MEO Business Development Center offering credit counseling services
Residents facing worrisome credit debt or needing advice on managing their student loans can now turn to Maui Economic Opportunity’s Business Development Center for help. The Business Development Center recently certified staff members on Maui and Moloka‘i as national...
Business grants of up to $25k available to MEO Core Four students
Applications are being accepted for Maui Economic Opportunity’s Core Four Business Planning series that offers the opportunity upon course completion to submit a business plan for review – with the top nine plans eligible for grants of up to $25,000 for start-up...
The MEO Minute 26
*On Wednesday's* The MEO Minute on Akaku's The Maui Daily, Business Development Center Director David Daly talks about a new credit counseling program. His segment appears at about the 12 minute mark, preceded by a report on the MEO administered ‘Ai Hua farmers market...
MEO Teen Financial Literacy workshop set in June
Maui Economic Opportunity’s Teen Financial Literacy Workshop will be held from 4:30 to 6 p.m. June 20, 22, 27 and 29. The four-session program offered through MEO’s Business Development Center covers budgeting and savings, basic banking, applying for jobs, credit and...
The Real Deal brings UH-Maui College students MEO entrepreneurs together
UH-Maui College graphic design students gave their logo design pitch to Maui Economic Opportunity business planning class entrepreneurs in the collaborative “The Real Deal” event on May 9. Students in the college’s “Intro to Graphic Design (CM 125)” were paired with...
MEO BDC director meets with emergency shelter residents
Maui Economic Opportunity’s David Daly discussed programs offered by his Business Development Center from financial literacy to business planning to a handful of residents at the emergency shelter Wahi Ho‘omalu ‘O Wailuku. Daly, director of BDC, held an informal talk...
MEO Core Four Business Planning Course to start new series
Maui Economic Opportunity Business Development Center’s next series of the Core Four Business Planning Course will be starting Tuesday, March 1. All classes will be held online via the Zoom platform. The Core Four Business Planning Course is a five-class series on how...
BDC offers a FREE Financial Literacy Workshop for adults
The “Money Matters” Adult Financial Literacy Workshop is a two part series that will be held February 16 & 17 via Zoom. This workshop is available to all Maui County residents, including Lana'i and Moloka'i. Workshop topics include: Understanding Spending...
MEO Core Four Business Planning Course
The first Core Four Business Planning series of 2022, presented by Maui Economic Opportunity’s Business Development Center, starts Tuesday, Jan. 4. All classes will be held online via the Zoom platform. Core Four focuses on how to write a business plan and provides...
MEO’s Heather Wells earns Debt Management Professional certification
Maui Economic Opportunity’s Heather Wells has been certified as a Debt Management Professional and will be available to help clients of the nonprofit agency that works with people in need to come up with plans to extricate themselves from crisis and to better manage...
Winner of business plan contest appears on Hawaii News Now
Thank you to Jim Mendoza of Hawaii News Now for reporting on the winner of a $25,000 grant in a Maui Economic Opportunity Business Development Center business planning contest. Landa Ampong was interviewed for the story on God’s Lanes, LLC, a startup e-commerce retail...
Applications for Agricultural Micro Grant Program available
Applications for the popular Agricultural Micro Grant Program 2.0 – which offers up to $25,000 in grants to Maui County small farmers and administered by Maui Economic Opportunity – are available beginning today, Oct. 14. The $1.5 million Maui County-funded program is...