Take Your Business to the Next Level
Presented By Celtic Bank
A five-week course on how to make empowered decisions
surrounding your creative business plan and financing.
Coming Fall of 2025!
Tuesdays 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. MST | 5-week class | Begins Fall 2025
Hosted at Celtic Bank in Downtown SLC | 268 State St #300, SLC, UT 84111
Take Your Business to the Next Level
Presented By Celtic Bank
Elevate your creative business with our five-week Business Academy Course, Take Your Business to the Next Level Presented By Celtic Bank. Tailored for small business owners, this program offers insights from successful Craft Lake City alumni and experienced professionals to help you develop a solid business plan and make informed financing decisions.
With only 25 spots available, you’ll receive personalized guidance on aligning your creative goals with business success, understanding funding options and accessing the resources you need to grow. Complete the course for a chance to win a $500 cash prize.
Register now to take the first step in turning your vision into reality!
What You’ll Learn
- Success stories from Craft Lake City alums
- How to reconcile your professional goals and creative dreams
- Envisioning where you want your business to be in one year, five years and ten years
- How to write your business plan
- Resources available in Utah; “The Startup Capital of the World”
- Components of a successful business and why you may need funding to grow
- How to become qualified for business funding before you need it
- The pros and cons of different types of business funding, and determining which option offers the best terms and rates for you
- How to identify reputable lenders
- How banks make lending decisions and what goes into getting a small business loan
- How to get comfortable talking about money
What’s Included
- 5 in-person professional development workshops
- Hearing from successful Craft Lake City alum
- Business & finance guidance from the pros
- One-on-one financial counseling with a banker where you can get expert and personalized advice in a low-stakes, ask-me-anything environment
- Mock loan committee to help you feel confident pitching your business ideas to finance professionals
Course Schedule & Fee
Hosted at Celtic Bank in Downtown SLC
Tuesday, October 15 | 4;00 – 5:30 p.m. MST — Intro to your Business and Business Goals
Tuesday, October 22 | 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. MST — Getting to Know Your Business and Contextualizing Your Finance Goals
Tuesday, October 29| 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. MST — Becoming “Bankable,” an Overview of Business Loan Types, and Importance of Building Business Credit
Tuesday, November 5 | 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. MST — Mock Loan Committee
Tuesday, November 12 | 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. MST — Review Your Business Financial Information with A Banker
Price: $35 – $100 sliding scale*
Registration Deadline: Registration for this class is opening in late summer 2024. Sign up for our newsletter below to stay up to date on the registration launch!
*We want everyone to have access to the Funding Fundamentals they need to be successful in their creative business, which is why we’ve made the course sliding scale. Anyone can participate with the minimum fee. If you are in a position to make a higher payment, those additional funds will support Craft Lake City’s nonprofit mission & ensure that we can continue to provide accessibly-priced programming. If the minimum fee still presents a barrier, we are also offering four full scholarships based on financial need. Scholarship applications coming late summer 2024.
Thank You to Our Sponsors
Craft Lake City’s year-round programming is supported in part by the residents of Salt Lake County through the Zoo, Arts & Parks (ZAP) Program, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, and Utah Arts & Museums, with funding from the State of Utah and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Craft Lake City Business Academy: Funding Fundamentals is made possible by Celtic Bank.
