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Kindred Connector
A newsletter connecting the Maine family business community
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Innovation is the application of technologies to solve problems.
~ Simon Sinek ~
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IFOB Upcoming Events - Quick Look
LAST CHANCE to Register...
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Highlighting Our Website Rebuild
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One of our primary goals in building our new website was to better serve and highlight our amazing members. We needed an organized, colorful, engaging place to inform and connect our members and our community. Learn how side●sea helped us:
- Redesign Our Member, Associate & Partner Directories
- Build a Colossal Calendar of Events
- Highlight IFOB Programs & Services
- Allow Members to Control Their Own Content
- And More!
We'd love to have a conversation about how these new tools and features benefit our members. Reach out to Catherine or Brooke for more details.
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IFOB Board Member, Katie Rooks, to be presented with Crystal Heart award at Maine's 17th annual Go Red for Women Luncheon | |
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PORTLAND, ME, March 13, 2024 — For nearly two decades, the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women campaign has raised awareness about women’s greatest health threat - cardiovascular disease. As the campaign celebrates 20 years of making an impact - and during the Association’s centennial year - the 17th annual Maine Go Red for Women Luncheon will take place on March 27, 2024 in Portland...
... The Association will present the 2024 Crystal Heart awards to Al Swallow, Chief Financial Officer with MaineHealth, and Katie Rooks, Charitable and Community Relations Manager with M&T Bank. This award recognizes those individuals who strive to make Maine a better place to live, work, and thrive through their commitment to the well-being of Maine citizens.
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"How-To": Your Family Business' Resiliency Depends on its Structure
Thursday, March 21
8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. In Person | BerryDunn Portland
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Zoom
Your family business’s resiliency depends on its structure strategies for whether your business is solely owned, sibling controlled, or diffusely owned. To truly understand the issues that impact a family business, you must see them for what they are: Family businesses are not a monolithic block, but rather a “species” with various sub-species, and any advice given to them should be tailored to fit that specific sub-species. At this workshop, we’ll identify the three types of family business, their structures and how to best develop a strategy to improve our opportunities for resilience and longevity.
Free for Members and Guests
Future (Non) Members In Person $35 | Zoom $15
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Join us after the "How-To" above
for this important "How-To" below!
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"How-To": Develop a Board of Advisors Workshop
Thursday, March 21
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. In Person | BerryDunn Portland
Zoom
“Developing a board of advisors (BOA) can be an incredibly powerful tool to improve the success of your business. Creating a board of advisors could perhaps be the best investment that a business owner can make, but how you go about developing one makes a difference. Our approach is different than most. We remove the mysteries of creating a Board and provide you with a clear how-to guide, insight, tools and methodology”. – Ted Clark
This program follows “Your Family Businesses Resiliency Depends on its Structure” How-To program earlier the same morning at BerryDunn.
Click here or on the image below for more information on Ted’s book.
Free for Members and Guests
Future (Non) Members In Person $35 | Zoom $15
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The Family Business Executive Forum
Challenging Power Structures
Thursday, March 28
12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Live via Zoom
Breaking ceilings, setting boundaries, accepting imperfections, and leveraging collective strength for individual and organizational growth as women in leadership.
Join us at our first Exclusively Women-Led iteration of the Family Business Executive Forum! This month’s forum will be led by Amanda Laden of The Center for Conscious Living and Fulfillment, with special guests Amanda Grappone Osmer, Chief Vision Officer of Grappone Automotive and Rebecca Hamilton, Co-CEO of W.S. Badger Company!
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The TranscendHer Group
A Year-Long Peer Experience
Applications Open for April 2024 Group
Are you a woman in a leadership position within a family business? Do you want to elevate your leadership, carve your own authentic path, make a mark on your organization and industry and leave your legacy?
The TranscendHer Group is an exclusive, year-long program designed by The Center for Conscious Living and Fulfillment, tailored for women who are not just seeking leadership roles but are on a quest to redefine what confident, authentic leadership in family business means. This program is for the driven, the open-minded, and the transformation-seekers who believe in a legacy beyond profits—a legacy built on unity, well-being, and purpose.
