Mercy Health celebrates graduating entrepreneurs [Video]

TOLEDO, Ohio — A crowd gathered at the Kent Branch Library in central Toledo on Tuesday to celebrate the approximately 50 people graduating from Mercy Health’s Getting Your Business Rolling program.

The free eight-week course teaches small business owners and those aspiring to start how to be successful entrepreneurs by covering all business-related topics, said Megan Reichert, Mercy Health’s director of innovation.

“How to make a mission statement, how to make an elevator pitch so you can do business-to-business interactions,” Reichert said. “We talk about marketing, we talk about understanding financials.”

She said the course targets communities with low household incomes and at least 50% unemployment.

“We have a lot of vacant commercial property around Toledo, we’d like to see it filled with our entrepreneurs,” Reichert said.

While the graduating …