Helping founders find community and connections
The team of ACCESS Montgomery seeks to boost entrepreneurship in Alabama’s capital by enhancing its Small Business One-Stop Shop (SBOSS), a recently established hub created to empower and strengthen the local small business community. This entrepreneurial one-stop shop gathers people and resources from local entrepreneurial support organizations, providing essential tools, knowledge and connections to enhance the success, growth and sustainability of small businesses. Ultimately, it will create partnerships with local nonprofits and businesses, utilizing the network to support small businesses further.
The Georgia Tech Food and Beverage Accelerator (GT.FBA) is a transformative initiative designed to propel budding food entrepreneurs from the inception phase in their home kitchens to the coveted shelves of retail stores in six months. This pioneering program will accommodate up to 20 driven founders per cohort.
Learn more →Matchmaking and education program that provides established minority business enterprises (MBEs) in the healthcare industry with opportunities as well as up-to-date information on industry trends and technologies, opportunities for teaming, and connections to healthcare leaders. HEART operates with the ultimate goal of providing an avenue for MBEs in healthcare to develop relationships with healthcare leaders.
Learn more →Lenovo and AMD have partnered with Goodie Nation through the Lenovo Evolve Small initiative to provide $300,000 in non-dilutive funding and support to 30 high-potential diverse-led CPG brands and brick-and-mortar small businesses across the U.S. and Canada.
Learn more →This cohesive, blended network will foster Minority Business Enterprises’ (MBEs) participation in programs to grow and scale their businesses. This effort is designed to overcome the limited participation of minorities in local innovation ecosystems while giving them access to a broader regional network of connections and experiences.
Learn more →The Specialty Trades Aiming at the Right Targets (START) to Build program has generated over $15 million in contracts by aligning general contractors, developers, and facilities management companies with specialty trade contractors to create an ecosystem that facilitates relationship building and connections to opportunities .
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