FFI MVP Series Workshop: Developing a High-Performance Organization
In this workshop, you will learn to build your business team from the founder’s point of view.
In this workshop, you will learn to build your business team from the founder’s point of view.
Boot Camp equips you with everything you need to profitably grow your business and raise money. Experts from the Food Finance Institute will lead training sessions, diving deep into the four topics for each day of Boot Camp. Plus, they and other consultants will work with you individually so you have everything you need to profitably grow your food-focused business and raise money.
In this workshop you will learn how to develop your financial, sources & uses of capital and financing strategy.
Level 1 Consultant Training provides an in-depth look at what food, beverage and value-added farm businesses need to do to optimize their business model and capital structure for profitability.
Your value proposition communicates the full suite of benefits a customer receives when they do business with you, especially those which are hard to copy, and what kind of price premium those benefits should command. In this hour long interactive session, we'll start to craft your defensibly unique value proposition, and show how it is essential to the ongoing success of your overall business model.
Level 2 Consultant Training builds on Level 1 by helping participants navigate the process of raising appropriate debt, strategic investments, and equity investments in food, beverage and value-added farm businesses.
Raising Equity is designed to help companies make their business model investible, start assembling their financial package request, and develop a game plan to successfully raise debt and equity.
Scenario Planning helps your business plan for multiple possible futures and identify what it will take to be successful in each of them.
Please join the Food Finance Institute for a free webinar to launch our 2024 VAPG Program Series. At Preparing for the 2024 VAPG, we will host a conversation with past applicants that have received the grant and USDA staff that have firsthand knowledge of the USDA’s Value Added Producer Grant. Throughout this 90-minute webinar, renowned […]
USDA Value-Added Producer grants present a great opportunity to access federal money to grow your farm business. At this Boot Camp, renowned VAPG writer and consultant Jim Gage of JDG Consulting will walk you through the VAPG application, translate the RFA language into actionable insights you can understand, help you successfully outline your ideas and provide examples and options so you can write a successful proposal right now.