Regional Resources Making A Difference

Harmony Enterprises As An Educational Resource

Harmony Enterprises’ core focus, or pillar of our business, is career, community, culture, and company. While each of these are important, Harmony is proud to be a resource in our regional communities, providing opportunities for educational outreach to students. We were recently nominated for the Industry Partner of the Year Award as a SE MN partner who builds youth skillsets and mindsets through real-world, hands-on, career-connected learning experiences that serve as a ladder to prosperity. Not coincidentally, the three pillars of Junior Achievement are entrepreneurship, financial literacy, or work and career readiness.

Director of Sales, Nick Roberts continued his good work teaching 4th grade students at St. Ambrose about regional resources.

The perfect match is created when two quality organizations like these and their people intersect. Junior Achievement instruction is made possible by business professionals who volunteer their time and talents inside the classroom. Harmony is committed to free release time for employees to participate in programs like J.A. Harmony’s Director of Sales, Nick Roberts, has been doing this for the better part of a decade. Most recently, he has been teaching J.A.’s “Our Region” unit with Ms. Zinke’s 4th Grade class at Saint Ambrose Catholic School in Woodbury, MN.

Regional Resources For Business

Junior Achievement’s “Our Region” unit introduces the relationship between the natural, human, and capital resources found in different regions and explores regional businesses that produce goods and services for consumers.

Natural resources are materials or substances which are found in nature and can be used for economic gains, such as minerals, forests, water and fertile land. Some are finite, whereas others can be replenished or grown, but all types should be managed carefully.

Human resources are the people needed to help produce, ship, and sell the goods and services offered by a business.

Capital resources include money to start a new business, tools, buildings, machinery, and any other goods people make to produce goods and provide services.

Ms. Zinke works with her students on the many types of regional resources needed for a successful business.

In this unit, Mr. Roberts teaches the concepts of business, choices, economy, exchange, expenses, goods, incentives, income, investment, products, profit, region, resources, risk, scarcity, services, specialization, and taxes.

Through his teaching, the 4th grade students learn the skills of comparing, compiling data, conducting research, decision-making, differentiating, giving reports, interpreting data, mathematical skills, problem-solving, reading, teamwork, and how to understand a variety of symbols.

It is through these hands-on experiences that students gain the skills, knowledge, and confidence to one day be entrepreneurs themselves, starting successful businesses that have a positive social and economic impact in the region we live in.

Harmony As A Regional Resource

Harmony Enterprises is a regional business rooted in the same entrepreneurial spirit. Harmony is a third-generation family owned manufacturer of balers and compactors located only two hours from Woodbury. Offering the widest range of waste and recycling solutions available, Harmony is the perfect example of how a successful company leverages regional resources for success.

Harmony is proud to be a regional resource, relying on other regional resources for our shared success!

Natural resources: Harmony prides itself on using U.S. steel in the production of our quality machines. We source our steel and component parts from local vendors who themselves are regional resources.

Human resources: We rely on the skilled talent of our dedicated regional employees to market, sell, design, source, manufacture, ship, and service our innovative solutions.

Capital resources: Harmony partners with local financial institutions, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), Workforce Development, and other partners to secure the funding required for our operations.

All of these categories of resources require symbiotic relationships with regional partners and provide a lasting positive impact on our regional economy, customers, community, and employees!

Learn More Today!

Are you interested in having your business participate in community school programs like Junior Achievement, teaching about regional resources and other important business topics? Click here to learn more!

Or, do you want to learn more about how a recycling baler or trash compactor can help your business save time, space, labor, and money related to operational waste?

Our highly experienced sales team is ready to use our proven process to help find the right piece of equipment for your exact needs. Whether you need to reduce waste, bale and recycle by-products, or destroy out-of-spec inventory, we can help. Harmony offers free quotes, site reviews, and customer referrals.

Call us at (507) 886-6666 or fill out this simple form.

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