Program Update

ICIC’s signature program, Inner City Capital Connections (ICCC), was launched in 2005 with a founding grant from Bank of America to assist established small- and medium-sized businesses in under-resourced communities in building capacity for sustainable long-term revenue growth, profitability, and local job creation. The 40-hour “mini-MBA” has continuously evolved to provide business owners with timely and actionable information, connections, and coaching.

In 2023, ICCC served more than 800 businesses in 14 cohorts across the U.S. and Canada. As we and the small businesses we work with emerged from the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, we offered the program and events in-person and in virtual modalities, providing additional flexibility to our participants and alumni. We created welcoming virtual spaces to bring together regional and national audiences, and once again provided culturally relevant programming in Spanish to LatinX businesses from 11 different states. ICCC hosted more than two dozen webinars to strengthen our core lessons and showcased the expertise of our alumni who led more than half of those webinars.

ICCC continues to expand our offerings, not just for current participants, but also for alumni. This year, with the financial support of Kaiser Permanente, ICCC launched or will launch pilot initiatives around digital sales optimization, mental well-being, procurement, and government contracting, creation of “good jobs,” and credit building.

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