CAPE COD – Want to start a business? Christin Marshall, Executive Director of the nonprofit, EforAll Cape Cod, a nonprofit dedicated to helping entrepreneurs, understands.
She wants you to start a business too.
Marshall, of Monument Beach, would like you to consider working with an accelerator program – the kind of thing she discovered at a business pitch conference a few years ago. It “really lit a fire” inside of her, she said.
“It was the first time that I understood I could start a business. It was empowering,” Marshall said of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce event, no longer held, called “Startup Weekend.”
She was so “jazzed” by it that she attended a second time, then found something called EforAll, which was holding an event in New Bedford. Next thing she knew, she was running her own business, holding crossfit fitness camps all over the country.
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The business, Camp Timeout, [Camp Timeout began as Camp Wild Child, and rebranded because of trademark issues] only lasted a few years.
But her passion for what she learned about entrepreneurship endured. And when the nonprofit EforAll was looking to start a program site on the Cape, Marshall was hired to run it.
EforAll, a nonprofit headquartered in Lowell, has several program sites. Cape Cod is one, said Marshall.
“While each site is in charge of their own fundraising and program execution, I rely on my colleagues, the National Support Team at EforAll’s headquarters in Lowell, to handle business processes like accounting, HR, tech, etcetera,” said Marshall. “I consider the folks in Lowell as my officemates.”
When EforAll Arrived On Cape Cod
In 2018, “this woman, Christin Marshall started showing up everywhere,” said Amanda Kaiser, who at the time was the marketing and events manager for Cape Cod Beer.
“She was at Rotary Clubs, Chamber of Commerce events and other networking events,” said Kaiser, who is now program manager for EforAll.
“She started talking about EforAll and its role to spur the local economy, and I just thought that sounded awesome,” said Kaiser.
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