BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20250116T143000Z DTEND:20250116T160000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Run Your Business - Don't Let It Run You! SCORE DESCRIPTION:Run Your Business. Don't Let It Run You!\n\nHosted by: Business Connections and the Erie Chamber of Commerce\n\n Learn what SCORE is and about the resources they provide\n Strategies to find the "why" in your business \n Zero in on who your customer is and what they are looking for \n Business Plan light \n Activities to support your business financial goals\n\n 7:30 8:30 for the seminar then 8:30 9:00 for questions and networking\n\nFree for all Chamber Members - $5.00 for non members\n\n\n\nCoffee will be provided\n\n\n\nPresented by: Mike Forney\n\n\n\nMike has been an active small business counselor since 2004 when he helped form the Steamboat Springs SCORE group. (Formerly called Service Corps of Retired Executives\, SCORE is a resource partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration.) Following his relocation to Fort Collins in 2017 Mike has continued SCORE counseling in Larimer County and has already met with more than 200 clients assigned by the Denver office or directly from the national SCORE website. Mike is also a certified counselor with the Larimer County Small Business Development Center (SBDC)\, focusing primarily on CARES Act advances and funding for small business owners in Larimer County. Although most of his consulting has been in the general area of start-up businesses\, he\n\nhas worked actively with existing small business on partnership issues\, strategic and\n\nbusiness planning\, personnel management and commercial and real estate lending. He has also counseled numerous non-profit organizations. Mike retired in 2003 as president and CEO of PW Funding\, a national commercial and multi-family mortgage banking company headquartered in New York City. PW Funding provided more than $1.5 billion in commercial real estate financing over a two-year period under Mike's leadership. Following retirement and a move to Colorado he started Management Dynamics\, a consulting business working with business owners and partnerships. He began his commercial mortgage banking career as an owner and chief operating officer of Larson Financial Resources in Bernardsville\, New Jersey in 1985. Forney is a Certified Mortgage Banker (CMB). He was a member of the national board of directors for the Mortgage Bankers Association of America for ten years until his retirement and served on the multi-family advisory panels for both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Prior to 1985\, Mike was employed for 18 years as a public relations\, public affairs and national advertising manager with AT&T in Seattle\, Portland\, San Francisco and New York City. He also spent eight years as an announcer and news director at four different radio broadcast outlets in the Pacific Northwest.\n\n \n\nHe is Past President of the Routt County United Way\, former Chairman of the Yampa\n\nValley Regional Airport Commission\, past president of the Steamboat Springs Rotary\n\nClub\, past district governor of Rotary District 5440 (Northern Colorado\, Wyoming and parts of Idaho and Nebraska) and a founding board member of the Steamboat Springs Main Street organization. He is now an active member of the Rotary Club of Fort Collins-Foothills. Mike is also a children's story-teller with the Spellbinders group and now shares stories every month with fifth graders in both the Thompson and Poudre school districts.\n\n\n\nHe was a general aviation pilot for 50 years flying volunteer humanitarian missions for the national Angel Flight organization and the Department of Homeland Security before selling his last plane in 2014. Mike now lives with his wife Janet Finley in Fort Collins. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Run Your Business. Don'\;t Let It Run You!
\nHosted by: \; Business Connections and the Erie Chamber of Commerce\n\n 7:30 &ndash\; 8:30 for the seminar then 8:30 &ndash\; 9:00 for questions and networking
\nFree for all Chamber Members - $5.00 for non members
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\nCoffee will be provided
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\nPresented by: \; \;Mike Forney
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\nMike has been an active small business counselor since 2004 when he helped form the Steamboat Springs SCORE group. (Formerly called Service Corps of Retired Executives\, SCORE is a resource partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration.) Following his relocation to Fort Collins in 2017 Mike has continued SCORE counseling in Larimer County and has already met with more than 200 clients assigned by the Denver office or directly from the national SCORE website. Mike is also a certified counselor with the Larimer County Small Business Development Center (SBDC)\, focusing primarily on CARES Act advances and funding for small business owners in Larimer County. Although most of his consulting has been in the general area of start-up businesses\, he
\nhas worked actively with existing small business on partnership issues\, strategic and
\nbusiness planning\, personnel management and commercial and real estate lending. He has also counseled numerous non-profit organizations. Mike retired in 2003 as president and CEO of PW Funding\, a national commercial and multi-family mortgage banking company headquartered in New York City. PW Funding provided more than $1.5 billion in commercial real estate financing over a two-year period under Mike&rsquo\;s leadership. Following retirement and a move to Colorado he started Management Dynamics\, a consulting business working with business owners and partnerships. He began his commercial mortgage banking career as an owner and chief operating officer of Larson Financial Resources in Bernardsville\, New Jersey in 1985. Forney is a Certified Mortgage Banker (CMB). He was a member of the national board of directors for the Mortgage Bankers Association of America for ten years until his retirement and served on the multi-family advisory panels for both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Prior to 1985\, Mike was employed for 18 years as a public relations\, public affairs and national advertising manager with AT&\;T in Seattle\, Portland\, San Francisco and New York City. He also spent eight years as an announcer and news director at four different radio broadcast outlets in the Pacific Northwest.
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\nHe is Past President of the Routt County United Way\, former Chairman of the Yampa
\nValley Regional Airport Commission\, past president of the Steamboat Springs Rotary
\nClub\, past district governor of Rotary District 5440 (Northern Colorado\, Wyoming and parts of Idaho and Nebraska) and a founding board member of the Steamboat Springs Main Street organization. He is now an active member of the Rotary Club of Fort Collins-Foothills. Mike is also a children&rsquo\;s story-teller with the Spellbinders group and now shares stories every month with fifth graders in both the Thompson and Poudre school districts.
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\nHe was a general aviation pilot for 50 years flying volunteer humanitarian missions for the national Angel Flight organization and the Department of Homeland Security before selling his last plane in 2014. Mike now lives with his wife Janet Finley in Fort Collins. LOCATION:Calvary Bible Church 615 Evans St.\, Erie\, CO UID:e.3666.853084 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260513T064324Z URL:https://members.eriechamber.org/events/details/run-your-business-don-t-let-it-run-you-score-853084 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR