussion (lightly moderated by the ELC)
About the event:
@ the Table is the pitch competition of the Entrepreneurship & Libraries Conference (ELC). Five libraries will pitch ideas or initiatives to stakeholders in economic development and compete for awards. The focus of the pitches is how a library can support local economic development, job creation, workforce development, entrepreneurs, nonprofits, small businesses, or innovation in general. The five competing libraries received one-on-one coaching by pitch specialist Jenn Hensel of ElePitch. https://entrelib.org/