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Watch out, Fenway Frank: Luke's Lobster scores concessions deal at Boston's Fenway Park
MAINEBIZ | March 13, 2024 | Less than a month before the Boston Red Sox home opener at Fenway Park, Maine’s own Luke’s Lobster has scored a high-profile concessions deal with the iconic ballpark, Major League Baseball said.
The deal, announced on the MLB website, gives the seafood wholesaler and restaurant group two locations at Fenway, one situated inside the first-base concourse and the other on Jersey Street near one of the entry gates.
"We are thrilled to partner with the Boston Red Sox and bring our lobster rolls to Boston's beloved ballpark, Fenway Park," said Luke Holden, CEO and founder of Luke's Lobster.
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From Sangria Sorbet to Double Dough: Gifford's rolls out new ice cream flavors
MAINEBIZ | March 13, 2024 | With ice cream season approaching, Gifford's Ice Cream is launching its first year-round line of pint-size varieties, which includes seven new flavors.
They are: Wyman’s Wild Blueberry Cheesecake, Banana Caramel Coconut, Salted Vanilla Toffee, Double Dough, Spicy Strawberry Pretzel, Passion Fruit Mango Sangria Sorbet and Reverse Chocolate Chip.
The new line, which is produced in Skowhegan, will hit grocery store shelves this month.
“Back in the fall of 2022, we introduced our first-ever seasonal pints of Pumpkin, Apple Pie Churro, and White Peppermint Chocolate Chip, and our fans loved them,” said JC Gifford, fifth-generation ice cream maker and the COO of Gifford’s.
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CEI Women's Business Center Virtual Courses
The CEI Women’s Business Center is a home for women who want to start or grow their own business in Maine. Working to understand the challenges that disproportionately affect female* entrepreneurs and providing resources to help address those challenges, the team helps build and hone business skills and confidence from developing a business idea, to accessing capital, making strong management decisions based on a deep understanding of financials, and more. Upcoming FREE virtual sessions include:
Tuesday, March 26 | 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Hiring 101: Resources to Help Build Your Team
Tuesday, March 26 | 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
CEI Women's Business Center Information Session
*CEI aligns with the definition of women and female that explicitly includes not only cis women, but also trans women and femme/feminine-identifying genderqueer and non-binary individuals.
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Applications Accepted through April 26 for Maine Development Foundation's Leadership Maine and Institute for Civic Leadership Programs
The Leadership Maine program focuses on external, cross-sector on-the-ground learning about the Maine economy as a whole and how different businesses, communities, and industries intersect and impact each other. Learn more at https://www.mdf.org/leadership-development/leadership-maine/
The Institute for Civic Leadership focuses on internal exploration (how the individual leads in business, on teams, and in community) and how to develop skills toward being collaborative, team-focused, and how to apply systems thinking to projects/initiatives in equitable/inclusive ways.
Learn more at https://www.mdf.org/leadership-development/icl-leadership-intensive/
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View the latest job openings posted on our Job Listings page. Members can submit their own listings when logged into the Member Portal. Once a job is filled, be sure to let us know so we can remove it from the site. | |
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Real-World Family Business Stories at Fambiz Now
Fambiz Now is not your typical news website. They bring a carefully edited selection of real-world family business stories mixed in with “crises and scandals” that have takeaways you can put to use right away. Sometimes edgy, sometimes funny, but always relatable. They like to think of it as The Harvard Business Review meets The National Enquirer. We often learn more from the mistakes than just the successes. Enjoy the read!
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IFOB Members: Promote your company news through the "Resources" section of our website!
One of the many perks of being a member is promoting your latest news and announcements to our Maine family-owned business community. Be sure to share any press releases, articles, podcasts, or other information featuring your business or sharing your unique expertise on a relevant topic or issue.
For more information on how to submit your news, view our video or download this cheat sheet. If you need assistance please contact Brooke Stewart at 207.281.2414 or brooke@fambusiness.org.
Here is a screenshot of our Resources page if you need a visual!
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