Cassandra Stiff

UPCOMING EVENTS

Aug. 10

KBA Luncheon

11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Governors Gun Club 1005 Cobb Place Blvd.

Aug. 17

Wake Up KBA

8-9 a.m. Mission for Life Church 2655 Cobb Parkway

Aug. 26

Alive After Five

5-7 p.m. Truist Park 755 Battery Ave.

Aug. 31

5th Tuesday Luncheon

11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Copeland’s of New Orleans 1142 Ernest Barrett Parkway

Opportunities Abound for Local Business Owners

BY CASSANDRA STIFF

First, let me be one of the first to welcome Around Kennesaw, the newest publication in the Aroundabout Local Media family. This is another great platform to showcase our amazing city and all the opportunities it provides to business owners and families.

Pre-pandemic Kennesaw Business Association (KBA) was more than 500 members strong, and we are working our way back to achieving those member numbers again. Members of the KBA are always striving to create and promote opportunities for growth within our community. We invite you to join any of our monthly gatherings. We host a monthly luncheon the second Tuesday of each month at the Governors Gun Club with featured speakers and plenty of good food and networking.

If you are a morning person, join KBA members on the third Tuesday of every month at 8 a.m. for Wake Up KBA. These morning gatherings, held at various businesses around Kennesaw, are a great way to kick off your day, and they always include coffee.

The Alive After 5 event also is on the third Tuesday of each month. Alive After 5 events are relaxed, after-hours networking events held around the community. Stop by on your way home from work for another chance to get to know fellow professionals and build your business.

Every other month, KBA SUPER Women get together for a networking luncheon, and this year there will be a SUPER Women’s all-day conference Sept. 17.

The KBA hosts the Superior Plumbing Big Shanty Festival in April each year, along with the Superior Plumbing Taste of Kennesaw in November. These events combined draw more than 85,000 people to downtown Kennesaw, and they create a huge economic engine in our community. We use proceeds from these events to fund our programs, such as the education committee supporting Allatoona, Harrison, Kell, Kennesaw Mountain, North Cobb and North Cobb Christian high schools. We also support all Kennesaw Mountain feeder schools and many North Cobb feeder schools. We believe a strong community starts with strong schools, and we have some of the best.

There are many layers to the KBA, and we hope you will get involved. Visit our website at kennesawbusiness.org for information about all of our events. I will be communicating all things KBA and Kennesaw each month, and I want to again welcome and thank Around Kennesaw for choosing to publish in our great city.

Cassandra R. Stiff is the president of the Kennesaw Business Association. She is a wife, mother, and insurance and financial services adviser with Horace Mann. cassandra.stiff@horacemann.com.