Jessica Tompkins, a fifth-year student in business management, needs the help of the campus community.
Tompkins is competing for a $250,000 grant for her start-up company, Two Bows LLC, and has only three days to collect 250 votes to be considered for the award.
All you have to do to help is:
- Go to Mission Small Business
- Click “Log in and Support” and log in using Facebook.
- Type “Two Bows” in the search and click “Vote.”
You can also watch this 45-second YouTube video to show you the above steps: How to Vote.
This community outreach is part of CHASE’s program, “Mission: Small Business.” It offers 12 grants in the amount of $250,000 to help small businesses grow. The deadline for weighing in is Saturday, June 30.
Tompkins founded Two Bows, which offers an apparel line with the outdoorsy woman in mind. “For far too long,” she says, “women have worn men’s hunting and fishing apparel because they had nothing else. Now they are able to ‘roll with the boys’ and not have to look like one.”
The endeavor has been fruitful; Two Bows recently received the Student Startup of the Year Award from the MTEC SmartZone.
Tompkins is developing a sewing company in the area, so that garments can be produced not only in America but in Michigan and help create jobs in the area.
Two Bows has raised a small amount of capital on crowdbackers.com and is near completion on a website through ZT Web Development.
Originally published in Tech Today.
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