Helping founders find community and connections
The Growth Alliance Task Force promotes the growth of minority-owned businesses through increased awareness of Chamber programs and provides entrepreneurial training and diversity business forums. Task force members serve on active sub-committees including Business Development, Outreach, Finance, and Sponsorships. The group meets on the first Tuesday of each month.
A Minority-owned and/or Women-owned Business Enterprise Certification Program to identify small minority-owned and/or women-owned businesses capable of providing goods and/or services to both government and private sectors.
Learn more →In order to invest in the growth of underrepresented founders in our community, the Portal Fund: RISE program will work to assist early-to-mid stage founders with access to programming, mentorship, and resources to allow them to grow their business to the next level.
Learn more →As a project of The Catalyst, the mission of TechRich is to find, filter, and facilitate business opportunities by fueling collaboration, innovation, technology transfer, commercialization, and GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING. Our 7(j) program provides specialized, high-quality assistance to Small businesses that are 8(a) certified, economically disadvantaged, located in areas of high unemployment/low income or HUBZONE, or owned by low- income individuals.
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