Getting Spooky in October with ACEnet
Butcher's Bites: An Outside the Box Local Meal Service

Last week Ashton Nichols, senior writer for  The Post, sat down with  Butcher's Bites, a new meal prepping service in Athens that operates out of, you guessed it, ACEnet's Food Ventures Center!

Ever thought about trying a meal subscription service? Well Butcher's Bites is better! Their meals are locally sourced, delicious, healthy (they're designed by nutritionists/body builders!) AFFORDABLE, & you only order, via email, when you want to. Check out this great article from The Post, watch the video below & support your local small businesses!

A Bite to Eat

Butcher's Bites has also been working with another ACEnet tenant, Red Tail Design Co. on building their website! Up & running soon, the website will feature additional ordering options. 
Ohio Hills Midwifery to Join ACEnet Family of Tenants!

Lauren Genter has trained and worked as a doula, midwife's assistant, and finally as a homebirth midwife. Over the last 10 years she has to trained and worked in 6 different midwifery practices with 11 amazing midwives. From h ome birth midwife services to hospital birth support services, Ohio Hills offers a Doula Program, Monitrice Program, Home Birth Program & Placenta Encapsulation Services.

B ased out of Athens, Lauren also serves Lancaster, Logan, Circleville, Chillicothe, Jackson, Gallipolis, Marietta, Parkersburg and more. Typically anywhere within roughly a 60 mile radius from Athens Ohio.

For more information on Lauren, Ohio Hills Midwifery & the services offered, please see the Ohio Hills Midwifery website.
ACEnet Welcomes New Staff

Kyle Verge joined the ACEnet staff in August of 2018 as a Microenterprise Program Trainer. Through a grant from the Small Business Administration, he coordinates and teaches workshops encouraging entrepreneurship and small business development within the regional community. Additionally, he offers one-on-one technical assistance, re-entry outreach and assistance, and Food Entrepreneurship Workshops and Webinars.

After spending the last seven years in the local community working in drug rehabilitation, social enterprise management, and education, Kyle knows Ohio and the local community is replete with spirit, resourcefulness, beauty, and intelligence. It is these qualities he has learned to respect, and it is these qualities that inform and build our economic networks by bringing together artisans and makers, retailers, hospitality workers, and recreation enthusiasts.

Through no fault of his own, Kyle was born and raised in Michigan; he has lived and worked on both coasts of the United States, but is happy to have found a home, a wife, and a cat in Athens, Ohio. He earned a Master's Degree in English Language and Literature from Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti.
Akron Kitchen Incubator News


Akron Food Works, Akron's first shared-use kitchen and incubator, is slated to open at the top of 2019. Join The Well Community Development Corporation on October 3rd for a community conversation about the program. The meeting will include an overview of the kitchen, a short tour, opportunities for feedback, and round table discussions. Be sure to say hi to ACEnet's Food Ventures Manager, Adam Kody, while you're there!

The round table discussions will be a part of On the Table - a larger, city-wide initiative taking place the same day. See Facebook event page for more details.
Building Wealth through Worker-Ownership: Exploring Business Start-Up & Transitions

Join ACEnet, the CFAES Center for Co-Ops from Ohio State University and the Ohio Employee Ownership Center (OEOC) from Kent State on Monday, October 1st at the Athens Community Center in Athens, Ohio for a one day event focused on Starting New Worker-Owned Cooperative Businesses and Selling Your Business To Your Employees.
 
For more information & to register: Building Wealth Through Worker-Ownership
Free ACEnet Webinars & Toolkits

Did you know that we archive our webinars, including the webinars we do collaboratively with our partner organizations, to our website so you can view them for free? Be sure to check them out, we update the page with new webinars as we record them! ACEnet Webinars

We also archive any corresponding toolkits to our website here:  ACEnet Toolkits

Be sure to check out all of the free resources we have to offer on our website!
Did You Know?

Did you know that Kroger has a community rewards program much like Amazon Smile? If you sign up for Kroger Community Rewards & designate ACEnet as your nonprofit of choice they'll donate a percentage of the money you spend on groceries to us!

You may need to renew your choice if it's been a while. Go to Kroger Community Rewards and search for ACE NET (needs to have the space), after you choose us, Kroger donates to us every time you shop!
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Sincerely,
Meggan Loveland
Appalachian Center for Economic Networks
94 Columbus Rd,  Athens, OH 45701 
(740) 592-3854
94 Columbus Rd, Athens, OH 45701 
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