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:20180425T170000Z DTEND:20180425T183000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:CELEBRATING BUSINESSES AWARDS LUNCHEON DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the success of our four winners and be inspired by their stories at a lunch event on April 25. Cost to attend is just $25 per person for members and guests.\n\n \n\nOur guest speaker is Matt Varilek\, the new President of the Initiative Foundation.\n\n \n\nWednesday\, April 25\, 2018\n\nat The Links at Northfork\n\n12:00 - 1:30 pm\n\n$25.00 per person\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout our speaker:\n\nMatt Varilek is the president of the Initiative Foundation\, a regional community foundation dedicated to strengthening communities in the 14 counties of Central Minnesota. \n\n\n\nMatt previously served as chief operating officer of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)\, where he provided strategic direction while overseeing essential operational services such as human resources\, information technology\, grants management and enterprise risk management. In his prior role as SBA regional administrator\, he managed delivery of the agency's business assistance programs across a six-state region. \n\n\n\nHe served as economic development director and speechwriter for U.S. Senators Tim Johnson and Tom Daschle. He is a past U.S. House candidate. In the private sector\, he analyzed energy and environmental commodity market dynamics as director of policy and research for Natsource LLC\, an energy commodities brokerage. \n\n\n\nMatt has a master's degree in environment and development from the University of Cambridge\, England\, where he was funded by a Gates Cambridge Scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has a master's degree in economic development from the University of Glasgow in Scotland\, where he was funded by a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship from the Rotary Foundation. He holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Carleton College in Northfield\, Minnesota.\n\n\n\nHe is a native of Yankton\, South Dakota\, and a former resident of Marshall\, Minnesota and lives near Rice\, Minnesota in Benton County with his wife and three children. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

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\nCelebrate the success of our four winners and be inspired by their stories at a lunch event on April 25. Cost to attend is just $25 per person for members and guests.
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\nOur guest speaker is Matt Varilek\, the new President of the Initiative Foundation.

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\nWednesday\, April 25\, 2018
\nat \;The Links at Northfork
\n12:00 - 1:30 pm
\n$25.00 per person
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\nAbout our speaker:
\nMatt Varilek \;is the president of the Initiative Foundation\, a regional community foundation dedicated to strengthening communities in the 14 counties of Central Minnesota. \;
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\nMatt previously served as chief operating officer of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)\, where he provided strategic direction while overseeing essential operational services such as human resources\, information technology\, grants management and enterprise risk management. In his prior role as SBA regional administrator\, he managed delivery of the agency'\;s business assistance programs across a six-state region. \;
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\nHe served as economic development director and speechwriter for U.S. Senators Tim Johnson and Tom Daschle. \;He is \;a past U.S. House candidate. In the private sector\, he analyzed energy and environmental commodity market dynamics as director of policy and research for Natsource LLC\, an energy commodities brokerage. \;

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\nMatt has a master'\;s degree in environment and development from the University of Cambridge\, England\, where he was funded by a Gates Cambridge Scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has a master'\;s degree in economic development from the University of Glasgow in Scotland\, where he was funded by a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship from the Rotary Foundation. He holds a bachelor'\;s degree in philosophy from Carleton College in Northfield\, Minnesota.
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\nHe is a native of Yankton\, South Dakota\, and a former resident of Marshall\, Minnesota and lives near Rice\, Minnesota in Benton County with his wife and three children.
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\n LOCATION:The Links at Northfork 9333 Alpine Drive NW\, Ramsey UID:e.32.20651 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260409T113311Z URL:http://mobile.elkriverchamber.org/events/details/celebrating-businesses-awards-luncheon-20651 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR