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100K Ideas of Flint Receives Grant

Michigan Business Network
January 18, 2022 12:00 PM

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100K Ideas receives$35,000 grant to support their work to 
help innovators take their businesses from idea to market. 

Flint, MI, January 2022 – 100K Ideas has received a $35,000 grant from the Consumers Energy Foundation. This grant will
be used to support 100K Ideas’ current and future clients as
they embark 
on their entrepreneurial journey. 

“The Consumers Energy Foundation is thrilled to support the Flint community’s most creative minds, an extension of our efforts to build strong businesses and communities across Michigan,” said Carolyn  Bloodworth, the  Consumers Energy Foundation’s secretary/treasurer. “We hope this grant for 100K Ideas will help more entrepreneurs turn their ideas into reality and make Flint an even better place to work and  live.” 

The grant will support the expansion of 100K Ideas’ direct client services at all four locations
across 
Flint, including the Ferris Wheel building, the Flint Development Center, Berston Field
House and the LatinX Technology and Community Center. These services include idea research assessments, CAD design, prototyping, concept sketches, logo design, and website design. The grant will also support their outreach efforts to ensure residents are aware of the organization and the help 100K Ideas can provide. Lastly, this grant will help increase the creation of small
businesses and support the growth 
of existing small businesses in the community.  

“We are incredibly grateful and excited to partner with Consumers Energy,” Brandee Cooke-Brown, Executive Director. These funds will help us continue to expand our programming in the region. It will also help bring us closer to our goal of providing the opportunity to launch a
business to any innovator regardless of their previous experience or background.”
 

About 100K Ideas
100K Ideas is a Flint-based nonprofit organization where big thinkers are ushered from napkin-sketch to market. 100K Ideas provides real-world experience primarily to college students who help address the unmet needs of inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs and ensure a platform to support economic and workforce development as a driver of empowerment in Flint and for innovators everywhere.  To learn more  visit 100kideas.org 

About the Consumers Energy Foundation
The Consumers Energy Foundation is the charitable arm of Consumers Energy, Michigan’s largest energy provider. The Foundation enables communities to thrive and grow by investing in what’s most important to Michigan — its people, our planet and Michigan’s prosperity. In 2021, the Consumers Energy Foundation, Consumers Energy, its employees and retirees contributed over $17.5 million to Michigan nonprofits. For more information, visit www.ConsumersEnergy.com/foundation.

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