Hannah Grimes

By Deborah Schachter on Friday, October 16, 2009.

The Hannah Grimes Center in Keene helps small producers, farmers and craftspeople with business workshops, educational programs, community partnerships and a Main Street Marketplace to sell their wares.

Suerae Stein of Spofford got help for her small business.

I opened Red Barn Artworks in 2005. We digitally enhance photography with a painterly effect and we print it on a wide variety of high end gift items.

My history with Hannah Grimes the marketplace starts back when Red Barn Artworks first opened. When I approached the store manager at the time, she was not only helpful with the sale of our products but also with packaging, and pricing. She knew we were new to the market.

And then Hannah Grimes was offering an entrepreneur program and I joined that program with six other local small businesses. We met monthly with a business coach and individually we met weekly with that same business coach. The Hannah Grimes Program not only helped Red Barn Artworks as a business grow - I think we grew over 100% in sales that year – but also worked with us as people. So I developed time-management skills, I developed organizational skills and I developed self-confidence.

Nothing is more important to Hannah Grimes than to allow small, local, businesspeople a presence in the community and to help that presence grow.

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