protect Your construction / service Business: How to make sure you get paid!

Sept 20th, 6:00 PM  

When scaling your construction business, your legal risks change as you grow your company. Bigger projects mean bigger money. Bigger money means bigger risk. This workshop is your key to ensuring you know the appropriate steps to take on the projects you pursue, and that starts with learning how to legally protect yourself.

This workshop will equip small contractors wanting to grow their business with the essential things you need to be aware of in order to grow and protect your business!

By attending this workshop, you will:

• Learn what your rights are as a residential/commercial contractor

• Best practices on how to prevent issues with the owner/project

• Learn the keys to a construction contract/service agreement

• Learn what to do if you are having problems getting paid

And so much more!

Presenter: Alec Locasio, Troppito Miller Griffin, LLC

Date: Tuesday, Sept 20th, 2022 

Time: 6:00 p.m. 

Location: In person at The Toolbox – 1303 Central Ave., Kansas City, KS 66102

Register: Online, by phone/text at (816) 309-2063 or email gmunoz@thetoolboxkc.com   

This program is funded in part through a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration and through a grant from the Economic Development Administration administered by the Mid-America Regional Council, and hosted by The Toolbox.

About Alec Locasio

Sincerity, compassion, and hard work. These are the principles that define how Alec Locascio practices law, regardless of the case. Alec began his legal career working for an Italian firm in Verona, Italy, where he worked mostly in international business, with an emphasis on trade in the United States. When he moved back to Kansas City in 2014, Alec was eager to argue cases in court, and spent the next three and a half years at the Public Defender’s Office. As an assistant public defender, Alec argued five felony jury trials, two of which resulted in complete “not guilty” verdicts. In the other three cases, Alec’s clients still benefited from the trial because, each time, the result turned out more favorable for his client than the prosecutor’s “offer” before trial. Alec has taken over 100 depositions, litigated complex discovery issues, and has proven his grit and determination to fight for his clients.

About The Toolbox
The Toolbox is the go-to resource for everything small business in Wyandotte County, Kansas. All of our services are offered at no-cost to local residents and businesses. We provide support with planning, registering, funding, operating, and growing your business. We take the intimidating checklist of starting and operating a business and distill it down into the essentials through private one-on-one small business coaching. We want to make navigating business-related processes in Wyandotte personable, simple and accessible, so you can get back to doing what you do best — creating, innovating, and succeeding in your business.

The Startup Workshop: The Essential Steps to Launching Your Business

Oct 4th, 6:00 PM  

Are you thinking about starting a business, but don’t know where to begin? This FREE workshop will take you through the essential steps to launching your business. 

We will lay out and demystify the most effective path to startup success. We will explain step-by-step how to get from concept to launch. You will learn the different legal structures for forming a business, how to register your business entity, tax responsibilities of small businesses as well as common pitfalls small businesses run into and how to avoid them.

This program is funded by a grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and hosted by The Toolbox. 

Date: Tuesday, Oct. 4th, 2022 (First Tuesday of every month)

Time: 6:00 p.m. 

Location: In person at The Toolbox – 1303 Central Ave., Kansas City, KS 66102

Register: Online, by phone/text at (816) 309-2063 or email gmunoz@thetoolboxkc.com   

Taller: Pasos esenciales para iniciar un negocio

4 DE oct DE 2022, 6:00 PM  

Este taller GRATUITO lo llevará a través de los pasos esenciales para lanzar su negocio.

Trazaremos y desmitificamos el camino más eficaz hacia el éxito de la puesta en marcha de un negocio. Explicaremos paso a paso cómo pasar del concepto al lanzamiento. Aprenderá las diferentes estructuras legales para formar una empresa, cómo registrar su entidad comercial, las responsabilidades fiscales de las pequeñas empresas, así como los errores comunes que enfrentan las pequeñas empresas y cómo evitarlos.

Este programa está financiado por una subvención de la Fundación Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation y organizado por The Toolbox y El Centro, Inc.

Date: 4 de Octubre de 2022 

Time: 6:00 p.m. 

Location: The Toolbox – 1303 Central Ave, Kansas City, KS 66102

Regístrese: En línea, Teléfono / mensaje de texto al (816) 309-2063 o por correo electrónico a gmunoz@thetoolboxkc.com.