Jim Verzino '82 - Advocate for food and rural entrepreneurship

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Our firm does bookkeeping and fractional CFO services for food businesses and nonprofits.

Before Creators Financial I was Director and Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Windham Grows, a business accelerator focused on socially responsible food and agriculture businesses. Our team raised $820,000 to start and maintain the program.

The first two cohorts of the program contained 13 companies that added 30 new full-time jobs in just 18 months, and have received over $1 million in outside funding.

Here is my speech where I share the stage with Bernie Sanders talking about Windham Grows.