With a charismatic leader at the helm and significant community financial support, the Daveler & Kauanui School of Entrepreneurship has big plans for the future.
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LOWELL, Mass. - A product that detects and helps seal leaks in ill-fitting face masks to protect against COVID-19 and other environmental hazards recently won top honors in UMass Lowell s annual student entrepreneurship pitch competition.
Called TrueFIT, the invention was named the Rist Campuswide DifferenceMaker in UMass Lowell s 2021 DifferenceMaker $50,000 Idea Challenge, a contest that caps a year-long program that teaches students in all majors skills they can use to launch their own businesses and nonprofits.
TrueFIT was one of 10 innovations showcased before expert judges during the competition s final round, which was held online and viewed by more than 100 people. Fifty teams entered the challenge, now in its ninth year.
Storm Smart donates $62,000 to March to a Million Meals
Published: March 1, 2021 8:25 PM EST
Updated: March 15, 2021 10:00 PM EDT
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WINK Feeds Families March to a Million Meals reached its goal of $400,000 and had surpassed it Monday, but a business leader in Southwest Florida wasn’t done contributing.
The effort was already at more than $493,000 to benefit families facing food insecurity in Southwest Florida, and Brian Rist, the executive chairman of Storm Smart, helped us all smash that goal even more.
Rist joined us with Richard LeBer, the CEO and president of beneficiary Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida, during our newscast to present a check worth $62,000 to bring the money raised to more than $500,000.