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Applications are open from January 1, 2025 until February 7, 2025 at 11:59 p.m.
Timeline
Applications open: January 1, 2025
Informational meeting: January 16, 2025
Applications close: February 7, 2025
Cohort announced: February 14, 2025
Are you a professional service provider or technical assistant looking to engage with local businesses?
Program Benefits
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No cost to participate.
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Become a member of the underserved business accelerator, LIFT cohort of business owners at the CMURC.
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Develop a custom work plan, designed to accelerate their business with trackable milestones.
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Monthly workshops with peer discussions to build community connections, develop skills, and collaborate with program participants.
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Bi-Monthly individual check-in with administrators.
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Weekly Strategize Me Virtual Sessions
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Opportunity to network with executives, local business owners, and community members.
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Collaboration on a social media campaign – designed to advertise your business across CMURC’s platforms and audiences.
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Your businesses will be promoted across multiple sectors that make up the CMURC membership ecosystem.
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Access to technical assistance that supports the continued growth of small, underserved, minority businesses.
Eligibility
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Applicants must be for profit pre-established business owners – while CMURC offers programming for entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey, this program is an established business accelerator.
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Businesses must be founded or currently conducting business within the Great Lakes Bay Region (Bay, Midland, Mt Pleasant, Saginaw)
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Businesses must not be a franchise nor affiliated with a national chain.