Three Chester County companies have been among the many 5 recipients of 2023 SCORE Chester and Delaware Counties’ Small Enterprise Achievement awards. On this picture left to proper are: CJ Witherspoon and Ben Yocum, The Inventive Membership; state Sen. John Kane (D-Ninth Dist.); Latasha Jackson, Physique for Me Mini Spa; and Bernie Tiger, Tiger Resilience.(PHOTO COURTESY SCORE CHESTER AND DELAWARE COUNTIES)
It was a day of celebration as 5 companies have been acknowledged throughout SCORE Chester and Delaware Counties’ current annual Small Enterprise Achievement Awards luncheon.
The awards, first began in 2010, acknowledge entrepreneurs that begin or develop their companies whereas working with SCORE — reaching out for mentoring — and which have demonstrated imaginative and prescient, innovation and achievement.
The 5 enterprise founders and house owners acknowledged throughout the June 1 awards luncheon held at Penn Oaks Golf Membership in Thornbury Township, Chester County, represented “numerous backgrounds and enterprise segments,” based on a press launch.
Mercedes Diaz, SCORE mentor and awards crew program chief, stated it is crucial and efficient “for enterprise house owners to work along with their mentors, study from professionals throughout the native enterprise neighborhood, and entry material specialists within the SCORE nationwide community.
“It’s uncommon {that a} small enterprise may be profitable with out leveraging essential collaborations with others who’ve real-world expertise that may assist them,” she stated.
Acknowledged by SCORE Chester and Delaware Counties for 2022 have been three Chester County companies, a enterprise from Philadelphia and Lehigh counties and a enterprise from South Carolina. They have been:
• Latasha Jackson — Physique for Me Mini Spa, West Chester. Physique for Me Mini Spa was shaped in 2021 and offers a one- to four-hour trip near residence in comparison with a ‘staycation’ for a full day or weekend at a resort or lodge spa. Jackson pivoted from the monetary companies business to determine a spot of “peace, leisure and positivity.”
https://www.score.org/chesterdelco/success-story/body-me-mini-spa
• Bernie Tiger — Tiger Resilience, Coatesville. Tiger Resilience was shaped in 2020 and is targeted on remedy associated to substance abuse dysfunction. It’s a program that works with the household as the first focus, which might help particular person success.
https://www.score.org/chesterdelco/success-story/tiger-resilience
• Ben Yocum and CJ Witherspoon — The Inventive Membership, Coatesville. The Inventive Membership was shaped in 2021 and offers hands-on expertise coaching for teenagers and adults. The pair has created two entities: The Inventive Membership which is a nonprofit academic platform for college students and adults; and The Inventive Membership of Chester County, a for-profit firm to create content material and implement digital advertising for native small companies.
https://www.score.org/chesterdelco/success-story/creative-club
• Marina Lawrence — Life Maid Straightforward, Philadelphia and Lehigh counties. Life Maid Straightforward was shaped in 2021 and is a woman-owned residential and industrial cleansing firm. Her inspiration to start out a cleansing firm started when she realized the impression a clear residence can have on individuals’s capability to take pleasure in their lives to the fullest.
https://www.score.org/chesterdelco/success-story/life-maid-easy
• Garrison Birckett — Superior EEO Options LLC, Myrtle Seashore, South Carolina. Superior web optimization Options was based in 2012 and presents Equal Employment Alternative companies, Title VII of the
civil rights act, in reference to employment discrimination for federal authorities staff. As each a Prime and a sub-contractor, Birckett is ready to facilitate companies for greater than 30 federal authorities companies.
https://www.score.org/chesterdelco/success-story/advanced-eeo-solutions-llc-aes
Throughout the luncheon, every of the recipients and their SCORE mentors shared their tales — explaining how they labored collectively to achieve authorities contractor standing, empower spa purchasers to handle stress, shift enterprise technique to develop and increase, allow youth to entry hands-on tech coaching and enhance digital advertising efforts to assist households deal with dependancy.
This yr’s winners have been chosen from a gaggle of nominations from SCORE mentors. Every enterprise case was reviewed by the crew to know:
• Its mission and distinctive worth proposition
• Its path to success
• How SCORE helped the enterprise
• How the enterprise is doing immediately
SCORE members can join with greater than 10,000 volunteer enterprise specialists throughout the U.S. Help may be offered in a wide range of methods, based on SCORE, together with co-mentoring with native groups, sharing academic workshops and webinars on key enterprise abilities, and/or offering related instruments, templates, articles, blogs, and extra useful sources.
The One SCORE” crew mentoring strategy permits a connection throughout greater than 10,000 volunteer enterprise specialists within the U.S. to assist purchasers make progress on their enterprise plans.
Volunteers from the SCORE Chester and Delaware Counties chapter are based mostly on Chester and Delaware counties, help purchasers all around the nation which might be creating and rising regional, nationwide and worldwide companies and nonprofit organizations.
“The digital assembly expertise has enabled an environment friendly sharing mannequin to optimize the assist for SCORE purchasers all over the place,” the discharge said.
The SCORE Chester and Delaware Counties chapter has been energetic since 1985 and has greater than 100 volunteers offering confidential mentoring at no cost, in addition to enterprise coaching.
David Houseman, chairman of the SCORE Chester and Delaware welcomed the greater than 100 friends to the annual luncheon. The occasion additionally featured a panel dialogue with 4 SCORE mentors on the subject of “Collaborating for Success.” The dialogue was facilitated by Lynne Williams, govt director of Nice Careers Teams. A SCORE volunteer since 2013, Williams is a earlier Small Enterprise Achievement Award Winner.
To discover a SCORE mentor go to score.org/chesterdelco/local-mentors
To volunteer with SCORE go to www.score.org/page/volunteer-score
